WHY UT SOUTHWESTERN?
With over 75 years of excellence in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, UT Southwestern is committed to excellence, innovation, teamwork, and compassion. As a world-renowned medical and research center, we strive to provide the best possible care, resources, and benefits for our valued employees. Ranked as the number 1 hospital in Dallas-Fort Worth according to U.S. News & World Report, we invest in you with opportunities for career growth and development to align with your future goals. Our highly competitive benefits package offers healthcare, PTO and paid holidays, on-site childcare, wage, merit increases and so much more. We invite you to be a part of the UT Southwestern team where you’ll discover a culture of teamwork, professionalism, and a rewarding career!

JOB SUMMARY

UT Southwestern, one of the nation’s premier academic medical centers, integrates pioneering biomedical research with exceptional clinical care and education. The institution’s faculty members have received six Nobel Prizes and include 25 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 24 members of the National Academy of Medicine, and 14 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators. UT Southwestern is the No. 1 hospital in Dallas-Fort Worth for the eighth consecutive year and ranks among the nation’s top hospitals for care in 11 specialties – the most in Texas. UT Southwestern is experiencing unparalleled clinical and reputational growth, including the recent groundbreaking on a new $5 billion, world-class children’s hospital that has already garnered two nine-figure gifts. 

The Associate Vice President for Development Programs (AVP) oversees all aspects of UT Southwestern’s major and principal giving efforts. The AVP supervises the Corporate and Foundation Relations, Gift Planning, Principal Giving, and Clinical Philanthropy teams responsible for securing gifts from individual and institutional donors in support of UT Southwestern’s tripartite mission. This role presents an opportunity for an impact-driven individual who excels at cultivating authentic relationships to make a meaningful impact in North Texas. This is an exciting time to help grow and shape a fantastic fundraising team within the Office of Development and Alumni Relations that values mutual respect, collaboration, and teamwork.

BENEFITS
UT Southwestern is proud to offer a competitive and comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees. Our benefits are designed to support your overall wellbeing, and include:

• PPO medical plan, available day one at no cost for full-time employee-only coverage
• 100% coverage for preventive healthcare-no copay
• Paid Time Off, available day one
• Retirement Programs through the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS)
• Paid Parental Leave Benefit
• Wellness programs
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Qualified Employer
• Learn more about these and other UTSW employee benefits!

QUALIFICATIONS

Education and Experience

Required

• Education
  • Bachelor’s Degree in a related field. 

• Experience
  • 10 years of progressively responsible related professional fundraising experience.
  • Must be a highly energetic professional with a track record of building donor relationships and closing gifts in the seven- and eight-figure range.
  • Must have substantial experience and proven track record of successfully managing fundraising teams. 

Preferred

• Education
  • Master’s Degree in a related field. 

• Experience
  • 5 years of directly related experience at an executive level. 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Job Duties

• In collaboration with the Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations and other executive leaders within the department and across the institution, refines, implements, and monitors long-range development goals and initiatives contained within the strategic plan for development.
• Manages Principal Giving Program focused on growing support at the seven-figure plus level from top philanthropists across North Texas and beyond.
• Represents Development and Alumni Relations in inter-institutional fundraising collaborations.
• Increases the success of UT Southwestern’s development program by maximizing support from grateful patients, alumni, civic leaders, foundations, and corporations.
• Establishes vision for gift officer team and ensures team strive to achieve stretch fundraising goals.
• Secures major philanthropic support from self-managed portfolio of prospects.
• Strengthens and enhances management processes, electronic tools, reporting, and systemization required for a large development program.
• Provides vision, creativity, and direction to the development staff and faculty in defining the case for support and program parameters for solicitation, communications, and proposals for identified programs.
• Assists in facilitating regular prospect strategy meetings with the gift officer team; prepares and monitors materials.
• Identifies appropriate internal controls for gift officer team; provides mechanisms to monitor and enforce teamwork and communication.
• Provides leadership to university-wide projects and campaigns for major gift fundraising purposes.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Work requires excellent organizational skills.
• Work requires outstanding management skills that demonstrate the ability to train and lead staff to superior performance.
• Work requires superior communications (verbal and written) and human relations skills.
• Work requires ability to articulate UT Southwestern’s mission, vision, needs, and aspirations with enthusiasm and clarity.
• Work requires experience working in a large, complex organization.
• Work requires broad perspective with the ability to quickly gain an understanding of UT Southwestern’s administration and constituencies.
• Work requires a strong work ethic, self-motivation; must be results oriented.
• Work requires experience with budget management.
• Work requires ability to work both independently and as part of a team. Work requires the ability to listen, analyze, facilitate, and articulate situations and ideas.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS/WORKING CONDITIONS

• Physical Demands
  Sitting
  Talking

• Working Conditions
  Office Setting

PACT STATEMENT

The following is the acronym, “PACT”, and is fundamental to all non-clinical positions at UT Southwestern Medical Center:

• P-Problem Solving: Employees take ownership in solving problems effectively, efficiently, and to the satisfaction of customers, or managers. They show initiative in addressing areas of concern before they become problems.
• A-Ability, Attitude and Accountability: Employees exhibit ability to perform their job and conduct themselves in a professional and positive manner reflecting a professional environment readily assuming obligations in a dependable and reliable manner.
• C-Communication, Contribution, and Collaboration: Who are our Customers? Anyone who requests our help, needs our work product, or receives our services. Employees focus on customer service with creative solutions while improving the customer experience through clear, courteous, and timely delivery and communication. Sharing ideas with others helps expand our contribution to department goals.
• T-Teamwork: Employees work to contribute to the department’s success by supporting co-workers, promoting excellence in work product and customer service, and in maintaining a satisfying, caring environment for each other.

Salary
Salary Negotiable

SECURITY AND EEO STATEMENT
Security
This position is security-sensitive and subject to Texas Education Code 51.215, which authorizes UT Southwestern to obtain criminal history record information.

EEO Statement
UT Southwestern Medical Center is committed to an educational and working environment that provides equal opportunity to all members of the University community. As an equal opportunity employer, UT Southwestern prohibits unlawful discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or veteran status.