Sun Belt athletic departments list 60 development and fundraising staff positions across 13 of the 13 covered schools as of 2 Nov 2026 — 3% of the conference's 2,036 tracked positions, an average of 4.6 per department that has the function. Arkansas State University has the most (10). In the last 90 days Whistle detected 2 hires, 2 departures and 1 title change in these roles.
Data as of 2 Nov 2026.
Source: the official athletics staff directories of the 13 covered Sun Belt 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas State University | Division I | 10 | 149 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Georgia Southern University | Division I | 7 | 160 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Old Dominion University | Division I | 7 | 185 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| University of Southern Mississippi | Division I | 6 | 161 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Appalachian State University | Division I | 5 | 176 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| James Madison University | Division I | 4 | 228 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Marshall University | Division I | 4 | 158 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Troy University | Division I | 4 | 114 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| University of South Alabama | Division I | 4 | 151 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| University of Louisiana at Monroe | Division I | 3 | 86 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Coastal Carolina University | Division I | 2 | 179 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Georgia State University | Division I | 2 | 155 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| University of Louisiana at Lafayette | Division I | 2 | 134 | 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 Sun Belt schools have the function and they list at least 10 positions between them; smaller combinations are kept out of search indexes.
60 current positions across 13 covered Sun Belt athletic departments as of 2 Nov 2026; Arkansas State University lists the most (10).
Arkansas State University, with 10 development and fundraising staff positions out of 149 tracked positions.
5 changes in the last 90 days: 2 hires, 2 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.