Associate VP, Advancement Services & Strategic Information Resources

George Washington University; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 163,000 - 286,000; Full time

Job summary

The George Washington University seeks an Associate Vice President of Advancement Services and Strategic Information Resources to lead analytics, gift processing, and campaign operations within University Advancement.

Reporting to the VP, the AVP will oversee CRM migration, data governance, and partnership with campus IT to support multi-year fundraising campaigns and data-informed decision-making across the university.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an appropriate area; 10 years of relevant professional experience preferred.
• Master’s degree or higher preferred.
• Senior leadership/executive level experience in fundraising or university advancement is required or preferred.

Responsibilities

• Internal Leadership: Function as an internal leader within University Advancement, working with the executive team.
• Strategic Planning & Budgeting: Develop long-range strategic directions for fundraising programs and budgets; track performance metrics.
• Executive Thought Partnership: Serve as a strategic partner on campaign planning, advancement services, and donor pipeline strategies.
• University Alignment & Governance: Collaborate with senior leadership to align advancement operations and ensure proper recording, expenditure, and reporting of philanthropic revenue.
• Institutional Priority Knowledge: Maintain deep understanding of university priorities to align operations accordingly.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Executive partnership

Campaign operations

Donor analytics

Data governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in an appropriate area

Master’s degree or higher

Tools

CRM systems

Analytics software

Job description

I. JOB OVERVIEW

The George Washington University Division of University Advancement seeks an Associate Vice President of Advancement Services and Strategic Information Resources.

University Advancement is responsible for leading the university’s engagement and fundraising efforts and seeks to promote a culture of philanthropy throughout the university community, including alumni, students, parents, faculty, staff, corporations and foundations, patients, and friends. Our goal is to advance GW’s mission of excellence in education and research.

Reporting to the Vice President of University Advancement, the Associate Vice President will be an inspired leader with a demonstrated track record to lead and enhance GW’s Advancement Services and Strategic Information Resources.

The Associate VP of Advancement Services and Strategic Information Resources serves as a strategic leader within the Division of University Advancement, overseeing Advancement Services & Analytics (gift records & processing, bio records, and system & data analytics) and Strategic Advancement Solutions (campaign operations, prospect research, and relationship management). This position works closely with the Vice President, executive leadership team, and campus partners to build and maintain the technical, analytical, and operational infrastructure needed to support high-level fundraising, multi-year campaigns, and data-informed decision-making across the university.

Primary Responsibilities

• Internal Leadership: Function as an internal leader within University Advancement, working closely with the executive leadership team to ensure the smooth operation, alignment, and administrative efficiency of the division.
• Strategic Planning & Budgeting: Collaborate with the Vice President and executive team to establish long-range strategic directions for fundraising programs, develop operational budgets to support unit goals, and ensure performance metrics are tracked and monitored.
• Executive Thought Partnership: Serve as a strategic thought partner across University Advancement and the university on campaign planning, advancement services, prospect development, and donor pipeline strategies.
• University Alignment & Governance: Work closely with senior leadership—including the CFO on finance and accounting alignment, and academic leadership—to facilitate cross-departmental partnerships that ensure philanthropic revenue is properly recorded, expended and reported upon (in partnership with Donor Relations & Stewardship).
• Institutional Priority Knowledge: Maintain a deep, comprehensive understanding of the university’s academic, research, and fundraising priorities to align advancement operations accordingly.

Advancement Systems, CRM & Data Analytics

• CRM Migration & Architecture: Lead the conclusion of a multi-year CRM migration—encompassing staging, testing, capacity building, and system implementation within an active campaign environment.
• Information Technology Collaboration: Serve as the primary liaison to campus IT teams (GWIT) to ensure seamless integration of advancement systems with enterprise administrative computing, web-based applications, and intranet services.
• System Administration & Training: Oversee the delivery of training resources, applications, and user support to University Advancement professionals to maximize effective adoption and mastery of advancement software.
• Vendor & Service Management: In collaboration with GWIT, manage relationships, contracts, budgeting, and project execution with third-party software providers, vendors, and consultants.
• Advanced Analytics & Predictive Modeling: Build data-mining capacity and create advanced predictive models (using proprietary and commercial datasets) to inform prospect scoring, constituent demographics, psychographics, and engagement strategies.
• Reporting & Executive Dashboards: Conceptualize and deliver a scalable suite of management tools and dashboards (tracking gift/pledge accounting, donor engagement, philanthropic capacity, and budget performance) for deans, executive officers, and University Advancement staff.

