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ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT, SCHOOL OF SOCIAL POLICY & PRACTICE

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Reference Number 90-30417 Posted Job Title ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT, SCHOOL OF SOCIAL POLICY & PRACTICE School Name Development and Alumni Relations Org SP2 in DAR Posted to the Web 11/15/2018 Posted Job/Salary Grade 030 Employment Type Exempt Hours N/A Position Type Full Time Position Schedule N/A Months 12 Position Length Ongoing Position End Date University Overview

The University of Pennsylvania, the largest private employer in Philadelphia, is a world-renowned leader in education, research, and innovation. This historic, Ivy League school consistently ranks among the top 10 universities in the annual U.S. News & World Report survey. Penn has 12 highly-regarded schools that provide opportunities for undergraduate, graduate and continuing education, all influenced by Penn’s distinctive interdisciplinary approach to scholarship and learning.

Penn offers a unique working environment within the city of Philadelphia. The University is situated on a beautiful urban campus, with easy access to a range of educational, cultural, and recreational activities. With its historical significance and landmarks, lively cultural offerings, and wide variety of atmospheres, Philadelphia is the perfect place to call home for work and play.

The University offers a competitive benefits package that includes excellent healthcare and tuition benefits for employees and their families, generous retirement benefits, a wide variety of professional development opportunities, supportive work and family benefits, a wealth of health and wellness programs and resources, and much more.

School/Center Overview

The Development and Alumni Relations organization at the University of Pennsylvania is one of the premier development organizations in the world.

Penn’s Development and Alumni Relations (DAR) team members benefit from an exceptional work environment where professional excellence and individual pride in achievement are grounded in a strong institutional commitment to integrity and collegiality as we strive for collective success. For talented and innovative individuals, a career at the University of Pennsylvania offers the chance to be part of an exceptionally exciting environment at the nation’s first university.

We seek talented individuals who will constitute a community that draws on the strength that comes with a substantive institutional commitment to diversity. Diversity is prized at Penn as a central component of our mission and helps create an educational and working environment that best supports the University’s commitment to excellence in teaching, research, and scholarship.

Penn’s commitment to achieving eminence through diversity is ultimately a commitment to creating a more vibrant university so that our employees will be both stimulated and empowered to shape a better world. http://darrecruiting.upenn.edu/why-choose-penn/about-dar

Duties

The School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) is noted for its commitment to social justice and to educating students that will take an active role in the struggle against oppression. SP2 contributes to the advancement of more effective, efficient and humane human services through education, research and civic engagement. In pursuit of this mission, its theory-based masters and doctoral programs in social work, social welfare, non-profit leadership and social policy encourage students to think and work across disciplinary lines and cultures, locally, nationally, and globally. Visit www.sp2.upenn.edu

Reporting to the Dean of the School of Social Policy & Practice and the AVP of Development, School and Center Program, the Associate Dean for Institutional Advancement is responsible for the school’s overall development and fundraising activities, as well as public relations/communications activities, for the School of Social Policy & Practice of the University of Pennsylvania. Working closely with the Dean of Social Policy & Practice, the Associate Dean is responsible for conceptualizing, planning and executing a coordinated program of fundraising including major gifts, planned giving, corporate, foundation and government support, annual giving, and donor development and stewardship, within the framework of the School’s top priorities. S/he also oversees the School’s overarching public relations/communications strategic planning, management and outreach on behalf of the School.

SP2 is currently in the early public phase of a $38 million fundraising campaign being executed as part of the University of Pennsylvania’s overarching comprehensive campaign. The campaign is currently slated for completion in 2021. The Associate Dean will be responsible for leading the ongoing planning and execution of this campaign and integrating SP2 initiatives into the University’s overall campaign planning and programs.

The Associate Dean for Institutional Advancement also serves as an important member of the Dean’s senior leadership team at SP2. As a part of the School’s strategic planning and administrative infrastructure, the Associate Dean plays an integral role in programmatic, financial, and physical planning at the School and helps to provide leadership for incubating and fostering major strategic initiatives that promise to further the School’s mission and momentum. S/he will develop appropriate communications, development and fundraising strategies to support the prerogatives that emerge from this process. The Associate Dean also works closely with the Dean and the School’s financial team to help maximize resources, partnering to best structure and position programs to attract external interest while meeting strategic priorities, guiding the appropriate implementation of donor-driven programs and ensuring that the School is able to effectively steward donors.

The Associate Dean works with the Dean in mobilizing volunteer leadership to advance the School’s mission and quest for external visibility and support, and specifically its primary advisory body – a 25- to 30-member Board of Overseers comprised of the school’s leading volunteers and donors. The Associate Dean will work closely with the Dean and the Chair of the Board of Overseers to manage recruiting, retaining and rotating Board members and otherwise fully engaging the board in the culture, work and community of the school with an eye to maximizing their involvement and support.

