Chief Development Officer

Advanced Studies in Culture Foundation - Charlottesville, VA
The Advanced Studies in Culture Foundation seeks a Chief Development Officer to expand the base of support for the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture in tandem with the expansion of the Institute's national influence. The Chief Development Officer will possess an entrepreneurial vision and significant principal and major gift experience, as well as a passion for relationship building and prospect development. The Chief Development will serve as a collaborative fundraising thought partner with the senior leadership team of the Foundation and Institute, including the Executive Director and Director, to successfully design and execute a fundraising plan that supports the Institute's vision and mission. The Chief Development Officer will join and help lead a small, high performing team prepared to work and grow with the Foundation and find joy in their work, while setting an example of collegiality, hospitality, and institutional effectiveness in the midst of a world class university.

The Advanced Studies in Culture Foundation (ASCF) was established in 1995 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization to support the work of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. For nearly thirty years, ASCF and its individual and institutional partners and supporters have enabled the Institute to explore contemporary cultural change and its individual and social consequences. Through the Institute, Foundation resources fund basic and applied research to educate the public and key societal leadership groups about the nature and challenges of late-modern society; to conduct inquiry into humane and democratic responses to these challenges; and to maintain the physical, financial, and human resources necessary to continue this work. The Institute for Advance Studies in Culture is an interdisciplinary research center and intellectual community committed to understanding contemporary cultural change and its individual and social consequences, training young scholars, and providing intellectual leadership in service to the common good. The Institute is part of the University of Virginia, which has consistently ranked as one of the nation’s premier public universities.

"Thank you for your interest in joining our leadership team as Chief Development Officer. We seek a Chief Development Officer ready to join a leadership team committed to advancing this visionary work through relationship-building and exceptional stewardship. I am looking for a partner to shape and lead our fundraising strategy, but also, most crucially, to engage a new generation of donors ready to carry the work forward and help write the next chapter of our extraordinary Institute." — Ty Buckman, Director and Senior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture

For more information, including core competencies and qualifications, please refer to the full prospectus.