Senior Director of Constituent Engagement - OVCIA (109993)
- Employer
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Location
- Champaign, IL
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- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Institution Type
- Four-Year Institution
Job Details
Senior Director of Constituent Engagement
Office of the Vice Chancellor for Institutional Advancement
University of Illinois
Overview
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign seeks a full-time Senior Director of Constituent Engagement to lead engagement and outreach to Chicago metropolitan area opinion leaders and stakeholders in support of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This person will serve as a member of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Institutional Advancement (OVCIA) and will be responsible for developing more purposeful, meaningful, impactful, and mutually beneficial relationships between University leadership and key Chicago metropolitan area constituents.
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.
Responsibilities
The Senior Director of Constituent Engagement will report to the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Regional and Global Advancement and be based out of the Illini Center Chicago. The Senior Director will serve as a liaison, facilitating outreach, programs, and contact that engages Chicago metropolitan area leaders with the University, with the overarching goal of advancing the institutional mission and broadening financial support for the University. The Senior Director will develop a results-driven, multi-pronged strategy that will recommend and prioritize an integrated plan of targeted and broad outreach.
The primary responsibilities of the Senior Director of Constituent Engagement will fall under three primary areas: Stakeholder Cultivation, Constituent Engagement, and Advancement Discovery.
Constituent Engagement (40%)
- Working in partnership with Public Affairs, cultivate relationships with key Chicago metropolitan area media outlets to ensure regular, valuable coverage of news and breakthroughs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- Identify and secure public appearances for the Chancellor and other campus leaders at community, sporting, entertainment, and other events in the Chicago metropolitan area to reach stakeholders and opinion leaders and reinforce the University’s presence in the region and as a leader.
- Arrange for speaking engagements that allow the Chancellor and other campus leaders to address community groups and social service organizations in the Chicago metropolitan area, bolstering the brand of the University and its contributions.
- Partner with campus communicators who prepare remarks, slides, and leave-behind materials for speaking engagements and posts on university-level media platforms to offer background and context to inform content decisions.
Stakeholder Cultivation (30%)
- Facilitate introductions for the Chancellor and other campus leaders with key stakeholders, business leaders, and government officials in the Chicago metropolitan area to develop mutually beneficial relationships through ideation and discussion to address challenges and opportunities the city and suburbs face.
- Connect the Chancellor and other campus leaders with educational leaders from pre-school through undergraduate (P-16) to share the existing partnerships and initiatives of the University and explore further partnership to address challenges facing students.
- Partner with and highlight existing University programs based in Chicago as appropriate.
Advancement Discovery (30%)
- Proactively manage a consistently shifting portfolio of potential University advocates and qualify future engagement based on affinity, inclination, and capacity.
- Visit and engage with these prospects, identify their interests and share recent headlines from the University to boost affinity and awareness.
- Informed by the prospect’s interest, facilitate introductions to regional and/or unit Advancement Major Gift Officers to continue the cultivation cycle.
- Travel throughout the Chicagoland area when necessary to connect with prospects.
- Ensure proper stewardship and recognition of donors in portfolio in partnership with campus units.
Supervisory Duties
- None
Competencies
The successful candidate should also be skilled in the following areas:
- Knowledge of principles and techniques of development, advancement, and fundraising, preferably in higher education
- Knowledge of public relations and media relations, preferably with experience in the Chicago metropolitan area or a large, metropolitan market
- Strong and collegial interpersonal skills and an ability to build strong collaborative relationships
- Ability to maintain a high degree of confidentiality and responsibility regarding information related to Foundation and University business and confidential prospect information
- Proven self-starter able to secure personal appointments and reach out to initiate new relationships
- Ability to travel when necessary to engage and solicit prospects or attend speaking engagements
- Consistently embody and model the principles, behaviors, and values of Advancement at Illinois
- Speak and write persuasively, listen effectively, and engage in meaningful partnerships with both internal and external constituencies
- Demonstrate commitment to advance diversity within Advancement and across the campus
Education
- Bachelor’s degree required
Experience
- Minimum of 7 years successful public relations, communications, marketing, advancement, and/or fundraising experience
- Strong preference given to individuals familiar with and existing relationships with opinion leaders, media professionals, and educational leaders in the Chicagoland area
- Experience generating targeted social media content, including video, preferred
Salary
- Competitive
- Commensurate with education and experience qualifications
To apply
To ensure full consideration, application materials must be received by March 1, 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.
College Name or Administrative Unit:Office of the Vice Chancellor for Institutional Advancement Category:2-Administrative Title:Senior Director of Constituent Engagement - OVCIA (109993) Open Date:02/15/2019 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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