Southern Conference athletic departments list 24 development and fundraising staff positions across 8 of the 10 covered schools as of 3 Nov 2026 — 2% of the conference's 1,063 tracked positions, an average of 3.0 per department that has the function. Western Carolina University has the most (6). In the last 90 days Whistle detected 3 hires, 0 departures and 1 title change in these roles.
Data as of 3 Nov 2026.
Source: the official athletics staff directories of the 10 covered Southern Conference 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Western Carolina University | Division I | 6 | 117 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| The Citadel | Division I | 5 | 89 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Samford University | Division I | 4 | 125 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Furman University | Division I | 3 | 122 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mercer University | Division I | 2 | 140 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| University of Tennessee at Chattanooga | Division I | 2 | 134 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| East Tennessee State University | Division I | 1 | 81 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| University of North Carolina at Greensboro | Division I | 1 | 82 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Virginia Military Institute | Division I | 0 | 70 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Wofford College | Division I | 0 | 103 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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 Southern Conference schools have the function and they list at least 10 positions between them; smaller combinations are kept out of search indexes.
24 current positions across 8 covered Southern Conference athletic departments as of 3 Nov 2026; Western Carolina University lists the most (6).
Western Carolina University, with 6 development and fundraising staff positions out of 117 tracked positions.
4 changes in the last 90 days: 3 hires, 0 departures, 1 title change, 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.