Associate Director, Faculty of Forestry

The University of British Columbia

Associate Director, Development, Faculty of Forestry

Join a bold, world-leading and highly accomplished development and alumni engagement team — and help UBC shape a better world.

At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

Development & Alumni Engagement (DAE)

The Development and Alumni Engagement (DAE) portfolio at UBC joins development (fundraising) and alumni UBC functions under one umbrella. DAE is a one of the leading advancement teams in Canada. With over 300 employees, DAE currently raises over $240 million and engages over 100,000 alumni annually. As a top tier research university, and a go-to destination for the world’s brightest minds, UBC has the opportunity to influence what our future will look like. DAE is inspired to enable UBC’s pursuit of excellence in research, learning and engagement by maximizing donor and alumni engagement. For more information about DAE, please visit www.give.ubc.ca.

Are you passionate about supporting innovative research, teaching and community outreach that is helping to realize a more sustainable future? Do you have an interest in conservation, biodiversity and sustainable forest management? The UBC Faculty of Forestry is seeking an experienced fundraiser with a proven track record to join a major gift fundraising team that supports leading-edge research, teaching and community outreach to address some of today’s global challenges, such as climate change.

Our thriving team regularly surpasses fundraising targets, with significant ongoing interest from donors who want to contribute to the Faculty. We are currently looking for an Associate Director to join us in responding to this demand in support of the Faculty’s students and researchers. The Faculty is one of the world’s leading forestry schools, educating the next generation of natural resource leaders and covering a broad range of topics from ecosystem and species conservation to advanced renewable materials (such as bio-plastics) and urban forestry.

If you have project and relationship management experience and outstanding written and oral communication skills; are strategic, curious and authentic; and are a generous team player and natural collaborator, then we invite you express interest in joining our team.

Compensation Range Min. $99,661 – Mid. $124,447 – Max. $155,428 CAD Annually The Compensation Range is the span between the minimum and maximum base salary for a position. The midpoint of the range is approximately halfway between the minimum and the maximum and represents an employee that possesses full job knowledge, qualifications and experience for the position. In the normal course, employees will be hired, transferred or promoted between the minimum and midpoint of the salary range for a job.

Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code, including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nation, Metis, Inuit, and/or Indigenous person.