Strategic Campaign Communications Management Services

The vendor required to provide strategic campaign communications management creative services responsible offeror with demonstrated, niche expertise in higher education fundraising to develop, produce, and coordinate campaign communications assets and fundraiser enablement for university comprehensive campaign, forever to be.
- The university will not pay for any additional fees, overhead, or costs related to the performance of engagement agreements.
- Workstreams to include:
•    Campaign rationale refinement and messaging enablement
•    Unit case statement development (18–20 units, plus pan-university initiatives)
•    Major donor proposal template suite
•    Campaign fluency training (development officers and key stakeholders)
•    Campaign website (architecture/design/content support)
•    Anthem video (creative direction and production coordination)
•    Campaign communications toolkit (supplementary collateral and templates)
•    Quality assurance, brand compliance and knowledge transfer.
- Coordination requirements
•    University development communications, brand collaborative and core brand group, media relations and strategic communications, and unit communicators to ensure unified messaging and brand consistency.
- Performance standards
•    Fundraising utility: materials must be donor-ready and demonstrably support solicitations.
•    Consistency and compliance: all deliverables adhere to university brand guidelines and campaign messaging.
•    Timeliness: delivery schedules coordinated with university campaign milestones.
•    Knowledge transfer: templates, guides, and training must enable sustained internal use beyond the engagement.
- Position descriptions and maximum acceptable hourly rates:
•    Senior VP/principal strategist – $200/hr.
•    Regional VP – $180/hr.
•    Senior project manager – $150/hr.
•    Project manager – $135/hr.
•    Assistant pm – $115/hr.
•    Project analyst – $110/hr.
•    Workflow specialist – $95/hr.
•    Specialized writer – $150/hr.
•    Designer – $140/hr.
•    Web designer/developer – $150/hr.
•    Video director/producer – $175/hr.
•    Clerical – $60/hr.

- Contract Period/Term: 1 year
- Non-Mandatory Pre-Bid Conference Date: February 17, 2026
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: February 18, 2026