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Sr. Data Analyst: Job Posting #100015

Job Function: Administration/Management
Primary Location: United States-Pennsylvania-Pittsburgh
FT/PT Status: Regular Full Time
Organization: AIS (UNIV ADVANCEMENT)
Minimum Education Level: Master's Degree or equivalent
Preferred Education Level: Post Doctorate or equivalent
Salary: Negotiable

Description
Responsible for providing management leadership for ongoing and special administrative and developmental research projects. Also provides senior level input for the collection, compilation and interpretative analysis of complex statistical data. Oversees the documentation and production of reports based on these statistical analyses. Frequently gives oral presentations to senior administration concerning the findings of these reports.

Qualifications

Minimum:
  • Education: Master's Degree in statistics, decision science or related field
  • Experience: Five to eight years of professional experience in an analytical, statistical, research or information specialist role.
  • Skills: Excellent quantitative analysis, attention to detail, and the ability to think strategically; demonstrated ability to use technology to gather, interpret, organize and present data that is complex and confidential in nature; experience with database management, analysis, and reporting tools (including Oracle tools, SQL programming or other data extraction application, SPSS, SAS or similar statistical package, Crystal Reports, Tableau or other data presentation applications). Ability to explain statistical concepts to individuals of varying backgrounds and foster discussion regarding the application of statistical results. Ability to present information in formal and informal settings and impart understanding of complex ideas and statistics to others. Excellent written/oral/interpersonal communication skills are essential to this position. Strong initiative, self-motivation, and the ability to work both independently and in teams. Organizational skills to handle several projects simultaneously, accommodate shifting priorities, and meet deadlines. Ability to maintain strict confidentiality and handle sensitive information and material in a discretionary manner. Appreciation for the principles of fundraising; knowledge of and commitment to the values and mission of Carnegie Mellon University and higher education and the goals and guiding principles of Advancement Information Systems.
  • Physical Mobility: Normally sedentary position with some mobility; ability to frequently travel between the PPG offices and other campus office areas within Pittsburgh.
  • Environmental Conditions: Usual office setting; close contact with computer, monitor, and keyboard for long periods of time.
  • Mental: Ability to pay close attention to detail, meet inflexible deadlines, remain calm during difficult situations, work under pressure, and work with frequent interruptions.
  • Other: Weekend and evening hours required.
Preferred:
  • Education: Ph.D. or other advanced degree in a related field, such as mathematics, statistics, information science, etc.
  • Experience: Demonstrated successful experience in strategic analysis and planning; Prior development or fundraising experience, preferably in an academic setting.
APPLICATION:
To apply please submit a cover letter and resume to Careers@Carnegie Mellon at: https://cmu.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?lang+en&job=100015


Senior Reporting Analyst: Job Posting #100014

Job Function: Administration/Management
Primary Location: United States-Pennsylvania-Pittsburgh
FT/PT Status: Regular Full Time
Organization: AIS (UNIV ADVANCEMENT)
Minimum Education Level: Bachelor's Degree or equivalent
Salary: Negotiable

Description
This position is responsible for creating reports using a variety of software tools to support the transmission of information and expand institutional knowledge. Provide programming to support Advancement priorities, including the design of programs that aid the flow of information into and out of the Advance database, as well as improve the efficiency and utility of business processes in University Advancement. Cultivate, develop and maintain collaborative relationships, to the end of understanding the specific business needs of colleagues, evaluating the effectiveness with which those needs are being met, and identifying opportunities for increased efficiencies through more effective utilization of Advance data. This position is located off campus at Six PPG Place.

Qualifications

Minimum:
  • Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of training and experience.
  • Experience: Three to five years of experience as a report writer or programmer. Experience with SQL. Familiarity in report writing using Crystal Reports or similar reporting tools. Proficiency with Oracle.
  • Skills: Outstanding oral and written communication skills; able to understand and follow complex directions and work in a cooperative group; excellent organizational and time management skills; ability to learn and adjust quickly to the database environment. Demonstrates well-developed analytical, organization and problem solving skills; Ability to analyze data, identify trends, summarize results, and make recommendations based on findings.
  • Physical Mobility: Ability to sit for extended periods.
  • Environmental Conditions: Close contact with PC and monitor for prolonged periods.
  • Mental: Ability to work under pressure; meet inflexible deadlines; deal with difficult individuals while maintaining composure.
  • Other: Evening and weekend work may be required to meet deadlines.
Preferred:
  • Experience: Six or more years of experience as a report writer or programmer. Experience in higher education administrative computing and information services. Expertise with Oracle SQL and PL/SQL. Familiarity with Crystal Reports. Familiarity with other business intelligence and data analytics tools and techniques a plus.
APPLICATION:
To apply please submit a cover letter and resume to Careers@Carnegie Mellon at: https://cmu.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?lang+en&job=100014


