Responsibilities

• Lead UMB’s high-level donor stewardship and recognition programs, ensuring alignment with national best practices.
• Develop and implement stewardship plans for principal gift donors, endowed funds, and major philanthropic partners.
• Plan and execute high-profile donor stewardship and recognition events.
• Support stewardship components of place-based philanthropic initiatives that emphasize UMB’s impact on Baltimore and Maryland.
• Collaborate with other institutions in the University System of Maryland (USM) and the University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) on shared stewardship strategies and multi-institution donor recognition.
• Produce donor communications, including impact reports, acknowledgments, and donor stories.
• Maintain stewardship policies, naming guidelines, and compliance with State of Maryland and USM standards.
• Track donor engagement metrics and prepare reports to inform fundraising strategy.
• Partner with development officers, leadership, and communications teams to ensure consistent donor centered messaging.
• Conduct proactive research to identify emerging principal gift prospects, including analysis of giving patterns, engagement indicators, and capacity data.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree.
• Experience: Five (5) years progressively building a background in the various philanthropic functions, including at least two (2) years in donor data maintenance, donor support or stewardship, gift administration, or advancement services.
• Preferred Experience: Higher education or nonprofit experience.
• Experience working with principal-gift donors ($1M+).
• Supervisory Experience: One (1) year of experience providing work coordination, training, or supervision of others.
• Other: Except for qualifications established by law, additional related experience and formal education in which one has gained the knowledge, skills, and abilities required for full performance of the work of the job class may be substituted for the education or experience requirement on a year-for-year basis with 30 undergraduate college credits being equivalent to one year of related experience. In instances where specific education and/or experience is required only directly related education and/or experience may be substituted.
• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Knowledge of donor relations, stewardship strategy, and CASE standards.
• Strong writing, editing, and communication skills.
• Experience planning and executing complex special events.
• Understanding of place-based philanthropy and community engaged donor strategies.

Benefits

• Retirement program (pension or optional retirement plan/ORP) that must be selected and is effective on your date of hire.
• Paid leave package that includes over 4 weeks of vacation accrued each year.
• 15 paid holidays.
• 3 personal leave.
• Unlimited accrual of sick time.
• Comprehensive health insurance.
• Professional learning and development programs.
• Tuition remission for employees and their dependents at any University System of Maryland school.
• Flexible work schedules and teleworking options (if applicable per job).