Development Officer
Development Officer
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Reporting Relationship:VP Advancement / University Relations
Department: Advancement Services & Stewardship
Status: Exempt
Location: On Campus SE Portland
Schedule: Monday Friday occasional evenings and weekends as needed
Salary: $70k $90k
To be considered please include a resume and cover letter outlining your experience.
Summary:
The Development Officer is responsible for planning implementing and evaluating a comprehensive stewardship and church relations program. This role is chiefly responsible for the maintenance relationship management tracking and analysis related to Warner Pacifics supporters donors and fundraising operations. The Development Officer serves as an ambassadorfor both the Advancement department and the university the ideal candidate is someone with excellent communication skills love of fundraising and skills in project management diplomacy and collegiality.
In addition to being a strong communicator the successful Development Officer should demonstrate excellent organizational skills and be comfortable in an entrepreneurial (inventive proactive resourceful) team environment be optimistic and imaginative and fully support a missiondriven environment that seeks to empower students of all backgrounds and perspectives to achieve their dreams and make the world better.
Primary Job Duties are Prioritized and Categorized as follows:
Development Stewardship Donor Relations
Communications Community Relationships
Reporting Process Improvement & Administrative
Minimum Qualifications:
Warner Pacific Universitys Mission:Warner Pacific is a Christcentered urban diverse minorityserving Hispanicserving liberal arts University dedicated to providing students with an education that prepares them to engage actively in a constantly changing world. Our hiring practices reflect our missional commitment to being a Christcentered institution.
Employment and Lifestyle Standards:
Warner Pacific is a Christcentered urban liberal artsUniversitydedicated to providing students from diverse backgrounds an education that prepares them to engage actively in a constantly changing world. TheUniversitywas founded in 1937 by the Church ofGod (Anderson Indiana). Central to Warner Pacifics identity as a Christcentered higher education institution is the policy of hiring persons whose personal and professional lives reflect:
1. A belief in the deity of and commitment to Jesus Christ and the Christian faith as interpreted through the historic witness of Scripture and the continuing ministry of the Holy Spirit.
2. The practice of following Christ through daytoday personal lifestyle choices.
3. A vitality of Christian experience maturing in insight and application and appreciative of differing viewpoints.
4. A commitment to lifelong learning and service through personal and professional development.
teaching faculty the expression of artful teaching based on mastery of relevant subject matter and in an environment of purposeful and rigorous inquiry amongst a community of scholars who support one another.
6. A capability by temperament preparation and will to support students as they confront the intellectual social physical emotional and spiritual challenges of their lives.
7. A sensitivity to and support for the mission core themes vision values ethos and traditions of the Warner PacificUniversitycommunity.
8. A commitment to teaching and serving in harmony with the doctrines of the Holy Bible.
Employee Agreement:
Missionbased hiring is of critical importance to Warner Pacific University. Employees are expected to demonstrate and articulate a vital Christian faith and to live in a manner consistent with a Christcentered lifestyle as informed by the Scriptures of the New Testament.
Warner Pacifics students faculty and staff are expected to foster an environment of mutual respect and accountability to care for the personal dignity of others and to exercise integrity in their conduct and communication. The University environment is expected to be free from discrimination and harassment (including bullying). When an individuals behavior has direct implications for others and/or the wellbeing of the University community there may be cause for institutional involvement regardless of where the situation occurs.
Warner Pacific University desires to provide a safe and healthy environment for staff faculty students visitors and guests. Therefore smoking is not permitted on University property in its vehicles or at any University sponsored event. The use of illegal or nonprescribed controlled substances is strictly prohibited. Use of alcoholic beverages or tobacco products is strictly prohibited on Warner Pacific University campuses.
Equal Employment Opportunity:
Warner Pacific provides equal opportunity for employment and advancement for all employees and applicants regardless of race color sex gender national origin citizenship status disability age genetic information status with regard to public assistance veteran status and any other status protected by laws and regulations to which Warner Pacific is subject. All employment decisions including hiring promotions compensation benefits transfers and terminations are made in a manner that does not discriminate against individuals in the categories discussed above. Because Warner Pacific is a Christian liberal artsUniversity theUniversityexercises its legal right to hire Christian employees to fulfill its mission and purpose.
Department: Advancement Services & Stewardship
Status: Exempt
Location: On Campus SE Portland
Schedule: Monday Friday occasional evenings and weekends as needed
Salary: $70k $90k
To be considered please include a resume and cover letter outlining your experience.
Summary:
The Development Officer is responsible for planning implementing and evaluating a comprehensive stewardship and church relations program. This role is chiefly responsible for the maintenance relationship management tracking and analysis related to Warner Pacifics supporters donors and fundraising operations. The Development Officer serves as an ambassadorfor both the Advancement department and the university the ideal candidate is someone with excellent communication skills love of fundraising and skills in project management diplomacy and collegiality.
In addition to being a strong communicator the successful Development Officer should demonstrate excellent organizational skills and be comfortable in an entrepreneurial (inventive proactive resourceful) team environment be optimistic and imaginative and fully support a missiondriven environment that seeks to empower students of all backgrounds and perspectives to achieve their dreams and make the world better.