Associate Director Corporate & Institutional Partnerships: Job Posting #10718

Job Function: Administration/Management
Primary Location: United States-Pennsylvania-Pittsburgh
FT/PT Status: Regular Full Time
Organization: CORPORATE RELATIONS (UNIV ADVANCEMENT)
Minimum Education Level: Bachelor's Degree or equivalent
Preferred Education Level: Master's Degree or equivalent
Salary: Negotiable

Description

Carnegie Mellon University has retained Diane Shea, of executive search firm Cross Hill Partners, to conduct the search for a highly motivated Associate Director of Corporate and Institutional Partnerships to join a strong team working together to support one of the nation's top universities. Nominations, inquiries and expressions of interest should be directed via email to Diane Shea at dshea@crosshillpartners.com. Reporting to the Assistant Vice President, Corporate & Institutional Partnerships, this position is responsible for the development of significant partnerships with corporations and institutional partners in support of relevant focus areas as they relate to the overall goals of the Advancement Division and the University's strategic priorities with a focus on the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). The incumbent will work with individuals and groups throughout the department to build relationships and advance partnerships with corporations. S/he will help plan and implement a strategic effort for revenue from corporations. S/he will identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward corporate prospects and work closely with other Corporate & Institutional Partnerships staff and relevant university personnel to ensure a coordinated effort. Ultimately, a typical opportunity creation cycle will include 200 annual substantive engagements. S/he is expected to establish working relationships with key faculty and staff to gain knowledge of university activities in order to generate additional corporate support for their programs. Candidates must demonstrate experience in relationship management with senior officers of major corporations; an ability to lead and manage in a complex environment while achieving performance and partnership goals; s/he will have superb interpersonal skills, so as to develop beneficial relationships with a broad range of constituencies; excellent communications skills; an ability to write successful proposals and concise, targeted progress reports; strong organizational skills; s/he will handle multiple tasks, assess, and order priorities. Carnegie Mellon is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer.

Qualifications

Minimum:
  • Education: Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, computer science.
  • Licenses: Must possess and maintain a valid driver's license. Must successfully complete a driver's license verification on an annual basis. Must complete the National Safety Council Defensive Driver Training once every three years.
  • Experience: Five to seven years of successful, direct experience in development in a university, including solicitation of major corporate gifts or five or more years of industrial experience in sales, marketing, planning, research, manufacturing, or engineering in a technology based corporation
  • Skills: Demonstrated ability to relate well to, and understand the needs and interests of corporations in order to develop relationships between them and the university. Ability to initiate, follow-through, analyze, monitor, and evaluate strategy plans for qualification, cultivation and solicitation of prospects. Interest in all aspects of education and a dedication to promoting the university's funding priorities through developing excellent working relationships with faculty, senior academic leaders, trustees and other volunteers, and the university advancement team. Personal belief in mission, goals and objectives of private higher education. Excellent oral, written and interpersonal skills required
  • Physical Mobility: Must be able to travel around the region, to other areas of the country, and internationally.
  • Environmental Conditions: Work usually performed in an office setting
  • Mental: Ability to develop and implement short and long-term corporate strategies as they relate to the overall mission of the university and University Advancement. Plan procedures for assuring effective assistance to the schools and academic departments. Exhibit effective management skills. Must be able to work under pressure of deadlines and dollar goals, set priorities, and deal diplomatically with difficult individuals.
  • Other: Some weekend and evening work will be required.
Preferred:
  • Education: Master's degree in engineering, business, computer science.
  • Experience: Seven or more years of university development experience with five years of direct corporate and institutional partnerships experience; seven or more years of industrial experience in computer software or hardware sales, marketing, planning, research, or engineering in a technology-based corporation.
  • Skills: Ability to relate well to and understand the needs and interest of senior corporate executives and to develop excellent working relations with faculty and senior academic leaders.
APPLICATION:
To apply All inquiries, nominations/referrals, and applications should be sent in confidence via electronic mail to Diane Shea at:dshea@crosshillpartners.com


