Stewardship Officer - PT

Description

The Stewardship Officer is responsible for the management of all aspects of donor relationships. The Stewardship Officer cultivates relationships within an assigned portfolio and assists with other relationships as directed. The Stewardship Officer will follow a relational development model of stewardship to grow relationships with donors, soliciting support and elevating gift levels. Primary responsibilities include creating and implementing cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship strategies for assigned prospects;

planning and executing cultivation and prospect identification events in assigned territories; and participating in seminary events such as speaking conferences and weekly Stewardship Leadership meetings.

• Serve as a stewardship officer for the seminary, working extensively to identify, qualify, cultivate, solicit, and steward major donors.
• Manage a personal portfolio of donors and prospects
• Meet weekly or as needed with Stewardship Leadership
• Make face‑to‑face visits as directed with donors and prospects each year.
• Work with the Stewardship team with the aid of Stewardship fundraising tools and knowledge to determine and achieve goals approved by VP of Stewardship.
• Achieve 10% year‑over‑year new donor growth in accordance with the overall Stewardship growth goal.
• In collaboration with Westminster events team and budget, coordinate donor identification, cultivation, and stewardship events throughout the year.
• Consistently update constituent relationship management platform with relevant actions, opportunities, notes, and profile information.
• Maintain donor and seminary confidentiality.
• Execute other duties as assigned by the Senior Director of Stewardship.

This may be a part‑time or full‑time, non‑exempt position, averaging between 20–40 hours per week.

More than one hire may be made for this position.

• Passion and belief in Westminster’s mission.
• Self‑starter who is motivated by setting and achieving defined goals.
• Excellent organizational and communication skills.
• Ability to participate in all aspects of the gift cycle:
  1) initiate contacts with potential donors,
  2) develop appropriate cultivation strategies,
  3) move potential donors in an appropriate and timely fashion toward solicitation and closure,
  4) make solicitations when appropriate, and
  5) maintain stewardship engagement.
• Ability to exercise sound judgment, tact, and diplomacy.
• Ability to be organized, methodical, accurate, and detail‑oriented.
• Ability to work as a member of a team in a variety of roles, sometimes outside of his/her job responsibilities.
• Ability to handle extremely sensitive information with confidentiality and tact.
• Positive, energetic, driven and goal‑oriented.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and equivalent software.
• Willingness to travel and work some evenings and weekends.

Demeanor: Embodies the fruits of the Spirit in the office, interacts with people lovingly, joyfully, peacefully, patiently, kindly, faithfully, gently, and in a self‑controlled manner.

Organization: Organizes their work so co‑workers can find key resources/documents and provides the tools necessary to succeed.

Communication: Equips supervisors and co‑workers by communicating in a clear, kind, and timely manner.

Initiative & Innovation: Identifies problems and/or solutions without being asked and consistently develops fresh perspectives, insights, and creative problem‑solving to help the team more efficiently and effectively achieve departmental and institutional goals.

Effectiveness & Dependability: Supervisors can trust you to produce timely, high‑quality, and generally error‑free work with an appropriate amount of time and resources, fulfill commitments, arrive on time to meetings, and provide advance notice of delays or failures to meet goals.

Teamwork / Service: Clears the way for the success of others by providing support to teammates in whatever way is needed.

Technical Proficiency: Effectively utilizes platforms and systems to help the team achieve institutional and departmental goals.

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