· Responsible for preparing proposals, soliciting grant funding, developing and stewarding relationships with private and public partners, and managing awards including reporting and compliance· Secured more than $23 million in grant awards for operating, programs, event sponsorships, and capital projects· Produced a 400% increase in annual grant funds over baseline levels· Procured and managed compliance/oversight for more than $10M in government awards

· Responsible for all donor research for university development for both current and prospective donors· Managed development database operations, including creating department policy and procedures for data entry, use, and management; overseeing data entry, maintenance, and cleanup projects· Managed data reporting process for university development, working with development staff and university IT staff to create and improve development reports to increase accuracy and relevance of data and enhance efficiency by greatly reducing time needed to pull and format needed data· Managed day-to-day operations for planned giving, communicating with legal representatives of estates and with the university’s CFO and legal counsel, reading and interpreting legal estate documents and communicating necessary information to university administration, and communicating with current and prospective planned giving donors for donor relations and customer service

· Assisted campaign director and director of development operations in development tasks to help ensure the successful completion of a 3-year, $50 million comprehensive campaign· Assisted campaign director in writing and proofing of communications to department staff, universityadministration, and major and prospective donors; served as informational liaison to campaign director and frontline development staff in the field; coordinated bi-weekly conference calls with department staff and external consultants, including creating agendas for calls, presenting and explaining directives, and giving updates from central development office· Streamlined administrative process for planned giving requisitions for matured gifts, allowing the university to access hundreds of thousands of dollars in planned gifts that had been held up in processing for months and helping ensure the university met its year-end financial goals

· Worked with director of development operations to create and streamline policy for data entry, data reporting, and moves management process for gift officers· Responsible for daily development tasks, including answering phones, emails, scheduling meetings, providing customer service, and processing donations