"Assistant Vice President of Development"

Job Description

Classification: Administrator III
Hours: Full-time / 40 hours per week
FLSA: Exempt

Anticipated Hiring Salary Range: $13,059 to $14,166 mo. CSU Salary Schedule

Priority Screening Date: October 26, 2025
Recruitment Status: Open Until Filled

About CSUMB

California State University, Monterey Bay is a mid-sized university in California's Central Coast that grants undergraduate and graduate degrees. Powered by an inspiring Founding Vision Statement, CSUMB is part of the nation's largest four-year public university system, California State University, which educates nearly 460,000 students every year.

With a vibrant, diverse student body of over 7,000 students, CSU Monterey Bay is both a Minority Serving Institution and a Hispanic Serving Institution. Our staff and faculty transform students' lives with a focus on student success and engagement through experiential learning, service learning, and a strong emphasis on multicultural and global perspectives. CSUMB's sustainability goal is to be carbon neutral by 2030.

The university's Strategic Plan prioritizes inclusive excellence through recruiting and investing in developing a diverse body of faculty, staff and administrators. Many appreciate living and working close to the shores of beautiful Monterey Bay, with easy access to recreational areas from Big Sur to Santa Cruz. Nearby opportunities for collaborative research include working in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Silicon Valley, and with colleagues at local research universities, including UC Santa Cruz and Stanford University.

As one of the 23 campuses in the CSU system, CSUMB offers excellent benefits, including access to below-market-rate rental housing on East Campus, and competitive salaries for faculty and staff. With proximity to the San Francisco Bay Area and San Jose, opportunities for faculty, staff and students are as endless as the shores of the nearby Pacific Ocean.

Purpose:

Under the general direction of the Vice President, University Advancement, the Assistant Vice President of Development is responsible and accountable in leading the Development team to identify, cultivate and solicit individual major and principal gift donors, corporate and foundation donors, alumni outreach and annual gifts in support of University initiatives and priorities. The Assistant Vice President of Development will be responsible for establishing metrics for success, managing a select portfolio of prospects and donors capable of making major gifts to the institution, and creating a cohesive, collaborative and strategic fundraising team.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Management of University Fundraising:

• Work with the Vice President, University Advancement to set annual fundraising goals.
• Provides leadership and supervision for the Directors of Development, Corporations and Foundations, and Annual Giving.
• Creates and implements methods for improving individual and team productivity, performance and collaboration.
• Oversee the preparation of written proposals, informational materials, planned gift illustrations, and other materials to secure major and principal gifts, including proposals to corporations and foundations.
• Supervise the development of policies and procedures relating to all university fundraising initiatives and work collaboratively with leadership on collateral materials for those efforts.
• Ensure compliance with fundraising policies, goals and procedures.
• Coordinate communications (case statements, recognition, stewardship, information) of fundraising initiatives and results.
• Review and modify or approve the fundraising plans of any fundraising initiative.
• Support college deans and program leads to maximize their effectiveness in fundraising for approved initiatives.
• Achieve annual fiscal year fundraising goals and set expectations for metrics and performance with direct reports.

Fundraising:

• Provide management, cultivation, and solicitation for a personal portfolio of top prospects and donors as assigned.

Unit Management:

• Supervise fundraising personnel with assigned responsibility for major and principal gifts, planned gifts, corporation and foundation relationships, annual giving and other personnel in fundraising.
• Analyze and interpret the performance of staff.
• Work with Senior Director of Advancement Services to develop and execute annual budgets allocating fundraising personnel and financial resources; track and forecast expenditures in comparison to approved budgets.

Other Duties:

• Represent the Vice President for University Advancement and/or the division by participating on committees relating to university initiatives.
• Serve as a member of the President's Extended Cabinet.
• Performs other job-related duties and special projects as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Knowledge of: donor-centered fundraising, fundraising techniques, proposal development, prospect identification, prospect research and cultivation, fund solicitation, donor recognition and stewardship. Thorough knowledge of modern management and administrative techniques related to the development and implementation of appropriate methods of work planning, scheduling and coordination in a team environment to meet changing organizational objectives. Commitment to higher education and philanthropy.

