Stewardship Officer - PT or FT

Description

The Stewardship Officer is responsible for the management of all aspects of donor relationships. The Stewardship Officer cultivates relationships with  within an assigned portfolio and assisting with other relationships as directed. The Stewardship Officer cultivates relationships with donors and prospects. The Stewardship Officer will follow a relational development model of stewardship to grow relationships with donors, soliciting support and elevating gift levels. Primary responsibilities include creating and implementing cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship strategies for assigned prospects; planning and executing cultivation and prospect identification events in assigned territories; participating in seminary events such as speaking conferences and participating in weekly Stewardship Leadership meetings.

Duties and responsibilities

• Serve as a stewardship officer for the seminary, working extensively to identify, qualify, cultivate, solicit, and steward major donors.
• Manage a personal portfolio of donors and prospects
• Meet weekly or as needed with Stewardship Leadership
• Make face-to-face visits as directed with donors and prospects each year.
• Work with the Stewardship team with the aid of Stewardship fundraising tools and knowledge to determine and achieve goals approved by VP of Stewardship
• Achieve 10% year-over-year new donor growth in accordance with the overall Stewardship growth goal
• In collaboration with Westminster events team and budget, coordinate donor identification, cultivation, and stewardship events throughout the year.
• Consistently update constituent relationship management platform with relevant actions, opportunities, notes, and profile information.
• Maintain donor and seminary confidentiality.
• Execute other duties as assigned by the Senior Director of Stewardship

This may be a part-time or full-time, non-exempt position, averaging between 20-40 hours per week.

More than one hire may be made for this position.

Requirements

• Passion and belief in Westminster’s mission
• Self-starter who is motivated by setting and achieving defined goals.
• Excellent organizational and communication skills.
• Ability to participate in all aspects of the gift cycle: 1) initiate contacts with potential donors, 2) develop appropriate cultivation strategies 3) move potential donors in an appropriate and timely fashion toward solicitation and closure, 4) make solicitations when appropriate; and 5) maintain stewardship engagement
• Ability to exercise sound judgment, tact, and diplomacy.
• Ability to be organized, methodical, accurate, and detail oriented.
• Ability to work as a member of a team in a variety of roles, sometimes outside of his/her job responsibilities.
• Ability to handle extremely sensitive information with confidentiality and tact.
• Positive, energetic, driven and goal-oriented
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and equivalent software,
• Willingness to travel and work some evenings and weekends.

Westminster Competencies

A successful employee will exemplify these competencies as they fulfill their duties and responsibilities:

Demeanor: Embodies the fruits of the Spirit in the office, interacts with people lovingly, joyfully, peacefully, patiently, kindly, faithfully, gently, and in a self-controlled manner.

Organization: Organizes their work in such a way that co-workers could find key resources/documents, and/or provide the tools necessary to succeed.

Communication - Equips supervisors and co-workers by communicating in a clear, kind, and timely manner

Initiative & Innovation - Identifies problems and/or solutions without being asked and consistently develops fresh perspectives, insights, and creative problem solving that help the team more efficiently and/or effectively achieve departmental and institutional goals.

Effectiveness & Dependability - Supervisors can trust you to produce timely, high quality, and generally error-free work with an appropriate amount of time and resources, that you fulfill your commitments, are on time to meetings, and provide advance notice of either delays or failures to meet goals.

Teamwork / Service - Clears the way for the success of others by providing support to their teammates in whatever way is needed;

Technical Proficiency - Effectively utilizes platforms and systems to help the team achieve institutional and departmental goals

Westminster Theological Seminary hires only personnel who belong to a Protestant evangelical church and subscribe to Biblical orthodoxy (belief) and orthopraxy (practice). Employees shall affirm their agreement with the historic, trinitarian Christian faith as expressed in the Apostles’ Creed. Otherwise, Westminster Theological Seminary is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to providing equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, except as specifically allowed by federal and state law, and basing employment decisions on merit, qualifications and training. Westminster Theological Seminary does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion (except as religion is a bona fide occupational qualification), sex, national origin, age, disability or any other classification protected by law.

In accordance with the above paragraph, all employees are required to sign Westminster Theological Seminary's community life policy affirming their commitment to Christian belief and practice as described in the policy.