Executive Director, Principal Gifts

Western University is seeking an Executive Director, Principal Gifts to lead the design, implementation, and management of principal gift strategies, with a focus on seven-figure gifts and a particular emphasis on opportunities of $5M+ across the university. In addition to managing and soliciting a personal portfolio of principal gift prospects, the Executive Director will develop and manage an ecosystem that cultivates and strengthens fundraisers skills, expanding capacity and enabling excellence in performance, while fostering strong partnerships and service across university units.

As our ideal candidate you will have significant experience fundraising within a university or other complex nonprofit environment along with experience executing gifts at the $1 million dollar plus level, as well as gifts that are complex, multi-divisional, and/or pan-institutional. You will have significant leadership experience in a fundraising, or revenue-generating portfolio with multi-milli...