Senior Director of Advancement

UA Little Rock, a metropolitan research university with more than 8,900 students, is hiring a Senior Director of Advancement. Reporting to the Vice Chancellor for University Advancement, this is a senior front-line fundraiser who builds and manages a portfolio of high-capacity donors across the university.

What you will do

• Personally cultivate, solicit and close major and principal gifts, focused on commitments of $100,000 or more and opportunities of $1 million or more
• Manage a portfolio of individuals, alumni, corporations and foundations whose interests match university priorities
• Find and qualify new prospects, and steward donors after the gift

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree
• A record of personally soliciting and closing gifts and moving donor relationships to commitments

Preferred: five years of progressive fundraising with a major gift portfolio, six- and seven-figure gifts, campaign experience, and a master's degree or CFRE. Salary is commensurate with education and experience. Applications go through the University of Arkansas System Workday site.