Higher Education Advancement Consultants

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 103,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Professional development opportunities

Flexible remote/on-site engagement

Job summary

CampusWorks is seeking Advancement Consultants to help higher education clients strengthen advancement operations and maximize CRM/ERP utilization. Roles may be remote or onsite and can be full-time or 1099 contract engagements.

Consultants guide clients through best practices, evaluate processes, and lead projects such as CRM selection, interim leadership, and operational realignment to achieve goals. Strong communication and change management are essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience as a senior-level advancement professional in higher education.
• Familiarity with modern fundraising and advancement CRM systems (see tools above).
• Experience assessing operations and recommending process improvements.
• Strong leadership and change-management capabilities.
• Superior communication and consultative client engagement skills.

Responsibilities

• Serve as Interim Advancement Director, providing day-to-day leadership of the advancement staff.
• Oversee current projects and priorities; coordinate effort across teams.
• Assess efficiency of the advancement department and identify improvements.
• Design and deliver training for clients and staff.
• Advise clients on aligning policy, process, procedures, and personnel to leverage solutions.

Skills

Advancement leadership

Process improvement

Training design

Consultative approach

Tools

Ellucian CRM Advance

Raiser’s Edge

Blackbaud

DonorPerfect

Affinaquest

Salesforce

Banner Advancement

Colleague Advancement

Job description

CampusWorks is looking for Advancement Consultants to assist our higher education clients in strengthening their advancement/alumni operations. These individuals will use their subject matter expertise in the advancement/alumni office to guide clients in adopting best practices and maximizing the use of the technology to support the advancement operations and help clients achieve their goals. The consulting engagements may be remote or onsite and can include serving as an interim Advancement Director, leading a Business Process Review project, leading a CRM selection and evaluation project, or optimizing their advancement CRM/ERP systems. These roles can be full-time or contract consultant (1099) opportunities.

CampusWorks consultants engage with our clients in higher education to assist them in fully leveraging their people, processes, policies, and technologies. We work collaboratively with clients’ functional and technical teams and our CampusWorks colleagues to evaluate current processes, design future-state optimal processes, and to architect, develop, test, train, and rollout process and technical solutions that delight our clients.

Responsibilities

• Serving as Interim Advancement Director, providing day-to-day leadership of the advancement department staff

• Providing oversight, direction, guidance, and coordination of the current advancement projects and priorities

• Assessing the efficiency of the advancement department

• Designing and delivering training

• Assisting clients in how to best align policy, process, procedures, and personnel to effectively leverage advancement solutions

Requirements

• 5+ years’ experience as a senior-level advancement professional in a higher education institution

• Familiarity with the conversion, oversight, or management of a modern fundraising and advancement CRM system (e.g., Ellucian CRM Advance, Raiser’s Edge, Blackbaud, DonorPerfect, Affinaquest, Salesforce, Banner Advancement, or Colleague Advancement)

• Experience assessing advancement operations and making recommendations for process improvement, including reviewing and recommending policy changes, staffing and organizational alignment changes, and realignment of roles and responsibilities when appropriate

• Solid leadership skills, including facilitating diverse groups, creating consensus building and preparing the organization and individuals for change and ongoing continuous improvement

• Demonstration of superior communication skills and the ability to provide a consultative approach to end clients

What You Can Expect from Us

At CampusWorks, we don't just help our clients succeed; we help our employees succeed. Competitive pay, robust benefits for full-time employees, and professional development opportunities are a few of the many reasons that CampusWorks is a great place to build your career.

Our employees enjoy:

• Meaningful work. Our employees often tell us that their work gives them a sense of purpose because it makes a difference in the lives of students and educators. CampusWorks Inc., as a large consulting firm, provides its employees with an opportunity to work both onsite and remotely with our clients across the United States and in Canada. With the nature of our clients’ work evolving quickly, we’re all being asked to support larger CampusWorks initiatives. Upon joining CampusWorks in a consulting role, your talent and expertise may be applied to a range of projects, assignments, and clients.

• A CEO who cares. Chairman and CEO Liz Murphy has made it her mission to create a culture that appreciates and takes good care of its people. As a result, being an employee of CampusWorks feels like being a member of a big family.

• A virtual and onsite workplace. In an effort to reduce our environmental footprint, CampusWorks became a virtual company in 2012. As such, our team members are located across the U.S. and Canada, where they work from their home offices and at client sites.

• Flexibility. We value work-life balance because we know that happy employees create happy customers. That's why CampusWorks offers both full-time and part-time 1099 consulting career opportunities to fit life's unique demands.

• A company that gives back. Every year CampusWorks proudly supports numerous charitable fundraising initiatives that align with our vision to make higher education accessible to everyone.

At CampusWorks, we value the unique backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives each CampusWorker (we call ourselves CampusWorkers) brings to our workplace each day. We believe everyone deserves a fair shot at success and appreciate the experiences each person brings beyond the traditional job requirements.

About CampusWorks

Founded in 1999, CampusWorks is dedicated to helping higher education overcome business and technological challenges that stand in the way of student success and completion. We work with community colleges, technical colleges, four-year public and private institutions, multi-college districts, and statewide higher education systems to tackle problems big and small. Our services are rooted in systems thinking and reach across the institution—from Student Services to Human Resources to Finance to Academics—to achieve transformative results.

Want to learn more about life at CampusWorks? Visit https://www.campusworksinc.com/about/ to see how we empower Higher Education to reach its full potential

CampusWorks, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.