Senior Stewardship Officer, Arts & Sciences - University Advancement

About the role

The Senior Stewardship Officer, Arts & Sciences, plays a critical role in ensuring long-term donor satisfaction and maximizing the impact of donor support. They manage stewardship activities and impact reporting for the Arts & Sciences division, collaborating with Donor Relations and the Stewardship Officer to ensure comprehensive scholarship and professorship reporting.

Responsibilities

• Manage Arts and Sciences Stewardship Activities & Impact Reporting
• Act as a subject matter expert on stewardship for the School and ensure Arts & Sciences donors are recognized for their giving.
• Manage Professorship installations and other donor recognition events, in coordination with Special Events.
• Occasionally serve on a relationship management team for Arts & Sciences prospects who require specific stewardship plans and are not managed by a Donor Relations Officer.
• Produce or support impact reports on Arts & Sciences funds by managing the stewardship reporting on the Dean’s top funding priorities, researching giving history, collecting impact data from beneficiaries, drafting content, and producing final reports.
• Support Donor Relations Officers and/or school colleagues to produce impact reports by providing content and review.
• Ensure Fund Impact Reporting and Scholarship Stewardship: Partner with Donor Relations and the team’s Stewardship Officer to ensure WashU donors receive fund impact reporting and comprehensive scholarship stewardship.
• Oversee named graduate and undergraduate scholarship matching and stewardship for Arts & Sciences, in collaboration with Donor Relations.
• Survey and match students to named scholarships, prepare student snapshots and scholarship profiles, and respond to inquiries on scholarships from colleagues, donors, students, and parents.
• Support Fund Administration: In partnership with the Executive Director of Advancement for Arts & Sciences, support fund administration and management for the school by coordinating between Donor Relations and the School’s Finance Office, reviewing accounts, identifying funds that should be addressed, keeping records for awarded scholarships and professorships in the CRM, tracking unspent fund accounts, and working with the Executive Director and Strategy Officers to develop plans to notify key stakeholders and remedy the situation.
• Support Team Operations: Support the development of budgets for unit activity, the creation and implementation of annual operational plans, and collaborating with internal stakeholders and departments to gather information and project updates for donor communication and stewardship purposes.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Relevant Experience (4 Years): Fundraising with a track record of successful solicitations or related experience.
• Skills: Active listening, analytical thinking, communication, donor relations, fundraising, problem solving, relationship management, stewardship, strategic thinking, work collaboratively, working independently.

Benefits

Personal: Up to 22 days of vacation, 10 recognized holidays, and sick time.
Competitive health insurance packages with priority appointments and lower copays/coinsurance.
Take advantage of our free Metro transit U-Pass for eligible employees.
WashU provides eligible employees with a defined contribution (403(b)) Retirement Savings Plan, which combines employee contributions and university contributions starting at 7%.

Salary Range

$65,900.00 - $112,700.00 / Annually