Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Communications

• Lead DAR’s implementation of Marketing Cloud usage, including assessing technology needs, defining policies and building out processes in collaboration with DAR, IT, and MarComm partners to meet department objectives and community engagement goals.
• Develop a comprehensive digital marketing strategy for DAR.
• Design, implement, and optimize multi-channel marketing campaigns (email, social media, web).
• Create sophisticated marketing automation workflows to build journeys and improve community lifecycle management.
• Plan strategic and comprehensive long-term digital marketing initiatives.
• In collaboration with DAR’s data team, develop advanced audience segments and targeting strategies based on available data and behavior analysis.
• In collaboration with DAR’s creative team, build and maintain the brand for DAR’s digital presence.
• Build and maintain a comprehensive calendar of DAR’s digital communications efforts.
• Monitor, analyze, and report on campaign performance metrics; provide actionable insights and recommendations.
• Ensure maximum utilization of Marketing Cloud features and functionality; identify and implement platform improvements.
• Mentor team members and provide guidance on platform best practices.
• Manage integrations between Marketing Cloud and the department’s Salesforce CRM in partnership with internal DAR teams.
• Ensure all campaigns comply with GDPR, CCPA, CAN-SPAM, and other regulatory requirements.
• In partnership with the associate director of digital communications, build and maintain DAR’s web properties.
• Contribute to a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement within DARComm, across the broader advancement enterprise, and across the university, including with MarComm partners.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Senior Director of Digital Communications

Security Engineer

• Provide day-to-day coordination and administrative support for the Institute’s programs, events, and special projects.
• Assist with planning, scheduling, and logistics for conferences, lectures, summits, meetings, and internal convenings.
• Support event execution, including registration management (attendance tracking, and post-event reporting, etc.), guest communications, materials preparation, and on-site operations.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date records in the Institute’s CRM and project management systems.
• Draft and format basic communication materials such as event invitations, confirmations, agendas, briefings, background documents run-of-show schedules, and event packets.
• Serve as a primary logistical point of contact for speakers, participants, and internal partners.
• Coordinate with vendors, campus partners, and service providers to ensure timely delivery of event needs (catering, A/V, room setup, travel, etc.).
• Track project timelines, deadlines, and deliverables, proactively flagging risks or delays.
• Support marketing and communications efforts related to Institute convenings by assisting with website updates, newsletter material development, and social media material development.
• Support the supervision and coordination of student workers and volunteers during programs and events.
• Maintain organized digital and physical files related to programs, communications, and partnerships.
• Ensure professionalism, confidentiality, and adherence to university policies and Institute standards in all interactions.
• Provide administrative and project support to the Senior Program Manager and Institute leadership as assigned.

Program Coordinator

Data Scientist

• Conducts advanced computational analyses of human behavioral and neuroscience datasets to support research initiatives.
• Performs data preprocessing, cleaning, organization, quality assessment, and transformation to prepare data for statistical and computational analysis.
• Applies advanced statistical methodologies, machine learning algorithms, and AI models to identify patterns, generate predictions, and evaluate research outcomes.
• Develops computational models and analytical frameworks to characterize relationships between human data and artificial intelligence-based models.
• Designs, implements, and maintains data workflows, analytical pipelines, and reproducible computational processes.
• Analyzes datasets to identify trends, opportunities, and insights that support institutional and research goals.
• Creates scientific figures, data visualizations, and analytical summaries to communicate complex findings effectively.
• Documents analytical methodologies, computational approaches, code, and research workflows.
• Produces detailed technical reports describing analysis results, interpretations, and recommendations.
• Collaborates with faculty researchers, laboratory personnel, and interdisciplinary teams to define project objectives and deliver analytical support.
• Communicates findings and recommendations to key stakeholders, research partners, and university leadership.
• Coordinates moderately complex analytics projects by managing timelines, deliverables, and communication across research teams.
• Provides weekly project updates summarizing completed analyses, progress toward objectives, challenges, and upcoming goals.
• Recommends improvements to data systems, analytical processes, and research methodologies based on benchmarking and performance evaluation.
• Ensures compliance with data privacy standards by working exclusively with appropriately anonymized human research data.
• Shares relevant code, analytical tools, and computational pipelines developed through research activities with collaborating laboratories.

