Vice President, Chief Development Officer

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required. Master’s degree or higher preferred.
• At least ten years of progressively increasing fundraising leadership experience in a large, complex academic environment, healthcare organization or other distinguished setting.
• Experience in public higher education preferred.
• Specific experience in managing and leading major multi-year, multi-purpose comprehensive gift campaigns.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Possess a track record of developing and implementing a strategic multi-year fundraising plan with key metrics and goals for all staff that are tracked.
• Develop a sense of community and collaboration within the development office and across the clinical, academic and research enterprises.
• Model successful cultivation, solicitation and stewardship of donors and coaching and mentoring others as they develop those skills.
• Bring current best practices to bear on key development areas such as major gifts, planned giving, annual fundraising, and campaigns.
• Effective leadership, problem-solving and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Experience in preparing operating budgets, capital campaign goals budgets and systems for internal operations.  

Equal Employment Opportunity:

UTMB Health strives to provide equal opportunity employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by institutional policy or by federal, state or local laws unless such distinction is required by law. As a VEVRAA Federal Contractor, UTMB Health takes affirmative action to hire and advance women, minorities, protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.