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Director of Donor Relations and Stewardship

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA

http://web.mit.edu

Send Nominations or Cover Letter and Resume to:

Libby Roberts

Vice President

617-262-1102

[email protected]

The University:

“MIT’s greatest invention may be itself – an unusual

concentration of unusual talent, restlessly

reinventing itself on a mission to make a better

world.” - MIT President L. Rafael Reif

The essence of the Massachusetts Institute of

Technology (MIT) is its appetite for problems –

especially those big, intractable, complicated problems

whose solutions make a permanent difference. While

MIT is a research university committed to world-class

inquiry in math, science, and engineering, it has equally distinguished programs in architecture, the

humanities, management, and the social sciences. A diverse, supportive campus environment – with an

incredible range of student groups and athletic and fitness opportunities – ensures that it's not all about the

work. And in MIT's intensely creative atmosphere, the arts flourish in all their forms.

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The Opportunity – Why now?

This opportunity is available for the best reason possible, the previous occupant was promoted to serve

MIT’s President. This transition speaks to MIT’s commitment to its own and also signals to one and all that

MIT is committed to ensuring dynamic career paths throughout the University. The time is ripe for a new

leader to come in and, with a fresh perspective, take this department to its next level.

Do you have the right skills and qualities for this position?

Do you know donor relations and stewardship top to bottom?

Are you passionate about your work?

Are you an outstanding manager who is an inspiring coach and mentor?

Are you an accomplished, metrics-driven leader who has experience working in complex and fast

paced organizations?

Do you have a great sense of camaraderie?

Are you a quick study with high energy?

Do you have the ability to address a shift in the IT culture of the department?

Are you politically savvy and have the ability to influence others?

Do you embrace challenges and know how to push back when needed?

Are you a creative problem solver?

If so, keep reading.

Comments from the Donor Relations and Stewardship Team:

…This is an awesome place and intellectually stimulating… We are never bored… Great work/life

balance… We cannot underestimate the complexity of the position… This is a fully formed shop, but

there is room for improvement… Our model throughout the University is like a web, as opposed to a

wheel with spokes like at other universities… We are very proud of our work and the next director will

be lucky to inherit this team…

Observations about the Team and their challenges:

There is great humility among the staff.

They always say “we.”


This is a pivotal time in donor relations and they are ready and eager to keep up the momentum.

There is great respect for each other.

The program is not just back office, it is donor-facing.

They are playing catch-up in technology (and they recognize the irony in this!).

The Campaign is creating many new donors and currently there is not the capacity to properly

steward them – they are eager to determine a strategy.

The decentralization of stewarding donors throughout the University can create inconsistency.

Increasing numbers of international donors brings new cultural distinctions and requires new

stewardship strategies.

MIT’s Campaign for a Better World:

For inspiration click here: https://betterworld.mit.edu/about-the-campaign

Better Science, Better Living, Better Planet, Better Solutions, Better World

In May 2016, MIT President L. Rafael Reif announced the MIT Campaign for a Better World, a comprehensive

fundraising initiative that will amplify the Institute's distinctive strength in education, research, and

innovation, and will advance MIT’s work on some of the world's biggest challenges.

MIT has a history of discovery, knowledge creation, and innovation. Through the Campaign for a Better

World, the Institute aims to extend that track record, raising $5 billion in support of efforts that will enable a

future where fundamental science unlocks new knowledge; where climate change yields to climate action;

where clean energy is universal; where everyone can count on clean water and nourishing food; where we

detect disease before it has symptoms; where Alzheimer's itself is just a memory; where good ideas don’t

languish in the lab but flourish in the marketplace; where daring companies create thriving industries and

achieve lasting progress; where prosperity is measured not in dollars alone but in the currency of art,

culture, and understanding; where quality education is radically more available; and where we offer the

world's undiscovered talent a digital path to a creative future.

To ensure that MIT continues to attract a community of exceptionally talented students and faculty, and

provides the infrastructure their pioneering work demands, the Campaign is also committed to

strengthening the Institute's core – increasing resources for undergraduate financial aid, graduate

fellowships, and professorships; reimagining residential living and educational spaces; and developing

innovative research facilities such as MIT.nano.

https://betterworld.mit.edu/about-the-campaign


"Humanity faces urgent challenges – challenges whose solutions depend on marrying advanced technical

and scientific capabilities with a deep understanding of the world's political, cultural, and economic

complexities," says President Reif.

