Associate Vice President, Advancement Strategy

The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees; Orlando (FL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees is seeking an Associate Vice President for Advancement Strategy. This senior role reports to the Senior Vice President for Advancement & Partnerships and serves as Strategic Advisor, Campaign Co-Director - Administration, and Chief of Staff within the division's Executive Team.

You will drive clarity from ambiguity, coordinate two functional teams, and oversee campaigns end-to-end from planning through results analysis, ensuring alignment with

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree and 12+ years of relevant experience with at least 5+ years of leadership experience (per the ad).

Responsibilities

• Serve as strategic advisor to the Senior VP and Executive Team, translating strategy into action and aligning priorities.
• Lead Campaign Co-Director roles and manage marketing/communications for fundraising campaigns.
• Oversee campaign planning, timelines, and progress tracking across multiple teams.
• Provide Chief of Staff duties including confidential counsel on fundraising and alumni engagement.
• Supervise a team of 10–15 staff and ensure effective division coordination and budget oversight.

Skills

Strategic Leadership

Fundraising

Campaign Management

Communication

Relationship Management

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree

Job description

Advancement & Partnerships:

Join UCF's dynamic and growing Advancement & Partnerships team as they work to build meaningful partnerships and transform lives through philanthropy.

Together, you can help unleash the potential of people and ideas to positively change the world. Your efforts on the team will help build the University for the Future.

The Opportunity :

The Associate Vice President for Advancement Strategy is a senior leadership position reporting to the Senior Vice President for Advancement & Partnerships. This role will serve as Strategic Advisor, Campaign Co-Director - Administration, and Chief of Staff, as a member of the division's Executive Team and helping convert executive vision into clear priorities, disciplined execution, and measurable progress.

The Associate Vice President partners closely with the Senior Vice President to ensure the division stays aligned, focused, and prepared to act on its highest priorities. This person creates clarity from ambiguity, anticipates risks and opportunities, frames options with sound judgment, and helps the Senior Vice President and Executive Team spend time on the work that matters most. The role also leads two functional teams, one focused on relationship management with the university's foundation board, and one focused on communications and marketing for advancement and partnership initiatives and holds administrative oversight of all phases of the university's comprehensive campaign, from planning through execution and results analysis.

Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership and Campaign Management

Serve as a strategic advisor to the Senior Vice President and Executive Team, translating strategy into action by connecting day-to-day decisions to long-term goals, aligning stakeholders with different priorities, supporting disciplined decision-making, and tracking division-wide goals and performance metrics.

Working alongside the Senior Vice President and the Senior Associate Vice President for Advancement (Development), serving as Campaign Co-Director - Development, lead the marketing and communications administrative side of the university's fundraising campaigns with constant evolution in mind.

Oversee campaign planning studies, timelines, committee coordination, goal setting, strategy, and progress tracking while creating the systems, communications, and accountability routines needed to keep complex campaign work moving across multiple teams.

Chief of Staff Duties

Serve as a trusted advisor to the Senior Vice President and Executive Team, offering confidential counsel on fundraising, alumni engagement, volunteer management, organizational priorities, and sensitive leadership matters.

Identify issues before they become crises, help teams distinguish between matters requiring executive attention and those that can be delegated, and ensure the division remains aligned, focused, and prepared to act on its highest priorities.

Team Supervision

Provide leadership across foundation board relations and advancement communications and marketing, a team of 10 to 15 staff members overseen through 2 direct reports.

Delegate work, set expectations, develop talent, monitor performance and accountability, and model the emotional intelligence, discretion, influence, and collaborative problem-solving expected of a senior Chief of Staff role.

Executive Support and Communications

Research and prepare reports, briefings, presentations, speeches, talking points, and decision materials for the Senior Vice President, for both internal and external audiences.

Communicate with clarity, brevity, and executive presence, tailoring messages for senior leaders, staff, donors, volunteers, board members, and university partners.

Partner with the executive assistant to help manage the Senior Vice President's calendar and communications flow, ensuring meetings, follow-up, and information-sharing are purposeful, well-documented, and aligned with the Senior Vice President's highest-value work.

Division Coordination

Gather regular reports from teams across the division and work to keep operations running smoothly and efficiently.

Serve as a communication link between departments, build trust across the organization, surface difficult issues early, resolve conflicts diplomatically, keep the Senior Vice President informed of important matters, and respond on the Senior Vice President's behalf when needed with sound judgment and discretion.

Budget Oversight

Develop and monitor the Senior Vice President's budget and sponsorship opportunities and provide budget approval oversight for the foundation board relations and communications/marketing teams, along with related annual plans, hiring, training, and evaluations.

Minimum Qualifications :

Bachelor's or Master's degree and 12+ years of relevant experience with at least 5+ years of leadership experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience pursuant to Fla. Stat. 112.219(6) .