Advancement & Events Associate Director

The Advancement & Events Associate Director implements major advancement initiatives, oversees internal and external events, and supports key external relationships at UW-Madison's School of Education. This position plays a critical role in connecting faculty, staff, students, alumni, and friends of the School of Education with the organization's larger mission and goals.

Reporting to the Associate Dean of Communications and Advancement, the position works collaboratively with School leadership, colleagues at the Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association (WFAA), employees across the School of Education, colleagues in partnering offices at UW-Madison, and external stakeholders to produce meaningful engagement opportunities for the School's alumni, friends, donors, and students. This position will supervise advancement and event professionals, and contribute to event programming, while working collaboratively across the Office of Communications and Advancement in aligned areas of communications, marketing, and creative services. The Advancement & Events Associate Director will lead the development of event programming as well as contribute to advancing broad fundraising initiatives, annual campaigns, and days of giving in collaboration with the WFAA School of Education Development team.

The highly ranked UW-Madison School of Education is unique in that it is home to 10 departments that house faculty and staff conducting a range of research across the arts, health, and education. The Advancement & Events Associate Director plays an important role in helping the School advance its most strategic work with its closest partners and its more than 50,000 alumni.

Responsibilities:

Assists in executing strategies related to alumni relations, establishes staff performance benchmarks, directs alumni communications, and oversees implementation of strategies to maximize alumni engagement, in collaboration with leadership to support the success of alumni relations initiatives.

10% Assists in the development of strategic planning initiatives and objectives to ensure appropriate use of financial, administrative, and staffing resources and alignment with the strategic plan

20% Assists in the development and implementation of alumni relations goals and operating policies and procedures to promote alumni impact and fundraising activities in alignment with the strategic plan

15% Serves as the subject matter expert regarding alumni campaign strategies and performance goals

15% Develops, implements, and monitors communication and branding campaigns and programs

10% Identifies, develops, and monitors staff performance and goals

10% Exercises supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees

20% Manages the School's Board of Visitors (BoV) in close collaboration with School leadership and colleagues at the WFAA, including project management of events, leading programming and producing regular communications with the Board.

Required experience:

• Minimum of 5 years working in advancement and fundraising with donor constituencies
• Minimum of 3 years experience supervising a team of professionals
• Minimum of 3 years experience with event programming and production

Preferred experience:

• Experience with fundraising best practices and campaign benchmarking
• Exemplary interpersonal and written communication skills
• Experience working with organizational leaders
• Experience in cross-cultural communications or lived experience working across cultures, ages groups, and/or languages
• Experience working with project management and customer relationship management software

Salary:

Minimum $80,000 ANNUAL (12 months). Depending on Qualifications. Actual hiring rate will be commensurate with education and experience. This position will be eligible for a comprehensive benefits package. Benefits: fasl.pdf (wisconsin.edu)