"We launch the Campaign for a Better World to rise to those challenges and accelerate positive change. In

this effort, we seek the support of enthusiastic partners who share our sense of mission and infinite

possibility – including our remarkable alumni, who do the great work of MIT in the world every day," he

continued. "Together, through this Campaign, we will give the brilliant minds and hands of the MIT

community the fuel and the focus to make inspiring progress for the world."

The Campaign is guided by six priority areas that span the full breadth of MIT:

Discovery Science: Transforming our world through fundamental scientific research.

Health of the Planet: Addressing critical environmental and sustainability challenges facing

humankind through science, technology, design, management, and policy.

Human Health: Defining the future of health through advances in basic science and engineering –

informed by expertise in disciplines such as management, economics, and political science.

Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Accelerating the path from idea to impact.

Teaching, Learning, and Living: Reimagining education for the 21st-century learner.

The MIT Core: Attracting extraordinary students and faculty, and providing them with the resources

they need to thrive.

"The MIT Campaign for a Better World represents an important and historic undertaking," said Julie A. Lucas,

MIT's vice president for resource development. "Its priorities transcend disciplines and reflect the breadth

and depth of the Institute's commitment to bringing real change to the world. This is an extraordinary

moment in the life of MIT."

As of the end of the first quarter of 2016, MIT has raised over $2.6 billion toward the Campaign goal, with

gifts coming from more than 77,000 alumni and friends. The Institute's most recent comprehensive

fundraising campaign ran from 1997 to 2004.

Position Overview – Director of Donor Relations and Stewardship

The Director of Donor Relations and Stewardship leads a talented team in the strategic planning,

coordinating, and implementing of a thoughtful and creative stewardship program responsive to the needs

of MIT frontline fundraisers, donors, and prospects. The Director is a highly visible colleague to fundraising

directors and their staffs, and in partnership with the Executive Director for Communications and Events and


senior fundraising colleagues, is a driving force in shaping meaningful and long-term relationships with

MIT’s constituents. The Director is a convener and an agenda setter whose team will always have

stewardship at top of mind to allow frontline fundraisers to focus on raising the philanthropic investments

crucial to MIT’s future. The Director will develop and put into practice organizational structures and logistical

procedures to carry out nimble stewardship plans, enabling those plans to be revised quickly, as necessary.

As MIT embarks on the public phase of its $5 billion Campaign for a Better World, stewardship and donor

relations have an ever-increasing importance in MIT's interactions with alumni and friends. The Director will

have the opportunity to shape and implement a robust strategy to advance the overall Campaign effort.

Characteristic Duties:

Strategic Planning and Management (40%)

Implement and sustain a comprehensive stewardship program for a world-class institution in the

midst of its largest fundraising campaign.

Maintain a framework for ongoing conversations with key stakeholders in the Resource

Development office and across the Institute to 1) assess needs and 2) continually track progress

against agreed-to goals.

Determine metrics to measure the success of stewardship programs, and, in collaboration with other

colleagues, systematically track progress against those metrics.

In partnership with other units, employ the most current, effective, and automated reporting systems

so baseline data are reliable and accessible in the most efficient ways.

Provide leadership and mentoring to the Donor Relations and Stewardship staff. Assign and direct

projects and oversee day-to-day operations of the staff, including budgets, hiring, performance

management and development, and terminations. Cultivate a strong team-oriented culture of

accountability, with a focus on creating best-in-class experiences for donors and internal partners.

Maintain and build upon the stewardship office culture whereby stewardship staff “reach fundraisers

before fundraisers reach you,” giving fundraisers confidence that stewardship is being handled

vigilantly and to the highest degree.

Work closely with the Executive Director to ensure that DRS is woven tightly into strategic

discussions and decisions.

Donor Relations and Stewardship Program Oversight (30%)

Ensure MIT benefactors receive the highest quality engagement with the Institute through a variety

of communications and events, including customized, firsthand experiences of the areas they have

supported.

Conduct best practices in donor relations and stewardship, ensuring proper policies and procedures

are in place and executed, including: responding to and thanking donors in a timely way, recognizing


donors and reporting out appropriately, and protecting donors' privacy and rights in compliance

with development office policy.

