COLLEGE OF
BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
ASSISTANT DEAN
FOR DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI RELATIONS
BSOS
is the largest of 13 colleges and schools at the
Far
reaching programs within the College’s eight academic departments include: the Center for International Economics, the Laboratory for Global Remote Sensing Studies, the Center for Heritage Resource Studies, the
With
equally strong commitments to diversity, entrepreneurship, and interdisciplinary programs
through collaborations and partnerships in and outside the university, the College is one
of the nation’s preeminent centers for scholarship, research and teaching in the
social and behavioral sciences.
International
attention has been directed again to the College when one of its most distinguished
economists, Dr. Thomas Schelling, received the 2005 Nobel Prize.
The
College also is the home for the University’s newly established National Consortium
for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START).
U.S.
News & World Report 2005,
includes the following rankings for BSOS programs:
The
Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice is ranked #1 in the nation; programs in
Psychology, Sociology, and Economics are ranked in the top 10, and the Department of
Economics and the Department of Sociology are ranked in the top 25.
Attractions
The successful
candidate will have the opportunity to work at the highest level with the dean, department
chairs, and faculty of the largest college at the
The assistant dean
is responsibile for managing a development department that is equivalent in scale to a
private college’s development and alumni relations operations.
The assistant dean
also has an opportunity to work collaboratively with the outstanding leadership and
experienced colleagues in the university’s Central Development Office.
The
academic departments and research centers within the College are strengthened by their
close connection to
Department chairs
and faculty are talented, entrepreneurial, and willing to advocate on behalf of their
departments and disciplines.
The
College has a substantial record of success in securing support from major national
foundations. The College is poised to improve
significantly its principal and major gift fundraising among alumni, friends and
corporations, and to broaden the scope and reach of its alumni relations programs.
The
assistant dean will work with the dean to establish the College’s fund-raising focus
within a framework of the five major themes listed below. These themes span across the
scholarly research and teaching initiatives of the faculty and departments. They link the College’s departments and
research centers into a larger unity that is greater than the sum of these individual
parts.
Over
the next five years, the dean, assistant dean and external relations team will position
the College in the minds of its significant external stakeholders as a national leader for
research and teaching in
Human Health and Wellbeing
International Relations and Development
Human Behavior and the Physical Environment
Race and Ethnicity
Social Justice
The
Position
Reports
to the Dean of the
Will
design and implement a comprehensive and vigorous individual principal and major gift
program and corporate relations campaign to promote the College’s strategic mission
and increase its regional and national visibility.
Will
design a comprehensive program of alumni relations for the College and supervise it
through the College’s alumni relations coordinator and in coordination with the
College’s department chairs.
Is
responsible for planning, coordinating, and overseeing all of the external relations
programs of the College, its departments and its centers.
Must
establish a comprehensive campaign plan and an annual operating plan for development,
alumni relations, and development communications for the College, including fundraising
goals, strategies and operational priorities.
Will
consult with the dean, department chairs, center directors, and the University’s
Campaign Director in developing this plan.
Will
manage a portfolio of 150 principal and major gift prospects and develop strategies to
increase support for BSOS campaign priorities as established by the dean.
Must
work collaboratively with the College’s senior staff, faculty, and volunteers, as
well as with other university professional fundraisers to advance BSOS and the
University’s campaign activities.
Qualifications
·
Seven
to ten years of relevant experience with at least five years of management experience
along with a demonstrated record of superior performance in principal and major gift
fundraising, and success as a team leader for development and alumni relations
professionals.
·
Superb
interpersonal skills and the ability to engage and motivate people and to solicit gifts
from individuals, corporations and organizations.
·
Excellent
team building, speaking, and writing skills.
·
Familiarity
with social science issues.
· A Bachelor’s degree is required; Master’s degree is preferred.
The Ideal Candidate Should Be:
·
Able to work with a dean
in his third year of leadership of the College to transform the development functions and
performance levels of the College.
·
Able to offer the dean
strategic insights, operational alternatives and constructive criticisms for development
plans and their execution.
·
A self starter who can
gain the confidence of departmental chairs, center directors and senior faculty whose work
will become the focus for new fundraising initiatives.
·
Interested and
enthusiastic about the behavioral and social sciences and alert to the relevance of these
disciplines to the daily life of significant donors and external stakeholders.
·
Entrepreneurial and able
to work within a large university system without getting bogged down.
·
Able to form linkages and
forge relationships with relevant partners outside the university.
Critical Issues
The
In a parallel reorganization, the newly formed
Graduates of the College since the early 1970’s see
themselves as BSOS alumni. Alumni in
graduating classes before this reorganization identify with their departments but may
still consider themselves as graduates of the
The University’s database for its alumni does not always
allow easy identification of the graduates of the College of Behavioral and Social
Sciences who received their degrees in the 1940’s, 1950’s or 1960’s if
their “school codes” have not been updated to reflect this change in
nomenclature.
Over the past decade, the College has achieved significant
gains in the levels of annual research dollars its faculty secure from international
agencies, federal sources, and national foundations. The departmental chairs have strong
ownership of this success in the scale of sponsored research at the College. The assistant dean needs to work with these chairs
on departmental matters that will enable them to secure comparable levels of endowment
that support outstanding faculty (i.e., endowed chairs or professorships) or outstanding
students (i.e., endowed graduate fellowships or undergraduate scholarships). Few department chairs have experience in securing
such support.
Financial support from alumni needs to be strengthened in both
scale and scope, and the College and University’s tradition of giving needs to grow.
Attention to major gifts (five and six figures) and principal
gifts (seven and eight figures) needs to be elevated.
The image of BSOS needs to be sharpened so that its significant external constituencies view the College as more than the sum of its departmental parts, and as one of the preeminent public university centers for research, teaching and service in the behavioral and social sciences.
Additional
Information
The
University’s president, C. D. (Dan) Mote, comes from the
The
University’s continued progress will depend significantly on increased philanthropic
support. The University completed a $476 million fundraising campaign five years ago and
is in the second year of the “silent phase” of the new, Great Expectations
Campaign. The planning goal of this comprehensive, seven-year drive is $800 million.
Candidates and sources, please communicate with:
Bob Sellery or Katie Wilson, Robert Sellery Associates, Ltd.
1050 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., 10th Floor
Washington, D.C. 20036.
Email: wilson@sellery.com or sellery@sellery.com
FAX 202.333.1167 or 202.772.3101
Telephone: 202.331.0090
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