Vice President, Advancement and Alumni Relations
Website The Washington Center
Creating flexible, immersive pathways to enhance the pipeline of diverse talent and build more equitable, inclusive workplaces, and communities.
The Washington Center (TWC) provides immersive internships and academic seminars to students from hundreds of colleges and universities and early career professionals from across the U.S. and more than twenty-five countries. TWC collaborates with over 600 higher education, corporate, government, foundation, and employer partners to connect aspiring leaders with exceptional educational experiences.
TWC seeks a strategic Vice President, Advancement and Alumni Relations (Vice President) to lead and execute a comprehensive strategic plan for advancement and alumni relations, focused on the diversification of philanthropic income sources. The Vice President will achieve TWC’s annual and multi-year financial goals for the organization with a focus on building functions from the ground up. The successful candidate will ensure TWC’s ongoing financial sustainability and growth by building and maintaining strong pipelines and loyal partnerships, including leveraging the President for meetings and engagements.
The Vice President will establish and implement a robust advancement plan needed to meet the goals of the strategic plan, growing and diversifying through the cultivation and solicitation of gifts and partnerships from individuals, corporations, and foundations. In collaboration with the President, the Vice President will expand TWC’s donor pipeline and work closely with other team members, Board members, and partners to secure funding for new strategic initiatives.
In parallel, the Vice President will oversee the Alumni Relations function with a focus on building a strong alumni pipeline of future advocates, volunteers and donors through programming and annual/multi-year giving opportunities.
