Establishing and maintaining strong relationships with various stakeholders within your institution is essential for successful advancement. By cultivating these relationships with institutional leaders and volunteers, departmental heads, faculty and researchers, alumni relations, communications and marketing teams, or student affairs personnel, fundraising professionals can identify potential funding opportunities, secure support from alumni, coordinate fundraising efforts, reach out to potential donors, gain insight into student priorities, and align fundraising efforts with institutional objectives. This session will work on building a collaborative and integrated institutional community that can greatly enhance fundraising readiness and advancement success.

What does the wider Advancement team do? How does philanthropic fundraising fit into the wider advancement ecosystem? Faculty members from a range of institutions will look at the fundamentals for each discipline and how Alumni Relations, Marcomms and Development Services professionals work successfully together and support you and your work. We will cover all of these topics and more in a fast-paced and interactive session – just to make sure you don’t need a post-lunch snooze!

This session will help to raise understanding and awareness of the CASE and CIoF professional competency frameworks, how they work in practice and how the CASE model is reflected in the SIEF programme. Steve will set the scene by looking at organisational culture and values and core competencies for advancement professionals relating to career journey stages. The faculty will then lead and facilitate lively round table discussions on desired behaviours and attitudes, drawing on ‘real life’ examples from a variety of settings, that will help demonstrate ‘know-how’ in key competency areas.