Chief Advancement Officer; Manger V- Administrative Leadership

Title: Chief Advancement Officer (Manger V
- Administrative Leadership)

Salary Range:$130,000 (Min)
-150,000 (Max) (Salary is to commensurate with education/experience and internal equity)

Contract Term Length:12 Months

Standard

Hours:

37.5

Work Location:On-Site

FLSA Status: Exempt

College: KCTCS System Office

Campus

Location:

KCTCS System Office

Department: SO/External Affairs

KCTCS System Office offers a competitive benefits package and an attractive work environment that supports excellence, innovation, and creativity, including:

• Exceptional health care, vision, and dental coverage for you and your family
• Tuition reimbursement/waiver for you, your spouse, and dependents
• 403(b) retirement plan: a 5% employee contribution receives a 10% employer match
• Vacation/Sick Time
• Work-Life Balance
• 9.5 Paid Holidays
• 2 Weeks Institutional Closing Pay (Last 2 weeks of December) for qualifying positions
• Employee Assistance Program

The Chief Advancement Officer (CAO) serves as KCTCS’s advancement executive and a member of the KCTCS President’s Executive Leadership Team. The CAO provides strategic direction, guidance, and support to the 16 colleges and their recognized foundations, with a focus on developing and implementing comprehensive major and planned giving programs.
The CAO also serves as the Executive Director of the KCTCS Foundation, Inc., overseeing and coordinating with each of the colleges institutional advancement efforts across the system. Key responsibilities includes: donor and prospect identification, research, qualification, cultivation, solicitation, stewardship, scholarship administration, financial accounting, gift processing, and advancement communications, including case statements, donor engagement strategies, and fundraising proposals.
In addition, the CAO ensures that all advancement and foundation activities are conducted in compliance with applicable federal and state laws, regulations, and KCTCS policies and procedures.
Positions with the KCTCS System Office located in Versailles, KY are term-contract positions, with the expectancy of continuance based on performance.
This position is fully onsite five days per week at the KCTCS System Office, located at 300 North Main Street, Versailles, KY 40383.

• Provide leadership and guidance to chief advancement officers and advancement staff across the system, clarify roles and responsibilities, and support the development and achievement of annual fundraising goals and campaign strategies while maintaining appropriate separation of authority and responsibilities between KCTCS and affiliated foundations.
• Provide leadership for all Advancement Services functions across KCTCS, ensuring the systems, policies, technology, financial processes, and data infrastructure necessary to support comprehensive fundraising and constituent engagement. Establish operational standards, policies, and procedures that promote consistency while supporting local college fundraising efforts.
• Lead, serve, and support a system-wide peer team of chief advancement officers and their respective recognized foundations to achieve philanthropy and development goals.
• Develop a data-informed culture that supports fundraising success, strategic decision-making, and organizational effectiveness. Establish fundraising metrics, dashboards, and performance reporting for college leadership, chancellors, foundation boards, and the KCTCS Board of Regents, ensuring timely and reliable information for decision making.
• Direct system-wide fundraising programs including the planning, budgeting, design, implementation, and evaluation of annual, major, and planned giving functions to secure gifts of $10,000 and above as well as management of any comprehensive, capital, and special project fundraising campaigns.
• Manage constituent identification, research, evaluation, and oversee strategy development and implementation for prospective donors to KCTCS and the colleges and coordinate the solicitation of major and planned gifts among KCTCS, the colleges, and their respective related foundations.
• Plan, develop, and execute system-wide staff training and professional development activities for institutional advancement officers and related staff to implement fundraising and campaign processes.
• Provide executive oversight of philanthropic financial operations and collaborate with finance, legal counsel, auditors, and foundation leadership to maintain strong internal controls,…