This position plays a key role in coordinating development strategies across colleges and administrative areas, ensuring alignment with university-wide fundraising priorities. The Executive Director will manage a personal portfolio of major gift prospects and will collaborate with development officers and campus partners to create personalized cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship strategies that strengthen long-term relationships with donors. Through strategic outreach, travel, and engagement, this individual will build and sustain relationships with alumni, parents, and friends to support institutional priorities.

Essential Functions and Duties:

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of development officers supporting various colleges and units.
• Collaborate with advancement leadership to design, implement, and execute strategic fundraising and engagement plans.
• Identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward principal and major gift prospects and donors to advance university priorities.
• Partner with academic leaders, unit directors, and colleagues across Advancement to align fundraising strategy with institutional goals.
• Contribute to the development of long-term fundraising strategies that strengthen the donor pipeline and advance campus-wide initiatives.
• Provide leadership and oversight for key projects, initiatives, and fundraising campaigns.
• Represent the development team in meetings with internal and external stakeholders, influencing decision-making and promoting collaboration.

This position plays a key role in coordinating development strategies across colleges and administrative areas, ensuring alignment with university-wide fundraising priorities. The Executive Director will manage a personal portfolio of major gift prospects and will collaborate with development officers and campus partners to create personalized cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship strategies that strengthen long-term relationships with donors. Through strategic outreach, travel, and engagement, this individual will build and sustain relationships with alumni, parents, and friends to support institutional priorities.

Essential Functions and Duties:

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of development officers supporting various colleges and units.
• Collaborate with advancement leadership to design, implement, and execute strategic fundraising and engagement plans.
• Identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward principal and major gift prospects and donors to advance university priorities.
• Partner with academic leaders, unit directors, and colleagues across Advancement to align fundraising strategy with institutional goals.
• Contribute to the development of long-term fundraising strategies that strengthen the donor pipeline and advance campus-wide initiatives.
• Provide leadership and oversight for key projects, initiatives, and fundraising campaigns.
• Represent the development team in meetings with internal and external stakeholders, influencing decision-making and promoting collaboration.