Donor Engagement Officer - Queens University

The Faculty of Law is nationally and internationally recognized as a leading law school, with a distinguished record of outstanding teaching and research. In addition to offering the JD and graduate (LLM and PhD) programs, the Faculty of Law also offers innovative online programs such as the Certificate in Law and Graduate Diploma in Immigration and Citizenship Law, along with Professional Certificate Programs designed to meet the evolving needs of the legal profession and related markets.

Reporting to the Director, Development, Law, the Donor Engagement Officer plays a critical role in sustaining and expanding philanthropic support for the Faculty of Law at Queen's University. This position directly supports the development cycle, specifically stewardship, recognition, and re-engagement, which are essential for encouraging repeat giving.

The Donor Engagement Officer is responsible for developing and executing stewardship strategies to strengthen donor relationships. They manage a portfolio of donors in stewardship and support the Faculty of Law's fundraising team to ensure all donors are appropriately recognized, informed of their impact, and actively engaged with the university. This includes creating personalized stewardship plans for top-level benefactors whose contributions support initiatives like faculty positions, student bursaries, research funds, and program development.

This role also encompasses the management and optimization of existing funds, working closely with finance teams, faculty leadership, and other stakeholders to ensure that funds are utilized in accordance with donor intentions, reported accurately, and aligned with institutional priorities. This involves providing guidance on fund utilization, tracking fund performance, and ensuring compliance with reporting obligations.

Working closely with the Director of Development, Faculty of Law, and collaborating with Central Advancement Donor Experience and administration and the Faculty's finance team, the Donor Engagement Officer ensures all stewardship activities align with institutional standards and goals. This role is essential for maintaining donor satisfaction, maximizing retention, and driving continued philanthropic support for the Faculty of Law. The successful incumbent will require strong project management skills to execute on a variety of different projects, events, processes, and initiatives.

This position recommends, creates, and implements key aspects of development programs, including developing and implementing goals and strategies to maximize funding for priorities. This position identifies, evaluates, and recommend approaches to gaining or deepening relationships with current and prospective donors.

The schedule for this position requires the incumbent to work evenings and weekends.

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What you will do

• Recommends, develops and implements communication and donor engagement strategies with various donor groups.
• Supports senior staff on development decisions throughout the donor engagement lifecycle.
• Identifies, evaluates, and recommend approaches to gaining or deepening relationships with current and prospective donors.
• Develops objectives, discusses strategies for meeting objectives and executing annual plans, and resolves barriers to implementation.
• Identifies, evaluates, and solicits prospective donors (individuals, corporations and foundations) and/or actively nurtures relationships with existing donors to demonstrate impact and foster ongoing philanthropic giving.
• Creates and maintains print, email and web content to support departmental priorities.
• Updates all activity related to prospects, donors, and funds in the database.
• Writes case statements and donor proposals in support of key solicitation/engagement opportunities and/or writes impact reports and other donor communications to demonstrate and attract impact.
• Identifies, recruits, trains, and manages volunteers and coaches to assist with alumni communication, engagement and fundraising efforts.
• Coordinates fundraising volunteer meetings, recognition, communication and engagement opportunities.
• Implements business intelligence projects, including performance metrics, launching new software, data visualization and analytics.
• Collaborates with other Advancement staff to plan and facilitate development activities.
• Oversees event budgets, timelines and other aspects of the event project.
• Other duties as required in support of the department and/or unit.

Required Education

• Four-Year Bachelor Degree or equivalent. In addition, requires trade certification, qualification, or on-going learning to remain ahead of changes in technology or emerging fields.

Required Experience

• More than 3 years and up to and including 5 years of experience.
• Knowledge of relationship building, fundraising and stewardship considered an asset.
• Experience planning, coordinating and/or managing events or promotions considered an asset.
• Previous experience building relationships with donors considered an asset.
• Experience in data, trend analysis and reporting considered an asset.
• Knowledge of relevant laws, regulations, policies, standards and/or guidelines considered an asset.
• Experience in planning and/or managing projects considered an asset.
• Experience working with diverse populations/equity deserving groups considered an asset.
• Experience working at a post-secondary education institution considered an asset.

Required Licenses and Certifications

• A CFRE (Certified Fund Raising Executive) certification considered an asset.
• Consideration may be given to an equivalent combination of education and experience.

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