Vice Chancellor

Vice Chancellor of Institutional Advancement

The Southern University at New Orleans (SUNO) Office of Institutional Advancement works with the University community to advance the SUNO brand and reputation. We aim to grow enrollment, maintain high academic standards, increase alumni engagement and giving, and strive to be included in the US News & World Report Edition of Best Colleges.

The Vice Chancellor for Institutional Advancement (VCIA) will provide executive and administrative direction across the University’s advancement and alumni relations programs as a member of the Chancellor's senior leadership team. The VCIA is expected to be a visionary, strategic, people-focused, and results-oriented leader. The VCIA has oversight responsibility for all staff and activities involved with fundraising and alumni relations to support the programs of the University.

As such, the VCIA will provide strategic direction and leadership for the division and for supporting, developing and directing staff towards meeting fundraising goals and expanding outreach and increasing visibility of the University locally, regionally and nationally.

As the Chief Advancement Officer, the VCIA is tasked with inspiring staff and leading in a manner consistent with SUNO's mission and core values. The VCIA will secure external support for SUNO through campaigns, annual giving, major gifts, planned giving, grants (corporation and foundation), and other programs. In addition to the Chief Advancement Officer, the VCIA is also the official spokesperson for the University.

The Division of Institutional Advancement houses the central communications unit for the University, working in collaboration with hundreds of communicators across our campus. The VCIA will be a highly visible presence in the community, both on campus and beyond.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

• Advance the mission, vision, and short and long-term goals of the University in concert with the Chancellor and senior leadership.
• Work closely with the Chancellor in all phases of advancement and campaign leadership activities.
• Serve as a member of the University Leadership Team, liaison for institutional advancement to the Board of Supervisors, and with the SUNO and SUS Foundations.
• Maintain a dynamic portfolio of corporations, foundations, alumni, and individual donors to secure major, capital, and planned gifts, as well as advanced annual gifts and endowment support.
• Participate in strategic discussions and develop programs to strengthen the financial resources of the University.
• Create and execute fundraising plans that utilize best practices in annual, major, and planned gift programs to meet fundraising goals.
• Ensure dynamic processes in all phases of donor qualification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship.
• Engage university programs and maintain cooperative working relationships with administrators, faculty, staff, alumni, parents, and other key community constituents.
• Provide leadership in the development and implementation of internal and external communications and marketing strategies that promote the institution and improve its brand.
• Supervise staff, lead special projects and carry out other duties as assigned.

• Work collaboratively with the Enrollment Management unit to provide pioneering, deliberate communications services to enhance the University’s visibility and reputation as well as expand recruiting efforts to increase enrollment.
• Develop and implement our public affairs strategy in support of organizational goals.
• Develop and maintain effective relationships with members of the media.
• Serve as a primary public spokesperson for the university by quickly gathering, validating, and summarizing important information.
• Lead our crisis communications and issues management teams using positive organizational development practices.
• Collaborate with a broad array of internal stakeholders including the Department of Facilities Management, Campus Police,…