INTERIM Assistant Vice President, Development

Description

Information & Responsibilities

Working closely with the Chief Advancement Officer, the AVP, Development oversees all individual giving efforts including annual, leadership, and major gifts responsibilities. The AVPD manages the directors of development/major gift officers while maintaining a robust portfolio of principal gift prospects. In addition, the AVPD is responsible for general support of the CAO and President’s portfolios and provides cultivation and stewardship support so that each stays actively engaged with their closest supporters. 

As a member of the Advancement leadership team, the AVPD works closely with the CAO and other AVPs on all aspects of engagement, development, and advancement services collaborating on all decisions that elevate the ability for successful fundraising. 

The Advancement division has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build its infrastructure and grow the staff because of restricted private philanthropy. With a dynamic President, and a new Chief Advancement Officer, as well as a highly motivated staff of fundraising professionals - the growing advancement efforts at CalArts support a strategic vision rooted in increased access and equity for all students. In addition to increasing endowed scholarship dollars, giving opportunities will fund curriculum innovation as well as campus-wide infrastructure and facility upgrades to ensure sustainable growth and exemplary student experiences. 

The successful candidate will be highly adept at understanding the entire donor cycle and be actively involved in advising on all aspects of cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship. They will have a depth of experience working with high-level donors contributing to the Los Angeles arts and educational communities and they will be able to attract new prospects to the Institute through their highly effective cultivation skills. They will lead strategy on fundraising initiatives, focusing on growing the donor base and pipeline while ensuring their staff is successful at engaging their own portfolio of prospects and donors in the CalArts community.  In addition, AVPD will collaborate with their Advancement colleagues to build a strong and cohesive team of professionals dedicated to the growth of the Institute through significant philanthropic support. 

Requirements

Responsibilities

• Manage directors of development

  • Oversee portfolio management, including maintaining strict adherence to moves management tracking and metrics

  • Ensure frontline fundraising maintain personal data tracking and CRM efficiency in order to build a robust understanding of their portfolios

Qualifications and Skills

• A strategic and creative-minded nonprofit or higher education advancement executive with a track record developing compelling and successful experiences for prospective donors

• Strong leadership vision. Inspire trust through authenticity and transparency. Ability to build small collaborative groups, run meetings with a diverse body of staff and volunteers, delegate to both direct support and peers, and lead discussions of strategy with campus leadership

• Excellent relationship management and interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively with donors, volunteers, and staff; display superior judgment and diplomatic skills; excellent verbal and written communications skills

• Commitment to excellence, self-motivation, and a professional demeanor, especially in the 

• Strong organizational skills, highly sophisticated in establishing systems and tracking details large and small, critical and simple

• The ability to handle multiple tasks with organization and accuracy as well as a confident, calm demeanor

• Commitment to serving diverse constituents. Ability to effectively convey messages to different audiences in a variety of formats

• Emotional intelligence to interpret and act on emotions in themselves and others

• A collaborative, team-oriented attitude. Maintain a positive presence on campus and extend a good‐natured grace and enthusiasm in all personal interactions

• Ability to collaborate with a large team and attend to competing needs. Works effectively with coworkers to promote and maintain a positive work environment while supporting strategic partnerships and collaborative relationships across the CalArts campus

• Grit to maintain composure when