Endowment Program Manager & Partner Relations

Council of Foundations; Oklahoma City (OK); On-site; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

403(b) retirement plan

Paid leave

Job summary

Oklahoma City Community Foundation seeks a Nonprofit Endowment Program Manager to translate strategy into action, managing an endowed partner portfolio and guiding cross-functional work with Finance, Communications and Gift Planning. You’ll counsel nonprofit leaders, steward funds, and drive program processes from onboarding through reporting.

The role requires a bachelor’s degree and 5+ years in nonprofit development or philanthropy, with strong relationship-building, project management, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in nonprofit management, business, communications, or a related field.
• At least five years of progressively responsible experience in nonprofit development, relationship management, fund administration, philanthropy, project management, or a related field.
• Demonstrated ability to independently manage external relationships, earn trust, provide counsel, and move partners from conversation to action.
• Strong project and process-management skills, including ownership of complex work involving multiple departments, deadlines, and stakeholders.
• Knowledge of nonprofit organizational structure, board governance, fundraising, stewardship, and endowment concepts.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, oral, facilitation, and presentation skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, donor databases, and cloud-based data-management systems.

Responsibilities

• Independently manage an assigned portfolio of endowed nonprofit partners, serving as the primary relationship contact and identifying opportunities for engagement and endowment-growth, as appropriate.
• Build trusted relationships with nonprofit executive directors, development staff, board members, and other stakeholders; provide practical counsel on endowment building, stewardship, campaigns, and use of OCCF resources.
• Conduct partner meetings, selected board presentations, and consultations; identify opportunities or concerns and recognize situations that involve executive-level, high-value, unusually complex, or reputational matters to elevate to Director.
• Manage stewardship follow-up for new funds, early gifts, active campaigns, and significant milestones, modeling effective donor stewardship for beneficiary organizations.
• Support the Director with nonprofit endowment fundholder dissolutions and variance-power cases.
• Manage the nonprofit endowment application and onboarding process from initial interest through fund establishment, ensuring correspondence, documentation, compliance review, internal handoffs, and partner communication are accurate and timely.
• Coordinate the annual distribution of more than $15 million from program funds, working with Finance dept and the Associate to ensure accuracy, compliance, and clear communication to partners.
• Lead cross-functional coordination with colleagues in Finance, Communications, Gift Planning, and other departments so partner communications, reports, publications, and operational processes are accurate, timely, and aligned.
• Manage content and coordinate timely updates for program materials, including regular review, collection of updates, internal approval, project management through the Communications department process, and final release.
• Coordinate governance and compliance for Nonprofit Endowment Affiliate Fund meetings and manage required documentation, follow-up, and distribution requests.
• Establish clear workflows, document team processes, identify gaps, and drive improvements that strengthen consistency and partner experience.
• Support portfolio segmentation by maintaining current knowledge of partner engagement, organizational capacity, fund performance, development goals, and planned-giving potential.
• Partner with the Director to identify and cultivate organizations with strong potential for campaigns, additional asset transfers, planned gifts, or deeper OCCF engagement.
• Research and coordinate matching-grant opportunities, including campaign support, tracking, reporting, and high-touch stewardship.
• Contribute to the design of educational programming and independently facilitate selected workshops, presentations, and peer-learning opportunities.
• Support impact measurement and reporting for the Nonprofit Endowment Program, including collecting and organizing data and outcomes.
• Manage the operational work of the Nonprofit Endowment Advisory Committee, including agendas, materials, logistics, reporting, minutes, follow-up, and continued engagement between meetings.

Skills

Relationship management

Project management

Communication

Facilitation

Presentation skills

Confidentiality

Education

Bachelor’s degree in nonprofit management, business, communications, or a related field

Tools

Microsoft Office

Donor databases

Cloud data management

Job description

Oklahoma City Community Foundation seeks a Nonprofit Endowment Program Manager to translate strategy into action, managing an endowed partner portfolio and guiding cross-functional work with Finance, Communications and Gift Planning. You’ll counsel nonprofit leaders, steward funds, and drive program processes from onboarding through reporting.

The role requires a bachelor’s degree and 5+ years in nonprofit development or philanthropy, with strong relationship-building, project management, and