Advance Your Career with UChicago’s Alumni Relations and Development Team
By joining Team ARD, you will engage alumni, parents and friends to support UChicago students, faculty and researchers, practitioners and patients, and programs across the University as they define future inquiry and its impact on lives worldwide.
Meet the Team
Meet our friendly and resourceful Talent Management Team, explore endless possibilities within our Development Associate Team, and learn about upcoming externship and internship opportunities.
Networking in ARD
The University of Chicago’s Alumni Relations and Development offers a number of ways to connect and meet with members across various teams within ARD. Learn how we immerse our community through continued efforts in engagement and how ARD leadership creates a more productive and collaborative workplace including implementing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. We offer monthly Coffee & Conversation networking opportunities, Explore ARD sessions, and Meet the Manager dialogues, just to name a few.
Click here to contact our staff and register for our next event. We can’t wait to meet you!
Advancement Stories
The Advancement profession offers a wide range of employment opportunities. Our staff is tasked with securing the resources and foundations needed to fuel the UChicago mission through fundraising and event planning, individual donor outreach and relations, researching funding sources and potential donors, campaign creation and management, and gift management and budgeting. Look what our externs, interns and staff at ARD have to say.
Ushna Zamir
2021 Intern
“My experience at ARD has been immensely fulfilling, from expanding on my knowledge of the field of advancement, to having 1:1 conversations with others on my professional and personal growth. For others interested in joining the team as a DA/intern/extern, I urge you to ask any question you have as everyone is more than happy to help fill any contextual holes you have!“
Daphne Francois- Torres
Associate Director
“ARD strives for nothing less than excellence and it feels good to be a part of a team that has brilliant minds and critical thinkers!” #TEAMARD
Andrea Aguilera
2021 Extern