Compensation Type: Salaried
Compensation: $83,260.00
The Assistant Director, Advancement Operations serves as a key
leadership role within the Foundation, responsible for overseeing
the integration and execution of core functions including
communications, stewardship and alumni engagement, and data
operations. Reporting to the Director, this position translates
strategic priorities into coordinated, high-quality execution
across multiple workstreams, ensuring consistency, alignment, and
effectiveness in advancing fundraising and engagement goals. The
Assistant Director supervises a team of functional specialists and
acts as a central point of coordination to ensure that campaigns,
events, and donor engagement efforts are aligned, efficient, and
data-informed. This role works in close collaboration with internal
and cross-functional partners, including Marketing, to elevate
messaging quality and institutional impact.
Strategic Vision & Department Leadership
- Works closely with Director to align strategy and priorities
for Advancement initiatives. Oversees donor stewardship processes,
including acknowledgment, recognition, and reporting. Supports
development and execution of alumni engagement initiatives. Ensures
consistent and meaningful donor experiences across all
touchpoints.
Oversees planning and execution of integrated campaigns.
Ensures messaging is cohesive, timely, and aligned with
institutional priorities. Maintains coordination authority for
communications decisions to ensure clarity and alignment.
Ensures effective use of CRM and other data technology (e.g.,
Raiser's Edge) for tracking, reporting, and segmentation. Oversees
data integrity, reporting processes, and analytics. Supports
data-informed decision-making across campaigns and engagement
efforts.
Operational Leadership
- Directly supervises Advancement Operations team members.
Establishes clear goals, priorities, and performance expectations.
Provides coaching, feedback, and professional development support.
Ensures accountability and consistency across functional
areas.
- Carries out, explains, interprets and enforces policy. Conducts
annual employee evaluations, and recommends pay increases,
promotions and other personnel actions. Approves leave and
authorizes overtime as appropriate. Participates in employee
selection process. Administers disciplinary actions upon approval,
and in collaboration with Human Resources.
- Serves as a central decision-maker for day-to-day operational
questions. Prioritizes workstreams and allocates resources to meet
goals. Acts as escalation point for cross-functional issues and
competing priorities. Ensures timely execution and high-quality
deliverables.
Cross-Functional Coordination
- Leads day-to-day coordination of communications, stewardship,
and data functions. Translates strategic priorities into actionable
plans and timelines. Ensures alignment across campaigns, events,
donor engagement, and data workflows. Identifies and resolves
workflow gaps, redundancies, and inefficiencies
- Partners with Event Manager on integrated planning and
follow-up. Collaborates with Marketing & Communications to
incorporate strategic communications, branding, and content
development, while maintaining clear internal decision-making
authority. Builds relationships across departments to support
coordinated advancement efforts.
Culture of Respect
- Fosters and maintains a safe environment of respect and
inclusion for faculty, staff, students, and members of the
community.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field. An appropriate
combination of education and directly related experience may be
considered.
- Four (4) years of progressively responsible experience in a
related field.
Full Time/Part Time:
Full time
Union (If Applicable):
Scheduled Hours:
40
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