Oversee broad-based donor recognition programs, which include the presidential recognition

society, MIT Charter Society, honoring all donors of $1M or more, as well as a new Campaign-

specific recognition society for major gift level donors.

Oversee the quality control of all presidential acknowledgement letters and other correspondence

generated from RD on behalf of the president (“presdrafts”).

Ensure formal reporting on funds, projects, and programs supported by MIT’s top donors.

Coordinate the submission of all space naming requests from across the Institute to the Building

Committee and Executive Committee.

Convene regular meetings with fundraising directors and their frontline staff to develop tailored,

highly personalized, long-range stewardship plans; consistently monitor the progress of those plans;

and modify as required. Work with development officers throughout the Institute to develop and

promote MIT priorities and develop program-specific strategies for Stewardship.

Reach out to colleagues in the schools and various centers to understand how donors are being

stewarded, in the interest of collaborating and coordinating efforts to provide the best possible

Institute-wide stewardship for donors.

Work closely with RD Communications and Events team to ensure donors receive the highest-quality

products and experiences.

Top Donor Stewardship (30%)

Develop and manage the stewardship portfolio of transformational donors (8-figures and above),

partnering with gift officers and appropriate colleagues across the Institute. Work directly with the

prospect managers, school development officers, and other key MIT colleagues to craft individualized

and personal plans of engagement for principal donors.

Partner with Philanthropic Partnerships and the Campaign Office to create highly customized

stewardship plans for top campaign donors.

Serve as a strategic planner to coordinate meaningful and regular contacts and "actions" for the

President with key principal prospects.

Partner with prospect managers and senior leadership to deepen relationships that result in soliciting

additional gifts from top donors.

Have working knowledge of the Institute's mission, academic programs, research, and fundraising

objectives, and be knowledgeable about fundraising priorities, ways of giving, the donor

development process, and management of volunteers.

Serve as a primary advocate for MIT's Campaign priorities and interests related to sustaining

relationships with donors. Builds strong collaborations with other groups within Resource

Development and other parts of MIT.


Recommend priorities for the participation of senior officers, deans, and faculty in stewardship-

related activities.

Other duties as assigned.

Ideal Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree required, master’s degree a plus.

Minimum 8 years of experience in increasingly responsible stewardship and donor relations

positions, preferably in higher education.

Experience in personnel management with the expertise to build and lead a team.

Involvement in a comprehensive campaign.

Deep understanding of strategic stewardship.

Superb writing and communications skills.

Proficiency to:

o collaborate with colleagues across MIT;

o think strategically;

o solve problems;

o motivate both staff members and peers;

o win the confidence of senior leadership;

o understand the character and nuances of MIT’s distinct culture; and

o think expansively about how the Institute communicates to its donors the critical importance

of their philanthropy to MIT and to addressing the world’s great challenges.

Superb judgment and decision-making skills.

Detail oriented while being able to see the big picture.

Ability to build coalitions and bring consensus across a wide range of offices.

Ability to recreate a stewardship team responsive to the needs of fundraisers and an ambitious

resource development operation.

Capacity to analyze systems in ways that will bring continuous improvement to stewardship

operations.

Excellent oral and written communications skills.

Demonstrated ability to direct projects, and combine theory and practice in early stages of complex

initiatives.

Flexibility in navigating change with an openness to new ideas.

Experience taking the lead in developing new systems and programs and implementing them

successfully.

Desire to boldly advance one of the largest fundraising efforts in higher education.


Leadership:

L. Rafael Reif

President

Since July 2012, Rafael Reif has served as the 17th President of the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is leading MIT’s

pioneering efforts to help shape the future of higher education. A champion for

both fundamental science and MIT’s signature style of interdisciplinary, problem-

centered research, he is also pursuing an aggressive agenda to encourage

innovation and entrepreneurship.

In education, his central focus has been the development of the Institute’s latest experiments in online

learning, MITx and edX, which he spearheaded in his previous role as MIT provost. While fostering the rapid

growth of the open online learning platform edX – which as of April 2016 had engaged more than 7 million

unique learners, drawn from every country in the world – Dr. Reif also launched an Institute-wide Task Force

on the Future of MIT Education. Its final report spurred rapid adoption of blended learning models in MIT

classrooms and the October 2015 announcement of a MicroMaster’s credential from MITx (the Institute’s

portfolio of massive open online courses), which inverts the traditional admissions process by allowing

applicants to demonstrate their ability to handle MIT graduate-level material before applying for a master's

degree program. Another outgrowth of the Task Force report was the February 2016 launch of the MIT

Integrated Learning Initiative (MITili), an intense interdisciplinary exploration of the deep mechanisms of

learning, which aims to make teaching more effective.

