Director of Development, Law Apply now (https://secure.dc4.pageuppeople.com/apply/726/gateway/default.aspx?c=apply&lJobID=535381&lJobSourceTypeID=831&sLanguage=en-us) Job no: 535381 Work type: Officer of Administration Location: Eugene, OR Categories: Communications/Public Relations/Marketing, Development, Executive/Management/Director, Legal/Law Department: School of Law and University Advancement Appointment Type and Duration: Regular, Ongoing Salary: Starting at $90,000 per year Compensation Band: OS-OA09-Fiscal Year 2024-2025 FTE: 1.0 Application Review Begins June 1, 2025; position open until filled Special Instructions to Applicants Please submit the following with your online application:  1) A cover letter in which you clearly describe how your knowledge, skills, and abilities prepare you for the job responsibilities and requirements outlined in the job announcement.  2) A resume of your educational and professional work experience.  We are interested in finding the best candidate for the position. We encourage you to apply, even if you don’t think you meet every one of our preferred qualifications. Use your application to let us know what is meaningful to you about the role and what transferable skills or other qualities you would bring. Department Summary University Advancement (UA) supports the University of Oregon’s (UO) mission of providing exceptional teaching, discovery, and service by strategically positioning the university to create awareness, build long-term relationships, and secure resources that increase understanding and further its aims. We are committed to fostering equity and inclusion in a welcoming, safe, and respectful environment that recognizes the value of all members of our community. The University of Oregon School of Law is a dynamic ABA-accredited law school and Oregon’s only public law school. Degrees offered include: Juris Doctor (JD), Master of Laws (LLM), Master of Conflict and Dispute Resolution (CRES), and a minor in undergraduate legal studies. Oregon Law’s mission is to provide a world-class education. We prepare students through excellent classroom teaching paired with a multitude of practical experience opportunities and robust professional development. Our faculty produce exceptional research and scholarship. We accomplish our mission in a positive, inclusive environment where we strive to provide everyone opportunities to grow, contribute, and develop. Our aim is to learn, teach, and practice the principles of equity and justice as critical foundations for our overall effort to achieve excellence as a top-ranked law school. Success in this work requires a diverse group of people in various faculty and staff roles working in one of our two locations, Eugene and Portland. The University of Oregon is located within the traditional homelands of the Southern Kalapuya. Learn more about Oregon Law at law.uoregon.edu, and consider joining our team. The Office of Development as part of University Advancement has a mission to maximize philanthropic impact at the University of Oregon. We do this by identifying, connecting, and engaging alumni and friends around the globe with their passions to advance the vision and priorities of the university. Position Summary The Director of Development works as part of Development to promote university fundraising priorities and image to alumni, parents, and friends of the university. The director will be assigned to a specific unit and is responsible for the cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of current donors, as well as the identification and qualification of new prospects. This position will concentrate on gifts in the major gift ($100k+) range and help build the pipeline for future major donors over the duration of the campaign. This position is externally facing, requiring frequent travel, thoughtful communication, and interaction with donors and donor prospects. The director collaborates with colleagues in the Law School, Development, and across the university to identify new prospects and strategically cultivate alumni, parents, and friends. The director will be responsible for setting and executing fundraising goals that align with the future strategic plan of the Law School and the University’s strategic plan, Oregon Rising. The director will be measured by individual portfolio performance and the overall fundraising performance of the Law School on an annual basis. Reporting jointly to the Dean of the School of Law and the Associate Vice President for Development, Academics, this position leads the School of Law development program and is responsible for managing all fundraising activity, including representing the school in campaign planning, development initiatives, and achieving cash and commitment fundraising goals and strategies in conjunction with leadership in the college/school/unit and Development. Traveling within Oregon as well as to cities in other states up to 50% of the time is an essential expectation of this position. This position is jointly funded by the School of Law and University Advancement. Minimum Requirements • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of skills and experience. • Three years of professional frontline fundraising experience or five years combined experience in development and in a closely related field such as corporate sales. • One year of experience as a permanent supervisor or three years of lead work and mentorship of junior staff. Professional Competencies • Working with donors and prospects: Extensive experience