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Senior Officer, Donor Experience (Stewardship and Operations)

Hartford, Connecticut (Hybrid)

Reporting to the VP of Advancement, the Senior Officer of Donor Experience is responsible for designing, implementing, and leading an integrated and comprehensive stewardship program that promotes engagement and connection with donors at all levels. This role includes strategic oversight of donor data and database use, with an emphasis on developing and maintaining practices for data-driven decision-making, data management, reporting, and analysis that directly supports stewardship activities and prospect qualification efforts.

Key Responsibilities:

Develops and implements a strategic donor stewardship plan that appropriately acknowledges and stewards all gifts and recognizes and engages donors with an emphasis on major gifts and unique gift acknowledgment activities.

Plans and implements all donor group education, engagement and recognition events to maximize impact and effectiveness, including Professional Advisors Networks and Affinity Groups.

Develop donor information strategies and comprehensive donor coding system in Foundant Community Suite (C-Suite), the Foundation’s donor relationship management system, ensuring consistency and data integrity.

Identifies opportunities to engage emerging donor groups.

Supervises and mentors three (3) donor experience and operations staff, overseeing donor event and giving circle execution, donor acknowledgement and stewardship activity, prospect identification and qualification processes, and data management efforts.

Collaborates with Communications and Marketing on the creation of digital and print communication opportunities to connect with donors. Develops impact reports and donor story captures.

Collaborates with Development colleagues to identify and qualify gift opportunities.

Develops quantifiable goals to evaluate success, track appropriate metrics and develops reports to monitor effectiveness of strategies.

Other related duties.

Director, Connecticut Opportunity Collaborative (CUOC)

Hartford, Connecticut (Hybrid)

The director will manage a power building initiative to support socio-economic movements focusing on three urban centers in Connecticut: Hartford, New Haven, and Bridgeport. The Changemaker Fund is the product of a unique collaboration of the three largest community foundations in Connecticut, the Connecticut Urban Opportunity Collaborative (CUOC), established in 2021. The role also manages CUOC’s engagement with local, state, and national partnerships and affiliations.

The centerpiece of the Changemaker Fund is an innovative, three-year direct cash assistance project executed in 2024 in collaboration with UpTogether, a national nonprofit dedicated to working with people experiencing financial hardship using guaranteed income strategies, and Changemaker community leaders from Hartford, New Haven and Bridgeport. The successful candidate will continue to implement the project as well as the CUOC’s overall objectives, tactics, and benchmarks, enhancing its commitment to justice and a robust support system for the Changemaker Fund pilot.

The director, working closely with senior staff at three foundations, coordinates CUOC’s objectives and organizes periodic working group meetings and executive leadership meetings.

This is a full-time, benefit-eligible, private-grant funded, 2-year position. Continuation beyond 2 years is not guaranteed and contingent on continued funding.