Big 12 athletic departments list 165 development and fundraising staff positions across 15 of the 15 covered schools as of 3 Nov 2026 — 4% of the conference's 4,389 tracked positions, an average of 11.0 per department that has the function. University of Kansas has the most (17). In the last 90 days Whistle detected 10 hires, 4 departures and 15 title changes in these roles.
Data as of 3 Nov 2026.
Source: the official athletics staff directories of the 15 covered Big 12 schools, re-read on a rolling schedule; roles classified from published titles; changes from successive reads.
One row per covered department. "Positions" counts current (non-departed) staff whose classified role or published title places them in development & fundraising; changes are non-baseline hires, departures and title changes in those positions over the last 90 days, with same-day directory re-reads excluded.
| School | Division | Development & fundraising positions | All tracked positions | Hires (90d) | Departures (90d) | Title changes (90d) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Kansas | Division I | 17 | 291 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| University of Central Florida | Division I | 15 | 270 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Texas Tech University | Division I | 14 | 320 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| University of Colorado Boulder | Division I | 14 | 318 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| University of Cincinnati | Division I | 13 | 285 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Iowa State University | Division I | 12 | 263 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| West Virginia University | Division I | 12 | 284 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Arizona State University | Division I | 11 | 354 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Kansas State University | Division I | 11 | 264 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Oklahoma State University | Division I | 10 | 348 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Baylor University | Division I | 9 | 289 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| University of Houston | Division I | 9 | 233 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Brigham Young University | Division I | 7 | 319 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| University of Utah | Division I | 6 | 261 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Texas Christian University | Division I | 5 | 290 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Development & fundraising is the buying group for donor CRM and advancement platforms, giving-day and crowdfunding tools, premium-seating and hospitality vendors. Typical titles in this group: Associate AD for Development; Director of Annual Giving; Major Gifts Officer; Executive Director, Athletics Foundation. Whistle customers filter these positions by conference, school, state and sport, see each person's name, title and contact details where the directory publishes them, and get an alert when one of the positions changes hands.
Positions are counted when the published job title matches the development & fundraising pattern (and not an exclusion such as student, intern or graduate assistant); the same rule produces the counts and the change tallies.
Change counts compare successive reads of each school's official directory; a school's first extraction and any day on which 25% or more of a roster appears or disappears at once (a re-read, not turnover) are excluded. This page is published when at least 3 covered Big 12 schools have the function and they list at least 10 positions between them; smaller combinations are kept out of search indexes.
165 current positions across 15 covered Big 12 athletic departments as of 3 Nov 2026; University of Kansas lists the most (17).
University of Kansas, with 17 development and fundraising staff positions out of 291 tracked positions.
29 changes in the last 90 days: 10 hires, 4 departures, 15 title changes, after excluding first reads and same-day re-reads.
From the staff directories athletic departments publish on their official websites, read automatically on a rolling schedule (NCAA Division I roughly weekly, Division II and III every three to four weeks). Whistle never publishes names, emails or phone numbers on public pages; staff can remove their details at any time at gowhistle.io/remove-my-info.