For his work in developing MITx, he received the 2012 Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Award, and in 2015 the

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation honored him with the Frank E. Taplin, Jr. Public Intellectual

Award for his leadership in envisioning “what higher education must become in a global, digital, information

economy.”

In keeping with MIT’s mission to “bring knowledge to bear on the world’s great challenges,” in May 2014,

Dr. Reif launched the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative, anchored by the new Abdul Latif Jameel World

Water and Food Security Laboratory. In October 2015, inspired by a yearlong campus conversation about

MIT’s most effective path forward against global warming, Dr. Reif and his leadership team issued MIT’s Plan

for Action on Climate Change, centered on research, education, campus sustainability, and a strategy of

industry engagement.


To enhance MIT’s innovation ecosystem and equip the next generation of innovators to drive their ideas to

impact, in October 2013, Dr. Reif launched the MIT Innovation Initiative. Milestones include the November

2015 announcement of the MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node, the creation of a new minor in

Entrepreneurship and Innovation beginning Fall 2016, and the January 2016 announcement of the MIT

Sandbox Innovation Fund Program, which gives student-initiated projects the early support and mentoring

to get off the ground.

To accelerate research and innovation at the nanoscale, MIT is also constructing MIT.nano, a major new

facility at the heart of campus set to open in 2018. And because MIT’s entrepreneurial ecosystem extends

well beyond the campus, Dr. Reif is leading an ambitious, decade-long redevelopment initiative in Kendall

Square. This will include the creation of an “innovation orchard,” an idea he coined in a May 2015 op-ed

in The Washington Post.

At the national level, President Obama asked Dr. Reif to co-chair the steering committee of the national

Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP 2.0), which spurred the creation of a network of Manufacturing

Innovation Institutes (MIIs). In April 2016, Dr. Reif announced that MIT had won the lead role in the

Advanced Functional Fibers of America (AFFOA) Institute, an MII designed to accelerate innovation in high-

tech fiber and textile manufacturing in the U.S.

On May 6, 2016, Dr. Reif announced the $5 billion MIT Campaign for a Better World.

As MIT’s provost (2005-2012), Dr. Reif helped create and implement the strategy that allowed MIT to

weather the global financial crisis, drove the growth of MIT’s global strategy, promoted a major faculty-led

effort to address challenges around race and diversity, and helped launch the Institute for Medical

Engineering and Sciences.

A member of the MIT faculty since 1980, Dr. Reif has served as director of MIT’s Microsystems Technology

Laboratories, as associate department head for Electrical Engineering, and as head of the Department of

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). In 2004, he was named the Fariborz Maseeh Professor

of Emerging Technology, a title he held until he was selected as president. He remains a mentor and

advocate for students, serving each year as a freshman advisor.

In 1993, Dr. Reif was named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) “for

pioneering work in the low-temperature epitaxial growth of semiconductor thin films,” and in 2000, he

received the Semiconductor Research Corporation’s Aristotle Award. An elected member of the National

Academy of Engineering, Dr. Reif is the inventor or co-inventor on 15 patents, has edited or co-edited five

books and has supervised 38 doctoral theses. An elected member of the American Academy of Arts and


Sciences, he also belongs to Tau Beta Pi, the Electrochemical Society and the IEEE. In 2015, he received an

honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Dr. Reif received the degree of Ingeniero Eléctrico from Universidad de Carabobo, Valencia, Venezuela, and

served for a year as an assistant professor at Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas. He earned his doctorate

in electrical engineering from Stanford University, where he spent a year as a visiting assistant professor.

After moving to MIT, Dr. Reif held the Analog Devices Career Development Professorship in the EECS

Department and an IBM Faculty Fellowship from MIT’s Center for Materials Science and Engineering. He

received a United States Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1984.

