Assistant Vice President of Development - Colleges, Schools and Units
Georgia Tech Institute for Technology

Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything they do:

1. Students are our top priority.
2. We strive for excellence.
3. We thrive on diversity.
4. We celebrate collaboration.
5. We champion innovation.
6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
8. We act ethically.
9. We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

• Georgia Tech is ranked #3 in Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs. All of Georgia Tech's graduate engineering programs rank in the top 10 (Source: U.S. News & World Report).

• Scheller College of Business ranks #21 among all Undergraduate Business Programs and #17 for their Part-Time MBA (Source: U.S. News & World Report). 

• Computer Science ranks #6 by U.S. News & World Report's Undergraduate Program Rankings, #7 by U.S. News & World Report's Graduate School Rankings, #17 by Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and #28 in The Guardian's QS World University Rankings.

• In the category of Statistics and Operational Research, Georgia Tech ranks #9 in The Guardian's QS World University Rankings. Georgia Tech's graduate urban planning program is ranked #6 in the U.S. and #2 in Big City Programs by Planetizen.

• The Institute is consistently rated among the top universities in the nation for graduation of underrepresented minorities in engineering, physical sciences, and architecture and planning.
   
• With more than 60 chartered student organizations exploring religious, racial, sexual, and ethnic identity (but open to all), Georgia Tech's students find a way to celebrate, strengthen, and share their part of the robust cultural melting pot that thrives in the university's community.

• Provide strategic leadership to major gifts programs. Offer professional leadership for the major gifts team comprised of highly experienced frontline officers and program staff. Collaborate with area teams to structure robust major gift prospect portfolios and pools at the $100K+ (data-rated) level that will ensure maximum fundraising opportunities and success.
   
• Function as a valued strategist, advisor, and resource coordinator for the college, school, and unit major gift officers. Provide support in coordinating the participation of senior academic leadership, faculty, staff, and volunteers in achieving fundraising objectives for major gift prospects. Develop an inclusive, positive working environment across the major gifts team leading to reaching shared performance goals and objectives, as well as enhancing our ability to recruit and retain high-quality talent.
   
• Create a working relationship with academic and program leaders (deans, chairs, center, institute leaders, etc.) that builds a climate of collaboration, trust, and transparency around all Development fundraising work to support the colleges, schools, and units.
   
• Develop effective resources, tools, reports, and other materials for key academic and program leaders regarding fundraising opportunities, progress, challenges, etc. directly impacting their areas of the Institute.
   
• Be a visible and accessible partner to the teams supervised and the academic program leaders served. Collaborate with the VP and academic partners to define, deploy, and track major gift metrics for each college, school, or unit-based team.
   
• Work with major gift officers and their respective leaders to fully activate and strengthen our advisory councils, boards, and other volunteer leadership structures.
   
• Manage a portfolio of major and principal prospects with institution-wide interests reflecting best practices in identification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship. Participate as a strategist on major and principal prospect teams, with particular focus on individuals and organizations that can support the campaign and larger priorities in Georgia Tech’s strategic plan.
   
• Work with prospect management and research and IT/IM colleagues to establish dashboards and other tools/resources that track and promote development officer effectiveness, create greater transparency around fundraising progress, and allow for more effective forecasting.
   
• Provide critical leadership support to college, school, unit, or central Development colleagues in the creation of effective solicitation and stewardship efforts.
   
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Knowledge: 

• Knowledge of fundraising best practices, policies, and operations.
   
• Working knowledge of cultural competencies needed to navigate the changing demographics and diversity in Georgia Tech's quickly changing student and young alumni populations.

Skills:

• Expert in written and verbal communication, analytical thinking, people management, problem-solving, customer service, organization, strong attention to detail, interpersonal relationship building, and creativity skills.
   
• Proficient with Microsoft Office products.

Abilities:

• Exceptional ability to organize, establish objectives and priorities, and achieve goals in a centralized or hybrid fundraising environment.
   
• Demonstrated ability to serve as a productive portfolio-holding gift officer.
   
• Demonstrated ability to supervise multiple fundraising teams and achieve elevated outcomes.
   
• Proven ability to develop and sustain confidence of internal and external stakeholders who directly impact fundraising success.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
   
• Seven years of job-related experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability and willingness to travel, as well as engage effectively with stakeholders in a variety of settings (one-on-one calls in-person and virtual, small group events, and larger campaign activities). Successful use of data analytics to drive greater fundraising, forecasting, and performance outcomes.
   
• Advanced-level degree or currently progressing toward.
   
• Seven or more years of progressively responsible experience in fundraising within higher education or another similarly complex non-profit environment. Experience in either leading or participating in a comprehensive fundraising campaign effort.