Senior Director of Development, ASU Health-Foundations

Senior Director of Development, ASU Health-Foundations

Tempe, AZ

Full time

The ASU Foundation fosters partnerships between ASU and like-minded individuals, corporations and foundations who believe in ASU’s mission and provide resources for ASU to manifest its charter into meaningful impact. The Senior Director of Development is a senior fundraising professional focused on securing transformational philanthropic support from institutional and family foundations for ASU Health. Working across the six ASU Health units, this role designs and executes strategies to identify, qualify, cultivate, solicit, and steward foundation donors for cross-unit initiatives and high-priority programs.

The Senior Director partners with unit-based development leads, deans, faculty, and foundation leadership to build new funder relationships, develop compelling cases for support around shared ASU Health priorities (e.g., women’s health, brain health, food is medicine, healthcare delivery, indigenous health), and position ASU Health in the national philanthropic landscape, with the goal of materially expanding the pipeline of seven‑ and eight‑figure foundation gifts.

• Design and lead a coordinated cross‑unit foundation fundraising program for ASU Health, setting strategy in partnership with the Executive Director of Development for ASU Health and the six unit deans and development leads; identify cross‑cutting funding priorities and opportunities where foundation support can accelerate institutional impact
• Manage a foundation prospect portfolio with a primary focus on securing gifts at or above $500,000, an annual fundraising goal of $3M to $8M, and a pipeline that includes two to three active seven‑ or eight‑figure transformational opportunities per year
• Apply a business‑development mindset to identify and cultivate foundation prospects not currently engaged with ASU Health, at the local, national, and global level
• Convene faculty, institute/center directors, and unit‑based development officers across ASU Health to build joint proposals aligned to foundation RFPs and funder interests; provide connective tissue between units so that faculty expertise in one college can be readily combined with complementary work in others to meet the scale and scope that large foundations expect
• Guide the development of cases for support, concept notes, proposals, budgets, and related materials for foundation prospects, with emphasis on six‑ and seven‑figure and above investments; contribute to and help shape the content of ASU Health’s portfolio of funding priorities so that fundraisers across the team can activate them efficiently
• Collaborate with both internal departments and broader University partners to identify common goals and develop, execute, and advance prospect and donor strategies and increase participation among high‑profile donors
• Ensure the proper stewardship and recognition of donors in portfolio
• Manage projects with moderate oversight; depending on area(s) of responsibility, may serve as a project manager for some complex, multilayered, university‑wide proposals aimed at raising the higher gifts for a university campaign
• Ensure compliance with prospect management guidelines for tracking and maintenance of contact and progress reporting
• Work with supervisor on budget management related to area(s) of assignment, ensuring a maximum return on university investments while controlling expenses
• Maintain up‑to‑date knowledge on key alumni and high‑level donors, and/or oversee continuous research, development and up‑to‑date knowledge on prospects and work with other areas to coordinate contacts
• Participate as a member of the ASUF development team and serve as a resource to development colleagues
• Sustain and elevate working relationships with deans, chairs, directors, and faculty members within area(s) of responsibility
• Raise the national philanthropic profile of ASU Health and its faculty by identifying conferences, convenings, panels, and other venues where faculty experts can be featured in front of foundation audiences; coordinate with communications and marketing partners to surface thought leadership
• Partner…