| Description: The Division of Advancement and Alumni serves the University of Houston’s donor and alumni population and engages with many diverse constituencies to build long-lasting, valuable relationships with the University while generating financial investment and dynamic engagement opportunities in support of its mission, programs, research and academic initiatives.
Provide leadership, planning and strategy for UHS relationship management and research; identify and utilize industry best practices; manage the Relationship Management System (RMS); and develop strategies for each development officer's current, highest level and future pipeline donors. Manage a team of portfolio services managers. Provide education and training about RMS functions and opportunities to enhance work individually and as a team.
1. Establish priorities, initiatives, policies and procedures for the Relationship Management System (RMS) utilizing industry best practices.
2. Manage the RMS services for portfolio and discovery pipeline management for development officers, including timely portfolio reviews, providing recommendations and analysis, while managing donors through the cultivation pipeline lifecycle in RMS.
3. Develop individual donor strategies for each development officers' current, highest level, and future pipeline donors.
4. Identify strategic enhancements to the RMS such as reports supporting campaign, fundraising and other business needs.
5. Build future prospect pipelines, manage discovery pipelines, and establish best practices for pipeline movement, progress and measurement.
6. Provide strategic support to leadership via donor strategy development, briefings, giving histories, tracking and post-strategy review.
7. Analyze portfolios through varied criteria and utilize findings to make portfolio recommendations to maximize gift yield.
8. Direct prospect management meetings with development officers to review and report on individual strategies, donor moves, and business development plans.
9. Lead and manage a team of portfolio services managers; develop individual, team and division competencies.
10. Performs other job-related duties as required.
MQ: Requires a thorough understanding of both theoretical and practical aspects of an analytical, technical or professional discipline; or the basic knowledge of more than one professional discipline. Knowledge of the discipline is normally obtained through a formal, directly job-related 4-year degree from a college or university or an equivalent in-depth specialized training program that is directly related to the type of work being performed.
Requires a minimum of five (5) years of directly job-related experience.
Additional Job Posting Information:
- Department is willing to accept education in lieu of experience.
- Department is willing to accept experience in lieu of education. |
| All positions at the University of Houston-System are security sensitive and will require a criminal history check. The policy of the University of Houston-System and its universities is to ensure equal opportunity in all its educational programs and activities, and all terms and conditions of employment without regard to age, race, color, disability, religion, national origin, ethnicity, military status, genetic information, sex (including gender and pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or status, or gender expression, except where such a distinction is required by law. |
