Development Assistant IV

Job Summary

UK Office of Philanthropy & Alumni Engagement is seeking an Associate Director of Prospect Research for our UK Healthcare Philanthropy team. The Assoc. Dir. of Prospect Research for UK Health Care Philanthropy plays a central role in strengthening fundraising outcomes by powering the team with trusted data, actionable insights, and high-quality prospect intelligence. This position imagines, designs, and maintains sustainable databases and user-friendly tools that integrate complex information sources while ensuring data integrity and monitoring HIPAA compliance.

Working in close partnership with prospect management, gift officers, and senior leaders, the role guides prospect development strategy through identification, vetting, research, and gift capacity analysis, helping expand and continuously improve the prospect pipeline. Through advanced analytics (data mining, modeling, and geographic mapping) the incumbent uncovers trends that inform departmental planning and portfolio strategy, translating findings into clear, compelling reporting and training staff to use tools and data effectively.

The role also delivers proactive research, briefings, and biographical and business intelligence to support donor and prospect engagement. While additionally providing the insight and structure that enables our teams to prioritize effectively and pursue philanthropy with precision and confidence.

The culture within the Office of Philanthropy and Alumni Engagement (PAE) is built on our shared core values CoMMIT
- Collaboration, Communication, Mission Driven, Mutual Respect, Innovation and Transparency.

By applying for a position within UK PAE, you are indicating your commitment and expressing your agreement to our six values. It is important you share these values in order to be part of our committed team!

Skills / Knowledge / Abilities

The ideal candidate will have excellent written and verbal communication skills; have the ability to manage multiple tasks and/or projects; excellent attention to detail; exceptional project planning, data management, analytical and organizational skill; ability to solve routine problems, and manage resources and have excellent computer skills including: MS Office Suite, Power BI, Tableau, and donor databases.

Does this position have supervisory responsibilities? No Preferred Education/Experience

Experience in major and leadership gift operations; research; analytics.

Final date to receive applications 03/08/2026 Our University Community

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