Director

• Maintains a comprehensive, strategic view of the Chancellor's external relationship portfolio, including donors, prospects, foundation leaders, peer institution leaders, government officials, corporate partners, alumni, and other significant external figures.
• Identifies priorities, surfaces relationships that are going cold, and recommends where the Chancellor's attention will have the most impact.
• Partners closely with the Office of the Chancellor to ensure the Chancellor's relationships are stewarded with intentionality across internal and external dimensions, with the Director of Relationship Management leading external strategy and the Executive Director leading internal coordination.
• Coordinates across DAR, Government Relations, Communications, the Office of the Provost, and other units to prevent duplicated, conflicting, or poorly timed outreach to individuals in the Chancellor's network.
• Serves as a central reference point for understanding what the institution is asking of, or communicating to, key external stakeholders.
• Contributes substantive relationship intelligence to the Chancellor's daily briefings, ensuring the Chancellor enters every interaction with the relevant history, context, and strategic framing of the relationships involved.
• Participates in the standing meetings with the Office of the Chancellor staff on upcoming external interactions, the relationship implications of his engagements, and the strategic priorities of his network.
• Coordinates with the responsible Vice Chancellor offices, unit leaders, and prospect managers to identify priority attendees across constituent groups and to develop a targeted engagement plan for the Chancellor at high-visibility events.
• Reviews event briefings to ensure that high-interest attendees are accurately captured and that the Chancellor's engagement priorities are well represented.
• Serves as the Chancellor's on-the-ground coordinator at events, actively managing time, flow, and engagement priorities.
• Provides pre-event briefings to focus the Chancellor's activities, and delivers real-time context (names, affiliations, relationship history, key points) to support effective interactions in the moment.
• Facilitates high-value introductions and ensures the Chancellor connects with priority individuals in a purposeful sequence. Maintains situational awareness to prevent time monopolization and to ensure balanced engagement across attendees.
• Manages transitions between conversations, speaking roles, and scheduled obligations to keep the Chancellor on track during events. Discreetly troubleshoots issues or changes in real time, including attendance shifts, schedule changes, and sensitivities.
• Identifies and capitalizes on unplanned opportunities for meaningful engagement with key stakeholders during events.
• Conducts immediate and post-event debriefs with the Chancellor to capture insights, impressions, and actionable follow-up. Synthesizes and disseminates key takeaways to relevant university stakeholders.
• Partners with appropriate staff (including prospect managers, unit leaders, Government Relations, and Corporate and Foundation Relations) to communicate and execute follow-up actions arising from the Chancellor's external engagements.
• Ensures that the Chancellor's external interactions are tracked in the university's CRM (Salesforce) with appropriate detail and discretion, and contributes to the broader institutional effort to make the CRM a more reliable foundation for relationship work.
• Works with the Office of the Chancellor on the development and integration of systems and workflows that support the Chancellor's relationship portfolio over time.
• Proactively identifies upcoming engagements where the Chancellor's involvement would add strategic value, and surfaces these to the Executive Director and the Chief of Staff for consideration.
• Provides feedback to DAR leadership and to the Chancellor's Office on trends, opportunities, and risks emerging from the Chancellor's external interactions.
• Travels with the Chancellor as needed, including to Vanderbilt's remote campuses, high-stakes external engagements, and donor and stakeholder events.
• Works with a designated backup within DAR to ensure continuity of the role when the Director is unavailable, and supports the training and development of the backup to enable effective coverage.
• Handles highly sensitive and confidential information regarding donors, prospects, board members, peer institution leaders, government officials, and other external figures with the discretion appropriate to the role.
• Performs additional duties as assigned.

