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SalaryAdvancement & Partnerships:
Join our dynamic and growing Advancement & Partnerships team as we work together to power partnerships and transform lives through philanthropy.
Together, we can unleash the potential of people and ideas to positively change the world. Your efforts on our team will help us to build the University for the Future.
The Opportunity:
The University of Central Florida seeks an accomplished and strategic fundraising leader to assume the role of Assistant Vice President, Transformational Giving.
The Assistant Vice President will be charged with the strategic development of a principal gift pipeline and serve as a principal gifts fundraiser. This role will spearhead principal gift fundraising in preparation for a campaign, working collaboratively across the organization with Advancement colleagues, university leadership, deans, and faculty members, as well as facilitating interaction of principal level prospects with the President and other leadership.
The successful candidate will have experience with developing and managing principal gift relationships and a campus-wide pipeline, high emotional intelligence with the keen awareness of when to defer to colleagues and partners across the UCF community, a deeply curious mind, and be successful handling complex gifts with multiple stakeholders. The ability to travel to personally develop relationships and to staff leadership as needed is desired.
The Assistant Vice President will be charged with the strategic development of a principal gift pipeline and serve as a principal gifts fundraiser. This role will spearhead principal gift fundraising in preparation for a campaign, working collaboratively across the organization with Advancement colleagues, university leadership, deans, and faculty members, as well as facilitating interaction of principal level prospects with the President and other leadership.
The successful candidate will have experience with developing and managing principal gift relationships and a campus-wide pipeline, high emotional intelligence with the keen awareness of when to defer to colleagues and partners across the UCF community, a deeply curious mind, and be successful handling complex gifts with multiple stakeholders. The ability to travel to personally develop relationships and to staff leadership as needed is desired.
Responsibilities:
- In collaboration with university leadership, deans, and faculty members, develop relationships with individuals and organizations that lead to principal gifts defined as commitments of $1 million or greater.
- Develops cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship plans to secure principal and planned gifts and maintains a select portfolio of prospects rated with a giving capacity of $1 million or more, particularly those with multiple giving interests.
- Facilitates interaction of principal level prospects with the President, CEO of the UCF Foundation, Inc., senior administrators and deans, and faculty.
- Directs collaborative efforts to develop a strategy for principal level prospects shared by more than one academic unit; facilitates action plan and monitors implementation of the strategy.
- Serves as fundraising convener on principal gifts; collaboratively leads strategies that include highly complex gift discussions and interactions with donors capable of making significant contributions across campus.
- Coordinates the stewardship of all principal gift donors as well as the next steps associated with these relationships.
- Works with the SAVP and the Executive Team to identify areas of focus and prepares comprehensive fundraising goals, objectives, budgets, and plans for all areas of management responsibility.
- Provides fundraising leadership for and on behalf of UCF Advancement by acquiring and maintaining knowledge of UCFF’s policies and procedures, becoming knowledgeable of all aspects of the business.
- With high emotional intelligence, courage and exemplary communications skills, is keenly aware of when to defer to colleagues and partners across the UCF community.
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s or Master’s and 10+ years relevant work experience with 5+ years of leadership experience. Or an equivalent combination of education and experience pursuant to Fla. Stat. 112.219.
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Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with developing and managing principal gift relationships and a campus-wide pipeline.
- Possess the ability to work independently, as well as cohesively as a member of a team.
- Ability to clearly communicate critical areas for fundraising growth and craft a cohesive Transformational Giving program short- and longer-term strategy.
- A deeply curious mind and organized, with an efficient approach to complex workflow.
- Significant experience in roles of increasing responsibility, focusing on creative and dynamic fundraising efforts through collaboration and consensus building.
- A professional comfortable working with top levels of leadership, with focus on moves management and gathering buy-in across the organization.
- A comfort with handling complex gifts, multiple partners and sensitive situations.
- Ability to travel to personally develop relationships and staff leadership.
Additional Application Materials Required:
To apply, please submit a resume and cover letter, to: Katie Riecke, Talent Associate, at Bryant Group at kriecke@bryantgrp.com. Priority will be given to candidate materials received by March 18, 2024. For more information or to access the Search Specifications for this role, please visit www.bryantgrp.com.
Special Instructions to the Applicants:
The anticipated salary range for this role is $160,000 - $180,000.
Classification Title: Associate Vice President, Principal Gifts
Are you ready to unleash YOUR potential?
As a next-generation public research university and Forbes-ranked top employer in Florida, we are a community of thinkers, doers, creators, innovators, healers, and leaders striving to create broader prosperity and help shape a better future. No matter what your role is, when you join Knight Nation, you’ll play an integral role at one of the most impactful universities in the country. You’ll be met with opportunities to connect and collaborate with talented faculty, staff, and students across 13 colleges and multiple campuses, engaging in impactful work that makes a positive difference. Your time at UCF will provide you with many meaningful opportunities to grow, you’ll work alongside talented colleagues on complex projects that will challenge you and help you gain new skills and you’ll have countless rewarding experiences that go well beyond a paycheck.
Working at UCF has its perks! UCF offers:
- Benefit packages, including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Flexible Spending, and Employee Assistance Program
- Paid time off, including annual and sick time off and paid holidays
- Retirement savings options
- Employee discounts, including tickets to many Orlando attractions
- Education assistance
- Flexible work environment
- And more…For more benefits information, view the UCF Employee Benefits Guideclick here.
Unless explicitly stated on the job posting, it is UCF’s expectation that an employee of UCF will reside in Florida as of the date the employment begins.
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UCF Foundation - Accounting Work Schedule
UCF business hours are 8:00am - 5:00pm. Nights and weekends required as needed. Hybrid work options available as per UCF policy and with supervisory approval. Type of Appointment
Regular Expected Salary
$122,980.00 to $184,470 Job Posting End Date
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