Associate Director, Stewardship Reporting

Donor Relations Program Manager

This role develops and implements programs with senior leadership and colleagues to lead a comprehensive University-wide donor relations program to enrich the relationship between donors and the University. Plans, organizes, and leads the donor program to recognize, steward, and cultivate individuals in meaningful ways and at different giving levels.

Responsibilities include :

• Contributing to the overall success of the stewardship reporting program to recognize, steward, and develop meaningful experiences for donors across the University.
• Assisting in creation of annual narrative and financial reports, demonstrating donor impact through informative and engaging stewardship reports.
• Cultivating and maintaining strong relationships with colleagues across the University, particularly with Communications, Events, and relationship managers to closely partner on stewardship projects.
• Maintaining thorough and timely records and tracking stewardship activity through proficient use of the University's relationship database (Salesforce).
• Handling ad hoc donor reporting or writing projects.
• Representing the donor voice, participating in the planning and execution of stewardship events and experiences that are donor-centric, advancing overall fundraising goals, and are consistent and coordinated across the University.
• Engaging with donors remotely and at visits, meetings, and events as needed.
• Demonstrating a sophisticated understanding within the areas of recognition, acknowledgements, donor engagement, and stewardship reporting.
• Assisting in guiding the creation of University-wide standards on appropriate ways to recognize and steward the University's most generous donors. Uses expertise in donor relations to develop policies and quality control guidelines.
• Educating and training colleagues on policies and best practices through a variety of communication tools and vehicles.
• Seeking opportunities for professional development that will enhance job performance.
• Performing other related work as needed.

Minimum qualifications include a college or university degree in a related field and 5-7 years of work experience in a related job discipline. Preferred qualifications include a bachelor's or advanced degree, experience in nonprofit management, development, alumni relations, marketing, public relations or similar field, and proficiency in Microsoft Windows computer environment.

This position has a hybrid work schedule which includes weekly in-office presence. Standard office environment. Travel to campus and / or non-campus locations for University business. Work evenings and weekends as needed.

Application documents must be uploaded via the My Experience page, in the section titled Application Documents of the application.