Vice President of Advancement and Executive Director Search Firm Services

The Vendor is required to provide professional search firms with particular expertise to assist them in the search for candidates for the vice president of advancement/executive director (VPA/ED) of the university foundation with the end result being a successful hire.
- The search firm Service:
• Refine a leadership profile (the profile) that reflects the skills, leadership and management experience, and vision needed to inspire and lead advancement operations at university, and the firm’s knowledge of the higher education marketplace, specifically within the area of university advancement and development.
• Advertise the profile and build a diverse, highly qualified applicant pool (the first pool), including engaging qualified passive candidates.
• Provide guidance on the committee’s timeline to hire.
• This deliverable is not seeking legal advice, rather input regarding the structure of the timeline itself, which has been styled to comply with state equal pay act, open meetings law, and open records act.
• Assist the committee in developing a data-based scoring matrix or candidate screening instrument, based on the criteria identified in the profile to screen the first pool, to determine which candidates are qualified for interview (the second pool).
• Assist in the coordination and scheduling of second pool interviews for the committee.
• Assist the committee in developing interview questions and protocols for the second pool interviews, based on the criteria identified in the profile, and applicable law.
• This deliverable is not seeking legal advice, but the questions and protocol should be structured in a compliant manner.
• Conduct comprehensive and extensive background, reference, and character checks of third pool candidates (second pool candidates ranked favorably during the interviews) from which the committee will create a list of finalist(s) for on-campus visits.
• Assist in the coordination and scheduling of finalist(s) on-campus stakeholder meetings.
• Assist the committee in developing interview questions and protocol for the finalist(s) interviews during the on-campus visit.
• Administer a survey instrument to each stakeholder group after its respective on-campus meeting with the finalist(s) and provide the data to the committee.
- Contract Period/Term: 3 Month
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: April 11, 2025