Jill Rogers

Jill Rogers

Assistant Director, Naming Opportunities
Southern Methodist University
Speaker

Bio

Jill Rogers is the Assistant Director for Naming Opportunities & Recognition on the Donor Relations and Stewardship team at SMU. Jill has been at SMU since 2009 and a member of the donor relations team since 2016. She is responsible for the management of all naming opportunities and recognition across the University and supports the capital project initiatives of SMU Ignited: Boldly Shaping Tomorrow campaign, which will raise $1.5 billion. Jill collaborates with fundraisers and leadership during every phase of a capital project, from the valuation of opportunities, management of opportunity inventory during a building campaign, oversight of the production and installation of the physical recognition for each named space, to the eventual retirement of a named space. She has also successfully partnered with the Development Management Services team to expand SMU’s CRM to manage current naming opportunities as well as backloading the system to capture all existing named recognition on campus.