Senior Development Program Specialist/Development Program Manager School of Veterinary Medicine, School of Nursing, School of Pharmacy, and UW Athletics

• In collaboration with campus units, directors of development, and central stewardship, assist with all aspects of comprehensive stewardship of donors, including gift acknowledgements, milestone thanks, scholarship and faculty award cycles, and impact reporting.
• Work with development operations leadership, directors of development, and central stewardship in reviewing and implementing new opportunities for donor stewardship and engagement.
• Coordinate fund administration process and fund stewardship, including all activities related to the creation, documentation, notification, and review of unit funds.
• Respond to campus questions regarding unit gifts and funds, identifying issues that require additional review and action, including questions of fund use and compliance.
• Coordinate, distribute, and analyze routine gift reports.

• Manage stewardship, fund, and constituent activities in CRM.
• Maintain contact updates, donor biographic information, and other constituent management duties.
• Provide KPI data to units’ advancement and dean’s office for strategic review of unit level giving.
• Utilize self-service reports and work with the business intelligence team as needed, refine and customize alumni and donor lists for internal and external special mailings, invitations, stewardship projects, donor recognition, etc.

• Collaborate with the unit lead and other team members on scheduling, agenda creation, and note taking for regular team meetings.
• Coordinate the direct mailing of solicitations, stewardship projects, announcements, event invitations, and advanced administrative needs when necessary or appropriate.
• Suggest areas for process improvement and assist in improvement implementation.
• Serve as a leader on our collaborative team alongside the Senior Development Program Manager for the College of Engineering. This includes but is not limited to project management, mentoring other development operations colleagues, delegating tasks as appropriate, and having a growth-mindset when opportunities and challenges arise.

• Bachelor’s degree is preferred or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• 2 + years for Senior Development Program Specialist or 5+ years for Development Program Manager of relevant professional work experience in higher education, non-profit, or fundraising environment

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and strong attention to detail.
• Ability to judge the relative importance of issues and act independently to address them, applying the appropriate level of urgency to achieve results.
• Self-motivation, a proactive nature, persistence, flexibility, and dependability.
• Ability to work effectively with a team in an entrepreneurial environment and interact well with all internal and external constituents.
• Ability to remain calm under pressure; prioritize and manage multiple and sometimes competing tasks, and maintain a high degree of discretion, tact, poise, professionalism, and diplomacy.
• High degree of proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint); previous experience with database reporting and constituent relationship management software preferred.
• Demonstrates creativity and resourcefulness by identifying and adapting best practices from outstanding donor relations programs, and by designing visually appealing, brand-aligned materials using tools such as Canva.

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We offer competitive pay and an outstanding benefits program, including a generous 10% 401k contribution after just one year of service!

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The Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association is an Equal Opportunity Employer *The Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association is the “doing business as” name of the merged organization comprising the University of Wisconsin Foundation (supportuw.org) and the Wisconsin Alumni Association (uwalumni.com).

Its legal corporate name is registered as the University of Wisconsin Foundation.