Assistant Vice President Engagement

Job no: 541755
Work type: Staff Full-Time
Location: Main Campus (Gainesville, FL)
Categories: Advancement, Executive/Director/Management
Department:  - AD-VP ADVANCEMENT

Classification

Title:

Ast Vice President

Master's degree in an appropriate area of specialization and six years of appropriate experience; or a bachelor's degree in an appropriate area of specialization and eight years of appropriate experience.

Job Description:

The Assistant Vice President (AVP) for Engagement serves as the university's chief architect of constituent experience and the donor continuum. This executive leader is responsible for designing and governing a comprehensive strategy that guides alumni, donors, parents, students, volunteers, and friends through a lifelong journey of connection, engagement, philanthropy, and advocacy.

The AVP leads the development of a modern, data-driven engagement ecosystem that leverages constituent insights, analytics, technology, artificial intelligence, and personalized engagement strategies to create meaningful experiences ough the integration of alumni relations, annual giving and donor relations, the AVP develops and manages a coordinated engagement strategy designed to strengthen institutional affinity, increase philanthropic participation, and help build a sustainable pipeline of future major and principal gift donors.

As a senior Advancement leader, the AVP is responsible for ensuring that constituent engagement serves as a strategic driver of campaign success, donor pipeline development, revenue growth, and long-term philanthropic growth. The AVP partners closely with development, operations, communications, and academic leadership to create a seamless constituent journey that advances institutional priorities while delivering measurable engagement and fundraising outcomes.

With the importance of engaging alumni and friends with meaningful communication, experiential, volunteer or philanthropic touchpoints, this position plays a critical role in strengthening the prospect pipeline, enhancing the constituent experience, and achieving institutional fundraising goals leading to the ability for Advancement to identify major gift prospects earlier, cultivate them more effectively, and allocate fundraising resources where they are most likely to produce results.

To help foster deeper collaboration efforts and meaningful engagement with alumni, donors, and leadership, as well as members of our advancement staff, this will be an onsite position at our main campus in Gainesville, Florida.

• Provide vision, leadership, and strategic direction for the university's constituent experience strategy and engagement ecosystem
• Provide oversight of Alumni Relations, Annual Giving, and Donor Relations teams in alignment with the Engagement Ecosystem and the established organizational mission, vision and values.
• Serve as the institutional leader responsible for designing and optimizing the constituent journey across the entire donor continuum.
• Develop a comprehensive engagement strategy that aligns constituent experiences with advancement goals, campaign objectives, and institutional priorities.
• Establish a framework for guiding individuals from awareness and affinity to engagement, philanthropy, volunteer leadership, advocacy, and transformational giving.
• Create scalable engagement models capable of delivering personalized experiences to hundreds of thousands of alumni, donors, and friends.
• Ensure that engagement investments generate measurable advancement outcomes, including increased participation, donor retention, leadership annual giving growth, prospect identification, and major gift pipeline development.
• Position constituent engagement as a strategic…