Chief Development Officer/ Executive Director

494932

Full-Time

Gift Planning

Department: Gift Planning Salary: Commensurate with Experience/Education

Description:

The University of Houston System seeks an experienced professional to lead our gift and estate planning efforts and lead the related fundraising team. This leader will join the principal gifts team and report to the Associate Vice President, Strategic Initiatives and Leadership Gifts. The successful candidate will be evaluated for a Chief Development Officer or Executive Director role, depending upon experience and portfolio expertise.

The Chief Development Officer/Executive Director will need to serve as a superb leader and manager, with an ability to motivate, inspire and manage a team of development professionals as well as a group of dedicated Campaign volunteers.

1. Supervise, lead, motivate and evaluate a high-caliber team in order to assure consistency, quality, accountability and performance metrics are achieved.

2. Build strong and mutually beneficial relationships among the Deans, Academic leadership, Advancement leadership, faculty and staff.

3. Organizes and implements the Development efforts for the overall Unit including multiple Colleges and/or Programs.

4. Manage a portfolio of the Unit's top donors and prospective donors with responsibility to meet an annual personal fundraising goal.

5. Motivate and inspire team to aggressively grow the pipeline of donors to fully support a robust major gifts program within the Unit.

6. Ensure the Unit's combined, annual team goal is achieved and monitor closely for completion of overall Campaign goal.

7. Provide oversight for the Unit's Campaign Volunteer Council along with support as needed to individual College volunteer groups within the Unit, focused to ensure each volunteer has an engagement plan that includes responsibilities with accountability metrics for fundraising.

8. Work in close collaboration with Associate Vice President, Development in creating fundraising internal and external processes as related to team's work, identifying and implementing best practices to support a comprehensive, winning major gifts fundraising program.

9. Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

MQ: Requires application of advanced principles, techniques and theory in a professional discipline or a thorough general business management knowledge. Knowledge of this level is typically obtained through a directly job-related master's degree or equivalent formal training in a recognized field of specialization that is directly related to the type of work being performed.

Requires a minimum of ten (10) years of job-related experience. At least five (5) in a management role.

Please make sure the below statement is on top as we are only hiring one position.

The University of Houston System seeks an experienced professional to lead our gift and estate planning efforts and lead the related fundraising team. This leader will join the principal gifts team and report to the Associate Vice President, Strategic Initiatives and Leadership Gifts. The successful candidate will be evaluated for a Chief Development Officer or Executive Director role, depending upon experience and portfolio expertise.

Additional duties to be added to posting:

• The Chief Development Officer or Executive Director – Gift and Estate Planning develops the overall University System strategy for gift and estate planning, and directs and manages the planned giving program for significant campaign success.
• Develops polices and guidelines to govern planned giving activities, ensuring compliance with legal and tax regulations.
• Creates and implements marketing strategies, with internal and external partners and vendors.
• Identifies, cultivates, and solicits current and prospective donors, including a personal portfolio of principial gift prospects.
• Plans, coordinates, and implements planned giving strategies with donors and development officers to structure lifetime, blended and deferred gift arrangements.
• Provides technical expertise, guidance and supervision to System staff on estate planning options. Collaborates with finance, legal and advancement teams to enhance gift planning operations and support fundraising efforts.
• Maintains current knowledge of gift planning methods.
• Promotes positive donor relations and stewardship.
• Develops and manages goals and strategies to target and assess planned gifts.

• Plans and monitors departmental budget.

• Department is willing to accept education in lieu of experience.

• Department is willing to accept experience in lieu of education.

All positions at the University of Houston-System are security sensitive and will require a criminal history check.

The University of Houston System and its universities are Equal Opportunity Institutions. Everyone is encouraged to apply.