University of California, Berkeley
About Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley, is one of the world’s most iconic teaching and research institutions. Since 1868, Berkeley has fueled a perpetual renaissance, generating unparalleled intellectual, economic and social value in California, the United States and the world. Berkeley’s culture of openness, freedom and acceptance—academic and artistic, political and cultural—make it a very special place for students, faculty and staff.
Berkeley is committed to hiring and developing staff who want to work in a high performing culture that supports the outstanding work of our faculty and students. In deciding whether to apply for a staff position at Berkeley, candidates are strongly encouraged to consider the alignment of the Berkeley Workplace Culture with their potential for success at http://jobs.berkeley.edu/why-berkeley.html.
Departmental Overview
University Development and Alumni Relations (UDAR) strengthens Berkeley's excellence through engagement with alumni, parents, undergraduate and graduate students, and friends of the University, raising public awareness about Berkeley and increasing private philanthropy. UDAR provides overall direction for the campus's philanthropic advancement strategies and works to strengthen unit development in partnership with campus fundraisers. The Division handles a range of central activities and services encompassing communications, stewardship, prospect development, gift management, and more.
STRATEGIC INITIATIVES
The Strategic Initiatives department in University Relations and Alumni Relations leads the strategy development and fundraising efforts for signature priorities as identified by campus leadership. These initiatives are cross-cutting, multidisciplinary, and engage the partnership of a wide range of deans, directors, faculty, and staff colleagues. Current initiatives include the Berkeley Brain Initiative, Innovative Genomics Institute, and Berkeley Data Sciences. Reporting to the Vice Chancellor for University Development and Alumni Relations, our team also works very closely with the Vice Chancellor for Research, and the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost.
BERKELEY DATA SCIENCES
A Data Science Planning Initiative was launched in 2015 in recognition of an emerging swell of data science research and teaching across the university, and that globally, data science is transforming society itself. With intellectual roots in computer science, mathematics, statistics, as well as a variety of other disciplines, data science at Berkeley touches a range as diverse as computational social science, global climate studies, public health, precision medicine, and urbanization; work on the ethical dilemmas and social implications of data analytics; and advances in foundations such as statistical machine learning and cloud computing platforms.
Our students have a critical need to be educated for a world in which dataintensive, computationally enabled work is becoming the norm. Our faculty in disciplines across the entire range of the university are seeing their fields shifting with higher demands for new analytical tools and discovery methods. At Berkeley this groundup transformation has been unfolding in a truly distinctive way, with many of the world’s leading scholars located here. The need for a focused strategy for data science has reached an intensity and breadth that requires us to take comprehensive, largescale, and rapid action.
Our vision for data science at Berkeley encompasses all of its components: pushing the conceptual frontiers of the field, applying established or emerging technology to new areas or domains, and studying the implications of the explosion of data and analysis for policy and society.
One of the most significant steps taken has been the recent creation of the Berkeley Data Sciences Division in 2017, led by founding Interim Dean David Culler. The goals of the new division include establishing undergraduate curricula for majors and minors; developing a faculty recruitment plan; fostering collaborative research and teaching among faculty who are experts in data science along with peers in fields to which that expertise must be applied; and developing a fundraising plan to support these goals in concert with overall campus campaign planning.
Job Summary:
The Senior Director will serve as an essential partner in establishing the new Data Sciences Division and its collaborations with colleges, school, and units across the university. Reporting to the Executive Director, Strategic Initiatives, the Senior Director will administer a highly successful fundraising campaign—with a focus on principal gifts—to support Data Science education and research across the Berkeley campus. He/she will identify new donor prospects through researching background information on potential donors and will cultivate, solicit and steward donor prospects alone or in partnership with campus leadership or peers. He/She will be the Berkeley Data Sciences lead on joint efforts with fundraisers in the colleges and schools across campus and in UDAR colleagues. The Senior Director will work closely with the Dean of Data Sciences and other campus leaders to develop funding strategies, proposals, marketing materials, as well as donor related programs/events as necessary for Berkeley Data Sciences.
This is an entrepreneurial assignment and environment. As such, we are seeking candidates who are motivated, aspirational, creative, sophisticated, flexible and can serve as a key advisor to senior campus leaders and thought partners.
Responsibilities
• Serve as lead development professional for the newly launched Berkeley Data Sciences Division, as well as campus-wide data science education and research fundraising with partner schools and colleges. Lead major/principal gifts, gift planning and/or corporate and foundation relations efforts related to data science, and interface with donors capable of making very significant contributions to the campus efforts.
• Manage a portfolio of 50-75 principal gift donor prospects that include the most influential, complex or highest rated donors, typically with the capacity to give $500K—$10M+. Make at least 10 - 15 substantive contacts per month (e.g., significant moves that advance a relationship). Qualify major gift prospects and solicit gifts directly. Strategies at this level typically require a high degree of creativity, strategy, and innovation.
• Develops, creates, writes, implements, and/or evaluates individualized marketing plans and/or strategies for cultivation and solicitation of major or principal gifts, gift planning, or corporate/foundation prospects (strategies typically require a high degree of innovation).
• Presents formal fundraising proposals to major donors and prospects or prepares senior campus executives to present proposals.
• Serves as resource for Berkeley Data Sciences, interacting with prospects, donors, staff and outside professionals to provide information, advice and counsel regarding assigned specialized program(s).
• Creates, establishes and evaluates methods for building/maintaining prospect and volunteer constituencies and identifies, recruits, and directs the activities of high level volunteers.
• Work closely with senior academic leaders including deans, directors, and vice chancellors—especially the Dean of Data Sciences—to analyze needs and create strategic and long-range plans for fundraising and other advancement programs.
• Serve as the campus convener of fund raising partners across Berkeley who represent the various academic disciplines engaged with the Data Sciences.
• Ensures that predetermined fundraising goals are met.
Required Qualifications
• Expert knowledge of all aspects of fundraising strategies, donor relations and advancement communications, especially complex principal gifts.
• Expert knowledge of higher education and in particular, STEM areas.
• Expert knowledge of the campus including its vision, mission, goals, objectives, achievements and infrastructure.
• Expert knowledge of all applicable laws, rules, regulations, institutional policies, et cetera.
• Expert written, oral and interpersonal communication skills, including advanced political acumen, to establish and maintain good working relationships at all organizational levels, with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Expert skill in making persuasive and compelling presentations of campus goals/objectives and in securing gifts.
• Expert analytical, critical thinking, problem recognition/avoidance/resolution skills.
• Expert project/program management skills, including skill in setting and meeting program/project goals and objectives within budget and time constraints.
• Skills to meet or exceed fundraising goals and objectives.
Education/Training:
• Bachelors degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/training
Preferred Qualifications
Certified Fund Raising Executive
Salary & Benefits
For information on the comprehensive benefits package offered by the University visit:
http://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/compensation-and-benefits/index.html
How to Apply
jobs.berkeley.edu
Please submit your cover letter and resume as a single attachment when applying.
Conviction History Background
This is a designated position requiring fingerprinting and a background check due to the nature of the job responsibilities. Berkeley does hire people with conviction histories and reviews information received in the context of the job responsibilities. The University reserves the right to make employment contingent upon successful completion of the background check.
Equal Employment Opportunity
The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. For more information about your rights as an applicant see: http://www.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/poster_screen_reader_optimized.pdf
For the complete University of California nondiscrimination and affirmative action policy see:
http://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4000376/NondiscrimAffirmAct
Link:
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