Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership and Oversight
• Establish and oversee philanthropic communications strategy, editorial standards, and messaging frameworks used across Advancement and partner units.
• Provide clear editorial direction and final content guidance for donor-facing materials, ensuring consistency in tone, accuracy, and impact.
• Supervise and mentor two full-time senior communications strategists, supporting professional development, performance management, and strategic alignment across teams.
• Contribute to oversight and coordination of division-wide communications initiatives to ensure philanthropic messaging is aligned and cohesive.
• Major Gift Communications
• Serve as the primary communications partner to the development team for high-level donor engagement and solicitations.
• Write and produce compelling campaign collateral, proposals, and donor-facing materials that reflect institutional priorities and philanthropic impact.
• Lead implementation and execution of the Advancement Gift Communications Plan, including coordination with CSU/UBSC partners and management of messaging, approvals, and publication processes for gifts above $1M.
• Collaborate with college and unit partners to support and review communications for gifts below $1M, providing strategic writing, editing, and design guidance as needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Communications, Journalism, Marketing, Business Administration, Public Relations, or a related field, and six years of progressively responsible professional experience; or any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• Knowledge of communications field.
• Ability to coordinate and supervise the work of others. to work under pressure, meet deadlines, conduct multiple tasks, and establish and maintain effective working relationships.
• Ability to build and sustain strategic relationships.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
• Ability to conceptualize, write, edit and oversee the creation of strategic, accurate and concise content for internal and external audiences.

Preferred

• Experience in higher education advancement, development communications, or nonprofit fundraising.
• Familiarity with CASE standards for donor recognition and stewardship.
• Experience working with fundraising databases, project management tools, or content management systems.

Benefits

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