invites applications and nominations for Assistant Vice President for Gift and Estate Planning

Augusta, Georgia Assistant Vice President for Gift & Estate Planning

• Medical College of Georgia Foundation Under the leadership of Deborah Stafford Vaughn, who joined the University in 2018 as Vice President for Development, AU plans to launch its first comprehensive fundraising campaign in its history. This is the ideal time for a proven and highly motivated individual to serve as the Assistant Vice President (AVP) for Gift and Estate Planning at AU. Responsibilities of the Position The AVP will join the committed and focused team of 34 professionals and will be a key member of the Advancement Leadership team, contributing to the success of an ambitious comprehensive campaign. Responsibilities will include generating support from donors through Augusta University has more than 65,000 living alumni. testamentary bequests, charitable trusts, life income, and other gifts of a complex Augusta University, a highly respected, comprehensive public research nature, such as real estate and closely held securities. institution and premier medical center of the University System of Georgia, announces a national search for the Assistant Vice President for Gift In addition to personally managing a and Estate Planning. Applications and nominations are being accepted. portfolio of philanthropic prospects, the AVP will provide guidance, leadership, • • • • • • • • • • • and/or consultation on potential planned gifts to development partners in the The Opportunity institution’s many stakeholders, securing Office of Advancement and its affiliated private support through a donor- Augusta University (AU) is dedicated foundations. centered approach. The office stewards to educating the next generation of and manages gifts, fosters community Additional Responsibilities innovators, leaders, and health care outreach, and shares the University’s providers. With locations throughout • Create, with the Vice President for story to strengthen the institution and Augusta and at satellite campuses across Development, a strategic plan with advance its goals. Georgia in Athens, Albany, Rome, and measurable goals and objectives, Savannah, AU offers undergraduate The Office of Advancement is comprised sound business practices, and proven programs in the liberal arts, sciences, of seven units: Central Office; tactics to secure planned gifts. business, and education, in addition to Advancement Operations; Alumni • Identify, qualify, and personally a full range of graduate programs and Affairs; Annual Giving; Foundations, manage a portfolio of up to 100 hands-on clinical research opportunities. Finance, and Accounting; Major Gifts individual major/planned giving At the forefront of groundbreaking and Campaigns; and Major Gifts - prospects. research focused on improving and Medicine. Since FY 2014, fundraising • Build and maintain relationships with enriching the human experience, the for the University has totaled more physicians and medical staff to identify University is Georgia’s innovation center than $97.8 million. In 2013, Augusta new grateful patient donors. for education and health care. AU University received from Dr. J. Harold provides a tobacco-free learning and Harrison, a 1948 graduate of the • Develop and execute strategies to work environment. Medical College of Georgia, a gift in cultivate and solicit qualified prospects excess of $66 million, one of the largest for major and planned gifts, both AU’s Office of Advancement establishes gifts to a public university in Georgia. independently and in collaboration and cultivates relationships with alumni, with other AU development staff and friends, and the campus community to The University has three affiliated AU and AU Health faculty and staff. encourage support for the University, its foundations: students and programs to accomplish • Cultivate relationships with attorneys, • Augusta University Foundation its mission and achieve its vision. trust officers, accountants, financial The Advancement staff engages the • Georgia Health Sciences Foundation planners, and other estate planning www.myersmcrae.com www.augusta.edu • 2 Assistant Vice President for Gift & Estate Planning

Mission Statement To provide leadership and excellence in teaching, discovery, clinical care and service as a student-centered comprehensive research university and academic health center with a wide range of programs from learning assistance through postdoctoral studies.