Director of Relationship Management

Civil Engineer

• Support laboratory instruction for courses including ES 140, Fluid Mechanics, Civil & Environmental Engineering Lab, Geotechnical Lab, and more in collaboration with the Staff Engineer.
• Contribute to the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) student chapter, including fabrication and development of competition projects such as the steel bridge and concrete canoe.
• Provide technical guidance and support to ASCE student teams participating in regional competitions.
• Train and assist undergraduate students in the use of laboratory instrumentation and equipment related to structural engineering applications.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary student teams (e.g., mechanical and biomedical engineering) on senior design and research projects.
• Engage with students daily to support learning, safety, and project execution in laboratory environments.
• Assist in planning and execution of departmental programs, including symposiums, workshops, and special events.
• Provide hands-on instruction to senior engineering students in shop skills such as welding, woodworking, and concrete mixing/pouring to support capstone design projects.
• Maintain, calibrate, and troubleshoot laboratory instrumentation to ensure accurate data collection and research outcomes.
• Stay current with research methodologies, safety standards, and regulatory requirements applicable to laboratory operations.
• Support facility-related activities, including mechanical and electrical setup, upgrades, and maintenance.
• Train users on the safe and effective use of tools, equipment, and laboratory resources.
• Assist faculty and research staff with experimental setup and execution of research projects.
• Support general maintenance and organization of CEE laboratories and office spaces.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Associate Engineer, Civil Engineering

Software Engineer

• The Graduate Program Coordinator in the School of Engineering at Vanderbilt University plays a central administrative and operational role in supporting the graduate programs in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Interdisciplinary Materials Science.
• Responsible for coordinating and managing key aspects of graduate education, including oversight of the graduate admissions and recruitment process, student onboarding, and ongoing program administration.
• Ensure the smooth day-to-day operation of the PhD programs, maintains compliance with institutional policies, and supports academic milestones from admission through degree completion.
• Work closely with faculty, students, and university offices.

Graduate Program Coordinator, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Interdisciplinary Materials Science

General

• Provide event preparation and support to key alumni engagement and annual giving events
• Work in a phased approach with a variety of teams
• Perform support services, some may include confidential information
• Function with a high degree of professionalism
• Collaborate with members of each team

Office Assistant, Temporary

QA Engineer

• Provide testing, research and other support for IT projects and production support issues. Work with VUIT and DAR on issue resolution.
• Oversight of integrations to VQ from other VU systems including but not limited to the student system, admissions, and faculty/staff data. This includes identifying and correcting problems, manual intervention with certain issues and processing data as necessary.
• Maintain the integrity of Salesforce by performing regular validation of account/contact data to identify potential duplicates, overseeing the NCOA integration, and validation of other data as needed.
• Has primary responsibility for managing specific technology solutions for DAR which may include training, technical support, and oversight of the tools. This includes serving as secondary support for other solutions.
• Collaborate with DAR staff to interpret business needs and assist in providing technical solutions to attain the users’ end goals, especially related to the capture and storage of data within Salesforce.
• Learns capabilities of technology tools and helps department take advantage of full offerings of technology.
• Stay informed on new technology to assist in maximizing efficiency and achieving departmental goals.
• Works with VUIT on integration requirements and testing.
• Demonstrate a sense of ownership, focusing on and driving critical issues to closure.
• Demonstrate strong understanding of the Salesforce data to identify and elevate opportunities.
• Handle sensitive donor, parent, friend, and student information in the strictest confidence, according to departmental and institutional policies.
• Work cooperatively with Development and Alumni Relations colleagues.
• Maintain strong and effective relationships with Vanderbilt faculty and staff external to DAR.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Director of VQ Operations, Quality Assurance

Strategy

• Design and implement fundraising strategies for emerging university priorities and strategic initiatives, many of which are in early or undefined stages.
• Partner with academic and administrative leaders to help clarify vision, priorities, structure, and funding needs as a foundation for philanthropic engagement.
• Develop cases for support and funding opportunities even when initiative scope, leadership models, or operating plans are still being formed.
• Build flexible and sustainable fundraising structures for initiatives in incubation and growth phases.
• Facilitate the transition of select initiatives from TPSI to permanent fundraising homes, ensuring continuity and momentum.
• Manage a portfolio of high-capacity prospects aligned with strategic initiative priorities.
• Cultivate, solicit, and steward principal and major gift donors, particularly for complex, cross-disciplinary opportunities.
• Partner with development officers across schools and units to co-develop donor strategies and advance shared prospects.
• Serve as a secondary relationship manager on a broad set of prospects, contributing strategic insight, content expertise, and proposal development.
• Work in close partnership with prospect research and prospect development teams to identify, qualify, and prioritize new suspects and prospects aligned with emerging initiatives.
• Help build and strengthen the donor pipeline for TPSI priorities, particularly in areas that may not yet have an established base of support.
• Develop and implement approaches to track fundraising activity, measure progress, and manage pipelines for new and evolving initiatives, ensuring visibility and accountability across stakeholders.
• Act as a strategic advisor to unit leaders and development officers launching initiatives that involve multiple areas of the university.
• Provide guidance on fundraising approaches for initiatives that may not yet have clear ownership, structure, or long-term home.
• Help convene stakeholders across schools, centers, and administrative units to align direction, roles, and philanthropic strategy.
• Support the development of effective approaches for fundraising in interdisciplinary and evolving initiatives.
• Partner with DAR Communications to translate complex and sometimes early-stage ideas into clear and compelling cases for support.
• Work with faculty, researchers, and university leadership to define and articulate vision, impact, and funding opportunities.
• Contribute to the development of donor materials, proposals, and engagement strategies for transformational gifts.

