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Associate Vice President for Development: Storytelling, Stewardship, and Annual Giving

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Job Title

Associate Vice President for Development: Storytelling, Stewardship, and Annual Giving

Job Description

Our mission is to unlock the grace of giving in advancing Notre Dame’s mission. We value trust, transparency, teamwork, driving change, feedback, and fun. If you are ready to embrace each day, knowing that your work furthers the mission and catalyzes Notre Dame’s lasting impact on the world, then this is the role for you! The University of Notre Dame, University Relations division, is seeking an Associate Vice President for Development. This individual is responsible for leading the Storytelling, Annual Giving and Stewardship teams.  

Reporting to the Vice President for University Relations, the incumbent will serve as a key leader for University Relations, interfacing with colleagues from across the institution on matters of communication, brand management, revenue generation and stewardship. The successful candidate will assume responsibility for the Storytelling, Annual Giving, and Stewardship teams in the development department. They will drive innovation and utilize strategic approaches to achieve best in class results including raising unrestricted and giving society funds of $80+ million from 125,000+ Notre Dame alumni, parents and friends on an annual basis. They will demonstrate a commitment of excellence with University benefactors through donor engagement and events, impact reports, dedications, acknowledgments, and fund reporting.



PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Provide strategic direct leadership over Sr. Directors leading the following departments:  Storytelling, Annual Giving and Stewardship.

  • Effectively and efficiently manage all human and budget resources for the aforementioned teams.

  • Create a vision, set aggressive goals and lead a high performing team of approximately 50+ full time employees to successively greater results. Work as a partner with other Development Associate Vice Presidents to build trust, teamwork and best in class results.  

  • Manage the delivery of the Notre Dame brand to Notre Dame alumni, parents and friends; and transform this through innovation, process improvements, enhanced consistency of design, messaging and compliance with the University standards.

  • Responsible for setting and achieving annual unrestricted giving and donor count targets. 

  • Build upon a best-in-class Stewardship and Donor Relations program, ensuring donors are appropriately recognized and University resources are properly utilized.


Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At the University of Notre Dame we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

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Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in Marketing and Communications
  • 10 plus years of management experience demonstrating a range of increasing responsibility throughout career.
  • Proven leader comfortable setting a vision, creating goals, and executing with a track record of development of successful teams, innovation and working closely with the product development & operations team. 
  • Experience in leading brand management in consumer marketing; private label/brand experience a plus. Demonstrated ability to build and implement segmentation strategies.
  • Passionate about exploration and use of emerging technologies. 
  • Superior problem-solving and decision-making skills. Faces problems head-on and takes an analytical approach to timely resolution.
  • Deep commitment to Notre Dame’s mission and core values (e.g. integrity, teamwork, accountability).

Preferred Qualifications

Master’s Degree

Department

Development-Storytelling Mktg&Comm. (22017)

Department Website

giving.nd.edu

Family / Sub-Family

Communications & Marketing / Brand Mgmt

Career Stream/Level

M 4 Associate Vice President

Department Hiring Pay Range

Commensurate with experience

Pay ID

Semi-Monthly

FLSA Status

S1 - FT Exempt

Job Category

Administrator/Professional

Job Type

Full-time

Job Posting Date (Campus)

05/25/2023

Job Posting Date (Public)

05/25/2023

Job Closing Date

06/09/2023

Posting Type

Open To All Applicants

Posting Number

S231055

Quick Link for Internal Postings

https://jobs.nd.edu/postings/30799

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