Assistant Dean For Advancement And External Relations

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Assistant Dean for Advancement and External Relations

Duties: Provides leadership and guidance for the office's professional and support personnel. Plans, develops, and executes strategies for obtaining private donations; identifying, cultivating and soliciting major gift prospects (individuals, corporations, and foundations). Provides leadership in successful completion of the $23 million OCU Downtown Law School Building capital campaign. Coordinating the work of the Campaign Cabinet and working with OCU personnel and donors to identify and cultivate major gift prospects. Leadership includes hiring and supervising a major gifts officer for the balance of the capital campaign, to be concluded in the 2017 calendar year. Develops and proposes strategies for solicitation of major gifts, including: determining ongoing relationships with prospect/donor; recommending specific purpose and level of gift; identifying those to be involved in cultivation and subsequent solicitation; assuring that solicitations are carried out. Manages, implements, and coordinates capital campaigns for the law school, serving as campaign manager in consultation with University Advancement. Coordinates fund-raising work, prospect identification and solicitation with University vice president for advancement through regularly scheduled meetings. Provides stewardship in recognition of donor philanthropy. Identifies and utilizes resources including volunteers, faculty, staff, publications, and the internet to identify linkage, ability, and interest of major gift prospects. Collaborates with appropriate university staff in completing gift arrangements which require tax or estate planning. Provides leadership for all external relationship building with a variety of constituencies; works with volunteers and others to identify linkage, ability, and interest of major gift prospects; assists academic leadership in non-duplicative efforts to identify sources and prepare proposals to government, corporations, foundations, and private granting agencies. Serves as a key contributor for strategic communication activities that support relationships between the law school and its external constituents, such as trustees, alumni, donors, and friends which support private giving to the law school. Acts as liaison to the law school’s Executive Board, working with board leadership to develop membership and plan programming. Supervises the creation and implementation of a comprehensive alumni relations program for the law school. Supervises and directs data/prospect research. Attends law school events and develops a familiarity with the programs, opportunities, and needs of the School of Law. Supervises the maintenance and improvement of alumni and development databases. Works with director of communications to coordinate and supervise the maintenance, content, and development of a comprehensive website and social media strategy for the purposes of improving communications among students, prospective students, alumni, facilitating gifts, and announcing development and campaign successes. Serves on the Dean’s Administrative Council with other senior administrators. Acts as a strategic development and fundraising partner for the Dean of the School of Law. Performs other duties as assigned by the Dean of the School of Law.

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