Reporting to the Vice President for Advancement & Innovation, the Assistant Vice President for Advancement, is a senior leader in the Advancement division. Responsible for providing strategic leadership for the College's development infrastructure, leads successful annual giving strategy, and serves as a key partner to colleagues in Advancement to utilize data and analytics to drive fundraising success, especially in the context of College's comprehensive fundraising campaign.

The AVP is responsible for strategic design, development and implementation of operational functions that provide a foundation for Advancement to achieve its goals in fundraising and constituent engagement. The AVP is charged with aligning business support functions, policies and procedures, and technology infrastructure with the strategies, resources and priorities of the College. The AVP builds, sustains, encourages, and supports productive relationship with and among colleagues and develops and implements policies, practices and systems in Advancement Operations.

This position oversees Advancement-wide strategic planning activities and business operations, and leads four essential teams - Advancements Services (which includes Records and Gifts, and Business Process, Analytics and Reporting); Prospect Research, Relationship Management and Analytics; Stewardship and Donor Relations and Annual Giving - to create and sustain a customer-service oriented and donor-centric Advancement operation. The position requires significant management experience and the ability to facilitate a healthy team-environment, to supervise and inspire employees toward excellence, and to lead by example.

This position works closely with the Vice President and the Senior Leadership Team, to establish and communicate the organizational vision and goals (both multi-year and annual). This position supports the VP, Board of Trustees Advancement Committee and the College's senior leadership in launching development initiatives.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Job duties specific to this position:

• Lead and supervise the department staff in Advancement to achieve overall success for the College.
• Provide organizational and team-based strategic planning based on data-drive recommendations.
• Provide clear direction and oversight of all Advancement operations and activities in order to develop and achieve annual and multi-year goals. Responsible for monitoring and evaluating direct reports and overall department staff performance. Maintain an efficient, collegial, and proactive work environment within the Advancement department offices.
• Lead the Advancement Services operations, overseeing donor database management; gift and biographical records management; and gift processing and accounting; data science, predictive analytics and reporting.
• Lead a successful stewardship and donor relations program that strategically targets donors, particularly leadership level donors to strengthen their financial support for the College.
• Provide leadership and strategic vision for prospect research, relationship management, and analytics with business intelligence to support principal and major gift development and solicitation, as well as comprehensive campaign initiatives.
• Lead and manage annual giving program to ensure successful progress toward annual and campaign targets for annual giving.
• Oversee division-wide strategic planning and implementation; provide direction and guidance to advancement colleagues on strategic priorities and projects.
• Oversee dynamic programs that builds data supported, action-driven applications and tools such as RaisersEdge.
• Manage the compliance and ethical standards of the Advancement Operations in accordance with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)/ the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB).
• Oversee the development and implementation of a detailed Advancement budget consistent with College policies and practices. Interface with College CFO and Comptroller to ensure budget is integrated into College plan, in close coordination with VP for Advancement.
• Manage the development, implementation and tracking of College Advancement strategic plan with VP and Senior Staff. Work with senior management team to develop long and short-range objectives. Develop measurements and tactics to achieve goals. Monitor progress towards goals on a regular basis.
• Interface with internal departments and the College on behalf of Company Advancement. Serve as Company's Advancement's liaison for College reporting, strategic plan, annual institutional indicators, risk assessment surveys and various miscellaneous College reports.
• Assist the VP in staffing the Advancement Committee of the Board and all Board-related Advancement activities.
• Work closely with the Vice President for Advancement, the Company Board of Trustees, senior staff, Deans, faculty, staff, alumni, donors, and parents to develop successful annual giving campaigns to secure financial support for the College's mission and strategic priorities.
• Must be proficient with Microsoft Office Suite. Raiser's Edge, data analysis, predictive analytics, and statistics strongly preferred.
• Management experience and a clearly articulated management philosophy that supports high performance and employee retention.
• A substantial knowledge of best practice in prospect research, prospect management, advancement operations, strategy and analytics, stewardship, and annual giving.
• Serve as a College spokesperson in the area of Advancement as necessary.

