Education Advancement Consultants

Campus Works is looking for Advancement Consultants to assist our higher education clients in strengthening their advancement/alumni operations. These individuals will use their subject matter expertise in the advancement/alumni office to guide clients in adopting best practices and maximizing the use of the technology to support the advancement operations and help clients achieve their goals. The consulting engagements may be remote or onsite and can include serving as an interim Advancement Director, leading a Business Process Review project, leading a CRM selection and evaluation project, or optimizing their advancement CRM/ERP systems.

These roles can be full-time or contract consultant (1099) opportunities.

Campus Works consultants engage with our clients in higher education to assist them in fully leveraging their people, processes, policies, and technologies. We work collaboratively with clients’ functional and technical teams and our Campus Works colleagues to evaluate current processes, design future-state optimal processes, and to architect, develop, test, train, and rollout process and technical solutions that delight our clients.

• Serving as Interim Advancement Director, providing day-to-day leadership of the advancement department staff

• Providing oversight, direction, guidance, and coordination of the current advancement projects and priorities

• Assessing the efficiency of the advancement department

• Designing and delivering training

• Assisting clients in how to best align policy, process, procedures, and personnel to effectively leverage advancement solutions

• 5+ years’ experience as a senior-level advancement professional in a higher education institution

• Familiarity with the conversion, oversight, or management of a modern fundraising and advancement CRM system (e.g., Ellucian CRM Advance, Raiser’s Edge, Blackbaud, Donor Perfect, Affinaquest, Salesforce, Banner Advancement, or Colleague Advancement)

• Experience assessing advancement operations and making recommendations for process improvement, including reviewing and recommending policy changes, staffing and organizational alignment changes, and realignment of roles and responsibilities when appropriate

• Solid leadership skills, including facilitating diverse groups, creating consensus building and preparing the organization and individuals for change and ongoing continuous improvement

• Demonstration of superior communication skills and the ability to provide a consultative approach to end clients

At Campus Works, we don't just help our clients succeed; we help our employees succeed. Competitive pay, robust benefits for full-time employees, and professional development opportunities are a few of the many reasons that Campus Works is a great place to build your career.

Our employees enjoy:

• Meaningful work. Our employees often tell us that their work gives them a sense of purpose because it makes a difference in the lives of students and educators. Campus Works Inc., as a large consulting firm, provides its employees with an opportunity to work both onsite and remotely with our clients across the United States and in Canada. With the nature of our clients’ work evolving quickly, we’re all being asked to support larger Campus Works initiatives.
  
  Upon joining Campus Works in a consulting role, your talent and expertise may be applied to a range of projects, assignments, and clients.

• A CEO who cares. Chairman and CEO Liz Murphy has made it her mission to create a culture that appreciates and takes good care of its people. As a result, being an employee of Campus Works feels like being a member of a big family.

• A virtual and onsite workplace. In an effort to reduce our environmental…