Julie A. Lucas

Vice President for Resource Development

Julie Lucas has served as the Vice President for Resource Development at MIT

since November 2014. An innovative and proven advancement leader who is

dedicated to the mission of MIT, she reports directly to MIT President L. Rafael

Reif, and oversees all aspects of MIT’s fundraising enterprise, deploying

resources to ensure MIT’s leadership in higher education.

To build philanthropic support for priority areas, Ms. Lucas collaborates closely

with the offices of the Provost and Chancellor, and the vice presidents, deans, faculty, Alumni Association,

and volunteers. Her first fiscal year at MIT closed June 30, 2015, with the highest fundraising results in the

Institute’s century-and-a-half history, as it prepares for a capital campaign.

A development professional with over 20 years of experience in higher education and external relations, Ms.

Lucas came to MIT from the University of Southern California (USC) where, as Associate Senior Vice

President, she managed fundraising for 15 individual School Campaigns and for the University Village, a

$600 million redevelopment project expected to provide housing for 30% of USC undergraduates. During

her tenure, she was responsible for the launch of 11 of the School campaigns and laid the groundwork for

the remainder. In addition, she spearheaded a global initiative to build relationships and raise capital

worldwide, and worked with development staff across USC’s schools to create metrics for monitoring

effectiveness. During her time at USC, Lucas was part of a team that raised over $3B toward the $6B overall

campaign target.

Prior to USC, Ms. Lucas served as the Associate Dean of Development and Alumni Relations at the New York

University (NYU) Stern School of Business, where she achieved record contributions, including raising over

$50M, achieving a 133% increase in seven-figure leadership gifts, and 100% leadership participation, as


well as exponentially increasing first-time, faculty, and staff giving. She directed the development program

for 110,000 alumni and created 14 new programs, including SternConnect, an online alumni directory.

Previous to NYU, Ms. Lucas was the Assistant Vice President of External Affairs and Assistant Dean of

Institutional Advancement at Fordham Law School, where she oversaw all aspects of a $100M campaign

and, under her leadership, the Law School raised more capital than it had in the previous 100 years of its

existence. She also oversaw a four-fold increase in the number of scholarships and the establishment of

eight new faculty chairs and five academic centers. Before her tenure at Fordham, Ms. Lucas served in a

series of progressively senior development roles at Hofstra University and the Episcopal Church Foundation,

as well as New York University and its School of Law.

Recognized for her strong work ethic, her ability to set ambitious goals and achieve them, and her

leadership, drive, and experience, Ms. Lucas was profiled in Crain’s New York Business 2010 “Forty Under 40,”

an annual list of 40 professionals who have achieved success in business before turning 40 years of age. Ms.

Lucas earned a BA in political science and Spanish from McDaniel College, where she serves as a

member of the Board of Trustees, and an MS in educational administration from Hofstra University. She also

holds an advanced certification from NYU’s Center for Philanthropy and Fundraising.

Whitney Espich

Executive Director, Communications & Events

Whitney Espich joined MIT’s Resource Development group in August 2014,

where she oversees comprehensive marketing and communications in

support of the $5-billion MIT Campaign for a Better World, launched in May

2016.

She had served as senior director of strategic marketing and communications

and, prior to that, director of university development communications, at Harvard University’s central Alumni

Affairs and Development Office. In these roles, she developed and oversaw University-wide marketing and

communications for Harvard's $6.5-billion campaign, launched in September 2013. Before that, she served

as director of communications at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Ms. Espich has also provided marketing guidance and support to corporate clients, such as Motorola, U.S.

Steel, and Sun Microsystems, as an account manager in the Cambridge, Mass., offices of Citigate

Cunningham, a UK-owned, high-tech communications agency.


Before moving from Virginia to the Boston area in 2000, Ms. Espich handled communications for Monticello,

the home of Thomas Jefferson, and for Mary Baldwin College. She earned a BA in English from Indiana

University, Bloomington; an MA in English from the University of Virginia; and a MPhil in philosophy from

the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

MIT Overview

The mission of the Massachusetts Institute

of Technology is to advance knowledge and

educate students in science, technology,

and other areas of scholarship that will best

serve the nation and the world in the 21st

century. It is also driven to bring knowledge

to bear on the world’s great challenges.

The Institute is an independent,

coeducational, privately endowed university,

organized into five schools (architecture and

planning; engineering; humanities, arts, and

social sciences; management; and science). It has some 1,000 faculty members, more than 11,000

undergraduate and graduate students, and more than 130,000 living alumni.

