Associate Vice President for Advancement Services, UNLV Foundation - Finance [R0152232]

University of Nevada Las Vegas•Las Vegas, MD

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Associate Vice President for Advancement Services (AVP) is a key member of the Philanthropy and Alumni Engagement (PAE) leadership team and provides strategic vision, leadership, and oversight for the advancement infrastructure that supports fundraising, donor engagement, and alumni engagement. Reporting to the Senior Associate Vice President for Philanthropy & Alumni Engagement, the AVP is responsible for leading a comprehensive Advancement Services operation that provides the systems, processes, data, communications, and donor-centered practices necessary to advance the University’s philanthropic priorities. The AVP has direct supervisory responsibility for Advancement Services, Prospect Research and Prospect Management, Donor Relations infrastructure, and the Advancement Communications and Marketing team. The position ensures that fundraising operations, prospect strategy, donor relations, stewardship, communications, and marketing efforts are aligned, data-informed, compliant, and donor-centric. The AVP plays a critical role in strengthening donor trust, minimizing institutional risk, and ensuring consistency between donor intent, financial reporting, regulatory requirements, and external messaging. The AVP serves as a senior advisor to PAE executive leadership on advancement operations, donor engagement strategy, communications and marketing, data governance, and organizational readiness for major and comprehensive campaign activity. The AVP serves as the executive leader for the Foundation's advancement technology ecosystem, including Salesforce Education Cloud and related systems, analytics platforms, reporting environments, digital engagement tools, and related advancement technologies supporting fundraising, alumni engagement, donor stewardship, communications, and campaign operations. The position is responsible for the strategic governance, optimization, integration, and long-term roadmap of advancement technologies, ensuring scalability, data integrity, user adoption, operational efficiency, and alignment with institutional fundraising objectives. The AVP leads digital transformation initiatives, change management strategies, and business process redesign efforts that strengthen advancement operations and position the institution for future campaign growth. This role collaborates closely with Development, Alumni Engagement, Finance and Accounting, Internal Audit, and Information Technology to ensure that advancement policies, systems, and communications support fundraising effectiveness and institutional integrity. The AVP provides day-to-day leadership, management, and strategic direction for a dynamic, multidisciplinary team responsible for the administration of core advancement operations for UNLV’s PAE Division. These functions include Advancement Reporting and Analytics; PAE Technology and Database Management; Procedure Development and Documentation; Records Management; Prospect Research and Moves Management; Donor Relations, and Marketing and Communications. It will interact significantly in collaboration with accounting and finance for all gift processing and gift receipting functions, which have a donor stewardship and IRS implications. The AVP is accountable for enterprise leadership and governance of the Foundation’s advancement CRM ecosystem, including Salesforce Education Cloud, and for the selection, integration, and management of all advancement technology platforms. The position serves as the institutional authority for advancement technology strategy, CRM governance, marketing technology integration, constituent data architecture, and advancement systems planning, ensuring technology investments support both current operational needs and future campaign growth. This role involves partnering with central IT and being a member of the larger CRM ecosystem across campus supporting the full lifecycle of UNLV constituents. The AVP ensures the ongoing optimization, data integrity, scalability, and effective use of systems to support philanthropy, alumni engagement, and institutional priorities, in close collaboration with central IT and campus and Foundation stakeholders. As a member of the Philanthropy and Alumni Engagement Leadership Team, the AVP recommends and implements strategies that reinforce a culture of service and operational excellence, enhance stakeholder engagement, and strengthen philanthropic support for the University through coordinated data, systems, messaging, and donor-centered practices. About the UNLV Division of Philanthropy and Alumni Engagement The Division of Philanthropy and Alumni Engagement (PAE) fosters relationships with alumni, friends, corporations, and foundations and encourages private financial support for the students, faculty, research, and innovative programs that distinguish UNLV as an exceptional university. PAE currently employs nearly 100 team members. We seek to hire talented professionals who will share the university's vision for excellence in academics and research, as well as a commitment to the relationships built between UNLV and its alumni and friends. UNLV is a vibrant campus, a supportive workplace, and has tools to help you achieve professional and personal growth. We offer a variety of career opportunities and generous compensation packages. Living Our Values As a team member of PAE, you will be part of a growing, inclusive division that values integrity, trust, excellence, teamwork, and respect. PROFILE of the UNIVERSITY Founded in 1957, UNLV is a doctoral-degree-granting institution comprised of approximately 30,000 students and more than 3,600 faculty and staff. To date, UNLV has conferred more than 152,000 degrees, producing more than 130,000 alumni around the world. UNLV is classified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as an R1 research university with very high research activity, and is a recipient of the Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement. The university is committed to recruiting and retaining top students and faculty, educating the region's diversifying population and workforce, driving economic activity through increased research and community partnerships, and creating an academic health center for Southern Nevada that includes the launch of a new UNLV School of Medicine. UNLV is located on a 332-acre main campus and two satellite campuses in Southern Nevada. Here at UNLV, we have come together and created one of the most affirmative and dynamic academic environments in the country. UNLV sits in the top spot in U.S. News & World Report's annual listing of the nation's most diverse universities for undergraduates. The university has ranked in the top ten since the rankings debuted more than a decade ago. We continue to show our commitment to serving our wonderfully diverse population and building the future for Las Vegas and Nevada. For more information, visit us on line at: http://www.unlv.edu EEO/AA STATEMENT The University of Nevada - Las Vegas (UNLV) is committed to providing a place of work and learning free of discrimination on the basis of a person’s age (40 or older), disability, whether actual or perceived by others (including service-connected disabilities), gender (including pregnancy related conditions), military status or military obligations, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, national origin, race (including hair texture and protected hairstyles such as natural hairstyles, afros, bantu knots, curls, braids, locks and twists), color, or religion (protected classes). Discrimination on the basis of a protected class, including unlawful harassment, which is a form of discrimination, is illegal under federal and state law. Where unlawful discrimination is found to have occurred, UNLV will act to stop the unlawful discrimination, to prevent its recurrence, to remedy its effects, and to discipline those responsible. Women, minorities, and veterans are encouraged to apply. TITLE IX STATEMENT The University of Nevada, Las Vegas, does not discriminate on the basis of sex in any education program or activity that it operates. Non-discrimination on the basis of sex is mandated by Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (20 U.S.C. §§ 1681 et seq.) and the corresponding implementation regulations (34 C.F.R. Part 106). The University’s commitment to nondiscrimination in its education programs and activities extends to applicants for admission and employment. Inquiries concerning the application of these provisions may be referred to: Michelle Sposito, J.D., Title IX Coordinator, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4505 S. 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Requirements

Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution with a preference in business, information systems, data analytics, organizational design, or a related field.
Minimum of eight years of progressively responsible experience in advancement services, fundraising operations, CRM administration, advancement technology, analytics, communications, marketing technology, or related advancement functions.
Minimum of five years of progressively responsible leadership experience directing multidisciplinary teams and organizational initiatives.
Demonstrated success leading enterprise technology initiatives, CRM implementations, digital transformation efforts, organizational change management, advancement operations, and complex organizational projects.
Advanced knowledge of fundraising systems, advancement technologies, analytics platforms, and constituent relationship management tools.
Proven ability to optimize operational performance, support comprehensive campaign initiatives, and translate strategic objectives into measurable operational outcomes.

Nice To Haves

An advanced degree and Higher Education Advancement Services experience at a large public R1 university are preferred.

Responsibilities

Provides strategic vision, leadership, and oversight for the advancement infrastructure that supports fundraising, donor engagement, and alumni engagement.
Leads a comprehensive Advancement Services operation that provides the systems, processes, data, communications, and donor-centered practices necessary to advance the University’s philanthropic priorities.
Has direct supervisory responsibility for Advancement Services, Prospect Research and Prospect Management, Donor Relations infrastructure, and the Advancement Communications and Marketing team.
Ensures that fundraising operations, prospect strategy, donor relations, stewardship, communications, and marketing efforts are aligned, data-informed, compliant, and donor-centric.
Plays a critical role in strengthening donor trust, minimizing institutional risk, and ensuring consistency between donor intent, financial reporting, regulatory requirements, and external messaging.
Serves as a senior advisor to PAE executive leadership on advancement operations, donor engagement strategy, communications and marketing, data governance, and organizational readiness for major and comprehensive campaign activity.
Serves as the executive leader for the Foundation's advancement technology ecosystem, including Salesforce Education Cloud and related systems, analytics platforms, reporting environments, digital engagement tools, and related advancement technologies supporting fundraising, alumni engagement, donor stewardship, communications, and campaign operations.
Responsible for the strategic governance, optimization, integration, and long-term roadmap of advancement technologies, ensuring scalability, data integrity, user adoption, operational efficiency, and alignment with institutional fundraising objectives.
Leads digital transformation initiatives, change management strategies, and business process redesign efforts that strengthen advancement operations and position the institution for future campaign growth.
Collaborates closely with Development, Alumni Engagement, Finance and Accounting, Internal Audit, and Information Technology to ensure that advancement policies, systems, and communications support fundraising effectiveness and institutional integrity.
Provides day-to-day leadership, management, and strategic direction for a dynamic, multidisciplinary team responsible for the administration of core advancement operations for UNLV’s PAE Division.
Accountable for enterprise leadership and governance of the Foundation’s advancement CRM ecosystem, including Salesforce Education Cloud, and for the selection, integration, and management of all advancement technology platforms.
Serves as the institutional authority for advancement technology strategy, CRM governance, marketing technology integration, constituent data architecture, and advancement systems planning, ensuring technology investments support both current operational needs and future campaign growth.
Ensures the ongoing optimization, data integrity, scalability, and effective use of systems to support philanthropy, alumni engagement, and institutional priorities, in close collaboration with central IT and campus and Foundation stakeholders.
Recommends and implements strategies that reinforce a culture of service and operational excellence, enhance stakeholder engagement, and strengthen philanthropic support for the University through coordinated data, systems, messaging, and donor-centered practices.