Senior Director, Regional & Global Development

Senior Director, Regional & Global Development

The University of British Columbia

Join a bold, world-leading and highly accomplished development and alumni engagement team — and help UBC shape a better world.

At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff, and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

UBC is a global centre for research and teaching, consistently ranked among the top 20 universities in the world. As one of the largest universities in Canada, UBC attracts and nurtures more than 72,000 students and over 400,000 alumni from 145 countries on two major campuses. With over 7,300 faculty and 13,000 staff, UBC has an operating budget of $3.8 billion and provides over $900 million in research funds for over 10,000 projects.

The Development and Alumni Engagement (DAE) portfolio at UBC joins fundraising and alumni functions under one umbrella. DAE is one of the leading advancement teams in Canada and has oversight for fundraising and alumni engagement at UBC’s Vancouver and Okanagan campuses. With over 300 employees, DAE currently raises over $240 million and engages over 100,000 alumni annually.

The Regional and Global team is a centrally-based specialized unit with a mandate to advance philanthropic support for UBC in primary and emerging markets outside of the Lower Mainland and the Okanagan. This team leads by collaborating with colleagues and University units to organize and deliver outstanding residential travel and visit programs and developing strategies for donor and prospect events in select markets. Using data-informed decision making, the team responds to opportunities, advises their peers on portfolio strategies  and is the expert on development and philanthropy in their regional markets.

As Senior Director of Development, you will be responsible for refreshing and operationalizing development strategies to ensure that key objectives are met. You will drive the processes  for leadership travel and visit programs and create a strategy to support a development program with an annual revenue goal of $5 million. You will be responsible for identifying gift account strategies where a high degree of senior administration involvement is required and lead the development of a regional and global prospect strategy to support the goals of the development team. You will have strong communications skills, the ability to make strategic, data informed decisions, and a demonstrated natural ability to facilitate engagement in complex environments. The Senior Director will work in partnership with university administration and portfolio executives to maximize regional and global philanthropic relationships, as well as provide leadership to a team of career employees.

Reporting to the Executive Director, Development, the Senior Director will have the opportunity to refresh the unit’s mandate and goals to address the challenges of an ever-changing and unpredictable geopolitical environment. The ideal candidate will bring considerable depth of experience in strategy development, communications, operations and inclusive behavior and practices. Strong principal gifts or major gifts fundraising experience, exceptional interpersonal and relationship-building skills, and sound discretion and judgment are required.

As UBC has launched its most ambitious fundraising and alumni engagement campaign, this is an exciting time to join UBC and build partnerships to advance the vision of the University. FORWARD, the campaign for UBC, will raise $3 billion and activate the power of our global alumni by doubling alumni engagement. The campaign will benefit research, teaching and learning across both the Vancouver and Okanagan campuses in three key areas—advancing healthy lives, creating solutions for the planet, and shaping thriving societies. To learn more about UBC FORWARD, see https://give.ubc.ca/forward/.

As a top tier research university, and a go-to destination for the world’s brightest minds, UBC has the opportunity to influence what our future will look like. DAE is inspired to enable UBC’s pursuit of excellence in research, learning and engagement by maximizing donor and alumni engagement.

For more information about DAE, please visit www.give.ubc.ca

If you have any questions, please contact us at careers.dae@ubc.ca.

Compensation Range

$140,467 (Min.) – $175,452 (Mid.) – $219,185 (Max.) CAD Annually

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Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code, including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nation, Metis, Inuit, or Indigenous person.