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Department-specific responsibilities

• Develops and manages events to strategically engage Media School alumni, particularly those with major gift capacity. Events may include alumni receptions in major media markets, on-campus guest speakers, reunions, or anniversary celebrations.
• Manages fall and spring commencement celebrations, as well as coordinating with Media School career services staff and the Walter Center for Career Achievement to plan and implement the annual Media Career Day, which brings alumni to campus for various panel discussions and networking opportunities with students.
• Identifies and develops engagement strategies that provide opportunities for alumni and contributors to be meaningfully involved in the school's mission. This includes board service, mentorship of students, and programs designed to catalyze personal connections with faculty and students.
• Leads and directs all Media School Alumni Board activities.
• Designs and manages the school's distinguished alumni recognition strategy.
• Oversees the nomination and selection process of the Media School Distinguished Alumni Awards and organizes annual awards banquet.
• Uses advancement data to ensure strategic use of resources when planning and implementing events and initiatives.
• Elevates the school's overall advancement strategy by managing the school's annual campaign and targeted solicitations, establishing a variety of crowdfunding campaigns in response to school needs, and supporting events for current and prospective donors.

General responsibilities

• Identifies, cultivates, solicits, and stewards gifts through personal visits, phone calls, correspondence, and other campaigns and events.
• Maintains personal contact with a range of constituents to provide information concerning gift and engagement opportunities and develop their interest and support.
• Provides unit leadership and university partners professional fundraising assistance planning and coordinating various programs, projects and efforts that help acquire gifts and engage key stakeholders.
• Manages and tracks activity, collaborates in the development of gift agreements and stewardship. Generates reports relative to development plans and activities with other donor relations personnel.
• Makes recommendations for solicitation strategies to accomplish fundraising goals. Help create targeted appeals or specific strategies for departments, centers or programs.
• Stays current on unit, university and IU Foundation activities and policies related to fundraising, mission and goals.
• Reports to the director of development.

This position reports to the associate director of academic advising. This role is primarily serves as an academic advisor (70%) with additional time (30%) focused on student retention efforts related to advising.

Department-specific responsibilities

• Provides outreach and ongoing support to students as needed, with special attention paid to first generation students, students from underrepresented backgrounds, and students experiencing academic difficulties.
• Helps shape advising practices to better serve, and improve retention of, all students.
• Acquires knowledge of, and shares, best practices related to serving at-risk students.
• Supports the development of Media School instructors who want to learn more about serving at-risk students.

General responsibilities

• Provides academic counseling for students pursuing or considering majors, minors, or certificates. Guides students in planning their course of study in concert with the departments' curricular requirements; explains curriculum requirements and school and campus policies.
• Meets with students in groups and 1-on-1 to guide students in academic programs that will meet their educational needs and the requirements of their chosen major, minor, and/or certificate.
• Assists students in making informed decisions about a choice of major and potential career or graduate school direction; helps students to assess their interests, values, and academic skills and to understand these in relation to major choice and potential future career/graduate school options.
• Teaches students how to navigate university systems, academic processes, and policies; empowers student accountability in academic decisions about courses, career direction, and long-term plans; and provides guidance on avenues for increased involvement as an IU student and in the IU community.
• Refers students to appropriate campus resources, such as academic support resources, placement programs, internship and overseas study opportunities, etc.
• Tracks and monitors students' academic progress, reviews and maintains confidential student records to ensure that students meet requirements and to document advising discussions, and communicates this information in a timely manner to students and to appropriate academic offices when necessary.
• Represents the advising function as a presenter at campus meetings and recruiting functions; assists in developing written advising materials for use in student events.
• Researches, recommends, or creates best practices for unit or campus initiatives, projects, processes, or programs and may provide guidance to other Academic Advisors.

Department-Specific Responsibilities

• Manages the staff and day-to-day operations of the BFCA, implementing the vision and direction of the director. 
• Actively seeks out IU and external grant opportunities, and coordinates with IU resources to pursue funding opportunities.
• Ensures compliance with IU procedures, as well as those of the granting entities, when grants are acquired, taking the lead on reports and other communication.
• Assists with BFCA programming, including film screenings, guest scholar and filmmaker visits, and campus or community events.
• Assists with coordinating communication and outreach, including drafting social media posts, communicating with collaborators, and hosting tours.
• Serves as the direct supervisor for the four full-time staff in addition to some hourly staff.
• Supports non-grant fundraising efforts including donor communication and relationship cultivation.  

General Responsibilities

• Plans, directs and implements programs or events, including the creation of materials to support these events.
• Provides staff communications and serves as liaison to program participants, collaborators in other units, community partners, vendors and the public; approves staff purchase requests; arranges staff travel, accommodations, and research activities.
• Provides mechanisms, training, and advice on a variety of issues such as budget management software and advanced strategies for timely spending of grant funds. 
• May be responsible for meeting revenue targets.
• Recruits, trains, directs, schedules, and evaluates faculty and staff partners, students and volunteers. 
• Mentors, serves as a resource and provides guidance to team staff members as needed.
• Researches available grants and works closely with managers to identify funding needs and potential sources, creates grant proposals that further advance support of the program and program participants.
• Constructs and administers program budgets and approves spending.
• Tracks progress on deliverables, analyzes data on projected spending and prepares reports for higher management and funding sources.
• Keeps abreast of best practices to recommend policies and procedures that deliver a quality program experience.

Non-IU employee application

Current IU employee application