Senior Director, Athletics Development & Major Gifts

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The Department of Intercollegiate Athletics consists of more than 275 staff members and coaches and sponsors 30 varsity sports programs. These 30 programs include more than 850 student‑athletes who participate in the various sports programs annually within the National Collegiate Athletics Association. This position serves as the Deputy Chief Development Officer for the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics (IA) and works closely with the head of External Relations, Director of Athletics, and University Development and Alumni Relations (UDAR) leadership to plan and implement overall fundraising strategies and goals for the department.

The Senior Associate Athletics Director, Development is a member of the department's Director's Cabinet and reports directly to the Executive Senior Associate Athletics Director, External Relations. In addition, this position serves as an active participant on the athletic department's External Leadership Team. The Senior Associate Athletics Director, Development is responsible for managing and assessing a wide range of development programs and activities to achieve the department's and the university's fundraising goals.

These programs and activities include development officers, leadership gifts, capital campaigns, annual giving, donor engagement, and gift reconciliation. The Senior Associate Athletics Director, Development oversees a full‑time staff of approximately 20 and interacts regularly with athletics staff and coaches, key volunteers and members of the donor community, UDAR staff, California Alumni Association staff, and staff members in the Chancellor's Office and UC Berkeley Foundation Trustees.

General management responsibilities include developing, implementing, and assessing short and long‑range strategies to achieve departmental fundraising goals, setting and monitoring the unit's operating budget, and motivating, directing, and evaluating staff. This position requires a high level of leadership and management ability, as well as vision and strategic planning skills, aligned with the athletics department's external relations goals. This position oversees, through subordinate managers, a large department or multiple smaller units.

Has significant responsibility to achieve broadly stated goals through subordinate managers. Determines objectives, directs programs, develops strategies and policies, manages human, financial, and physical resources, and functions with a high degree of autonomy. Proactively assesses risk to establish systems and procedures to protect organizational assets. Determines strategies for a program with organization‑wide impact. The position manages a moderately complex fundraising program, including the design, delivery, and…