At its founding in 1861, MIT was an educational innovation, a community of hands-on problem solvers in

love with fundamental science and eager to make the world a better place. Today, that spirit still guides how

it educates students on campus and how it shapes new digital learning technologies to make MIT teaching

accessible to millions of learners around the world.

MIT admits some of the most talented students in the world on a need-blind basis. The Institute is

committed to meeting the financial need of each admitted undergraduate student through MIT

scholarships; the average student scholarship was $34,551 per year in 2014. As a result, the MIT community

is incredibly diverse, and organically collaborative, with students coming from many different backgrounds,

across the country and around the world.

Students are frequently encouraged to unite MIT's engineering excellence with public service. For example,

the required senior capstone design course for mechanical engineering majors centers on making the world

a better place through engineering. Recent years have focused on projects using alternative forms of

energy, and machines that could be used for sustainable agriculture. Beyond academic coursework, MIT's D-


Lab, Poverty Action Lab, and Public Service Center all support students and professors in the research and

implementation of culturally sensitive and environmentally responsible technologies and programs that

alleviate poverty and improve quality of life in low-income areas locally, nationally, and worldwide.

The MIT community brings its energy and creativity outside the classroom as well with 450+ student-run

groups, 33 varsity sports, 18 intramural sports, 33 club sports, and more than 60 music, theater, visual arts,

writing, and dance groups.

MIT’s spirit of interdisciplinary exploration has fueled

many scientific breakthroughs and technological

advances. A few examples: the first chemical synthesis of

penicillin and vitamin A. The development of radar and

creation of inertial guidance systems. The invention of

magnetic core memory, which enabled the development

of digital computers. Major contributions to the Human

Genome Project. The discovery of quarks. The invention

of the electronic spreadsheet and of encryption systems

that enable e-commerce. The creation of GPS. Pioneering 3D printing. The concept of the expanding

universe.

Current research and education areas include digital learning; nanotechnology; sustainable energy, the

environment, climate adaptation, and global water and food security; Big Data, cybersecurity, robotics, and

artificial intelligence; human health, including cancer, HIV, autism, Alzheimer’s, and dyslexia; biological

engineering and CRISPR technology; poverty alleviation; advanced manufacturing; and innovation and

entrepreneurship.

MIT’s influence also includes the work of its alumni. One way MIT graduates drive progress is by starting

companies that deliver new ideas to the world. A recent study estimates that as of 2014, living MIT alumni

have launched more than 30,000 active companies, creating 4.6 million jobs and generating roughly $1.9

trillion in annual revenue. Taken together, this "MIT Nation" is equivalent to the 10th-largest economy in the

world!

MIT places among the top ten in many overall rankings of universities. For 2016, U.S. News & World Report

ranked it #7 among National Universities, #2 Best Undergraduate Business Programs (including #2

Entrepreneurship), #1 Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs, #5 Best Business Schools, #5 Best Value

Schools, and #7 Best Colleges for Veterans.


In 2015, Money magazine ranked MIT as third in the U.S.

"Best Colleges for Your Money", based on its assessment

of "the most bang for your tuition buck", factoring in

quality of education, affordability, and career

outcomes. As of 2014, Forbes magazine rated MIT as the

second "Most Entrepreneurial University", based on the

percentage of alumni and students self-identifying as

founders or business owners on LinkedIn. In

2015, Brookings Fellow Jonathan Rothwell issued a report

"Beyond College Rankings", placing MIT as third in the US, with an estimated 45% value-added to mid-

career salary.

MIT’s Global Impact:

In the lab and in the field, MIT impacts the world through both the technology developed at the Institute

and the people who learn, work, and train here. MIT's students, faculty, and staff – supported by its alumni,

donors, and industry partners – are able to turn hands-on research into answers for the world's most

pressing problems.

Diversity – Institute Community and Equity Office

MIT understands that diversity spans the whole array of human characteristics that differentiate and shape

us, including but not limited to race, gender, culture, sexual orientation, disability, socioeconomic

background, age, religion, and language.

