Associate Vice President, Advancement Operations

1 day ago


Washington, Washington, D.C., United States George Washington University Full time
Job Title: Associate Vice President, Advancement Operations

George Washington University seeks a seasoned professional to lead its Development and Alumni Relations (DAR) division as Associate Vice President, Advancement Operations. This key role will oversee the university's alumni and fundraising efforts, promoting a culture of philanthropy throughout the university community.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Lead the DAR division, working closely with the executive leadership team to ensure smooth departmental operations.
  • Collaborate with the Vice President and executive leadership team to establish strategic direction for fundraising programs, develop budgets, and track performance.
  • Serve as a thought partner to senior members of the Advancement team on campaign planning, advancement services, and prospect and donor management.
  • Oversee the timely and accurate processing of philanthropic gifts and grants, campaign, and donor reporting.
  • Build data-mining capacity and accelerate the availability of prospective donor assessments, model outcomes, and other data to inform solicitation and engagement strategies.
  • Provide training resources, system applications, and user resources to professionals at DAR for the University's advancement software.
  • Lead a CRM migration over a two-year period, staging, testing, and capacity building, followed by a lengthy implementation period in a pre-campaign and campaign environment.
  • Collaborate with GWIT to manage relationships with outside software providers, other vendors, and service providers.
  • Provide guidance and demonstration of competency in finance and accounting, working closely with the University's CFO.
  • Deliver guidance and demonstration of competency in human resources and talent management, working closely with the University's Vice President of Human Resources.
  • Collaborate with senior administrators and staff to facilitate inter-departmental partnerships and achieve full divisional alignment.
  • Conceptualize a scalable suite of reporting tools and products for management information data-informed decision-making.
  • Serve as primary liaison to other information technology teams on campus to ensure seamless integration of advancement and administrative computing planning and system management and maintenance.
  • Ensure ongoing functionality enhancement for all web-based internet and intranet applications and services.
  • Design and establish programs for innovative use of proprietary and commercially available data for demographic and psychographic enhancement of constituent data records.
  • Develop appropriate coding mechanisms for internal processing to enable long-term consistency and data modeling.
Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree in an appropriate area of specialization plus 10 years of relevant professional experience, Master's degree, or higher, in a relevant area of study preferred.
  • Relevant experience must include at least 4 years of senior leadership/executive level experience.
  • Degree must be conferred by the start date of the position.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Deep appreciation for, and an ability to articulate eloquently, the educational mission and aspirations of GW.
  • Stature, professional experience, and relationship-building skills to engage, motivate, and support the Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations, high-caliber administrative and academic leadership, staff, and colleagues.
  • Proven ability to expand and strengthen partnerships with administrative colleagues, superiors, and supervised staff, ideally in a complex research-intensive higher education institution.
  • Demonstrated ability to facilitate communication regarding multi-unit planning, budgeting, human resource, and information technology opportunities for win-win partnerships across the University.
  • Deliberate agility, flexibility, and intellectual prowess to build alliances across the University.
  • Superb strategic vision and leadership and management experience, providing staff with the direction, motivation, and support needed to continually surpass ambitious goals.
  • Results-oriented professional comfortable with quantitative performance measurement with excess initiative and sound judgment.
  • Collaborative team player with superlative interpersonal skills.
  • Proven competence in developing and implementing management information tools, data mining, and data modeling that produce actionable findings.
  • Network administration experience within a multi-unit environment.
  • Influencing and communication skills and impeccable writing ability.
  • Genuine team player with a creative manner of approaching issues and devising sound solutions based on good judgment and advanced facilitation skills.
  • Unquestioned integrity and sound judgment, as well as a sense of perspective.
  • Substantial direct experience with at least 8 years of fundraising management experience.


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