Director of International Development: Job Posting #10440

Job Function: Administration/Management
Primary Location: United States-Pennsylvania-Pittsburgh
FT/PT Status: Regular Full Time
Organization: AVP-DEVELOPMENT (UNIV ADVANCEMENT)
Minimum Education Level: Master's Degree or equivalent
Salary: Negotiable

Description
Carnegie Mellon has retained Jack Gorman of the Boston-based national executive search firm Isaacson, Miller to conduct the search. All inquiries, nominations/referrals, and applications should be sent in confidence via electronic mail to Laurel Duggan, Associate, at CMU@imsearch.com. Carnegie Mellon University seeks a dynamic and enterprising development professional to provide strategic vision and leadership to the University's international fundraising efforts. The Director will join Carnegie Mellon at a momentous time in the University's history, as Carnegie Mellon completes a $1B comprehensive fundraising campaign and welcomes Subra Suresh as its next President. Reporting to the Director of Leadership and Planned Giving, the Director of International Giving will be responsible for formulating a development and outreach program that includes the identification, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship of prospects who live around the world. The Director will build a program designed to increase awareness of Carnegie Mellon and its current needs and ultimately attract increased gift support from international alumni, parents and friends of the University. The individual leading this effort also will develop a caseload of 150-200 international prospects and formulate effective moves management strategies for these individuals. The ideal candidate will have a strong track record of success engaging international prospects in support of an institution of higher education; superb relationship-building skills with a demonstrated ability to engage people at all levels, across a diverse range of educational and social backgrounds; and a high degree of comfort working on a global basis. Carnegie Mellon University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer.

Qualifications

Minimum:
  • Education: Master's degree in business, international relations, public administration and management, or higher education management
  • Licenses: Must possess and maintain a valid driver's license. Must complete the National Safety Council Driver Training course once every three years.
  • Experience: Ten or more years of experience in major individual gift fundraising, or closely related experience, including direct solicitation of seven and eight figure gifts from individuals. International fundraising for five or more years of the comprehensive 10 years of experience.
  • Skills: Broad knowledge of the principles of fundraising. Ability to function and excel in foreign environments and cultures. Ability to see and understand the objectives of the individual giving group and the university advancement division, and to integrate their goals with those objectives. Ability to initiate, analyze, monitor, evaluate and alter strategic advancement plans. Ability to articulate the case for support so that individuals buy into the vision/mission/goals of Carnegie Mellon and understand with sufficient effectiveness to secure gifts and pledges of $50,000 or more, with an emphasis on gifts of $1M+. Interest in all aspects of education and a dedication to promoting the university's fundraising priorities through developing excellent working relationships with university constituencies, including the President's Office, Deans, the Provost, faculty, senior academic leaders, trustees and other volunteers, and the university advancement office team. Excellent oral, written and interpersonal skills required. Broad knowledge of tax laws that impact charitable giving, personal assets and estates. Ability to understand the needs and interests of both annual and major donors in order to develop relationships between them and the university. Personal belief in mission, goals and objectives of private higher education. In addition to these general skills, the position requires the ability to participate in all aspects of the gift cycle: (1) to initiate contacts with potential donors; (2) to develop appropriate cultivation strategies for them; (3) to move potential donors in an appropriate and timely fashion toward solicitation and closure; (4) to make solicitations when appropriate; (5) to maintain stewardship contacts with donors.
  • Physical Mobility: Must be able to travel to areas around the globe.
  • Environmental Conditions: Work usually performed in an office setting
  • Mental: Must be able to work under pressure of deadlines, solicitation, and dollar goals. Adherence to the highest ethical standards, empathetic disposition, perseverance, optimistic and positive attitude, capacity to work while paying attention to details, sensitivity to needs and feelings of others.
  • Other: Weekend and evening work will be required.
Preferred:
  • Experience: Ten or more years of major individual international gift fundraising experience, preferably in higher education. Experience securing seven, eight, and nine figure gifts.
  • Skills: Demonstrated leadership and the ability to successfully manage multi-functional or diverse areas
APPLICATION:
To apply All inquiries, nominations/referrals, and applications should be sent in confidence via electronic mail to Laurel Duggan, Associate, at CMU@imsearch.com.


