Assistant Director of Stewardship

About the role

The Assistant Director of Stewardship is responsible for overseeing the gift acknowledgement process, assisting in major stewardship reporting, updating database stewardship records and requesting needed reporting, and managing visible donor recognition and related activities. The Assistant Director is responsible for creating and managing grant proposals and foundation updates. Additionally, they actively contribute to the management and planning of leadership donor events, activities for giving societies, and major stewardship publications (e.g. Report of Giving).

Responsibilities

• Manage all aspects of the acknowledgement process end-to-end, collaborating with colleagues as needed, crafting messages, sending materials, documenting correspondence, overseeing other staff involved.
• Maintain documentation of the acknowledgement process to be shared as needed (SOP).
• Ensure acknowledgements are sent to donors in a timely manner.
• Meet regularly with the CAO and/or others to review needed special outreach.
• Evaluate systems regularly for improvement, streamlining processes and use