Senior Director of Development, Transformative Philanthropy – Strategic Initiatives

Manager

• Coordinate and support strategic initiatives across Vanderbilt's Network of Campuses.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, implementation schedules, milestone trackers, and accountability frameworks.
• Monitor progress against key priorities and ensure alignment across multiple workstreams and stakeholder groups.
• Identify risks, dependencies, gaps, and barriers to execution and facilitate timely resolution.
• Ensure action items, deliverables, and commitments are clearly assigned, tracked, and completed.
• Support operational readiness planning and implementation activities for new campuses, programs, and initiatives.
• Partner closely with the Assistant Vice Chancellor and senior leaders to support strategic planning, implementation efforts, and special projects.
• Translate leadership discussions into actionable workplans, timelines, and implementation strategies.
• Develop executive-ready presentations, briefing materials, reports, dashboards, and decision-support documents.
• Prepare concise summaries and updates for senior leadership regarding project status, emerging issues, and key decisions.
• Support governance processes and leadership meetings associated with Campus Network initiatives.
• Coordinate across a broad network of academic, administrative, governmental, community, and industry stakeholders.
• Develop agendas, facilitate meetings, document decisions, track action items, and drive follow-through.
• Support recurring Network of Campus meetings, working groups, steering committees, and implementation teams.
• Advance communication, collaboration, and alignment among diverse stakeholder groups with varying priorities and responsibilities.
• Lead coordination of communications supporting Network of Campus initiatives and priorities.
• Develop communication plans, stakeholder updates, executive summaries, presentations, and briefing materials.
• Ensure timely, consistent, and effective communication across project teams and leadership groups.
• Manage and maintain visibility into leadership travel, meetings, campus visits, and engagement activities across the Network of Campuses.
• Coordinate planning and logistics for stakeholder visits, site tours, executive meetings, and strategic events.
• Identify opportunities to maximize coordination and engagement across campuses and stakeholder groups.
• Ensure leaders have the information, materials, and support needed to effectively represent Vanderbilt and advance strategic priorities.
• Develop scalable tools, templates, governance frameworks, and reporting mechanisms that support campus expansion efforts.
• Document implementation processes, operating models, lessons learned, and best practices.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, communication, coordination, and organizational effectiveness.

Senior Projects Manager, Campuses Network

Research Analyst

• Identify potential donors to Vanderbilt University using various online databases, periodical resources, and information provided by the constituent and/or peers.
• Collaborate and strategize with colleagues, clients, and key administrators regarding donor identification.
• Research and enter updated data into CRM for use by internal DAR colleagues, including contact information, employment information, financial assets, gifts to other organizations, and news articles.
• Prepare both short and in-depth briefings on donors for internal DAR stakeholders and university leadership, including biographical details and analysis of financials and philanthropy.
• Produce deliverables for internal clients based on departmental product standards within agreed upon timelines.
• Safeguard the confidentiality of donor information and uphold DAR policies regarding confidential information.
• Adhere to ethical and confidentiality guidelines as indicated by the Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement (APRA) as well as university guidelines.
• Maintain strong and effective relationships with Vanderbilt faculty and staff external to DAR.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

• Ensure Vanderbilt University delivers fully on the intent, expectations, and outcomes associated with a select portfolio of transformative principal gifts.
• Operate at the intersection of donor relations, project management, and internal coordination to provide a curated portfolio of donors with exceptional service and engagement.
• Manage a portfolio of 3-6 complex, high-value gifts and donors secured within the past 1-2 years.
• Facilitate success across all aspects of gift fulfillment—compliance, stewardship, reporting, and milestone delivery.
• Collaborate across Donor Engagement and Communications and Development teams to deliver high-touch, personalized experiences.
• Act as a project manager across stakeholders including academic units, finance, advancement, and university leadership.

