UTS - Temporary Stewardship and Communications Officer at NC State

Responsibilities

• This Stewardship and Communications Officer role focuses on scaling impact reporting and developing a more robust advancement communications calendar. Key responsibilities include crafting donor reports, acknowledgment letters, and strategic advancement content, requiring strong writing, design, and organizational skills.
• Is Time Limited Yes
• If Yes, Appointment Length 12 months
• The ideal candidate is equally strong in design and writing. Most of the work takes raw submissions and turns them into finished, on-brand pieces. The ability to manage large segments of data and develop internal processes that automate data retrieval and sorting.
• Discretion: handles confidential donor and gift information appropriately

Requirements

• Associate’s degree or equivalent relevant experience.
• Strong organizational and multi-tasking skills
• A flexible, solutions-oriented working style with a willingness to take initiative, collaborate across teams, and contribute wherever needed in a fast-moving, all-hands environment.
• Adobe InDesign: advanced use of templates, master pages, paragraph and character styles, and data merge; able to prepare print-ready and accessible PDFs
• Writing and editing: turns student, faculty and donor submissions into clear, compelling narratives; strong proofreading and AP style
• Visual design: applies brand guidelines consistently across a series of profiles and reports
• Project management: tracks many submissions and deadlines at once; organized follow-up with departments and faculty
• Preferred Years Experience, Skills, Training, Education
• Nonprofit or higher-ed fundraising writing (case statements, stewardship or impact reports)
• Web content editing in a CMS such as WordPress, plus writing for the web

Preferred

• Adobe Creative Cloud tools: Photoshop for photo editing, Illustrator for simple graphics, Acrobat for PDF editing and accessibility
• Interviewing skills for alumni and donor profiles
• Web content editing in a CMS such as WordPress, plus writing for the web
• Email marketing tools for the twice-yearly donor newsletter
• Google Workspace, especially Forms and Sheets for managing submissions
• Familiarity with NC State brand standards

Benefits

• Health Insurance for Temporary Employees
• Enhance your career with LEAD courses
• Attend non-revenue generating sporting events for free.
• Attain Work-life balance with our Childcare discounts , Wellness & Recreation Membership , and Wellness Programs that aim to build a thriving wolfpack community.