Director Stewardship and Donor Engagement

Location:

Work from home (Pennsylvania)

Shift:

Days (United States of America)

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Worker Type:

Regular

Exemption Status:

Yes

Job Summary:

Responsible for the day-to-day operational oversight, collaborative and strategic planning, implementation and the coordination of a comprehensive donor engagement and stewardship program. This position will lead the Stewardship team in appropriately and consistently promoting varying levels of interaction with philanthropic supporters. It will work closely with colleagues across the system to gather, synthesize, organize and share programmatic information for donor reporting purposes and to shape the vision for stewardship program.

This position will partner with various colleagues within the Foundation to launch new initiatives aimed at delivering best-in-class stewardship to our donor community. Manage and establish stewardship reporting materials, messaging and content with intent to develop broad-based donor communication pieces and lead brainstorming discussions to create initiatives and activities on an ongoing basis for stewardship projects.

Job Duties:

• Manages and directs the Stewardship and Donor Engagement program.
• Strategize new initiatives and recommendations to innovatively approach stewardship, based on input from senior development staff, stewardship colleagues, and benchmarking with successful stewardship programs at peer organizations.
• Compile these approaches and practices into a revised set of guidelines to be used as a resource.
• Design, create, implement and manage system-wide donor recognition programs in an effort to steward established new donors.
• Strategically collaborate with colleagues across Geisinger to plan and execute stewardship and donor recognition events.
• Work with the annual giving and data team to ensure that the gift acknowledgement process is efficient and timely assisting with creating drafts for leadership correspondence and ensuring timely acknowledgement of all large incoming gifts.
• Recommends and facilitates on and off-site publicity of major gifts and donors.
• Advises on and facilitates the recognition of donors in both print and Web-based publications.
• Contributes donor and gift information for the Foundation’s Annual Report,