Director, Development

About the Role

Directs and coordinates fundraising efforts for the School of Nursing, School of Health Professions, School of Dentistry, and School of Public Health. Coordinates institution-wide fundraising activities within these schools.

Responsibilities

• Identifies, cultivates, and advances relationships with high-capacity individual donors to secure significant philanthropic investments.
• Leads the cultivation and solicitation of major gifts for defined school and institutional priorities.
• Manages a portfolio of high-potential prospects and collaborates with the institutional advancement team to coordinate cultivation and solicitation strategies to close gifts and drive private support.
• Leads the strategic development of relationships with donors and prospects to maximize fundraising potential for institutional priorities.
• Collaborates with the Dean, Associate Deans, Department Chairs, Program Directors, faculty, and staff to prepare and submit private funding proposals.
• Responsible for donor stewardship plans for assigned prospects.
• Establishes and maintains strong and effective relationships with donors.
• Utilizes the constituency database (Salesforce) to coordinate donor plans, donor recognition, and report on progress.
• Plans and implements short, medium, and long-range fundraising programs to meet current and future needs.
• Performs all other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Six (6) years of experience in fundraising, public relations, and alumni relations.
• Experienced fundraiser with strong knowledge of institutional advancement and development; experience within a healthcare or academic medical center environment strongly preferred.
• Ability to make persuasive presentations to the community and close major and planned gifts.
• Demonstrated leadership in raising major gifts to advance strategic organizational goals in a University environment.
• Experience utilizing a constituent database/CRM (e.g., Salesforce, Raiser’s Edge).
• Ability to travel as required to maintain relationships with donors and cultivate prospects.
• Excellent writing and communication skills, including the ability to write complex documents such as proposals, grants, and correspondence.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office software (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint).
• This position may require the ability to maintain the security and integrity of UT San Antonio and its infrastructure per Texas EO-GA-48.

About Us

The University of Texas at San Antonio (UT San Antonio) is a nationally recognized, top-tier public research university that unites the power of higher education, biomedical discovery, and healthcare within one visionary institution. As the third-largest research university in Texas and a Carnegie R1-designated institution, UT San Antonio is a model of access and excellence — advancing knowledge, social mobility, and public health across South Texas and beyond. UT San Antonio serves approximately 42,000 students in 320 academic programs spanning science, engineering, medicine, health, liberal arts, AI, cybersecurity, business, education, and more. With 17,000 faculty and staff, UT San Antonio has been recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Employers for Company Culture.

Benefits

• Medical: UT SELECT Medical insurance is offered free for employees and administered by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas. Family members can be added to the plan through payroll deduction. Employees and their dependents receive discounted copays and coinsurance when using UT Health Physicians, a network of 800 premier physicians including over 100 specialists.
• Life Insurance: Employees receive $50,000 of group term life insurance and $50,000 of basic accidental death and dismemberment insurance for free, with options to purchase additional employee and dependent coverage at group rates.
• Dental: Three dental insurance plan options are available for employees and their families through Delta Dental Insurance Company, including two PPOs and one dental HMO plan. Both PPO plans allow employees to choose any licensed dentist.
• Vision: Fully insured vision care benefits are offered by Superior Vision Services, with two plan options providing either standard or enhanced vision benefits.
• Disability: Employees can enroll in disability insurance, which provides income if a non-work-related illness or injury prevents them from working.
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs): Employees can set aside pre-tax earnings for qualifying dependent daycare expenses or out-of-pocket healthcare expenses.
• Retirement: Employees are eligible for either the Teacher Retirement System (TRS) or the Optional Retirement Plan (ORP). TRS is a defined benefit retirement plan with UT Health matching employee contributions. ORP is available for eligible faculty and staff. Voluntary retirement programs are also available with five quality retirement plan providers.
• Time Off:
  • Paid Time Off (PTO): 128 to 208 hours (16 to 26 days) of PTO based on years of service, given at the start of each fiscal year. PTO may be prorated in the first year based on the hire date.
  • Extended Illness Bank: 8 hours (1 day) accrued per month, usable for illness or injury after one day of PTO is taken.
  • Paid Family Leave: Up to 240 hours (6 weeks) to care for a spouse, child, or parent after 6 months of consecutive employment.
  • Holidays: 12 set paid holidays each year.
• Discounts: Employees enjoy a range of discounts on services, tickets, and gym memberships.