Executive (Stewardship)

The incumbent reports to the Manager/Senior Manager to implement strategies for success in stewarding the donors to meet the university’s priorities.

**Responsibilities**:
Stewardship & Donor Relations
- Responsible for stewardship of donors and prospects to strengthen long-term relationships with donors.
- Work closely with fundraisers to cultivate relationships of individual and organisational giving with a focus on retention, recapture, and growth and to develop and maintain a coordinated approach in support of overall departmental and university-wide goals.
- Work with the various departments and provide support in generating regular donors' reports on gift utilisation.
- Ensure acknowledgement and recognition procedures are followed.
- Identify, develop and deliver engagement opportunities to donors to ensure the maximisation of their financial and non-financial support.

Events Management
- Together with the Manger/Senior Manager, responsible for start-to-end donor and prospect engagement events.
- Support donor-related events such as campus visits, presentations, ceremonies and convocation.

Programme Management
- Responsible for ensuring donations received are used as per donor intent.
- Work regularly with the fund owners to ensure good governance.

**Job Requirements**:

- A Bachelor's degree.
- Minimum 3 years' experience in partnership, sales, and marketing roles involving multiple stakeholder engagement.
- Proactive, energetic personality who enjoys meeting with donors and partners, and multi-tasking between partners, various teams and key stakeholders.
- Good interpersonal, verbal and written skills and the ability to collaborate, build alliances and achieve results within a population that may possess competing interests, opinions and/or expectations.
- Good verbal and written communication skills; effective organisational skills and strong detail orientation.
- A high degree of customer service orientation, personal motivation and commitment to values that support the University's philanthropic mission and vision.
- An ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality with respect to prospects and donors.
- Good knowledge of MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and donor database software.