Senior Director, Donor Engagement

• Lead the development, strategy, and implementation of tailored custom relationship plans for Foundations.
• Work collaboratively with other Vanderbilt teams, DAR unit leaders, faculty, and campus program leadership to secure timely reporting, as outlined in foundation gift agreements.
• Oversee the creation and execution of custom, comprehensive reporting for Foundations to highlight the full impact they have on the university.
• Document all foundation gift agreement objectives in DAR’s CRM.
• Collaborate with Foundation Relations team members to deliver high-impact donor experiences and opportunities for engagement between Foundations and their beneficiaries/impact.
• Introduce new, innovative methods to build the pipeline for Foundations, to recognize gifts, and to inspire ongoing transformational gifts.
• Manage foundation portal submissions and reporting.
• Serve as the primary Donor Relations liaison for Foundation meetings with leadership on regular basis.
• Work in consultation with development officers, to implement proactive, strategic stewardship opportunities for Foundations.
• Lead a process during new Foundation gift closes to consider what stewardship is included in the gift agreements.
• Advise development officers on tailored engagement.
• Manage gifts given to Foundations, overseeing procurement and strategic distribution to enhance the donor experience and underscore the impact of their philanthropy.
• Partner with DAR Communications (DARComm) and Communications and Marketing (MarComm) to produce donor feature stories that spotlight exceptional examples of generosity.
• Provide insight and expertise on how to enhance the quality and effectiveness of stewardship and engagement programs by keeping informed of best practices, latest ideas, developments, and trends in donor relations.
• Perform other related duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Associate Director, Institutional Engagement – Foundation Relations

Analyst

• Build and maintain strong relationships with PCB Campus Partners and Engagement Consultants to address compensation-related inquiries promptly, efficiently, and consistently.
• Develop and deliver clear and concise communications to customers that provide the appropriate context and level of details necessary support and explain compensation recommendations.
• Conduct thorough job analyses to classify positions based on job content consistent with our job architecture design principals while maintaining and/or enhancing internal equity.
• Develop and utilize consistent hiring ranges for like positions balancing current market value with internal equity.
• Provide guidance on needed updates for existing or new roles.
• Administer and monitor compensation programs to ensure alignment with organizational goals and compliance with local, state, and federal laws.
• Support policy and guideline interpretation for pay decisions and job evaluations.
• Collaborate on the creation, documentation and maintenance of compensation resources, including standard operating procedures (SOPs).
• Prepare and analyze compensation data, ensuring accuracy and clarity in reporting.
• Partner with internal analytics teams to deliver reports that support compensation projects and decision-making.
• Participate in salary surveys to benchmark roles against the external market.
• Analyze survey results and recommend adjustments to ensure competitive compensation practices.
• Review and audit staff reports to ensure adherence to regulations and organizational policies.
• Analyze existing processes and recommend enhancements to reduce cycle time, manual effort, and risk of errors.

Compensation Analyst

Support Engineer

• Provide comprehensive remote and in-person technical support to students, faculty, and staff, addressing issues related to hardware, software, and university systems.
• Utilize advanced troubleshooting techniques to diagnose and resolve a broad range of technical problems effectively.
• Actively participate in team projects aimed at improving support processes and enhancing service delivery within the university's IT framework.
• Collaborate with other IT teams to resolve a wide range of customer issues.
• Assist in the development of training materials and documentation to facilitate knowledge transfer.
• Maintain detailed and accurate documentation of support interactions, troubleshooting steps, and resolutions to ensure high-quality service continuity.
• Review and update existing support documentation and knowledge base entries to reflect current practices and solutions on a regular basis.
• Monitor and analyze recurring technical issues to identify opportunities for system improvements and preventative measures.
• Collaborate with senior staff in the implementation of system updates and upgrades, ensuring minimal disruption to users.