Associate Vice President , Corporate Partnerships and Development Units

Position Details
1. Strategic Leadership

• Develop and implement a comprehensive strategy that positions corporate fundraising and sponsor ships as a core driver of UTampa’s advancement and revenue goals.
• Integrate corporate partnerships with central development priorities, campaign objectives, and institutional strategic plans.
• Align corporate philanthropy, sponsorship, and workforce-development initiatives with UTampa’s academic, student success, and athletics priorities.
• Advise the Executive Vice President for Advancement on trends, opportunities, and best practices in corporate relations, sponsor ships, and philanthropy.

• Lead UTampa’s corporate fundraising and sponsorship strategy, with responsibility for cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding major corporate gifts and long-term sponsorship relationships.
• Build and manage high-impact corporate partnerships that generate philanthropic support, sponsorship revenue, research collaborations, sponsored programs, internships, and talent pipelines.
• Serve as UTampa’s primary liaison to senior corporate executives, foundations, and industry partners.
• Negotiate and structure complex corporate agreements that may include sponsor ships, naming opportunities, scholarships, capital-project funding, endowed funds, executive education, athletics support, and academic program investments.
• Partner with Advancement colleagues to move corporate prospects through the full fundraising cycle, from qualification through solicitation and stewardship.

Oversee and manage the following central development areas:

• UTampa’s planned giving strategy, ensuring the successful cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of planned-gift donors.
• Partner with legal, finance, and external advisors to structure complex gifts, including bequests, trusts, charitable gift annuities, and real estate.
• Support donor education around tax-advantaged and legacy giving.

• Provide strategic oversight for UTampa’s annual fund programs, including multi‑channel campaigns, giving days, digital appeals, and donor acquisition strategies.
• Ensure annual giving efforts support both broad‑based philanthropy and corporate, alumni, and employer-supported giving.
• Integrate annual giving messaging with corporate sponsor ships, partnerships, and community engagement strategies.

• Provide executive leadership and strategic oversight for Advancement operations supporting UTampa Intercollegiate Athletics, positioning athletics fundraising as a core central development function.
• In collaboration with the UTampa Athletic Director/Vice President of Athletics, develop and execute comprehensive fundraising strategies for athletics programs, facilities, and priorities.
• Lead and coordinate corporate sponsor ships, annual giving, major gifts, naming opportunities, and special initiatives in support of athletics.
• Ensure alignment between athletics fundraising, corporate partnerships, and University‑wide advancement strategies and campaigns.
• Support coaches and athletics leadership in donor cultivation, stewardship, and external engagement in accordance with institutional policies and standards.

• Drive significant corporate philanthropic revenue and sponsorship funding in collaboration with development officers, academic units, student support services, and athletics.
• Identify, develop, and close high‑value corporate opportunities, including scholarships, endowed funds, faculty support, facilities, and programmatic sponsor ships.
• Ensure alignment between corporate engagement activities and UTampa’s comprehensive fundraising campaigns and institutional priorities.

• Partner with Career Services and academic leadership to expand internships, co‑ops, career placements, mentorship programs, and employer‑sponsored initiatives.
• Leverage corporate partnerships to strengthen UTampa’s reputation as a premier source of professional talent for the Tampa Bay region and beyond.

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