in prospect identification, qualification, cultivation, and solicitation, with a demonstrated ability to build relationships with donors and prospects, including those who have not been engaged or connected to the university. Ability to maximize gift potentials for outright and estate gifts, educate new donors and prospects about major gift philanthropy, and leverage existing and future volunteer leaders towards giving. • Portfolio management and systems: Ability to identify top prospects and strategies for a portfolio, including leveraging data and analysis tools and partnership with UA prospect development to optimize activity and portfolio makeup; prioritize prospects and regions while fully engaging with a robust portfolio; and provide constructive feedback on prospect management systems and structures. • Professionalism and citizenship: Ability to establish and maintain strong collaborative relationships with faculty, staff, and others as appropriate, and contribute ideas in interactions and discussions with management, peers, and campus partners. This includes actively collaborating with colleagues as well as communicating in a positive and proactive manner with fellow development officers, leadership, and Prospect Management, Prospect Development, and Data Analytics staff. • Institutional navigation and industry knowledge: Ability to represent the university's history, mission, demographics, faculty, current programs, departments, and culture, persuasively articulate how the UO distinguishes itself from peer institutions. Competence in connecting mission and objectives across departments into donor strategies, and extensive knowledge of best practices, trends, current strategies, and other information relevant to philanthropy in higher education development. • Management and supervision of employees: Demonstrated ability to manage people and/or programs, including recognizing and leveraging strengths of individual team members; navigating performance concerns and workplace conflict; setting metrics and goals; and customizing onboarding, expectations, and career planning for all team members. • Volunteer management: Ability to set the philanthropic agenda of a board; recruit and effectively work with volunteers in setting philanthropic priorities for solicitation, stewardship, and relationship building; and work closely with academic and administrative partners on board member engagement, giving, and decision making. • Academic leadership: Strong ability to position the Dean to be a fundraising leader and leverage the expertise of deans and faculty members to cultivate and solicit donors, focus fundraising activity to meet metrics and engage donors, and ensure academic leaders understand the role of development. Ability to identify and work with the most appropriate academic partners for a given prospect, encourage academic partners to focus their efforts on top prospects, and exercise high-level judgment to maximize the impact of partnerships on giving. Skilled in establishing confidence with academic leadership to lead strategy and represent the interests of the program as well as delivering post-meeting feedback and reflection. • Strategic planning: Ability to communicate and articulate how individual initiatives and programmatic direction fit into overall advancement strategy, as well as use 12-month and multi-year projections and strategic planning tools to reach goals and anticipate trends, gaps, and priorities. • Commitment to promoting and enhancing diversity, equity, and inclusion. • Ability to interact, communicate, and work effectively with individuals, recognizing and respecting the many and varied identities of each person. • Ability to travel. Preferred Qualifications • Experience in higher education development that provided an understanding of the nature of a professional school and research university. • Demonstrated experience working effectively with volunteer boards. • Advanced degree, especially in Law. FLSA Exempt: Yes All offers of employment are contingent upon successful completion of a background check. The University of Oregon is proud to offer a robust benefits package to eligible employees, including health insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off. For more information about benefits, visithttps://hr.uoregon.edu/about-benefits. The University of Oregon is an equal opportunity, affirmative action institution committed to cultural diversity and compliance with the ADA. The University encourages all qualified individuals to apply and does not discriminate on the basis of any protected status, including veteran and disability status. The University is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities. To request an accommodation in connection with the application process, please contact us atuocareers@uoregon.eduor 541-346-5112. UO prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy (including pregnancy-related conditions), age, physical or mental disability, genetic information (including family medical history), ancestry, familial status, citizenship, service in the uniformed services (as defined in federal and state law), veteran status, expunged juvenile record, and/or the use of leave protected by state or federal law in all programs, activities and employment practices as required by Title IX, other applicable laws, and policies. Retaliation is prohibited by UO policy. Questions may be referred to the Office of Investigations and Civil Rights Compliance. 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