The Institute Community and Equity Office/Officer (ICEO) serves as a thought leader on the subjects of

community, equity, inclusion, and diversity; a focal point for organizing MIT’s related activities and

conversations; and a hands-on practitioner who disseminates best practices and inspires the awareness and

enthusiasm to help them flourish.

Drawing on the strength and energy of MIT’s extraordinary diversity of experiences and backgrounds, the

ICEO leads MIT to make practical progress on a daily basis toward cultivating a caring community focused

on MIT’s shared values of excellence, meritocracy, openness, integrity, and mutual respect. This work is

carried out in ways that enhance the life and work of MIT faculty, students, postdocs, and staff, with the aim

of making everyone here feel that MIT is home.

Global – Global MIT

MIT is committed to solving the world’s most pressing problems, and its students and faculty are eager to

do the hard – but fulfilling – work needed to reach this lofty goal. While the Institute has a 150-plus-year

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commitment to global engagement, today’s MIT is far more ambitious, integrated, and influential than ever

before.

The Institute has long worked with organizations, communities, and industries across the globe to push the

limits of what science and technology can accomplish – but there is an opportunity to do more and reach

further, and MIT is ready to meet that charge.

"Mens et Manus" (Mind and Hand), the motto emblazoned on MIT’s seal, speaks to the Institute’s time-

honored tradition of turning extraordinary ideas into powerful realities. Students and faculty at MIT aren’t

afraid to get their hands dirty if they can improve, evolve, or fix some aspect of the world around them –

and the world is benefitting in powerful ways from this pioneering spirit.

Energy – MIT Energy Initiative

The MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) is an Institute-wide initiative designed to help transform the global energy

system to meet the needs of the future. MITEI also aims to help build a bridge to that future by improving

today's energy systems. MITEI is the Institute’s hub for energy research, education, and outreach. Through

these three pillars, MIT helps develop the technologies and solutions that will deliver clean, affordable, and

plentiful sources of energy. Its mission is to create low- and no-carbon solutions that will efficiently and

sustainably meet global energy needs while minimizing environmental impacts, dramatically reducing

greenhouse gas emissions, and mitigating climate change.

Within MIT, the Initiative fosters a sense of community among those interested in energy, and provides

opportunities, including funding opportunities, for faculty and students, supporting student-led energy

groups, and hosting events with thought leaders across the energy spectrum.

Cancer – Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research

The David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT unites biologists, chemists, engineers,

computer scientists, clinicians, and others to bring fresh perspectives and an interdisciplinary approach to

the fight against cancer. This multifaceted group of investigators is at the core of the Koch Institute’s work

to develop new insights into cancer, as well as new tools and technologies to better treat, diagnose, and

prevent the disease.

The Koch Institute is a National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated Cancer Center. Completed in 2010, its

state-of-the-art cancer research facility on the MIT campus allows for the physical co-localization of faculty

members from the Department of Biology (formerly in the MIT Center for Cancer Research) with faculty

members drawn from a variety of departments in the MIT School of Engineering. The Koch Institute faculty

also includes many members located in other research buildings at MIT, including the Whitehead and Broad

Institutes.

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MIT’s goal is to make the Koch Institute the gold standard in interdisciplinary cancer-focused research. The

Koch Institute is continually expanding its highly effective relationship network, which involves other

academic and clinical oncology centers, industrial partners and cancer-focused individuals and foundations.

Firmly rooted in the MIT community, the Koch Institute shares its educational mission and is deeply

committed to training the next generation of cancer researchers. Trainees make up a significant portion of

its research force, and make invaluable contributions to the shaping of its institutional culture.

Public Service – Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center

At the heart of the MIT mission statement is a call to serve the nation and the world – and at MIT, the

opportunities for doing so are as diverse and as far-reaching as the Institute itself. The Priscilla King Gray

Public Service Center provides support for the humanitarian efforts of the MIT community, engaging

students, alumni, staff, faculty, and others in social entrepreneurship that provides needed resources to

individuals and communities around the world.

Every year, it sends thousands of students into communities locally, across the nation, and around the globe

to apply their skills and knowledge for the betterment of humankind. In the Institute's best traditions of

hands-on experience, entrepreneurial spirit, and creative problem solving, these students donate their time,

create new technologies, form communities and companies – and ultimately change lives everywhere they

go.

