Assistant Director of Stewardship

Teachers College, Columbia University; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 77.000 - 87.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Teachers College, Columbia University seeks an experienced Assistant Director of Stewardship to design donor communications and strengthen stewardship processes. You will partner with gift officers and academic departments to inform donors of impact and ensure trust and ongoing engagement.

The role advances donor relations by coordinating reporting, content gathering, acknowledgements, and executive correspondence, while collaborating with the frontline fundraising team and supporting events.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor’s degree is required.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in stewardship, donor relations, development, marketing communications, or related fields.

Aufgaben

• Manage narrative reporting of endowed and expendable funds for donor stewardship.
• Gather impact content with faculty and departments and meet reporting deadlines.
• Coordinate with Financial Aid to ensure funds are awarded annually per donor intent and applicable laws.
• Collect student biographies, thank-you letters, photos, and profiles for reporting and materials.
• Refine gift acknowledgement process, messaging standards, and quality control.
• Draft high-level executive correspondence for College leadership.
• Organize meetings between scholarship recipients and donors and prepare briefing for students.
• Support donor events by identifying and coaching student speakers.
• Provide on-site event setup and act as a representative for Institutional Advancement.
• Manage donor relations data and ensure data integrity in Raiser's Edge NXT.
• Execute ad-hoc special projects as assigned.

Kenntnisse

Communication

Organization

Team collaboration

Discretion

Editing

Research

Writing

Proofreading

MS Office

Google Suite

Adobe Creative Suite

Raiser’s Edge

CRM software

Excel functions

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Raiser’s Edge

CRM software

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

PowerPoint

Google Suite

Adobe Creative Suite

Jobbeschreibung

Posting Summary

The Office of Institutional Advancement is seeking an experienced Assistant Director of Stewardship to design and deliver timely, accurate, and meaningful donor communications. The Assistant Director is responsible for building and strengthening stewardship processes, and will serve as a key partner to gift officers, advancement services, academic departments, and the Office of Financial Aid; in service of enhancing the TC donor experience.

Job Summary/Basic Function

Reporting to the Director of Donor Relations and Special Projects, the Assistant Director of Stewardship advances philanthropic engagement for Teachers College, Columbia University (TC) by ensuring donors are consistently and effectively informed of the use and impact of the initiatives they have supported. This role provides essential stewardship infrastructure to support donor trust, satisfaction, and long-term engagement.

Characteristic Duties & Responsibilities

• Manages the narrative reporting of all endowed and expendable funds for donor stewardship under the standards set by the Director of Donor Relations and Special Projects.
• Partners with faculty and academic departments to gather impact content and ensure reporting deadlines are met.
• Collaborates with the Office of Financial Aid to ensure funds are awarded annually per the donors’ documented intentions and in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
• Coordinates the collection of student biographies, thank-you letters, photo submissions, and profile details from scholarship recipients for reporting, annual fund materials, and other stewardship communications.
• Manages and refines the gift acknowledgement process, including workflow, messaging standards, and quality control.
• Drafts high-level executive correspondence on behalf of the College President, Vice President of Institutional Advancement, and senior leadership as assigned.
• Partners closely with the frontline fundraising team to organize meetings between scholarship recipients and donors, and develops a briefing process to prepare students for these meetings.
• Collaboratively supports donor events by identifying, conducting outreach to, and coaching student speakers and participants.
• Provides on-site event setup and execution support, serving as a representative for Institutional Advancement and TC.
• Manages donor relations data, including accurate record-keeping, tracking, and donor data integrity in Raiser’s Edge NXT.
• Executes ad-hoc special projects and duties as assigned by the Director.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in stewardship, donor relations, development, marketing communications, or related fields.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience in a higher education or complex non-profit institutional advancement setting.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills with a track record of setting priorities, managing multiple responsibilities, and meeting deadlines.
• Ability to work well as a member of a team and to collaborate effectively with colleagues cross functionally and in other university departments.
• Ability to apply good judgment; tact and discretion are required to deal with highly confidential information.
• Excellent research, writing and editing skills as well as demonstrated grammatical and proofreading skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, etc.), Google Suite (Docs, Sheets, etc); Adobe Creative Suite preferred; Raiser’s Edge or other Constituent Relationship Management software.
• Database management and reporting skills using advancement CRM systems and Microsoft Excel functions are a plus.

Salary Range

$77,000 - $87,000

Work Modality

Hybrid

Competitive Compensation And Benefits

The salary range reflects the College’s good faith and reasonable estimate of the compensation for the position at the time of the job posting. Salary decisions are dependent on several factors including but not limited to market and organizational considerations, experience, and qualifications of a selected candidate as well as internal and external equity.

Our benefits contribute significantly to the total compensation package that includes medical, dental, vision, and supplemental insurance plans; flexible and hybrid work schedules; tuition remission; life insurance; short and long-term disability insurance; an exceptional employer retirement matching program; health savings accounts (HSA), flexible spending accounts (FSA), Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility, and a robust Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

Hybrid/Remote

Teachers College maintains a hybrid work environment, which provides employees with flexible work arrangements while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person college-campus culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite or in a hybrid model (a combination of in-office and virtual days). Employees are expected to live within a 150-mile radius of the College.