professionals regarding gift • Design and implement a broad-based, and fundraising experience in a health opportunities for clients; develop and proactive marketing plan to inform, care or higher education setting are engage a volunteer group of advocates educate, and identify prospective preferable. A juris doctorate degree or a from the aforementioned industries; planned giving prospects on various CPA license is desired. provide material for their use, exchange planned giving vehicles. Knowledge and abilities: up-to-date information on best • Respond to inquiries and meet with practices, request help in obtaining prospects, existing donors, community • Knowledge and demonstrated referrals, and discuss donor interests. members, and their advisors in one-on- experience in planned gifts and estate • Serve as an institutional expert on one or group settings, as requested. planning to successfully fulfill the responsibilities planned giving vehicles, tax-wise • Manage and lead others in securing philanthropy, and current laws and planned gifts and provide motivation • Ability to understand and work within trends related to them. and guidance for optimum results. a complex academic medical center • Conduct occasional trainings and and comprehensive university information sessions regarding Requirements for the Position • Experience at successfully managing best planned giving practices with The successful candidate will possess priorities and strategically focusing on development colleagues and other AU exceptional leadership qualities and outcomes to ensure the highest return faculty and staff. be able to work cooperatively and on investment • Respond to inquiries and meet with collaboratively with multiple internal and • In-depth and current knowledge of prospects, existing donors, community external constituents. Integrity, honesty, the laws and regulations related to members, and their advisors in one-on- and a strong work ethic are essential charitable giving and charitable gift one or group settings, as requested. to this position. An advanced degree planning, including testamentary gifts, life income gifts (charitable remainder trusts), testamentary substitutes, Deborah Stafford Vaughn retirement funds, deductibility issues, Vice President for Development gifts of real property, investment vehicles, pledge rules, etc. Deborah Stafford Vaughn joined Augusta University as Vice • Ability and commitment to provide President for Development in October 2018. Her fundraising prompt responses to gift planning career in higher education spans more than 21 years and includes inquiries from donors and/or their significant public and private institutions in the Southeast. advisers, engage in conversations with donors, and furnish clear and Ms. Vaughn has served in senior positions at two state flagship understandable written explanations, universities: the University of Alabama as Associate Vice President gift illustrations, and gift agreements for Development and the University of Mississippi as Senior as needed Executive Director of Development and Chief Development Officer. She also has held • Excellent written and verbal skills and leadership development roles at Vanderbilt University and Mississippi State University. interpersonal skills Ms. Vaughn received her Bachelor of Science degree in Business Education from • Commitment and ability to maintain Mississippi State University, graduating cum laude. She earned a Master of Science degree confidentiality in Higher Education Administration, with an emphasis in Institutional Advancement, from Vanderbilt University. • Ability and willingness to travel and work outside standard office hours www.myersmcrae.com www.augusta.edu • 3 Assistant Vice President for Gift & Estate Planning

The Augusta University Health Medical The Children’s Hospital of Georgia The Georgia Cancer Center at Augusta Center serves the state of Georgia and at Augusta University is a nationally University brings together a team of is the primary teaching and patient care recognized leader in the treatment and basic science researchers, clinicians, site for the Department of Surgery. The research of pediatric and adolescent radiation oncologists, nurse navigators 520-bed tertiary hospital provides many diseases. Children’s Hospital of Georgia and patient support staff to create a services not available elsewhere in the draws patients from the southeastern community fostering innovation and region. Specialized services include the United States who require specialized care focused on improving the lives of region’s best-equipped and busiest Level tertiary care. The only Level 1 pediatric our patients. The Georgia Cancer Center I Trauma Center, serving patients from trauma center in Georgia, the Augusta provides access to first-in-the-nation over 13 counties and offering transplan- center has 157 beds and is the major clinical trials, world-renowned experts, tation for pancreas and kidney. teaching site for surgery residents. and life-saving options.

