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Executive Director of Principal Gifts - OVCIA (108628)

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Location
Champaign, IL

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Executive Director of Principal Gifts

Office of the Vice Chancellor for Institutional Advancement

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign seeks a full-time Executive Director of Principal Gifts in the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Institutional Advancement.

The University of Illinois is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. Minorities, women, veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. For more information, visit http://go.illinois.edu/EEO. To learn more about the University’s commitment to diversity, please visit http://www.inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu.

Reporting to the Vice Chancellor for Advancement and working directly with the Office of the Chancellor for the University of Illinois, responsibilities include managing the cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship efforts involving the Chancellor for the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana and a portfolio of the University’s most generous donors and prospects. This position will also build and manage relationships, acting as liaison among the staff of the Office of Advancement, University Advancement personnel, Deans, faculty, and other members of the campus community and donors.

Essential Duties

  1. Develop cultivation and solicitation strategies for a select group of the University’s most generous donors.
  2. Build and manage network of relationships with prospective donors involving University administrators and faculty. Evaluate various gift opportunities and giving vehicles and recommend the most suitable for a particular donor.
  3. Facilitate interaction with principal prospects by the Chancellor, Vice Chancellor for Advancement, senior administrators and deans, and faculty. Interact with internal contacts such as Deans, Directors, Faculty, Officers, and other advancement staff to consult on University needs, to formulate strategies to promote prospect engagement with the University, and to identify potential high level donors.
  4. Strategize and shape messaging for high-level prospects who have the capacity to make transformative gifts.
  5. Participate (typically in concert with others) in seven- and eight-figure solicitations to fund and/or enhance the development efforts of campus units.
  6. Manage a portfolio of 25-50 major gift prospects for the purpose of cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship.
  7. Maintain a significant travel schedule throughout the United States and occasionally internationally.
  8. Perform additional activities related to the Advancement effort as requested by the Vice Chancellor for Advancement.

Required Qualifications

  1. Bachelor’s degree and at least ten years of experience in fundraising or a closely-related area, preferably in higher education, with at least five years involving the solicitation of major gifts; or an equivalent combination of experience and education.
  2. Experience working with sensitive information and ability to maintain strict confidentiality.
  3. Preferred: Master’s degree and extensive knowledge of public higher education.

Organizational Relationship

The Executive Director of Principal Gifts will work closely with the Senior Vice President for Principal Gifts, Gift Planning & Trust Services, at the University of Illinois Foundation to facilitate appropriate communication and collaboration with the University of Illinois System and University of Illinois Foundation.

Skills/Abilities

  1. Excellent interpersonal skills to relate to donors, volunteers, colleagues, and university leadership.
  2. Self-motivated (a “self-starter”); innovative and ability to work with considerable independence within the context of a team environment and a network of relationships.
  3. Superior written and oral communication; negotiating, organizational, analytical and fundraising skills, including the ability to interpret financial information and manage data.
  4. Familiarity with financial planning, tax and charitable gift laws, and planned giving vehicles and methods.
  5. Knowledge of university governance and academic administrative and financial policies and guidelines.
  6. Must be able to travel frequently; some international travel may be required.

Salary

Competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience.

To apply

To ensure full consideration, application materials must be received by February 8, 2019. Please complete your candidate profile at http://jobs.illinois.edu and upload a letter of application, resume and the names, address, phone numbers and email addresses of three professional references. For more information regarding application procedures, contact Katie Walker, walker74@illinois.edu. The proposed starting date is as soon as possible after the closing date. Interviews may take place prior to the closing date; however, no decision will be made until after that date.

The University of Illinois conducts criminal background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer.

The Illinois Advancement Community is committed to an ongoing, proactive process to foster and achieve diversity and inclusion in its development, alumni relations and communications activities. We will respect and encourage different voices, perspectives and ideas as we strive to represent individuals of all backgrounds and cultures which include but are not limited to the following: nationality, ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality, spirituality, age and ability who represent our alumni, donors and friends of the University of Illinois.

College Name or Administrative Unit:Office of the Vice Chancellor for Institutional Advancement Category:2-Administrative Title:Executive Director of Principal Gifts - OVCIA (108628) Open Date:01/11/2019 Organization Name:Ofc VC Inst Advancement

Organization

Since its founding in 1867, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has earned a reputation as a world-class leader in research, teaching, and public engagement.

Faculty

A talented and highly respected faculty is the University's most significant resource. Many are recognized for exceptional scholarship with memberships in such organizations as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering. 