Director of Leadership & Planned Giving: Job Posting #9409

Job Function: Administration/Management
Primary Location: United States-Pennsylvania-Pittsburgh
FT/PT Status: Regular Full Time
Organization: INDIVIDUAL AND PLANNED GIVING (UNIV ADVANCEMENT)
Minimum Education Level: Master's Degree or equivalent
Salary: Negotiable

Description
Carnegie Mellon has retained Jack Gorman of the Boston-based national executive search firm Isaacson, Miller to conduct the search. All inquiries, nominations/referrals, and applications should be sent in confidence via electronic mail to Laurel Duggan, Associate, at CMU@imsearch.com. Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) seeks an innovative, collaborative and accomplished leader to serve as its next Director for Leadership and Planned Giving. The Director will join Carnegie Mellon at an important time in its history as it enters the final stages of a $1 billion comprehensive campaign. Reporting to the Associate Vice President for Development, the Director will oversee a staff of five and provide strategic vision and management of the gift planning and leadership giving programs. The director will formulate strategies to increase philanthropic support from alumni, parents and friends, and serve as the primary liaison to University and Development departments for all matters related to leadership and planned giving. S/he will manage a leadership gifts program of identification, qualification, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship of prospects with a focus on prospects with the ability to make gifts of $1,000,000 and greater and will work to proactively identify complex gift opportunities amongst these prospects. The ideal candidate will have a keen understanding of planned giving; a track record of success securing commitments at the leadership and principal gift levels; and a demonstrated ability to lead a team and establish and maintain strong, collaborative working relationships with varied internal and external constituencies. She or he should also have personal energy, enthusiasm and drive to continually surpass goals and a strong intellectual curiosity in and personal commitment to Carnegie Mellon University. Carnegie Mellon University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer.

Qualifications

Minimum:
  • Education: Master's degree or equivalent in education and experience.
  • Licenses: Valid State Driver's license. Must successfully complete a driver's license verification on an annual basis and successfully complete the National Safety Council's Defensive Driving Training program once every three years.
  • Experience: Ten or more years of experience in leadership, major or planned gift fundraising in higher education, including at least five years of experience managing a planned giving program.
  • Skills: Broad knowledge of the principles of fundraising. Ability to see and understand the objectives of the principal, leadership and planned giving group and the advancement division, and to integrate these programs with those objectives. Ability to initiate, analyze, monitor, evaluate and alter strategic advancement plans. Ability to articulate the case for support so that individuals "buy into" the vision/mission/goals of Carnegie Mellon and understand with sufficient effectiveness to secure gifts and pledges of $50,000 or more. Excellent oral, written, interpersonal, analytical and organizational skills required. Deep knowledge of tax laws that impact charitable giving, personal assets and estates, and knowledge of gift planning vehicles. Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues to both educate them about planned giving, and to develop strategies for soliciting and closing major, leadership and principal gifts which incorporate planned giving strategies. Personal belief in mission, goals and objectives of private higher education.
  • Physical Mobility: Must be able to travel around the region and to other areas of the country.
  • Environmental Conditions: Work usually performed in an office setting.
  • Mental: Must be able to work under pressure of deadlines and dollar goals.
  • Other: Weekend and evening work will be required.
Preferred:
  • Experience: Fifteen or more years of experience in leadership, major or planned gift fundraising in a university environment, including at least seven years managing a leadership giving and/or planned giving program.
  • Skills: Ability to understand the needs and interests of principal, leadership and planned gift donors in order to develop relationships between them and the university. Interest in all aspects of education and a dedication to promoting the university's fundraising priorities through developing excellent working relationships with faculty, senior academic leaders, trustees and other volunteers, and the advancement office team. Demonstrated leadership and the ability to successfully manage multi-functional or diverse areas. Demonstrated ability to manage complex processes and data, and to recommend related policies. In addition to these general skills, the position requires the ability to participate in all aspects of the gift cycle: (1) to initiate contacts with potential principal, leadership and planned gift donors; (2) to develop appropriate cultivation strategies for them, including working with volunteers; (3) to move potential donors in an appropriate and timely fashion toward solicitation and closure; (4) to make solicitations when appropriate; (5) to maintain stewardship contacts with donors.
  • Mental: Adherence to the highest ethical standards, empathetic disposition, perseverance, optimistic and positive attitude, capacity to work while paying attention to details, sensitivity to needs and feelings of others.
APPLICATION:
To apply All inquiries, nominations/referrals, and applications should be sent in confidence via electronic mail to Laurel Duggan, Associate, at CMU@imsearch.com.