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Founded in 1936, the Indiana University Foundation maximizes private support for Indiana University by fostering lifelong relationships with key stakeholders, providing advancement leadership, and fundraising services for campuses and units across the university. Today, the IU Foundation oversees one of the largest public university endowments in the country, with a market value in excess of $3.5 billion. IU is consistently ranked among the top four of Big Ten universities in annual voluntary support.

Job Description

The Indiana University Foundation invites applications for the Vice President of Development. Transformational Giving position. This leadership position leads transformational giving fundraising efforts across Indiana University through strategy, planning, and partnerships.

Reporting to the Executive Vice President of Development at the Indiana University Foundation, the VP is responsible for active, strategic engagement and management of a portfolio through face-to-face visits with Indiana University prospects capable of making transformative gifts to Indiana University.

Specifically, this position is charged with the identification, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship of a small portfolio of prospects. Connecting institutional priorities with donors’ passions, this individual will mobilize teams of fundraisers, university administrators, and volunteers to create compelling fundraising proposals. This position also creates, revises, and updates strategies for engagement, solicitation, and stewardship of transformational gifts prospects and helps to bring “big ideas” to life through fundraising.

The successful Vice President will lead transformational level gifts at Indiana University, most notably by:

• Personally managing a small portfolio of prospects and donors, responsible for personal visits with their prospect/donor base at the transformational gift level and maintain a portfolio of $5 million+ prospects/donors to move them through the pipeline building a relationship based on trust and fulfillment of university and donors’ goals
• Strategically engaging, planning and implementing unique prospect strategies in order to meet established goals and objectives for assigned portfolio of transformational gift prospects capable of making significant gifts
• Constructing deliberate, documented, highly tailored engagement strategies for transformational gift prospects
• Designing and executing detailed timelines to build toward specific proposals
• Facilitating productive relationships and connections between donors and top IU administrators, faculty and staff to ensure effectiveness of the transformational gift prospect’s strategy plan to meet their individual goals
• Evaluating prospects identified through the IUF database and actively work with IUF Prospect Management and Research and others to appropriately assess capacity, interest, and inclination to give
• Setting an outstanding example for cooperation, coordination and transparency in communication to all appropriate partners, university wide
• Managing the Transformational Gifts Strategist
• Aligning people and processes related to transformational giving across the institution
• Driving key decisions amongst lead development officers and other fundraising staff that accelerate and maximize transformational gifts amongst individual prospects on behalf of IU
• Partnering with lead development officers to plan and implement agreed upon strategies for transformational giving opportunities
• Liaising with key university stakeholders and administrators of IU Foundation and IU by ensuring awareness of key transformational gift philosophies and practices to enhance collaboration with IU Foundation and transformational giving team(s)
• Participating as a subject matter expert in the area of gift development in various university settings/meetings wherein transformational ideas are being discussed and can be enhanced by donor funds

Qualifications

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  A Bachelor’s degree is required ,and a Master’s degree is highly preferred
• Minimum 11 years’ experience in development, public relations, communications, or related fields, with a proven successful track record of securing major and transformational-level gifts.
• Minimum of 5 years’ in a management / people leadership capacity with significant responsibilities

Additional Information

The Indiana University Foundation will conduct a thorough, in depth interview process, allowing qualified candidates exposure to a variety of stakeholders within the Indiana University Foundation, as well as the university at large. The interview process will include built in opportunities for candidates to learn more about Bloomington and our cherished university.

The position will be posted through Sunday, July 31st, 2022. Screenings will be conducted for all candidates meeting the job qualifications and may begin as early as July 5th, 2022.

The IU Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against candidates on the basis of race, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or veteran status. Women, people of color, LGBTQ individuals, and members of other minority or marginalized groups are strongly encouraged to apply.