Our faculty have been awarded Nobel Prizes, Pulitzer Prizes, and the Fields Medal in Mathematics.The success of our faculty is matched by that of our alumni: 11 are Nobel laureates and another 18 have won Pulitzer Prizes.

Academic Resources

Academic resources on campus are among the finest in the world. The University Library is one of the largest public university collections in the world with 11 million volumes in its 37 unit libraries. Annually, 53,000,000 people visit its online catalog. Students have access to thousands of computer terminals in classrooms, residence halls, and campus libraries for use in classroom instruction, study, and research.

Research

Students and scholars find the University an ideal place to conduct research. The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology is a model for interdisciplinary research, where eighteen research groups from sixteen University departments work within and across three broadly defined themes: biological intelligence, human-computer intelligent interaction, and molecular and electronic nanostructures. The University is also home to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).

Undergraduate Education

The University has a fundamental commitment to undergraduate education. Nearly 28,000 undergraduate students are enrolled in nine undergraduate divisions, which together offer some 4,000 courses in more than 150 fields of study.

Undergraduate admission is highly selective. In the 2001 freshman class, students in the middle 50% had ACT scores between 25 and 30 and ranked between the 83rd and 96th percentiles of their high school graduating classes.

The University enrolls over 9,000 graduate and professional students in more than 100 disciplines. It is among the top five universities in number of earned doctorates awarded annually in the United States.

Also integral to the University's mission is a commitment to public engagement. Each year about 65,000 Illinois residents participate in scores of conferences, institutes, courses, and workshops presented statewide. Research and class projects take students and professors off campus to share expertise and technical support with Illinois farmers, manufacturing firms, and businesses. In a typical year, student volunteers log more than 60,000 volunteer hours.

The Arts

A major center for the arts, the campus attracts dozens of nationally and internationally renowned artists each year to its widely acclaimed Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. The University also supports two major museums: the Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion; and the Spurlock Museum, a museum of world history and culture. 

Other major facilities include the multipurpose Assembly Hall (16,500 seats); Memorial Stadium (70,000 seats), site of Big Ten Conference football games; and the Intramural-Physical Education Building, one of the largest recreational facilities of its kind on a university campus.

Inclusive Illinois, one campus, many voices

Inclusive Illinois is the University’s commitment to cultivating a community at Illinois where everyone is welcomed, celebrated, and respected. Illinois is about how we value difference to make a difference. http://www.inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu/

As evidence of the University’s commitment to enhance the working, living, and learning environment for faculty, staff, and students, the University will encourage a standard of conduct and behavior that is consistent with the values of inclusivity. In an environment of inclusivity, there is no place for acts of hatred, intolerance, insensitivity, bigotry, threats of violence, harassment or discrimination.

Inclusive Illinois, one campus, many voices

Inclusive Illinois is the University’s commitment to cultivating a community at Illinois where everyone is welcomed, celebrated, and respected. Through education, engagement, and excellence, each voice creates the Inclusive Illinois Experience.

How can we appreciate difference to make a difference?

Illinois is the place where we embrace difference. We embrace it because we value it. We value it because we know that we have so much to learn from each other in our living, learning, and working environment.

Illinois is the place where we recognize the power of possibility and where great potential is realized. Inclusive Illinois is the vision of that place: a vision made real by leadership and commitment.

Illinois is the place where consensus is forged by discourse and where everyone’s contributions are recognized: significant contributions that elevate us because they are informed and enhanced by race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity, age, physical ability, religion, class, and national origin. We are enriched by these perspectives, and we are united by the very discourse that brings these views together.

It is a process. It is transformative. And we celebrate the remarkable changes we set in motion here … taking an important step … crossing boundaries … starting with our own.

It all starts with each of us: with our willingness to embark on the journey in the search for answers, and with our openness and acceptance of the answers we find. Illinois is the place where it all comes together.

Learn more about how Inclusive Illinois promotes diversity here.

Commitment to Equal Opportunity

The commitment of the University to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity requires that decisions involving students and employees be based on individual merit and be free from invidious discrimination in all its forms, whether or not specifically prohibited by law. Among the forms of invidious discrimination prohibited by the University policy but not law is discrimination, including harassment, on the basis of sexual orientation. Complaints of invidious discrimination in violation of University policy are to be resolved within existing University procedures. The policy of the University of Illinois is to comply with all federal and state nondiscrimination, equal opportunity, and affirmative action laws, orders, and regulations. The University will not engage in discrimination or harassment against any person because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, disability, unfavorable discharge from the military, or status as a disabled veteran or a veteran of the Vietnam era. This nondiscrimination policy applies to admissions, employment, and access to and treatment in University programs and activities

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