Job description

Aspen Leadership Group is proud to partner with Lafayette College in the search for an Executive Director of Corporate, Foundation, and Government Relations.

Reporting to the Associate Vice President for Individual Giving, the Executive Director of Corporate, Foundation, and Government Relations will lead the College’s efforts to secure transformational support from corporations, private and family foundations, and government and grant-making entities. This senior role offers an opportunity to shape and implement a comprehensive strategy that strengthens external partnerships, advances institutional priorities, and supports faculty and programmatic innovation across disciplines. The Executive Director of Corporate, Foundation, and Government Relations will be responsible for developing and executing a comprehensive strategy to secure support from corporations, private and family foundations, and government and private grant-making entities. The Executive Director will manage a robust portfolio of institutional funders, lead the College’s efforts to identify and pursue external funding opportunities, build relationships with foundations and pursue strategic grant writing planning and goals, and collaborate with senior leadership, faculty, and staff to align proposals with institutional priorities.

Lafayette College is a highly selective liberal arts and engineering institution with an endowment in the top 2% of independent colleges nationally. Their beautiful campus overlooks the historic Delaware River, and their students, faculty, and staff take pride in the vibrant, inclusive community that defines Lafayette. Talented faculty, staff, and coaches challenge their students to move beyond the familiar-to take intellectual risks, engage deeply, and develop into thoughtful leaders. More than 2,700 students from 44 U.S. states and territories and 60 countries come to Lafayette to experience intimate and transformative classes, labs, and field experiences. Lafayette College is dedicated to excellence in undergraduate education. Students are engaged in a transformative educational experience that bridges the liberal arts, engineering, and interdisciplinary study. The College fosters intellectual inquiry, artistic exploration, scholarship, and personal growth in a vibrant, diverse, and inclusive community. Lafayette students become critical thinkers, creative problem-solvers, and responsible citizens of the world.

Students are encouraged to pursue multiple passions with confidence, supported by professors, mentors, and classmates. With a 10:1 student-to-faculty ratio, students engage in cutting-edge research and hands-on learning experiences with globally recognized faculty-opportunities often not available at other institutions until graduate school. With more than 50 majors, including interdisciplinary options, students can explore and develop their passions at Lafayette. Lafayette offers 23 athletic programs, and 20% of undergraduates are student-athletes. The campus community shows strong school spirit, cheering on teams in leopard print, maroon, and white. As Lafayette College enters its bicentennial year, it continues to receive national recognition for its commitment to academic excellence. In multiple rankings from respected outlets like U.S. News & World Report, Washington Monthly, and Forbes, as well as an inaugural list from LinkedIn, Lafayette College has once again been rated among the top colleges in the country.

A bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience and at least eight years of progressively responsible foundation and grants fundraising experience is required for this position. Lafayette College will consider candidates with a broad range of backgrounds. If you are excited about this role and feel that you can contribute to Lafayette, but your experience does not exactly align with every qualification listed above, we encourage you to apply. All applications must be accompanied by a cover letter and resume. Cover letters should be responsive to the mission of Lafayette College and the responsibilities and qualifications specified in the position prospectus.

The target salary for this position is $140,000. Lafayette College offers various benefit programs as part of a full-time employee total compensation package. Their compensation package includes medical, dental, life insurance, retirement, flexible spending accounts, paid and unpaid time off, disability insurance, worker’s compensation insurance, and more.

If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, or participating in the selection process, please contact Jeanette Rivera-Watts at jeanetterw@aspenleadershipgroup. com.

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