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Senior Director of Development, UCLA School of Law

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University of California, Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, California
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Known as a trailblazer, honored as an institution, renowned as a place for tomorrow’s leaders, UCLA Law has garnered a reputation for artful teaching, influential scholarship and enduring innovation. Over the decades, the School has developed a depth and breadth of academic offerings unsurpassed by any other law school in the nation. By building on past successes, UCLA Law continues to propel the school, students, faculty and alumni into a future of unparalleled distinction. The strength of UCLA Law is a direct result of the superlative work of its faculty and staff, the talents of its diverse and academically gifted student body, and the accomplishments and wholehearted generosity of alumni and donors.

Under the direction of the Associate Dean for External Affairs, as the Senior Director of Development, you will be responsible for developing and executing long- and short-term strategies to secure major and principal gifts from individuals, alumni, foundations and other entities in support of the school’s mission and strategic priorities. In coordination with other members of the Law School’s senior administrative and advancement staff, you will assist with the identification, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship of major and principal gift prospects, with an emphasis on expanding UCLA Law School’s donor base outside of existing friends and alumni. Your efforts will emphasize fundraising within the Los Angeles/Southern California region, and you will have responsibility for growing and expanding relationships with individuals and appropriate entities within this region to make connections as part of developing a robust pipeline of prospects and donors for major and principal giving to the School of Law.

As an ideal candidate for this role, you will have a minimum of seven years of progressive responsibility and experience as a professional development officer or similar professional experience in a nonprofit, membership/volunteer-driven or related environment. You will have proven skills in developing and implementing successful strategies for identification, cultivation and solicitations of individuals, corporations and foundations at the major and principal giving levels and/or other solicitations of a similar nature, level and complexity. As the Senior Director, you will have experience cultivating and soliciting individuals for gifts at these levels and/or prior experience with solicitations of a similar nature, level and complexity. You will be an excellent communicator orally and through written materials and have exceptional interpersonal skills to work collaboratively with a wide variety of internal and external constituents. The ability to think strategically aligned with implementing and following through are essential, as is the ability to render mature judgments, tolerate ambiguity and function in a complex process-driven environment. Strong insight, understanding and experience fundraising in the Los Angeles/Southern California region are preferred.

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer advancing inclusive excellence. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected categories covered by the UC nondiscrimination policy - http://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4000376/NondiscrimAffirmAct

For a more detailed description of this position please visit UCLA’s Development Careers website at http://www.developmentcareers.ucla.edu and click job title “Senior Director of Development” to view requisition #29032.

Organization

Working at University of California, Los Angeles

UCLA is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1919 and is the second oldest of the ten campuses affiliated with the University of California system. UCLA offers over 300 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines and enrolls about 26,000 undergraduate and about 12,000 graduate students from the United States and around the world every year.

UCLA features the College of Letters and Science, seven general campus professional schools, and four professional schools for the health sciences. The UCLA College of Letters and Science has 34 academic departments and 900 faculty, and houses the majority of UCLA's 129 undergraduate majors as well as the students in the Graduate Division of Letters and Sciences. The UCLA College Honors Program is also housed in the College. The College of Letters and Science's programs are divided into five academic divisions: humanities, social sciences, life sciences, physical sciences, and the International Institute. UCLA also offers certificate programs, undergraduate degree-credit and continuing education credits for non-full-time students through its UCLA Extension education program.

The 2010 edition of U.S. News & World Report ranked UCLA as the 24th best university in the nation and 32nd best in the world. In the 2007 edition of U.S. News and World Report, UCLA Medical Center was ranked best in the West, as well as one of the top 3 hospitals in the United States alongside Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Johns Hopkins Hospital. In 15 of the 16 medical specialty areas examined, UCLA Medical Center ranked in the top 20.

The campus' location in Los Angeles makes excursions to local museums, theaters, or other entertainment venues relatively quick and easy.

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