Job expectations for all Le Moyne College employees:

• Demonstrates and role-models all of Le Moyne's mission-based competencies (collaboration, communication, diversity, integrity, leadership and service) in every interaction with all community members and external parties.
• Strengthen digital literacy skills through education and the application of digital technologies in order to effectively engage in information gathering, utilization and data management while promoting a security culture.
• Supports cura personalis by treating all individuals with dignity, professionalism and kindness.
• Promotes cura apostolica by aligning professional goals, objectives, and performance with college's strategic goals.
• Demonstrates excellent work attendance, reliability and work ethic.
• Attends and actively participates in required meetings and training sessions.
• Complies and adheres to all of Le Moyne's established policies, procedures and codes of conduct at all times, including all health and safety requirements and regulations, to promote desired behavior and build awareness.
• Must complete all required federal, state, institution and department trainings.
• Engages in a planned program of professional development. Continually maintains skills and knowledge relative to the position and technology industry including best practice, evolving operational requirements, and industry trends.
• Performs a variety of related duties as assigned.

• Advanced degree required with a preference in business, information systems, data analytics or organizational design.
• A minimum of 8+ years of demonstrable leadership experience with increasing responsibility and demonstrated success managing databases, research programs, annual giving, and/or strategy and analytics units, with a preference for leadership in higher education advancement.
• A demonstrated commitment to an information based, database centered, prospect management approach to managing the development pipeline.
• Management experience and a clearly articulated management philosophy that supports high performance and employee retention
• A substantial knowledge of best practice in prospect research, relationship management, strategy and analytics, stewardship, annual giving, etc.
• Accounting experience is preferred.
• Direct knowledge of top-tier development programs.
• Direct knowledge of successful fundraising practices.
• Understanding of effective and efficient practices for multiple areas of advancement operations.
• Deep knowledge of best practices regarding managing databases, research programs, strategy and analytics units.
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, a passion for the liberal arts, and a high degree of professionalism and integrity.
• Must understand and communicate the mission and history of the College's liberal arts environment.
• Demonstrated leadership in managing diverse functions of Advancement operations, activities and budgets with strong strategic planning and organizational skills.
• Superior technology skills are required, including an understanding of a complex data management tools; technical skill/experience with software development tools, and familiarity with computer programming, and statistical software.
• Able to work both independently and as a collaborative executive member of the College in support of the College's strategic vision and the division's annual goals with a high standard of integrity and ethics.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion job expectations for all Le Moyne College employees:

• Demonstrates commitment to promoting a more diverse, inclusive and equitable work environment by supporting the diversity, equity, and inclusion goals of the employee's unit.
• Regularly participates in professional development opportunities to become more aware of DEI issues and to consider ways in which their work can be expanded to honor and incorporate the diversity of our community.
• Works to neutralize institutional bias by analyzing the policies and procedures of their unit and making suggestions to remove barriers for historically underserved people.
• Promotes open communication across Le Moyne's community in order to create an inclusive environment, and understanding of others backgrounds, ideas, and perspectives.

Le Moyne Benefits

• 403(b) Retirement contribution- (9.5% Employer match)
• Generous tuition coverage
• Health insurance options- (Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible Spending Accounts)
• Health Savings Accounts- (Partially Employer funded)
• Basic Life & AD&D Insurance- (Employer paid)
• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance (Employer paid)
• Supplemental Life & AD&D Insurance
• Voluntary benefits- (Legal, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Pet Insurance etc.)
• 12 paid holidays (In addition to paid time off the week between Christmas and New Years)
• Generous time off package
• 35 hour work weeks

For more details on the College's benefit programs, please visit our Benefits page by clicking here.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Le Moyne College is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.

This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. Le Moyne makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.