DePaul University Athletics

Director

• Directs the identification, qualification, solicitation, and stewardship of major gift prospects/donors, including alumni, parents, and friends of the College of Education, the School of Continuing and Professional Studies, and other university units with comprehensive campaign-related philanthropic priorities (i.e., Mission and Ministry, Student Affairs, Libraries, etc.). Develop and implement strategies to engage parents with major and leadership gift potential as philanthropic partners. Ensures that, over time, assigned areas have sufficient qualified major gift prospects to achieve established goals.
• Create and implement annual and long-range major gift solicitation plans based on specific metrics and financial goals. Ensure solicitation plans, reports, and shifts in stages of readiness are accurately noted and regularly maintained in the division's relationship management platform.
• Provide strategic project and outreach support to leadership of the College/School, university units, and/or Associate Vice President of Advancement. Support donor, prospect, and parent engagement activities, including coordination of outreach aligned with fundraising and campaign priorities. Participates, as appropriate, in university-wide initiatives, task forces, and committees, representing assigned areas in select engagement activities.
• Demonstrate an ongoing commitment to pursue professional development opportunities in the field of Advancement.
• This position is responsible for the expense against budget for the fundraising budget for COE and SCPS.

Director of Development, Major Gifts

Content Marketing Manager

• Works in a customer relationship management and technical capacity for university CMS users to understand customer content needs, improve user experience, and resolve problems, requests, questions and enhancements.
• Works on website migration projects, site planning and creation and on-going site updates and enhancements.
• Manages content on a variety of web properties, including depaul.edu, college and administrative unit sites, advertising landing pages, and undergraduate and graduate recruitment vehicles.
• Develops, promotes and executes outreach efforts to create awareness of systems management and web content strategy best practices.
• Contributes to project management methodology by understanding the flow of work tasks being completed through the entire SDLC (Software delivery life cycle) and assisting in ensuring that every step is taken to create a quality product output.
• Updates our flagship website with required changings, communicating changes and validating approvals before publishing to the public website.

Manager, Web Content

Administrative Assistant

• Manage the day-to-day administrative functions and tasks for the School Director and Associate Directors.
• Arrange internal and external meetings and appointments by scheduling times and reserving rooms, coordinating activities, and taking meeting minutes.
• Create and maintain school files and databases and prepare reports as needed.
• Triage inquiries from faculty, students, and other internal or external parties.
• Coordinate with the Operations Manager new faculty onboarding and set up.
• Manage travel arrangements and reimbursements for visitors including candidates for faculty positions and serve as backup hospitality contact.
• Support the Director in administering the school budget, purchases, and reimbursements.
• Help with administration of student staff assigned to school specific duties.
• Handle general office duties.
• Support the administration of communications for the School of Design.
• Oversee the development and continued management of the School of Design School Central D2L site and communication of events and opportunities for students.
• Assist with management and updating of School of Design website pages.
• Communicate internship/job/special opportunities to students, in coordination with faculty, Career Center, and other departments.
• Support the administration of community building, outreach activities, and special initiatives.
• Coordinate with the school administration and faculty and the college event planner to plan, organize, and promote events.
• Assist with contracts, service agreements, and payments related to events and initiatives.
• Assist the School Director and faculty with special initiatives such as student competitions, grants, awards, etc.
• Provide administrative support for faculty committees.
• Schedule committee and school faculty meetings and handle catering orders, invitation and reminder emails, calendar entries, preparing meeting materials, room setup, etc.
• Assist personnel committee and director with administrative tasks related to faculty reviews.
• Assist faculty recruiting committee, including getting quotes from ad venues, posting ads, arranging meetings and booking rooms for on-campus interviews, etc.
• Assist faculty committees by coordinating activities/events/surveys, etc.
• Responsible for monitoring and tracking Departmental Operating Budget of approximately $125,000.

Director of Development, Major Gifts

Manager, Web Content

Senior Administrative Assistant