• Job Type: Officer of Administration
• Bargaining Unit:
• Regular/Temporary: Regular
• End Date if Temporary:
• Hours Per Week: 35
• Standard Work Schedule:
• Building:
• Salary Range: $70,000 - $74,000 Annually

Position Summary

Reporting to the Senior Director of Donor Relations, the Assistant Director of Donor Relations plays an integral role in developing and implementing a comprehensive donor relations program for Columbia College. They will perform operational, day-to-day tasks in support of the overarching stewardship program, which aims to thank, inform, inspire, engage and recognize donors through strategic communications, reporting and engagement activities.

Responsibilities

• Annual Narrative Reporting
  • Columbia College has various named funds that support the strategic priorities of the College. The Assistant Director will manage the process of creating annual narrative reports that seek to meaningfully demonstrate the impact of donor support. This will include more than 100 named funds and involve coordinating with various Columbia offices, editing and formatting content, writing cover letters for reports, and assisting with the maintenance of donor and fund recognition websites. The Assistant Director will help maintain the integrity of data for the College?s named funds.
• Impact Reporting
  • The Assistant Director will develop and execute a strategy for expanding the College?s impact reporting, with a special focus on annual fund donors. This will involve working directly with students and student-facing staff, identifying opportunities to tell student stories that demonstrate the impact of donor support, drafting communications and coordinating with the marketing team.
• Gift Acknowledgements
  • The Assistant Director will manage the College?s gift acknowledgement process. They will oversee the design and messaging of physical and digital acknowledgments, including drafting templates, gathering content, coordinating with the marketing team, maintaining records of communications, evaluating metrics and ordering supplies. The Assistant Director will also have a special focus on developing and executing a strategy for new donors, consecutive donors and other segments of alumni and donor populations.
• Leadership Giving Societies
  • The Assistant Director will provide support for the John Jay Associates program, a leadership giving society at Columbia College. They will help in fulfilling membership benefits, planning and staffing events, and other tasks as needed. The Assistant Director will also assist teammates with the stewardship efforts for other giving societies at the College.
• Other Stewardship Responsibilities
  • The Assistant Director will perform other related duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor?s degree required or its equivalent
• A minimum of 2-4 years of experience in a university or other complex organization
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of basic donor relations and stewardship principles
• Extreme attention to detail and an eye for accuracy
• Excellent writing, editing, research, customer service and interpersonal skills
• Strong organizational and time-management skills with an ability to prioritize projects
• Must possess a high level of professionalism, creativity and flexibility
• Must be self-directed and motivated, able to manage multiple and complex assignments and meet deadlines and production schedules both independently and as part of a team
• Ability to handle confidential matters and maintain confidentiality

*Must be available to work some weekends and evenings*

Preferred Qualifications

• Technical proficiency with Microsoft Word and Excel, manipulating data and mail merges
• An interest and ability to develop new skills
• Experience with using a central donor and prospect-tracking database

Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Veteran

Columbia University is committed to the hiring of qualified local residents.

About Columbia University

Columbia University is one of the world's most important centers of research and at the same time a distinctive and distinguished learning environment for undergraduates and graduate students in many scholarly and professional fields. The University recognizes the importance of its location in New York City and seeks to link its research and teaching to the vast resources of a great metropolis. It seeks to attract a diverse and international faculty and student body, to support research and teaching on global issues, and to create academic relationships with many countries and regions. It expects all areas of the university to advance knowledge and learning at the highest level and to convey the products of its efforts to the world.

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