Primary Job Duties are Prioritized and Categorized as follows:
Development Stewardship Donor Relations
- Provides support for comprehensive and special initiative campaigns including tracking next steps pledge commitments solicitation strategy management and reporting.
- Responsible for designing planning and executing fundraising programs marketing communications brand management and the donor experience required to achieve revenue and participation goals.
- Manages the internal systems of prospect identification cultivation solicitation and stewardship with strong emphasis on major gifts prospect management.
- Identifies and develops/maintains relationships with donors to grow existing funds and endowments. Manages distribution donor letters and maintains files.
Communications Community Relationships
- Develops strategic relationships with faithbased community partners identifies potential resources and partnerships that increase the resources of Warner Pacific University. Attend church gatherings as a representative of Warner Pacific University.
- Communicates with community donors board members community bodies staff and the public. Acts as a liaison and representative of Foundation answering inquiries and providing information and assistance requiring detailed knowledge of rules procedures policies and activities.
- Manages lists and updates regarding donors and their level of giving for donor recognition societies donor wall(s) and annual report.
Reporting Process Improvement & Administrative
- Conduct regular shortterm and yearend assessments of the stewardship plan.
- Collaborates with AVP for Advancement and Advancement/University Relations staff to support the identification and qualification of new major gift prospects.
- Recommends changes and improvements to processes objectives and goals based on evaluation of completed programs to increase engagement and ensure most effective and efficient use of resources.
- Serves as project manager for Advancement/University Relations events as assigned.
- May train assign and review work of student employees and interns as needed.
- Performs other duties in support of fundraising marketing communications and general goals of the department as assigned including but not limited to tracking timelines production schedules and project deliverables.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree
- 3 years of relevant experience within development services marketing communications etc.
- Knowledge of fundraising principles: identification qualification cultivation solicitation and stewardship
- Strong project management skills.
- Advanced computer skills with MS Office (Word and Excel).
- Experience with Salesforce or CRM programs.
- Bilingual Fluent in Spanish/English speaking reading and writing
Warner Pacific Universitys Mission:Warner Pacific is a Christcentered urban diverse minorityserving Hispanicserving liberal arts University dedicated to providing students with an education that prepares them to engage actively in a constantly changing world. Our hiring practices reflect our missional commitment to being a Christcentered institution.
Employment and Lifestyle Standards:
Warner Pacific is a Christcentered urban liberal artsUniversitydedicated to providing students from diverse backgrounds an education that prepares them to engage actively in a constantly changing world. TheUniversitywas founded in 1937 by the Church ofGod (Anderson Indiana). Central to Warner Pacifics identity as a Christcentered higher education institution is the policy of hiring persons whose personal and professional lives reflect:
1. A belief in the deity of and commitment to Jesus Christ and the Christian faith as interpreted through the historic witness of Scripture and the continuing ministry of the Holy Spirit.
2. The practice of following Christ through daytoday personal lifestyle choices.
3. A vitality of Christian experience maturing in insight and application and appreciative of differing viewpoints.
4. A commitment to lifelong learning and service through personal and professional development.
teaching faculty the expression of artful teaching based on mastery of relevant subject matter and in an environment of purposeful and rigorous inquiry amongst a community of scholars who support one another.
6. A capability by temperament preparation and will to support students as they confront the intellectual social physical emotional and spiritual challenges of their lives.
7. A sensitivity to and support for the mission core themes vision values ethos and traditions of the Warner PacificUniversitycommunity.
8. A commitment to teaching and serving in harmony with the doctrines of the Holy Bible.
Employee Agreement:
Missionbased hiring is of critical importance to Warner Pacific University. Employees are expected to demonstrate and articulate a vital Christian faith and to live in a manner consistent with a Christcentered lifestyle as informed by the Scriptures of the New Testament.
Warner Pacifics students faculty and staff are expected to foster an environment of mutual respect and accountability to care for the personal dignity of others and to exercise integrity in their conduct and communication. The University environment is expected to be free from discrimination and harassment (including bullying). When an individuals behavior has direct implications for others and/or the wellbeing of the University community there may be cause for institutional involvement regardless of where the situation occurs.
Warner Pacific University desires to provide a safe and healthy environment for staff faculty students visitors and guests. Therefore smoking is not permitted on University property in its vehicles or at any University sponsored event. The use of illegal or nonprescribed controlled substances is strictly prohibited. Use of alcoholic beverages or tobacco products is strictly prohibited on Warner Pacific University campuses.
Equal Employment Opportunity:
Warner Pacific provides equal opportunity for employment and advancement for all employees and applicants regardless of race color sex gender national origin citizenship status disability age genetic information status with regard to public assistance veteran status and any other status protected by laws and regulations to which Warner Pacific is subject. All employment decisions including hiring promotions compensation benefits transfers and terminations are made in a manner that does not discriminate against individuals in the categories discussed above. Because Warner Pacific is a Christian liberal artsUniversity theUniversityexercises its legal right to hire Christian employees to fulfill its mission and purpose.
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