Assistant Vice President – Digital Fundraising & Engagement
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- Loyola University Chicago
- Location
- Chicago-Water Tower Campus
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- Institutional & Business Affairs, Alumni Relations & Development
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- Full Time
- Institution Type
- Four-Year Institution
Job Details
Assistant Vice President for Digital Fundraising & Engagement
Position Number:8102471
Job Category:University Staff
Job Type:Full-Time
FLSA Status:Exempt
Campus:Chicago-Water Tower Campus
Department Name:PRINCIPAL & MAJOR GIFTS
Location Code:MAJOR GIFTS (03634A)
Is this split and/or fully grant funded? :No
Duties and Responsibilities:Job Summary:
The Assistant Vice President of Digital Fundraising and Engagement will formulate, and lead a team to implement a comprehensive fundraising-based marketing, engagement and annual giving strategy. This senior member of the advancement and alumni relations team will lead an ambitious, first-ever digital strategy to drive giving, engagement and a sense of community among our external constituencies, including alumni, donors, parents and friends.
Utilizing new technology and multiple channels such as direct mail, social media, text messaging, podcasts, blogs, vlogs and other digital communications to create and sustain a lifelong relationship between Loyola University Chicago and its alumni and donors. This senior professional will create a sense of community, integrating the Jesuit principles of Cura Personalis (care for the person), the service of faith and promotion of justice, being “men and women for others,” in pursuit of Loyola’s collective aspirations as an alumni and donor community.
Duties & Responsibilities
•Devise and implement a multi-channel annual giving strategy, with a special emphasis on acquiring and retaining alumni donors.
•Devise and implement a digital marketing strategy to cultivate and re-engage stakeholders.
•Develop highly creative and effective content to drive constituency engagement and giving.
•Lead a growing team of digital fundraising and marketing specialists, including but not limited to annual giving and reunion giving; and supporting the major- and principal-giving strategy through digital engagement and qualification strategies.
•Leverage digital communications to support division-wide stewardship strategy and tactics.
•Leverage digital communications and marketing strategy to drive event attendance and participation.
•Build a first-ever, reunion giving program in partnership with teams across the Advancement division.
•Leverage data and analytics to develop, drive and measure strategic goals and tactics to achieve them.
•Participate in the selection and implementation of new technology tools to drive digital engagement and giving, including a new CRM system.
•Participate as a senior member of the advancement team and contribute to building a culture that promotes and realizes a high performing team.
•Bachelor’s degree required.
•Minimum ten years of experience in direct response, digital marketing and/or communications and utilizing social media and other technology based platforms to build community and engagement and drive giving.
Preferred Qualifications/Characteristics:
•Experience managing and leading teams in a complex university.
•Experience with a national non-profit or other social justice, mission-based organization, with a robust direct marketing program preferred. Experience in higher education is not necessarily required, but would be advantageous.
•Strong data-analytics skills and experience with data-informed decision-making are requirements.
•A proven commitment to diversity, the will to embrace diversity in all aspects and demonstrated success in recruiting, hiring, retaining and building a diverse advancement team.
•Strong emotional intelligence with the ability to adapt and be flexible.
•Experience engendering partnerships inside Advancement and across the University.
•A willingness to embrace and support the University’s mission, and a deep commitment to excellence and high performance.
•An ability to excel in a data-driven, goals-focused environment.
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Computer Skills:Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite. Sophisticated utilization of database, on-line CRM systems and enabling technology to advance a best in class digital based marketing program
Supervisory Responsibilities:Yes
Required operation of university owned vehicles:No
Physical Demands:None
Working Conditions:None
Open Date:01/20/2021
Quick Link for Posting:Organization
Working at Loyola University Chicago
Loyola University Chicago, a private university founded in 1870 as St. Ignatius College, is the nation’s largest Jesuit, Catholic University and the only one located in Chicago. Shaped by our city and our Jesuit traditions, Loyola University Chicago offers students an educational environment unmatched for its diversity of thought and experience.
Loyola University Chicago comprises four campuses: Lake Shore (LSC), Water Tower (WTC), Health Sciences (HSC), and the John Felice Rome Center in Italy, and is home to eleven schools and colleges: Arrupe College, Quinlan School of Business, Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing, Stritch School of Medicine, College of Arts and Sciences, School of Communication, School of Continuing and Professional Studies, School of Education, School of Law, School of Social Work, and Graduate School. Loyola also features course locations in Beijing, China; Saigon-Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Vernon Hills, Illinois (Cuneo Mansion and Gardens); and a Retreat and Ecology Campus in Woodstock, Illinois.
With three campuses spread throughout the greater Chicago area, students have access to hundreds of cultural institutions as well as thousands of internships and networking opportunities with the city's Fortune 500 companies. Study-abroad programs at our Rome and Beijing Centers provide engagement with the global community and economy.
While rigorous programs of research and study are one hallmark of a Jesuit education, we're not just preparing students for a career, we're preparing them for life. We challenge our students to learn broadly, to think critically, to serve generously, to lead with integrity, to respect diversity. We come from all faiths and ethnic and economic backgrounds, with a common purpose of building a better society.
Recognizing Loyola’s excellence in education, U.S.News and World Report has ranked Loyola consistently among the "top national universities" in its annual publications, and named the University a "best value" in its 2008 rankings.
Our faculty take a person-centered approach to education. They’re not just here to teach students what they know, they’re here to teach them to think critically and creatively and to reach for their own discoveries.
More facts about Loyola University Chicago:
- Total enrollment: 15,902
- 80+ undergraduate majors and 80+ minors
- 140+ graduate, professional, and graduate-level certificate programs
- More than 4,000 faculty and staff members
- 14:1 Undergraduate student/faculty ratio
- 150,000 alumni; 85,000 in Chicago
- One of only eight percent of all American colleges and universities to have a Phi Beta Kappa honor society chapter
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