' . ' Skip to content
Lindauer
  • Searches
    • Open Searches
    • Recent Searches and Placements
  • Our Services
    • Executive Search
      • Search Principles
      • Search Process
    • CEO Search
    • By Sector
      • Advocacy + Public Policy
      • Arts + Culture
      • Community Impact
      • Conservation + Environment
      • Faith-Based
      • Healthcare + Academic Medicine
      • Higher Education
      • K-12 Education
      • Science + Research
      • Youth Development
    • By Function
      • Executive Leadership
      • Alumni + Constituent Engagement
      • Analytics, Data Science + Advancement Services
      • Diversity, Equity + Inclusion
      • Finance + Operations
      • Fundraising + Advancement
      • Human Resources
      • Marketing + Communications
  • For Candidates
    • Open Searches
    • Resources
  • About
    • Our History
    • Our Team
    • Our Principles
    • Privacy Policy
  • Insights
  • Contact
Contact
Previous Next

Assistant Dean of Development, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Home » Searches » Recently Closed Searches

Thank you for your interest in this opportunity. This search has concluded and is now closed.

Assistant Dean of Development, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

New York University

New York, New York

Unique among its peers and top-ranked by US News and World Report for Best Graduate Schools in Education, the New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development is a globally recognized school designed around a comprehensive and integrated approach to human development across the lifespan. The Steinhardt School’s mission has been to expand human capacity through public service, global collaboration, research, scholarship, and practice. NYU Steinhardt’s distinctive approach and exceptional programs offer an array of multidisciplinary opportunities across 11 departments in one of the world’s most iconic neighborhoods: Greenwich Village.

The Opportunity

The Steinhardt School seeks an Assistant Dean of Development to partner with the School’s Dean, faculty members, and peers in NYU’s central Development and Alumni Relations (UDAR) office to engage thousands of NYU Steinhardt alumni donors, and friends to drive fundraising success. Reporting to both the Executive Director of Schools and Institutes in UDAR and the Dean, the Assistant Dean will help define a vision and fundraising strategy aligned with the School’s strategic plan and University priorities. Critical to success in the role, the Assistant Dean will take the initiative to develop and execute a strategy to explore the untapped opportunity and recalibrate relationships as they guide the Dean’s fundraising activity. In addition to leading and mentoring a team, the Assistant Dean will carry a portfolio of major and principal-level prospects.

The successful candidate will be mission-aligned with a deep appreciation of academia and the importance of research and teaching and a proven record of soliciting and closing six- and seven-figure gifts.

The salary range for this position is $200k to $220k.

New York University

Past searches and placements for New York University

  • Assistant Vice President, Development, Schools and Institutes
  • Assistant Vice President, Development, Individual Giving
  • Assistant Vice President, Individual Giving
  • Assistant Vice President, Advancement Communications and Marketing
  • Associate Dean for Development, Engineering
Still Looking?

Sign up to learn about future opportunities.

    By admin|2026-09-23T21:19:44-04:00September 1, 2022|Comments Off on Assistant Dean of Development, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

    Share This Story, Choose Your Platform!

    FacebookXBlueskyRedditLinkedInWhatsAppTelegramTumblrXingEmailCopy Link

    About the Author: admin

    Lindauer: Bringing the Future into Focus
    • Searches
    • Our Services
    • For Candidates
    • About
    • Insights
    Contact
    ©1997–2026 Lois L. Lindauer Searches, LLC | Site Map
    Page load link

    Chandra Montgomery brings nearly 25 years of nonprofit sector experience to Lindauer and our clients. Her background spans higher education, academic medicine, youth services, public media, and museums. Over the past two-plus decades, Chandra has honed skills and expertise in advancement services, fundraising strategy, foundation relations, DEIB principles, and human resources.

    Prior to joining the firm, Chandra oversaw grateful patient discovery, pipeline development, data management, and gift services for Health Sciences and the Keck School of Medicine during her tenure at the University of Southern California. She also launched and co-chaired the University Advancement DEI Council. Prior to USC, Chandra led prospect development teams at National Public Radio and Virginia Commonwealth University. In the course of her career, she has identified over $1 trillion in giving capacity and has supported nine- and 10-figure comprehensive campaigns, including USC’s historic $7 billion campaign.

    Since 2008, she has been an active member of Apra where she has held numerous volunteer leadership roles. Chandra has also led training for Apra University and delivered keynote sessions for state and regional chapters across the country. Since 2014, she has chaired the Advocacy and Membership committees and is a founding member of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee. She has also served on the Conference Planning Committee and was a member of the organization’s inaugural Body of Knowledge committee for Relationship Management. Prior to her committee service, she was a member of the Apra-Virginia board of directors.

    Chandra is also a member of the African American Development Officer’s Network (AADO), Women of Color in Fundraising and Philanthropy (WOC), Association for Advancement Services Professionals (AASP), among others. In 2019, she was selected for CASE’s Minority Advancement Institute where she is also a member and conference presenter/faculty. Equally passionate about her personal philanthropy, she is a 2020 Philanthropy Together Launchpad participant and giving circle founder.

    A passionate HBCU alum, Chandra earned her bachelor’s in English from Hampton University where she has served as a volunteer alumni leader. She also holds a master’s degree and graduate certificate in Human Resources Law & Compliance from the USC Gould School of Law. Chandra has also completed additional graduate coursework at the College of William and Mary and holds multiple DEI certifications.

    Josh Maker brings to Lindauer and its clients significant global philanthropic consulting and project management experience in the nonprofit sector.

    Prior to joining Lindauer, Josh played a key role in advancing alumni and donor engagement at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. He partnered with institutional leaders and volunteer committees to design and deliver flagship reunion programs that strengthened the School’s philanthropic pipeline and deepened alumni commitment.

    Josh also spent several years at Grenzebach Glier and Associates (GG+A) where he served in multiple roles. As the Executive Director of Consulting Resources, Josh was a member of the firm’s senior leadership council and led a team in Chicago of 10 professionals in delivering client reports, presentations, and trainings. As the Chief of Staff to the President, he worked in close partnership with GG+A’s President and senior leadership to deliver on the firm’s strategic initiatives, as well as supporting the President in all of her client engagements. In the role of Senior Project Manager at GG+A, Josh managed upwards of 20 client projects at a time, ranging in sectors from arts and culture, academic medicine and healthcare, higher education, independent schools, to voluntary sectors.

    Josh has partnered with a number of clients including; Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Law School, Carnegie Mellon University, Cancer Research UK, Charlotte Country Day School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Drexel University, Esade Business School (Barcelona), Fuller Theological Seminary, Houston Methodist Hospital Foundation, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Philadelphia Museum of Art, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Sidwell Friends School, Tate, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, University of Queensland, and the University of Toronto.

    Josh holds a Master of Arts in Cultural and Creative Industries from King’s College London, and Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Kent State University.

    Featured Insights

    Go to Top