Join a strong team of leaders in an innovative, collaborative, and driven advancement division. The next Assistant Vice President for Development (AVP) will have the opportunity to lead a fundraising team that recently completed a targeted, highly successful campaign and is beginning the process of introducing a new college president to the community. The AVP will oversee a team of 15+ professionals whose sole focus is gifts and grants of $100,000+, with oversight of Major and Principal Gifts, Planned Giving, Corporate and Foundation Relations, Prospect Research and Management, and Donor Relations.
Macalester College is unique among top-tier liberal arts colleges in two important ways. First, while all schools have a mission, here you will find a campus, alumni, and parent community united behind a mission of rigorous academics with a special emphasis on internationalism, multiculturalism, and service to society. This mission drives everything at the college and has shaped what it is today:
- A faculty ranked among the best in the nation, with a commitment to faculty-student research
- A century of internationalism, currently with 15% of students from over 90 different countries
- 33% of domestic students are students of color
- More than 15% of students are the first generation in their family to attend college
- A historic commitment to economic diversity -- nearly 80% of students receive need-based financial aid
Second, our location amplifies our mission. Macalester is located in a vibrant metropolitan area known for being among the most literate, educated, and artistic areas in the country, with a strong economy featuring 18 Fortune 500 headquarters, some of the largest private companies and foundations in the country, a large not-for-profit community, and a commitment to education.
Macalester College’s DeWitt Wallace Library invites applications and nominations for an outstanding individual for the leadership position of Associate Library Director. We are seeking a thoughtful, confident, strategic manager and visionary leader who would value our highly collaborative, creative, and innovative environment. The Associate Library Director for Access, Instruction & Research Services (AIRS) manages and guides the staff responsible for research, instruction, circulation, interlibrary loan, reserves, and public access computing. They are the steward of library services providing leadership, vision, assessment, and strategies that ensure our services meet the needs of current and future scholars. This position serves as a member of the leadership team and contributes to strategic planning and direction of the library. The individual in this position focuses on outreach and partnership development and works closely with our academic community to ensure that public service, research, and instruction operations most effectively and efficiently support college curricular needs and scholarly endeavors. Key components of this position are to actively participate in serving the mission of the library and college, to provide excellent service, to keep current in the profession, to share expertise and experience with others, and to serve as a representative of the college, our library, and the library profession. Our college and library staff are committed to helping increase opportunities for individuals from underrepresented groups and seek applicants from diverse backgrounds and identities. Our library staff received the ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries for college libraries award in 2016.
The current portfolio of responsibility includes:
- Research, Instruction services
- Service Desk support and oversight
- Data and Digital Scholarship support services
- Circulation, Interlibrary Loan, Reserves services
- User Experience leadership
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion leadership
- Campus partnership development
- Library leadership
- Supervision of 11 direct reports who collectively manage 40-50 student employees.
