Associate Vice President, Advancement Operations & Strategies
The George Washington University Development and Alumni Relations(DAR) Division seeks an Associate Vice President for AdvancementOperations & Strategies.
DARis responsible for leading the university's alumni andfundraising efforts and seeks to promote a culture of philanthropythroughout the university community, including alumni, students,parents, faculty, staff, corporations and foundations, patients,and friends. Our goal is to advance GW's mission of excellence ineducation, research, scholarship, and patient care.
Reporting to the Vice President, Development and Alumni Relations,the Associate Vice President will be an inspired leader with ademonstrated track record to lead and enhance GW's advancementoperations and strategic planning.
Primary responsibilities will include the following:
- Function as the internal leader ofDARworkingclosely with the executive leadership team to ensure the smoothfunctioning of the department.
- Work with the Vice President and the executive leadership teamto establish the strategic direction of fundraising programs,direct and short-term and long-range plans, develop budgets tosupport each unit's goals, and ensure that performance is trackedand monitored.
- Serve as a thought partner to the most senior members of theAdvancement team acrossDARon campaign planning,advancement services, and prospect and donor strategies.
- Develop and implement the infrastructure needed to supportmulti-year, mega-campaigns or initiatives. Oversee the campaignteam and collaborate with internal partners to set priorities anddevise strategies for meeting campaign objectives.
- Oversee the timely and accurate processing of philanthropicgifts and grants, campaign, and donor reporting while continuouslyimproving policy and procedural options to facilitate compliance,engagement, and information exchange for advancement professionalsuniversity-wide.
- Build data-mining capacity and accelerate the availability ofprospective donor assessments, model outcomes, and other data toinform solicitation and engagement strategies, and develop andmaintain these mining and modeling operations to utilize bothproprietary and commercial data for internal decision-making.
- Provide training resources, system applications, and userresources to professionals atDARfor the University'sadvancement software to ensure the effective usage of thissoftware.
- Lead aCRMmigration over a two-year period ofstaging, testing, and capacity building, followed by a lengthyimplementation period in a pre-campaign and campaignenvironment.
- In collaboration withGWIT, manage relationships withoutside software providers, other vendors, and service providers,including budgeting, planning, and project management.
- Provide guidance and demonstration of competency in thefunctional area of finance and accounting while working closelywith the University'sCFOas a thought partner at theexecutive level.
- Deliver guidance and demonstration of competency in thefunctional area of human resources and talent management whileworking closely with the University's Vice President of HumanResources as a thought partner at the executive level.
- Collaborate with senior administrators and staff to facilitateinter-departmental partnerships and achieve full divisionalalignment.
- Conceptualize a scalable suite of reporting tools and productsfor management information data-informed decision-making for use bythe Vice President, executive officers, deans, school developmentofficers, andDARstaff in a campaign environment -accounting for gifts and pledges, measures of donor engagement,estimates of and philanthropic capacity, campaign and other budgetperformance and other tools needed forDARstaff.
- Serve as primary liaison to other information technology teamson campus to ensure seamless integration of advancement andadministrative computing planning and system management andmaintenance.
- In collaboration withGWIT, ensure ongoing functionalityenhancement for all web-based internet and intranet applicationsand services.
- Design and establish programs for innovative use of proprietaryand commercially available data for demographic and psychographicenhancement of constituent data records.
- Develop appropriate coding mechanisms for internal processingwhich will enable long-term consistency and data manipulation.
- Create programs (i.e., data modeling) to inform proprietaryscores applied to constituent data records to inform solicitationand engagement strategies.
- Develop an extensive understanding of the University's academicand fundraising priorities.
- Cultivate long-term, collaborative relationships with keyinternal stakeholders.
- Protect confidential information and followallDARand GW guidelines pertaining to public recordsand constituent information.
Performs other related duties as assigned. The omission ofspecific duties does not preclude the supervisor from assigningduties that are logically related to the position.
If interested, please apply at: The university is an Equal EmploymentOpportunity/Affirmative Action employer that does not unlawfullydiscriminate in any of its programs or activities on the basis ofrace, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability,veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression,or on any other basis prohibited by applicable law. SuccessfulCompletion of a Background Screening will be required as acondition of hire.
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