Are you a proactive and dynamic individual looking for the next step in your career? Would you like to use your excellent writing ability and warm, engaging personality to help raise money for exciting projects at a World Top 100 university?
In this role, you will ensure our major donors feel recognised, informed, and motivated to support us again.
Fundraising at the University of Sheffield helps to find cures for deadly diseases, fund world-changing research, and provide opportunities for students from all backgrounds to experience university by removing financial barriers. As a department, Campaigns and Alumni Relations (CAR) is at an exciting point in its journey as the University scales up its ambitions to secure further philanthropic support in both volunteer time and donations through a university-wide fundraising and supporter engagement Campaign.
As the University’s Stewardship Officer, you will implement effective and efficient administrative support for stewardship activities undertaken within the CAR team. You will be responsible for liaising with key stakeholders across the University and within CAR to ensure that stewardship activities are carried out successfully and in an appropriate, timely and gracious manner. As the first point of call for any queries regarding stewardship, you will be expected to provide a high level of customer service and be responsible for providing help and support when needed.
You must have skills in a variety of areas and be creative in your approach to the stewardship of donors. Your excellent writing skills, attention to detail, and warm and engaging personality, along with a passion for supporting fundraising activities, will continue to help the University to secure further philanthropic income and build on the positive long-term relationship with our supporters.
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This post has been identified as a fixed-term/secondment contract for a fixed period of 12 months. We are committed to exploring flexible working opportunities which benefit the individual and University.
We are one of the best not-for-profit organisations to work for in the UK. The University’s Total Reward Package includes a competitive salary, a generous Pension Scheme and annual leave entitlement, as well as access to a range of learning and development courses to support your personal and professional development. We build teams of people from different heritages and lifestyles from across the world, whose talent and contributions complement each other to greatest effect. We believe diversity in all its forms delivers greater impact through research, teaching and student experience.
