Stewardship & Engagement Officer

A Hiring Company; Indianapolis (IN); Hybrid; USD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fundraising organization in Indianapolis is seeking a Stewardship & Engagement Officer to enhance fundraising efforts and manage relationships with donors. The role involves managing volunteers, executing mass appeal campaigns, and ensuring donor stewardship. The ideal candidate will have strong fundraising skills, be creative, organized, and able to multitask effectively. This position requires working in the Indianapolis office at least three days per week.

Qualifications

• Experience with volunteer management and fundraising best practices.
• Ability to create mass appeal campaigns.
• Skills in donor stewardship and communication.

Responsibilities

• Manage volunteers and provide fundraising support.
• Create mass appeal campaigns to solicit gifts.
• Assist fundraising team with major gift solicitation.

Skills

Fundraising skills

Organizational skills

Creativity

Multi-tasking

Job description

This position requires working in the Indianapolis office at least three days per week, with the potential for additional in-office days as needed.

POSITION OBJECTIVE/JOB SUMMARY:

The Stewardship & Engagement Officer is a highly professional position on the Kiwanis Children’s Fund fundraising team. They will work closely with the Director of Development, Senior Community Impact Officer, and other Children’s Fund staff in the development, implementation, and evaluation of fundraising strategies and stewardship efforts to support the annual campaign and interpret the Kiwanis mission and causes. They will achieve this goal by executing excellent fundraising skills utilizing organization, creativity, and multi-tasking to manage multiple projects and prospects.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Actively impact KCF fundraising through three specific areas.

• Volunteer management: Provide support and guidance to Kiwanis Children’s Fund volunteers through creation of materials, sharing fundraising best practices, and sharing of information so volunteers can successfully solicit Kiwanis Clubs.
• Mass appeals: Work with Associate Director of Development and the Director of Development to create aggressive mass appeal campaigns through various mediums designed to solicit members and clubs for gifts.
• Direct support to fundraising team: Assist Director of Development, fundraising team, and volunteer fundraisers in executing fundraising cultivation and solicitation of major gift prospects, individual gift prospects, and club pledge prospects.

Stewardship (50%)

Positively impact the donor experience through the following areas.

• Stewardship plan: Create and implement a comprehensive stewardship plan to thank all donors, especially Major Gift donors and specific clubs, in concert with the fundraising team and to proactively inform them of the impact of their donations. This should be done through specific communication vehicles, special events, and more.
• Programmatic impact: In collaboration with the Senior Community Impact Officer, synthesize grantmaking data and stories to produce compelling, usable materials around its impact.
• Work cross-functionally within Kiwanis to share Children’s Fund mission with key stakeholders such as major gift donors, influential Kiwanis leaders and potential new Children’s Fund influencers.

Other duties as assigned, trained for, and qualified to do.