Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Actively engage the Catholic Franciscan mission and identity of Marian University by modeling the Franciscan Sponsorship Values and honoring the legacy of the founding congregation through transformative education, unity in diversity, leadership through service, integrating faith and life, and institutional policies.
- Strategic leadership
- Develop and implement strategic plan and systems that build upon and align the success of existing programs within the institute.
- Collaborate with institute program directors to tell the stories of their programs through creative content that will cultivate new partnerships and engagement.
- Provide monthly engagement progress reports highlighting successes, challenges, and recommendations for improvement.
- Partnerships
- Partnership Activation: Develop and secure new strategic partnerships (5-7 annually) to help build the organization's brand and expand its network, understanding that initial partnerships may need to be creative and unconventional.
- Partnership Performance: Increase partnership-generated revenue by 20% year-over-year through new and existing partnerships.
- Partnership Retention: Maintain a partner retention rate of 85% or higher, ensuring long-term collaborations and maximizing mutual benefits.
- Engagement
- Engagement Activation: Build and maintain relationships with at least 50 prospective donors, increasing this number by 20% annually.
- Engagement Performance: Generate $200,000 in new gifts annually through partnerships, contracts, supporter cultivation, and targeted campaigns.
- Engagement Integration: Connect prospective and active supporters with institute programs, events, staff, and students.
- Creative Content
- Content Activation: Take ownership of all digital content creation, producing compelling articles, newsletters, social media updates, visual content, and/or podcasts to establish and build the institute’s presence from the ground up.
- Content Performance: Increase audience engagement (measured by comments, shares, likes, etc.) by 25% within the first year through innovative and relevant content development.
- Content Consistency: Create and maintain consistent brand voice and style across all content produced for the institute, with 100% adherence to brand guidelines in all published materials.
- Other duties as assigned (10%)
University Expectations:
- Knowledge of and a commitment to the mission of Marian University
- Adheres to Marian University’s policies and procedures
- Shows courtesy and respect in interactions with fellow employees, students subordinates, and supervisors
- Communicates regularly with supervisor about Department issues
- Meets department productivity standards
- Participates in developing department goals, objective, and systems
- Assists to establish department measurements that align and support the accomplishment of the University’s strategic goals
- Adheres to the department budget.
Required Qualifications:
- Ability to embody the Catholic and Franciscan identity of the University as a practicing Catholic, exhibiting public conduct and ministerial practices reflective of the teaching of the Catholic Church.
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field (e.g., Communications, Marketing, Public Relations, Business, Nonprofit Management, or similar).
- 3-5 years relevant experience with measurable success
- Excellent communication skills (written and oral)
- Experience in budget management
- Technology Proficient
Preferred:
- Master’s degree or certifications in areas like fundraising or nonprofit management would be a plus.
- Spanish language proficiency
Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.
For Consideration All Applications Require:
- Cover Letter
- Current resume or CV
- Contact information of three professional references. The reference contact information must be entered after the application is submitted in the "My Presence" section of the applicant profile.
- Responses to the supplementary mission & identity questions.
Please Review Marian University’s Mission & Identity Statement before responding to the supplementary questions on your application:
https://www.marian.edu/faith