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Associate Vice President for Major Gifts
Location:
Ithaca, NY
Description:
Key Responsibilities: Strategic Management: Lead major gift initiatives, collaborating with academic and university leaders to drive fundraising success. Serve as the primary liaison for all major gift-related matters. Team Leadership: Manage, motivate, and mentor a sizable team of major gift officers, ensuring professional growth and successful performance. Lead a team that successfully meets and builds on key goals annually and during campaigns; regularly track and manage fundraising progress for each team and manage team performance through established metrics and expectations. Collaboration: Work closely with principal gifts, the campaign office, colleges and units, and other teams to maximize donor potential and enhance lifelong relationships with the university. Meet regularly with key AAD partners to ensure goal alignment across programs. These partners include alumni affairs, Discovery team, Prospect Development and Research, Operations, Communications and Trust, Estates, and Gift Planning. Budget Management: Oversee the creation and management of the program budget, ensuring operational efficiency and consistency with division guidelines. Required Qualifications Bachelor’s degree and 7-10 years of demonstrated success in major gift fundraising and fundraising management or equivalent combination. Experience in and/or demonstrated commitment to supporting diversity, equity, access, inclusion, and wellbeing Demonstrated experience in managing, motivating, and mentoring a team. Must have excellent organizational management, strategic planning, communication, and negotiation skills. The Associate Vice President must be flexible and collaborative in his/her approach to working with others and engender respect for colleagues, administration, and volunteers to maximize the full fundraising potential of the Major Gifts program. is strongly ethical and possesses values and judgment that support the University’s and Division’s missions. Frequent travel is required. Rewards and Benefits Cornell receives national recognition, as an award-winning workplace for our health, wellbeing, sustainability, and diversity initiatives. Benefits include: Professional development opportunities (i.e. – Plus Delta Fundraising training) Comprehensive health care options Access to wellness programs Employee discounts with local and national retail brands Generous retirement contributions Leave provisions including three weeks of vacation and 12 holidays Impressive educational benefits including tuition-free Extramural Study and Employee Degree Program, Tuition Aid for external education, and Cornell Children's Tuition Assistance program Learn more about benefit opportunities The preference is the candidate is located in Ithaca, NY with hybrid work arrangements, which means 4 days on campus and the option to work 1 day remotely from a commutable distance. However, flexible work arrangements could be considered based on the candidate’s experience and qualifications.
Company:
Cornell University
Posted:
July 2 on ExecSearches
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