Assistant Vice President of Advancement Solutions - VCU in Richmond, VA

Rob Downs

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DAR is recruiting for a dynamic, thought leader to serve as the Assistant Vice President of Advancement Solutions (AVP), in a University and Academic Professional position reporting to Senior Associate Vice President for Campaign Administration. The AVP will hold a leadership role for all strategic business solutions, including foundation services, gift management and compliance, data management, prospect development, and technical solutions. The AVP is charged with meeting the university’s ambitious campaign goals by developing and implementing a business plan for Advancement Operations. The AVP will lead growth from a responsive service centered organization to a proactive solution focused organization.

In this role, you will:

- Serve on the Vice President of Development and Alumni Relations’ cabinet, participating in strategic planning, campaign design and implementation, and development of system-wide business solutions.
- Develop a comprehensive plan for Advancement Solutions to ensure that all operating units support the shared priorities of our division including, but not limited to, policy and procedural recommendations, foundation services, database configurations, technical investments, and data integrations.
- Lead experienced teams of gift and records management, technical solutions, and prospect development professionals to achieve DAR’s established metrics.
- Manage Advancement Solutions $4.5M budget to ensure success of divisional priorities
- Serve as primary liaison with the university’s institutionally-related foundations, offices of audit, compliance, general counsel, finance, student services, human resources, information technology, health system, as well as other units interacting with Development and Alumni Relations in a data/business capacity.
- Collaborate with DAR Strategic Marketing & Engagement, Alumni Relations, and University Development to deliver technical and business solutions that support fundraising and engagement goals and strategies.
- Represent DAR on related university committees, ensuring DAR’s involvement in fiscal and data stewardship to ensure the efficient use of business knowledge to implement sophisticated solutions to serve the university and its health system

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