Vice President Of Development, Nyc

POSITION SUMMARY:

uAspire is seeking a Vice President of Development, NY to promote uAspire NY’s financial sustainability and ensure it is well positioned within the region’s postsecondary education/college access and attainment community. The Vice President is a seasoned fundraiser and relationship builder/steward, who can provide local leadership and will be responsible for sustaining and creating new influential funding relationships to secure the necessary financial resources and strategic positioning to effectively achieve our programmatic and policy impact within the region. While the Vice President will not have direct staff management responsibilities, their Performance Management goals will be developed to ensure deep collaboration, engagement, and decision-making with a cross-functional team representing the fundraising, impact, and policy departments.

The two primary responsibilities of the Vice President of Development, New York are to ensure that the region has a diverse and sustainable funding portfolio and have strong strategic relationships with key local stakeholders.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Vice President, Development will work with the Chief Advancement Officer (CAO) on strategic decisions and fundraising activities for uAspire’s New York region. These include:

Fundraising & Earned Income Generation

• Lead in the assembling and submission of final proposal packages.
• Work with the CAO, ensure annual fundraising and earned income goals are achieved in direct coordination and partnership with the national development and Business Development teams, raising approximately $2M annually for New York operations.
• Serve as a leading uAspire representative across New York, including at external events, and proactively conduct outreach to prospects to inspire for support and partnership.
• Identify, cultivate and steward strategic relationships within a diverse portfolio of local foundation, corporate, individual donors,community, as well as school-based partners.
• Coordinate the development of timelines and internal team technical reviews, and lead writing of proposals for funding.
• Develop a pipeline capable of raising additional funding, including multi-year commitments, necessary to sustain and grow the New York regional operating budget in future years by identifying new prospects and qualifying potential opportunities.
• Develop proposals for philanthropic support and fee-for-service offerings.

Regional Strategy & Alignment - In partnership with the CAO, the Vice Presidentwill develop and oversee uAspire’s fundraising strategy for the region. To achieve this, they will:

• Maintain a deep understanding of the region’s post secondary environment in order to proactively identify and respond to opportunities, changes, and challenges.Identify and pursue new financial, programmatic, and policy opportunities and partnerships across New York state to increase uAspire’s impact across New York.
• Serve as uAspire’s regional representative and spokesperson with funders, key stakeholders, and constituents.
• Engage and serve as a thought-partner with New York based uAspire Board members in order to make full use of their commitment, connections, and knowledge to strengthen the organization’s capacity, profile, and impact.

Contribute to the continued development of uAspire’s organizational culture and values

• Promote and personally model behaviors of honesty, truth, respect, and fairness in interpersonal relations.
• Continue to carry out uAspire’s values through all programs both regionally and nationally: Student-Centered, Collaborative, Dedicated, Excellent, and Systems-Focused.
• Create a supportive work environment, being mindful of team morale.
• Establish strong collaborative relationships with the staff across the uAspire network.
• Support and participate in network-wide initiatives with the national office and with regional leaders, modeling, and sharing best practices and learning.
• Promote an atmosphere where colleagues feel comfortable expressing their opinions, concerns, and feedback directly.
• Collaborate with the Talent team to implement organizational wide values and culture initiatives and where necessary adapts those to fit the local team dynamics and needs.
• Demonstrate the leadership and skills necessary to build upon uAspire’s strong organizational culture.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:

We understand that people gain skills through a variety of professional, personal, educational, and volunteer experiences. We encourage candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications below. If you believe you have the transferable skills necessary to fulfill the responsibilities of this role, we encourage you to apply.

Education, Experience & Skills:

• Knowledge about postsecondary/college access, persistence, and/or affordability; direct leadership experience and/or personal experience preferred. Experience with New York City and/or New York State education systems strongly preferred.
• Skill in leading initiatives that balance innovation with continuous improvement.
• Able to develop creative solutions and engage in innovative thinking in order to see an issue or opportunity in new ways.
• Belief in and adherence to uAspire's Organizational Values - Student-Centered, Excellent, Dedicated, Collaborative, and Systems-Focused.
• Able to make decisions in a timely manner, even when there is incomplete information, a tight deadline, or the decision may be unpopular.
• Experience cultivating cross-functional teams and working effectively with colleagues toward common goals.
• Minimum five years of nonprofit development and/or marketing experience.
• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Understanding of their own identity and the ways in which this could impact power dynamics and relationships with staff, funders and board members. Demonstrate strategic thinking and visioning; is able to keep the big and longer-range picture in mind when formulating plans, making decisions and taking action.
• Collaborate with Board members.
• Passion for our mission of ensuring all young people have the opportunity to pursue and afford a post-secondary education.
• Able to take in complex data and information, synthesize and determine best decisions and actions.
• Strong in transparent, clear and inclusive communication; able to move cross-functional teams through complex decision making and prioritization of needs.
• Demonstrate success in securing 6 and 7-figure philanthropic support. Preference for significant experience with major individual donors.
• Demonstrate success in developing and managing external partnerships.

ANTICIPATED START DATE:July 3, 2023

COMPENSATION:The salary range for this position is $115,100-$127,100. Salary commensurate with experience and education.

STATUS: Exempt, full time

CLASSIFICATION:Hybrid - Some travel throughout New York will be required for this role. Applicants in the tri-state area encouraged to apply.

REPORTS TO: Sr. Vice President of Development

ABOUT UASPIRE

Organization Vision: uAspire envisions a society where structural obstacles are removed from postsecondary pathways for systematically oppressed students so they can experience an improved quality of life for themselves and future generation

Organization Summary: Our mission is to improve the economic mobility of underrepresented communities by creating financial solutions to diverse educational pathways.

• Student Advising: We guide students, families, and communities to navigate complex financial aid systems in pursuit of equitable access to affordable postsecondary pathways through in-person and virtual advising.
• Scholarship & Emergency Aid: We commit to placing money into the hands of students allowing them to use these funds to cover tuition bills and other unexpected expenses.
• Training & Technical Assistance: We equip partners with the knowledge and confidence to navigate the financial aid process with their students by curating engaging trainings and student-centered resources.
• Consulting: We collaborate with partners to assess their needs and offer uniquely designed solutions in the areas of content development, program improvement and systems change, by leveraging our financial aid expertise, student-advising experience, and student-centered research.
• Policy: We advocate for institutional, state, and federal policy change to transform financial aid and higher education systems, based on our students' lived experiences.

uAspire is an equal opportunity employer, fully committed to achieving a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces and encourages applicants of every background. The company’s policy regarding equal employment opportunity means that all decisions regarding recruitment, hiring, benefits, wage and salary administration, scheduling, disciplinary action and termination will be made without unlawful discrimination on the basis of sex, gender, race, color, age, national origin, religion, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship status, pregnancy or maternity, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing an application, interviewing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to [email protected].