Jobs UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER

CU Boulder Advancement is committed to a culture of joy, motivated by collaboration, passionate about excellence and driven by impact. These four values define our culture and drive our engagement and fundraising success.

At CU Boulder Advancement, we allocate time and resources to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Our efforts contribute directly to our division’s core values and to advancing CU Boulder’s mission through impactful fundraising and engagement results. As a team and as individuals, we commit to learning about and challenging systems, policies, and practices that enable oppressive ideologies to recur in our community. (Oppressive ideologies include racism, sexism, ableism, heterosexism, and other “isms” that cause harm. This list is not exhaustive and may evolve in our pursuit of collective liberation.) Embracing our responsibility to lead and model helps promote the culture we desire while supporting our internal and external constituents. Accountability for our commitment to DEI is established through specific individual and team goals that evaluate our progress and growth.

Alumni Engagement Strategy and Execution

• Lead and manage implementation of strategy to engage, cultivate and involve constituents, especially alumni, in ways that support the school’s vision and strategic direction.
• Supervise and assess engagement metrics to advise decisions and adapt for improvements.
• Collaborate with the Leeds Marketing and Communications team to deliver marketing and communication campaigns, messaging, etc. in support of alumni engagement goals; liaisons and partners with Marketing and Communications on communication projects including the school’s annual alumni magazine, newsletters, podcasts, events, etc.
• Supervise Leeds advancement events to ensure they are consistently representing the school’s standards of excellence, and providing an important platform for engaging our alumni and constituents.
• Guide online engagement, communications and annual giving efforts as well as 10+ high-impact annual events.
• Be responsible for the GOLD (Graduates of the Last Decade) and MBA Board volunteers ensuring their work aligns with the strategic direction of the School; provide communications support.
• Partner with and involve deans, directors, faculty, and students, both locally and across the globe as part of outreach efforts.
• Identify, promote, and support alumni and volunteer recognition opportunities. Examples include alumni awards, alumni publications, community and business awards, etc.
• Work closely with Advancement leadership to source and engage alumni in fundraising opportunities and create a culture of philanthropy.
• Identify and implement new alumni engagement opportunities to reach different constituents, including educational, service, family, etc.

Team Management and Leadership

• Implement all aspects of managing and leading a team of employees responsible for alumni engagement, events, board engagement. Examples include:
• Provide coaching and mentorship, especially to new team members.
• Carry out administrative personnel actions (performance management, hiring, training, onboarding, offboarding, etc.).
• Serve as a member of the Advancement Management Team. Attend scheduled meetings and collaborate with colleagues regularly.
• Manage budget and align to developed strategy.
• Set the overall direction for the team engagement activities annually. This includes defining success metrics, setting goals and developing processes for metrics reporting. Keys to success include leading the team to develop priorities and schedules prior to the beginning of the new fiscal year, being clear on roles, responsibilities and expectations, setting overall timelines and providing the needed processes to support the staff work.
• Develop a team culture which encourages innovative ideas for engagement and cultivates a sense of confidence in trying new activities without the fear of consequences from failure.

Other Duties as Assigned

• Attend and be an influential member of the campus community of alumni directors across campus to share information, discuss standard methodologies and identify potential partnerships and joint initiatives.
• Work with CU system, CU Foundation and CU Boulder Advancement staff to assist with the effective identification, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship of donors to the Leeds School of Business.

• This position will occasionally be required to work evenings/weekends.
• This position has the ability to work a hybrid schedule with some days on campus and some days remote.
• This position may require local, regional, and out-of-state travel to engage with university constituents.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience or combination of education and experience may substitute.
• Program and event management experience.
• Experience developing, planning and rolling out strategy.
• Experience: 5+ years of professional, job related experience including 1+ years of team lead or supervision experience.

• Ability to strategize plans for employee retention and satisfaction.
• Ability to practice situational leadership and discover what motivates individual team members to achieve goals.
• Ability to establish and enhance interpersonal relationships, including ability to coordinate and manage volunteers.
• Solid knowledge of fundraising, donor relations, and alumni relations standard processes.
• Expert communication skills including the ability to participate in public events and represent Advancement and the university in a professional manner.
• Solid ability to analyze information/situations and solve problems.
• Ability to exercise a high degree of tact, discretion, and collaboration in working with a diverse range of constituents including employees, students, volunteers, alumni, donors, and campus colleagues.
• Solid ability to organize and manage multiple projects/tasks simultaneously; must have ability to work independently and collaboratively and adapt to changing priorities.
• Solid knowledge of current issues facing public universities and interests of assigned school, students, faculty, and alumni.
• Solid knowledge of annual giving standard methodologies.
• Strong attention to detail and to visual appeal of presentation materials.
• Growth mindset, resilience and perseverance.
• Ability to embrace the shared values of the Office of Advancement.

• Software Used: Microsoft Office products, database management and data manipulation, Salesforce, Zoom, Teams, Academic Impressions, Trello, LinkedIn, Marketing Cloud, Marketplace, Google docs/sheets, Cvent.
• Experience in constituent relations/relationship management.
• Experience in a higher education environment.
• Experience in a business school environment.