Ability to: be an effective team builder and maintain positive working relationships, on and off campus, with a population of diverse and ethnic cultural backgrounds. Possess effective interpersonal and communication skills to motivate and inspire staff, volunteers, donors, and others to achieve their maximum potential. Must be creative and a dynamic strategic planner. Must have the ability to implement and provide oversight of major gifts and stewardship of the same. Ability to thrive in an environment of change. Excellent oral and written skills required relating well with a variety of constituents, including high profile leaders. Strong supervisory, management, and organizational skills with excellent time management and follow-through abilities. Ability to function on multiple tasks and self-motivation and initiative.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university
• Ten years of professional experience as a seasoned performance-driven senior development officer of a higher education or nonprofit institution, which may include major gifts, planned giving, and capital campaign.
• Minimum of 3-5 years of management experience.
• Success in major gift fundraising ($100,000+) that demonstrates an ability to align strategy, development/implementation with pre-approved goals/priorities.
• Management of a development team with proven results
• Knowledge and proficiency in working with CRM database

Preferred Qualifications:

• Fundraising experience in a large, complex university
• Demonstrated success with comprehensive and/or capital campaigns; success in fundraising with six and seven figure gifts
• Advanced degree in a relevant field
• Technical fluency with Microsoft Office Professional Suite, Raiser's Edge, and Google mail and calendaring programs.

Special Conditions of Employment & Position Designations:

All offers of employment are contingent upon the successful completion of a background check (including a criminal records check). The person holding this position will have a duty to report to the Campus Title IX Officer information pertaining to discrimination, harassment, sexual misconduct, sexual exploitation, dating violence, domestic violence, stalking, and retaliation and is required to comply with the requirements set forth in CSU Executive Order EO 1095, EO 1096, and EO 1097 as a condition of employment. The person holding this position is considered a "mandated reporter" under the California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act and is required to comply with the requirements set forth in CSU Executive Order 1083 as a condition of employment. This position has been designated as a sensitive position with: responsibility or access/possession of building master or sub-master keys for building access; access to and responsibility for detailed personally identifiable Level 1 confidential information about students, faculty, staff or alumni that is protected, personal or sensitive as defined in the CSU Information Security Data Classification Standards. This position is designated as a Campus Security Authority (CSA). The position is required to participate in training at the direction of the Clery Director and must also promptly report allegations of reportable crimes according to the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, its accompanying regulations; the California State Education Code, Chapter 15.5, of the Donahoe Higher Education Act, Section 67380; and the California State University system-wide policy, Code EO 1107. Must possess and maintain a valid license to drive in the State of California, pass the Defensive Training Class, and be insurable under the University's liability coverage. Due to the nature of the work, this position requires the ability to work flexible hours, including evenings and weekends, on a regular basis.

Physical Environment:

Office environment with standard equipment and tasks. Position requires working at a computer and desk for extended periods of time. May require travel between campus offices and off-campus locations.

Benefits/Perks:

This is a management-level position with an attractive benefits package, which includes: a vacation accrual rate of 16 hours per month; an excellent choice of medical, dental, and vision insurance; long-term disability coverage; life insurance; educational incentives; membership in the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS); and 14 paid holidays a year. For further information, please visit Employee Benefits Summary. The University Corporation at Monterey Bay also provides access to affordable housing near main campus. For more information, visit: https://csumb.edu/corporation/employee-housing.

Application Procedure:

For full consideration, applicants must complete the required online application prior to the priority screen date found at Careers at CSUMB. Application submissions received after the application screening date will be reviewed at the discretion of the University. Materials submitted become the property of CSUMB and will not be returned. CSUMB is not a sponsoring agency for staff or management positions. Reasonable accommodations will be provided for qualified applicants with disabilities who self-disclose by contacting Human Resources at (831) 582-3389 or emailing humanresources@csumb.edu. All employees must be eligible for employment in the U.S.