Augusta University class health care network, offering Business; the College of Education; and the most comprehensive primary, the College of Science and Mathematics Founded in 1828, Augusta University is specialty and subspecialty care in the prepare students for a lifetime of critical a public research university and medical region. Augusta University Health thinking, creativity, and entrepreneurial center dedicated to training the next provides skilled, compassionate care success. generation of innovators, leaders, and to its patients, conducts leading-edge health care providers. The combination clinical research and fosters the medical AU’s latest campus addition is the of nationally ranked business and education and training of tomorrow’s Georgia Cyber Center, designed to nursing schools as well as the state’s health care practitioners. Augusta strengthen Georgia’s position as flagship public medical school and only University Health is a not-for-profit a national leader in cybersecurity. dental school makes AU a destination corporation that manages the clinical Costing $100 million and totaling of choice for the students of today and operations associated with the university. 332,000 square feet in two adjacent the leaders of tomorrow. The university buildings, the center is the single largest is Georgia’s innovation center for In addition to providing care in the investment in a cybersecurity facility education and health care. Augusta area, Augusta University Health in the nation to date. It represents a physicians travel to satellite practice unique public/private partnership that Home to the Medical College of sites throughout Georgia, illustrating includes Augusta University, Augusta Georgia, the nation’s 9th-largest AU’s commitment to care for people Technical College, the University System and 13th-oldest medical school, the across the state and region. Augusta of Georgia’s research institutions, the university’s Health Sciences Campus is at University Health is a thriving academic City of Augusta, the Georgia Bureau of the forefront of health care innovation. health center that also is affiliated with Investigation, the Georgia Department Located in downtown Augusta, the Children’s Hospital of Georgia and the of Defense, and other state, federal, and Health Sciences Campus houses the Georgia Cancer Center. private-sector partners working together state’s largest College of Nursing; the to meet workforce demand. comprehensive College of Allied Health The historic Summerville Campus is Sciences; The Graduate School; the home to AU’s liberal arts curriculum. In The center is an important and state’s only dental school, The Dental the shade of ancient trees, professors prominent addition to AU’s Riverfront College of Georgia; and the state’s only from the Katherine Reese Pamplin Campus, which is designated as a public academic medical center. College of Arts, Humanities, and Social National Center of Academic Excellence Sciences; the James M. Hull College of in Cyber Defense. It houses the Augusta University Health is a world- www.myersmcrae.com www.augusta.edu • 4 Assistant Vice President for Gift & Estate Planning

University’s School of Computer and Cyber Sciences and Cyber Institute. The center is also part of the growing cybersecurity corridor in Augusta, which is home to the U.S. Army Cyber Command and the Cyber School of Excellence at Fort Gordon. The first of the two structures – the Hull McKnight Building – and the 340-seat auditorium opened July 10, 2018. The building is named in honor of two of Augusta’s most prominent business and community leaders. The center’s second structure, the Shaffer MacCartney building, opened in January, 2019. The Christenberry Fieldhouse houses 11 of the Augusta Jaguars’ 13 competition sports. In addition to housing all Graduates speak highly of their AU education. administrative and support staff for the AU Department of Athletics, CFH of the nation’s most beautiful lakes and and world-wide missions are military is home to the College of Education’s trails. intelligence and cyber operations. Department of Kinesiology. The Forest The city is home to Fort Gordon, a large, Major cities and favorite Southern Hills Campus, on which CFH is located, multi-mission, multi-service military destinations are only a short drive away: includes a full-size golf course and installation providing base services 1 hour to Columbia, S.C.; 2 hours to baseball, softball, and soccer fields and support across a wide spectrum Atlanta, Ga.; 2.25 hours to Savannah, and serves as the home of the Jaguars’ of training, operational and soldier Ga., and 2.5 hours to Charleston, S.C. nationally recognized NCAA Division I sustainment needs. Among its regional golf team. For more information, visit Augusta University at www.augusta.edu. Application and Nomination Process Confidential inquiries are welcomed, and nominations are invited. Augusta, Georgia To apply, submit: One of the largest cities in Georgia, Augusta is located on the banks of a) Letter of interest the Savannah River midway between b) Current resume the Great Smokey Mountains and the c) At least five references familiar with applicant’s background with full contact Atlantic Ocean. A growing city with a and e-mail information (References will not be contacted without applicant’s metropolitan-area population of around consent.) 400,000, Augusta recently was ranked one of the most favorable places to live Submit application (preferably as PDFs) to [email protected]. in Georgia. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

The city offers a wide array of cultural, Submit nominations to [email protected] with full contact historical, and recreational activities. and e-mail information on nominee. Museums, opera, theatre, ballet, concerts, historical sites, and professional Emily Parker Myers, CEO, and Jennifer Barfield, Senior Vice President, of Myers sports are all available in Augusta. McRae Executive Search and Consulting are assisting AU with this search. 515 Mulberry Street, Suite 200 Augusta is much more than a great place to live. Spearheaded by the next Macon, Georgia 31201 generation of musicians, foodies, artists, (478) 330-6222 and entrepreneurs, the city comes to www.myersmcrae.com life at night, offering live music and theatrical performances and a wealth of eateries. Augusta is also home to some Augusta University is an AA/EEO/Equal Access/ADA Employer www.myersmcrae.com www.augusta.edu • 5