As part of MIT's Division of Student Life, it provides a central point of communication and support for the

outreach and humanitarian efforts of the MIT community. The Center engages students, alumni, staff,

faculty, and others in life-changing initiatives and social entrepreneurship ventures that provide needed

resources to individuals and communities.

Industry – MIT Industrial Liaison Program's Industry Gateway

Since its founding, MIT has fostered a problem-solving approach that encourages researchers to work

together across departments, fields, and institutional boundaries. The resulting collaborations have included

thousands of fruitful partnerships with industry and other leading research institutions.

The MIT Industrial Liaison Program (ILP) is dedicated to creating and strengthening mutually beneficial

relationships between MIT and corporations worldwide. Established in 1948, the ILP continues to be a key

player in making industrial connections for MIT.

Over 200 of the world's leading companies partner with the Industrial Liaison Program to advance

research agendas at MIT (FY15)

http://ki.mit.edu/approach/partnerships

http://web.mit.edu/mitpsc/

http://web.mit.edu/industry/


ILP member companies account for approximately 40% of all corporate gifts and single-sponsored

research expenditures at MIT.

With continued acceleration of advances in technology and knowledge discovery, and a more demanding

corporate funding environment, the ILP is committed to creating productive interactions with industry. The

ILP continually evolves to meet the interests, needs, and aspirations of MIT faculty and corporate partners.

Location

Cambridge, MA:

Cambridge is situated directly north of the city of Boston,

across the Charles River and is home to two of the world's

most prominent universities, the Massachusetts Institute of

Technology and Harvard University. As of July 2014, it was

the fifth most populous city in the state.

Consisting largely of densely built residential space,

Cambridge lacks significant tracts of public parkland. This is

partly compensated for, however, by the presence of easily

accessible open space on the university campuses, including MIT's Great Lawn, Harvard Yard, and the

Radcliffe Yard, as well as the considerable open space of Mount Auburn Cemetery. Public parkland includes

the esplanade along the Charles River and the Alewife Brook Reservation and Fresh Pond in the western part

of the city.

From MIT, it is just a short walk across the Charles River to Boston where one can enjoy the city's fabulous

restaurants or take in Boston culture.

In terms of business interests in Cambridge, manufacturing was an important part of the economy in the

late 19th and early 20th century, but educational institutions are the city's biggest employers today. As a

cradle of technological innovation, Cambridge was home to technology firms Analog Devices, Akamai, Bolt,

Beranek, and Newman (BBN Technologies) (now part of Raytheon), General Radio (later GenRad), Lotus

Development Corporation (now part of IBM), Symbolics, and Thinking Machines. Healthcare and

biotechnology firms such as Genzyme, Biogen Idec, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Sanofi, Pfizer, and

Novartis have significant presences in the city.


Though headquartered in Switzerland, Novartis continues to expand its operations in Cambridge. Other

major biotech and pharmaceutical firms expanding their presence in Cambridge include

GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, Shire, and Pfizer. Most Biotech firms in Cambridge are located around Kendall

Square and East Cambridge, which decades ago were the city's center of manufacturing. A number of

biotechnology companies are also located in University Park at MIT, a new development in another former

manufacturing area.

Google, IBM Research, Microsoft Research, and Philips Research maintain offices in Cambridge. In late

January 2012 – less than a year after acquiring Billerica-based analytic database management

company, Vertica – Hewlett-Packard announced it would also be opening its first offices in

Cambridge. Around this same time, e-commerce giants Staples and Amazon.com said they would be

opening research and innovation centers in Kendall Square. LabCentral also provides a shared laboratory

facility for approximately 25 emerging biotech companies.

The proximity of Cambridge's universities has also made the city a center for nonprofit groups and think

tanks, including the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory,

the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cultural Survival, and One Laptop per Child.

In September 2011, an initiative by the City of Cambridge called the "Entrepreneur Walk of Fame" was

launched. It seeks to highlight individuals who have made contributions to innovation in the global business

community.

To learn more about Cambridge, please visit: www.cambridgeusa.org

Background Checks:

Prior to submitting your resume for this position, please read it over for accuracy. LLLS does verify academic

credentials for its candidates, and our clients frequently conduct background checks prior to finalizing an

offer.

http://www.cambridgeusa.org/


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Libby Roberts, Vice President

617-262-1102

or send nominations or cover letter and resume to

[email protected].

All inquiries will be held in confidence.

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