Gift Processing, Bio Records & Campaign Operations

• Gift & Bio Records Administration: Oversee the timely, accurate processing and recording of philanthropic gifts, grants, and biographic data while continually refining policies, procedural workflows, and coding mechanisms to ensure compliance and data integrity.
• Campaign Operations: Develop, implement, and manage the infrastructure required to execute multi-year, mega-campaigns and major fundraising initiatives. Partner with campaign leadership to set operational priorities and track progress.
• Prospect Research & Relationship Management: Drive prospect identification and research workflows, accelerating the availability of donor assessments and pipeline analysis to guide major and principal gift solicitations.
• Compliance & Confidentiality: Protect sensitive constituent information, maintaining strict adherence to all university, divisional, and public record guidelines regarding data privacy.

Performs other related duties as assigned. The omission of specific duties does not preclude the supervisor from assigning duties that are logically related to the position.

Minimum Qualifications

Qualified candidates will hold a Bachelor’s degree in an appropriate area of specialization plus 10 years of relevant professional experience, Master’s degree, or higher, in a relevant area of study preferred. Relevant experience must include at least 4 years of senior leadership/executive level experience. Degree must be conferred by the start date of the position.

Preferred Qualifications

The George Washington University seeks a mission-driven professional who will lead University Advancement services and innovation programs. In addition to the demonstrated ability to meet and exceed the responsibilities listed in the job description, the ideal candidate will possess the following desired experience and attributes:

• Deep appreciation for, and an ability to articulate eloquently, the educational mission and aspirations of GW.
• Stature, professional experience, and relationship-building skills to engage, motivate, and support the Vice President for University Advancement, high-caliber administrative and academic leadership, staff, and colleagues.
• Proven ability to expand and strengthen partnerships with administrative colleagues, superiors, and supervised staff, ideally in a complex research-intensive higher education institution.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate communication regarding multi-unit planning, budgeting, human resource, and information technology opportunities for win-win partnerships across the University, resulting in a thorough and inclusive planning and execution process.
• Deliberate agility, flexibility, and intellectual prowess to build alliances across the University.
• Superb strategic vision and leadership and management experience, providing staff with the direction, motivation, and support needed to continually surpass ambitious goals.
• Proven track record of leading large-scale digital transformations and enterprise-wide database migrations
• Results-oriented professional comfortable with quantitative performance measurement with excess initiative and sound judgment.
• Collaborative team player with superlative interpersonal skills.
• Proven competence in developing and implementing management information tools, data mining, and data modeling that produce actionable findings.
• Network administration experience within a multi-unit organization.
• Excellent influencing and communication skills and impeccable writing ability.
• Genuine team player with a creative manner of approaching issues and devising sound solutions based on good judgment and collaboration.
• Highly advanced facilitation skills to promote partnerships across GWU, resulting in a thorough and inclusive development planning and execution process.
• An inspirational leader with the ability to motivate, mentor, and leverage a team’s existing capacity to strengthen performance, deepen dedication, and incentivize all members of the advancement community to define and embrace high performance.
• Unquestioned integrity and sound judgment, as well as a sense of perspective.
• Substantial direct experience with at least 8 years of fundraising management experience.

Hiring Range

$163,373.07 - $285,812.59

Healthcare Benefits

GW offers a comprehensive benefit package that includes medical, dental, vision, life & disability insurance, time off & leave, retirement savings, tuition, well-being and various voluntary benefits.

Job Details

Campus Location: Foggy Bottom, Washington, D.C.

College/School/Department: University Advancement

Family: Dev & Alumni Relations

Sub-Family: Multiple Functions, Dev & Alumni Relations

Stream: Executive

Level: Level 2

Full-Time/Part-Time: Full-Time

Hours Per Week: 40

Work Schedule: Monday- Friday: 9AM-5PM

Will this job require the employee to work on site? Yes

Employee Onsite Status: Hybrid

Telework: Yes

Required Background Check: Criminal History Screening, Education/Degree/Certifications Verification, Social Security Number Trace, and Sex Offender Registry Search

EEO Statement: The university is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that does not unlawfully discriminate in any of its programs or activities on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or on any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

Employer will not sponsor for employment Visa status

Posting Number: S014491

Job Open Date: 10/01/2026

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