Executive Director of Advancement Services

FLSA Status: Exempt

Earliest

Start Date:

Immediately

Salary: Salary commensurate with experience

Hours per Week: 40 hours weekly

Hiring Department: External Affairs, Communications and Advancement Services

Required Application Materials: A resume and letter of interest is required to apply. Candidates under final consideration will also be required to submit professional references, college degree information, and employment history to an online third-party vendor.

For more than 140 years, The University of Texas System has improved the lives of Texans - and people all over the world - through education, health care, and research. The System consists of nine academic institutions, four health institutions, and The University of Texas System Administration. The institutions of the UT System employ more than 160,000 faculty, health care professionals, researchers, support staff, and student workers.

The UT System Administration is primarily based in Austin, Texas. It supports the missions of the System's thirteen institutions by providing financial, legal, planning, purchasing, government relations, communications, development, and other central services. Serving a growing state, the UT System Administration strives to provide a welcoming, supportive work environment that embraces different perspectives - not only because it enables the organization to be stronger, creative, and thoughtful, but because it is the right thing to do.

To that end, UT System Administration embraces state laws on military and former foster children employment preferences.

Provide strategic and administrative support to help each of the 13 UT institutions achieve their philanthropic goals, and provide leadership over a variety of centralized gift and endowment administration activities as required by state and federal law or Board of Regents' policy. Administer training and education programs for UT Systemwide advancement professionals through the UT System Advancement Academy. Lead a team of UT System Administration advancement service professionals and provide oversight for the day-to-day operations of the Office of Gift Administration, Compliance and Advancement Services.

• Direct the planning, organizing, and implementation of advancement services activities supporting the goals of UT institutions and UT System Administration.
• Collaborate with colleagues across the UT System to support critical operational areas, including, but not limited to, gifts of non-cash and hard-to-value assets, gift acceptance, endowment administration and compliance, namings, gift processing, gift acknowledgements, stewardship, planned giving, estates and trusts, and reporting and records management.
• Possess a thorough understanding of UT System's policies and procedures; ensuring that Regents' Rules and UT System policies are adhered to and updated, as appropriate.
• Provide exceptional customer service in responding to inquiries and special requests from UT institutions, donors, and their advisors on gift terms and strategies, while offering expert counsel and guidance on philanthropic activities such as namings and the establishment and management of endowments to ensure donor intent is honored and all agreements comply with policy and law.
• Provide leadership for staff, including hiring, supervising, appraising, and training employees.
• Identify skills training and professional development opportunities for staff.
• Foster a culture of agility, responsiveness, and continuous improvement in the ever-evolving world of philanthropy by encouraging greater efficiency, accuracy, and productivity across all areas of advancement services provided to UT institutions, and by developing best-practice models to guide future operations.
• Provide strong strategic support for Advancement Academy education and training for campuses, chief development officer meetings, internship program in philanthropy and System-wide working groups, including endowment compliance, gift acceptance and planned giving.
• Review and approve monthly reconciliations and expenditures.
• Assist the Vice Chancellor in preparation of the Advancement…