Stewardship Manager - FT

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Job Type

Full-time

Description

The Stewardship Manager is responsible for the management of all aspects of donor relationships within an assigned portfolio, managing the expectations and outcomes of part-time student stewards, coordinating student/donor engagement, and assisting with other duties as directed. The Stewardship Manager cultivates and coordinates relationships with donors and prospects. The Stewardship Officer will follow a relational development model of stewardship to grow relationships with donors, soliciting support and elevating generosity. Primary responsibilities include creating and implementing cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship strategies for assigned prospects; planning and executing cultivation and prospect identification events; directing the relationship engagements and operational tempo of subordinate stewards; participating in seminary events such as speaking conferences; and participating in weekly Stewardship Leadership meetings.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Serve as a stewardship officer for the seminary, working extensively to identify, qualify, cultivate, solicit, and steward donors, especially current online students
• Manage a personal portfolio of donors and prospects
• Assist the Senior Director of Stewardship by managing part-time or student stewards’ expectations, operational tempo, and outcomes.
• Assist the Senior Director of Stewardship with coordinated on-campus Stewardship presence and hospitality
• Meet weekly or as needed with Stewardship Leadership
• Make face-to-face visits as planned with donors and prospects each year
• Work with the Stewardship team with the aid of Stewardship fundraising tools and knowledge to determine and achieve goals approved by VP of Stewardship
• Achieve 10% year-over-year new donor growth in accordance with the overall Stewardship growth goal
• In collaboration with Westminster events team and budget, coordinate donor identification, cultivation, and stewardship events throughout the year.
• Consistently update constituent relationship management platform with relevant actions, opportunities, notes, and profile information.
• Maintain donor and seminary confidentiality.
• Execute other duties as assigned by the Senior Director of Stewardship
  
  

Requirements

Required Qualifications

The Stewardship Manager Must Demonstrate The Following Qualifications

• Familiarity with Westminster’s mission and distinctives and a commitment to Westminster’s mission
• Self-starter who is motivated by setting and achieving defined goals in support of Westminster’s mission
• Excellent organizational and communication skills
• Ability to create new processes to improve efficiency and effectiveness of the Stewardship Team
• Ability to motivate team members toward achieving a common goal within the mission of Westminster
• Ability to execute orders and plans, communicating executive and director’s intent, coordintate administration and logistics, and ensure task completion
• Experience with data-management in Salesforce or similar CRM
• Ability to exercise sound judgment, tact, and diplomacy
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

The Stewardship Manager will demonstrate and be able to execute the following principles:

• Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness (Matthew 6:33)
• Biblical self-reflection and self-knowledge, seeking self-improvement and sanctification (Proverbs 20:5; Romans 12:3; Galatians 6:3; 1 Timothy 4:15-16)
• Excellence and proficiency in assigned duties (Daniel 6:1-3; Proverbs 22:29; Philippians 1:9-10)
• Knowing subordinates and seeking their welfare (1 Samuel 23:19-25; 1 Kings 8:55-56; Hebrews 7:7)
• Keeping subordinates informed and growing in knowledge (Proverbs 15:2; Habbakuk 2:14; Ephesians 6:4)
• Set a godly example for subordinates (Genesis 1:27-28; 1 Corinthians 11:1; Ephesians 5:1; Titus 2:7)
• Ensure tasks are understood, supervised, and accomplished (Psalm 32:8; Proverbs 18:9; Romans 13:3-4; 1 Peter 5:2-3)
• Train your subordinates as a team (Proverbs 27:17; Ecclesiastes 4:9-12; 1 Corinthians 12)
• Receive wise counsel and make sound and timely decisions (Proverbs 12:15; Proverbs 15:22; Proverbs 19:20; Matthew 10:16)
• Develop a sense of responsibility, accountability, and growth in your subordinates (Proverbs 1:5; Proverbs 22:6; 1 Corinthians 3:1-9; 1 Thessalonians 5:11; 1 Timothy 5:8; Hebrews 5:12-14; James 5:16)
• Employ your subordinates in accordance with their capacity and capabilities (Jeremiah 22:13-14; Acts 2:42-47; Romans 4:4; 1 Corinthians 12:1)
• Seek further responsibility, accountability, and growth for yourself (Psalm 1:1-3; Psalm 111:10; Proverbs 16:16; Luke 12:35-48; Galatians 6:1-6; 2 Peter 3:18
  
  

Working conditions

This job operates primarily in an academic environment.

This is a full-time exempt position, averaging 40 hours per week.

This position is not remote, although some work-from-home may be allowed with supervisor approval.

Travel is required as part of this position.

Westminster Theological Seminary hires only personnel who belong to a Protestant evangelical church and subscribe to Biblical orthodoxy (belief) and orthopraxy (practice). Employees shall affirm their agreement with the historic, trinitarian Christian faith as expressed in the Apostles’ Creed. Otherwise, Westminster Theological Seminary is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to providing equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, except as specifically allowed by federal and state law, and basing employment decisions on merit, qualifications and training. Westminster Theological Seminary does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion (except as religion is a bona fide occupational qualification), sex, national origin, age, disability or any other classification protected by law.

In accordance with the above paragraph, all employees are required to sign Westminster Theological Seminary's Community Life Policy affirming their commitment to Christian belief and practice as described in the policy.