Job Title: Manager, Stewardship – Advancement (Full-Time, Ongoing)
Location: Any SaskPolytech Location
Closes: December 30, 2024
Apply to: https://careers.saskpolytech.ca/postings/57103
Salary Range: $90,053.00 – $118,495.00
Job Description: Advancement, Saskpolytechnic is hiring a new and exciting Manager Stewardship position who will strategically work towards he $100 million “Time to Rise” capital campaign to support the creation of a new Saskatoon Campus!
The Manager, Stewardship is a new exciting position that addresses the need for strategic donor stewardship and recognition focusing on long-term donor relationships for the institution through comprehensive engagement, stewardship, and recognition programs. In this role you will manage donor services throughout the entire lifecycle of a gift, ensure stewardship across all levels of giving, develop and implement a donor recognition system, and facilitate programs and protocols following best practices that acknowledge, celebrate, and communicate the impact of a donors’ philanthropic contributions.
Reporting to the Director, Alumni and Donor Engagement, as the primary contact for donor recognition, communications, marketing, annual giving, and reporting, you will oversee a team managing donor relations, communications, and annual giving initiatives with multiple priorities, and ensure successful outcomes through strategic relationship management, negotiation, and influence. In addition to promoting and creating a donor-centric culture across the institution, you will also build key partnerships and foster collaboration among all members of the Sask Polytech community involved in donor stewardship and external partners with the goal of nurturing relationships and encouraging future continuous long-term giving.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead programs and protocols that acknowledge, recognize, celebrate, and communicate donor philanthropic investments and their successful and positive impacts
- Financial management (budget planning)
- Strategic business planning, and implement and deliver on accountabilities
- Identification of emerging trends and opportunities in alumni and donor engagement
- Creation of stewardship programs and alignment to existing and new policy
- Determine and implement strategies for successful stewardship of donors
- Create programs and practice that inspire and build donor confidence communicating impact, -educating, and sharing success stories develop and implement a donor recognition system
- People management (HR), ensure adherence of practices and processes to manage staff in -meeting role expectations within CBA and HR practices
- Monitor and oversee donor recognition, impact reporting, gift announcements, and accountability measures—including gift agreements, fund utilization monitoring, pledge reminders, and adherence to naming and gift acceptance policies
- Oversee strategic donor services throughout the lifecycle of a gift
In addition, you will provide direct support to a portfolio of donors with special stewardship needs with significant impact, and operate in a dynamic, high-volume environment with changing priorities and tight deadlines. You will have sound judgment, and strategy particularly in determining and implementing work and advising the Director and other Advancement leaders on compliance issues and handling sensitive information. Your strong background in fundraising best practices will tailor to each donors needs, and you will optimize stewardship resources, and utilize data-driven approaches to measure donor contributions, as well as ensuring and maintaining compliance with legal and ethical fundraising standards, and establishing accountability measures to track and report on stewardship initiatives.
Confidently and collaborate you will continuously work with senior leadership, Senior Management Assembly (SMA), Deans, AVPs, Associate Deans, Directors, and utilize your sound judgement and decision-making on the execution of ongoing projects, initiatives, and in sharing progress and results. You will collaboratively work with Marketing and Communications on donor engagement and annual giving functions for awareness, interest, exposure and promotion.
Qualifications:
A bachelor’s degree in a related field and a minimum of five years of experience in stewardship, fundraising, donor communications or a related field.
Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE) designation will be considered an asset.
Required Competencies:
Leads Transformation:
Anticipates emerging trends and creates opportunities that shape and transform the organization and polytechnic sector in Canada.
Inspires Courage & Innovation:
Models and enables creative thinking, curiosity, and calculated risk taking to create new solutions.
Cultivates Strong Relationships:
Builds strong and trusting relationships and brings a stakeholder and learner-centric mind set and focus to all elements of the organization.
Drives Operational Excellence:
Leverages business insight, financial acumen, and operational rigor to maximize productivity and build long-term, sustainable success.
Builds Leadership & Culture:
Brings authenticity, emotional intelligence, and accountability to develop leadership effectiveness in individuals, teams, and our culture.
Applicants will be reviewed January 2025
