Assistant Vice President for Advancement Marketing and Communications
- Employer
- Stony Brook University
- Location
- New York, United States
- Salary
- Competitive Salary
- Closing date
- Jan 20, 2022
The Aspen Leadership Group is proud to partner with Stony Brook
University in the search for an Assistant Vice President for
Advancement Marketing and Communications.
Reporting to the Vice President for Advancement, the Assistant Vice
President for Advancement Marketing and Communications is the
University's senior advancement marketing and communications
leader. The Assistant Vice President will create, lead, and direct
a comprehensive content and multi-platform communications strategy
and direct marketing plan that supports Advancement priorities and
objectives. The Assistant Vice President will serve as a senior
leader, strategist, and partner with the Vice President and Senior
Management Team and ensure integration and alignment both among
Advancement units and in collaboration with University Marketing
and Communications’ goals, policies, and protocols. The Assistant
Vice President will inspire creativity, collaboration, and
positivity with key constituencies and ensure the highest standard
of marketing and communications outcomes that support the
University's philanthropic activities and engagement efforts. The
Assistant Vice President will oversee internal and external
communications for the division with the goal of enhancing and
optimizing Advancement’s visibility and reinforcing its mission and
strategic priorities. As an integral member of the Senior
Management Team, the Assistant Vice President will develop and
promote a comprehensive communications and marketing strategy for
Advancement and ensure the groundwork is laid for a successful
comprehensive campaign to be launched in the near
future.
Stony Brook University, widely regarded as a SUNY flagship, was
established in 1957 as a college for the preparation of secondary
school teachers of mathematics and science. The first campus was in
Oyster Bay, Long Island, on the grounds of a former Gold Coast
estate. In 1962, a new campus was built near the historic village
of Stony Brook on land donated by local philanthropist Ward
Melville. Stony Brook University currently provides comprehensive
undergraduate, graduate, and professional education of the highest
quality while carrying out research and intellectual endeavors of
the highest international standards that advance knowledge and have
immediate or long-range practical significance. The University
provides leadership for economic growth, technology, and culture
for neighboring communities and the wider geographic region
including state-of-the-art innovative health care, while serving as
a resource to a regional healthcare network and the traditionally
underserved.
Part of the State University of New York system, the University has
grown tremendously and is now recognized as one of the nation’s
important centers of learning and scholarship — carrying out the
mandate given by the State Board of Regents in 1960 to become a
university that would “stand with the finest in the country.”
USA Today ranked Stony Brook the ninth most
diverse institution in the nation with a student population
that identifies as 23.8% Asian, 10.3% Black or African American,
9.9% Hispanic or Latino, and 0.3% American Indian or Alaskan
Native. Stony Brook ranked #17 among educational institutions in
Forbes' list America’s 500 Best Employers for Diversity
2021. Stony Brook is also the home away from home for 4,436
international students from 103 countries.
Having a more diverse community of students, faculty, and staff
directly connects to Stony Brook University's mission, which states
that it must strive to fulfill its objectives of high-quality
comprehensive education at all levels while providing leadership in
economic growth and state-of-the-art healthcare for the region, and
do so in the context of celebrating diversity and positioning the
University in the global community.
A bachelor's degree is required for this position as is ten
years of equivalent progressively
responsible professional experience including five to seven
years of direct development, gift planning, fundraising, marketing,
strategic planning, and coordinating special events, preferably in
a higher education environment. All applications must be
accompanied by a cover letter and résumé. Cover letters should be
responsive to the mission of Stony Brook University as well as the
responsibilities and qualifications presented in the
prospectus.
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