Director Stewardship and Donor Engagement

Job Summary

Responsible for the day-to-day operational oversight, collaborative and strategic planning, implementation and the coordination of a comprehensive donor engagement and stewardship program. This position will lead the Stewardship team in appropriately and consistently promoting varying levels of interaction with philanthropic supporters. It will work closely with colleagues across the system to gather, synthesize, organize and share programmatic information for donor reporting purposes and to shape the vision for stewardship program. This position will partner with various colleagues within the Foundation to launch new initiatives aimed at delivering best-in-class stewardship to our donor community. Manage and establish stewardship reporting materials, messaging and content with intent to develop broad-based donor communication pieces and lead brainstorming discussions to create initiatives and activities on an ongoing basis for stewardship projects.

Job Duties

• Manages and directs the Stewardship and Donor Engagement program.
• Strategize new initiatives and recommendations to innovatively approach stewardship, based on input from senior development staff, stewardship colleagues, and benchmarking with successful stewardship programs at peer organizations.
• Compile these approaches and practices into a revised set of guidelines to be used as a resource.
• Design, create, implement and manage system-wide donor recognition programs in an effort to steward established new donors.
• Strategically collaborate with colleagues across Geisinger to plan and execute stewardship and donor recognition events.
• Work with the annual giving and data team to ensure that the gift acknowledgement process is efficient and timely assisting with creating drafts for leadership correspondence and ensuring timely acknowledgement of all large incoming gifts.
• Recommends and facilitates on and off-site publicity of major gifts and donors.
• Advises on and facilitates the recognition of donors in both print and Web-based publications.
• Contributes donor and gift information for the Foundation’s Annual Report, oversees production of the donor roll, determines the report recipients, and facilitate the mailing.
• Coordinates and monitors the Foundation’s recognition entities working closely with the Stewardship and Donor Engagement program, Events staff, Foundation leadership, and other colleagues.
• Working with colleagues to design, implement and manage giving societies.
• Design and implement a stewardship strategy for corporate, foundation and national-level donors and sponsors.
• As requested, work with gift officers to create and prepare all gift agreements including sending to all signers for electronic signatures. If needed, complete a request for the creation of a new Foundation fund if the gift is to do so.
• Oversee and update donor recognition inventory across the Geisinger entities. Work with vendors and Geisinger facilities to have appropriate signage created and installed as needed.

Work is typically performed in an office environment. Accountable for satisfying all job specific obligations and complying with all organization policies and procedures. The specific statements in this profile are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job.

Position Details

Education

Bachelor's Degree- (Required)

Experience

Minimum of 5 years-Managerial/Supervisory (Required), Minimum of 5 years-Related work experience (Required)

Certification(s) and License(s)

OUR PURPOSE & VALUES: Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities. KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves. EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence. LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow. INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation. SAFETY: We provide a safe environment for our patients and members and the Geisinger family We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and domestic partners. Perhaps just as important, from senior management on down, we encourage an atmosphere of collaboration, cooperation and collegiality. We know that a diverse workforce with unique experiences and backgrounds makes our team stronger. Our patients, members and community come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and it takes a diverse workforce to make better health easier for all. We are proud to be an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or status as a protected veteran.