The Associate Dean also works closely with the University’s central development organization, drawing on its support services, and integrating Social Policy & Practice’s initiatives within the University’s overall strategic and fundraising design. The Associate Dean serves as an important bridge between School and University Development activities.

The Associate Dean for Institutional Advancement supervises related staff which currently includes 7.5 staff: two Associate Directors pointed at the team’s development mission, an Associate Director of Communications and Public Relations, a Marketing and Communications Staff Writer, an Associate Director of Alumni and Student Engagement, an Administrative Coordinator, and an Administrative Assistant. S/he also will co-manage the Director of Development for SP2’s Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice & Research in partnership with the Field Center’s Faculty Director. The Associate Dean for Institutional Advancement will also work closely with other SP2 Centers and Programs to promote development activities for these critically important school initiatives.

Specific Responsibilities:

1. With the Dean, provide strategic leadership and oversight of the marketing, communications, publications, development, and constituent relations activities of the School.

2. Develop metrics and strategies for advancing and achieving the University and school’s key goals and priorities; engage the Dean, faculty, staff and volunteers as appropriate in executing these strategies.

3. With the Dean, establish and execute a plan to engage and expand the School’s Board of Overseers, its leadership volunteer organization. This includes working closely with the Chair of the Board as well as various subcommittees and their leadership to plan and promote the board’s activities.

4. Analyze potential funding sources and evaluate their potential to support the long and short range goals of the School; develop and implement strategies to secure funding from such sources.

5. Cultivate, steward and solicit major and principal gifts for the School with a primary focus on the School’s highest level prospects, consistent with the strategic priorities of the School.

6. Continue to prioritize and maximize prospect pool penetration and design and execute strategies for expanding the School’s prospect pool over time.

7. Establish effective stewardship procedures for sustaining donor interest and cultivating new gift opportunities.

8. Oversee the development and promotion of key engagement strategies pointed at alumni and other primary stakeholder groups.

9. Lead and direct Office of Institutional Advancement staff to achieve optimum results by:
* Communicating and monitoring financial and key performance indicators and results to staff members
* Establishing priorities and goals for all staff.
* Managing staffing needs and identifying areas for organizational development updates or changes
* Guiding the talent identification and professional development needs, processes and outcomes within the entire unit in line with the University’s diversity and inclusion priorities
* Setting clear performance expectations and holding staff accountable for outcomes through frequent feedback and coaching
* Ensuring open communications among team members, engaging in team building efforts and holding regular staff meetings that embrace and support the group’s diversity
* Inspiring and motivating staff to achieve optimum results
* Connecting office staff with the SP2 community in order to promote relationships among the various constituencies within the school.

10. Serve as a member of the Dean’s senior administrative leadership team and participate in key School-wide initiatives where Institutional Advancement is a meaningful partner.

Qualifications

BA/BS degree required; Master’s preferred. Ten years of successful development and fundraising experience including a proven record of success in securing six and seven figure gifts with increasingly more responsible fund-raising duties, preferably at a major research university comparable to Penn. Solid managerial and leadership skills and demonstrated ability to establish objectives, set performance standards, and organize and motivate a staff to achieve individual and departmental goals.
Understanding of core communications principles and the use of promotional tools and techniques (publications, special events, etc.) to build allegiance and support among key constituencies.
Ability to engage, recruit, train and move alumni, volunteers and donors to a desired action. A thorough appreciation of the need for academic planning and its essential relationship to the effective application of basic fundraising principles. An accompanying ability to think and work strategically across the landscape of an academic institution and effectively serve as a member of an academic leadership team. Creativity and an inquiring mind. These are best represented in the ability to recognize and foster opportunities for visibility and momentum-building; analyze funding sources and relate their potential to the strategic plans of the School of Social Policy & Practice; more particularly, to organize practical strategies for matching SP2 strategic goals to successful gift opportunities. Strong communication skills, both oral and written. Strong facility with development-related databases and a commitment to supporting and sustaining the data-driven elements of fund raising and alumni relations management. High motivation and a capacity for hard work within the context of an intensely goal-oriented environment. A deeply held commitment to collegiality and collaborative work within a unit and across multiple units and constituencies as part of a complex institution. Ability to function independently, yet relate comfortably to a centralized framework for fundraising, participating in and contributing to a team effort. Valid drivers license is required. Position will also require work during evening hours; on weekends and overnight travel.

Affirmative Action Statement

Penn adheres to a policy that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, citizenship status, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected class.

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    Telephone
    (215) 898-7372
    Location
    3451 Walnut Street
    Philadelphia
    PA
    19104
    US

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