Development Officer, Advancement

Date Posted: 02/26/2024
Req ID: 36169
Faculty/Division: Faculty of Pharmacy
Department: Faculty of Pharmacy
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)
Position Number: #
About us:
The Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto is Canada’s top faculty of pharmacy and ranked among the top in the world. We bring together Canada’s leading scientists, researchers, and educators in the heart of Toronto’s innovation and health research ecosystem. We advance professional pharmacy practice and pharmaceutical science through world-leading education and research and are recognized worldwide for our outstanding scholarship, ingenuity, creativity, and impact.
Our faculty, students, staff, and alumni come together to create a vibrant, collaborative environment rich with possibilities. We are at the forefront of redefining pharmacy’s impact in health care and developing the capacity of pharmaceutical science to pinpoint better therapeutic targets, create new ways of building medications, and ensure medication use is safe and effective. We are committed to achieving inclusive excellence and fostering an environment where each member of our community can achieve their full potential.
Learn more: pharmacy.utoronto.ca
Your opportunity:
Reporting to the Director of Advancement, the Development Officer, Advancement will be responsible for supporting strategic objectives through the development and implementation of donor engagement activities and by building and strengthening relationships with stakeholders and partners. The incumbent will play an important role in fundraising initiatives and activities from conception to execution ensuring high-quality, cost-effective donor events and fundraising campaigns. The Development Officer, Advancement will also be responsible for data management through the maintenance of databases and portfolios as well as the development and delivery of presentations to promote programs and initiatives. The Development Officer, Advancement will also act as the first point of contact for fielding general donor inquiries.
Your responsibilities will include:
-Building and strengthening relationships with prospective and existing donors as well as partners of strategic importance
-Developing and implementing donor engagement activities that support strategic objectives
-Developing tailored fundraising initiatives that support strategic priorities
-Evaluating a prospective donor’s giving capacity and readiness to give
-Drafting donor acknowledgment and recognition communications
-Conceptualizing, organizing and executing donor event activities
-Developing and implementing plans to support donor management, solicitation and stewardship strategies and/or activities, including but not limited to, determining logistical details required for annual donor mailing campaigns
-Updating prospect databases and portfolios as well as formatting data collected for presentations and reports
 
Essential Qualifications:
-Bachelor's Degree or an acceptable equivalent combination of education and experience.
-Minimum three years of relevant experience in annual giving, or a substantially related field, such as major gift fundraising, alumni relations or gift planning.
-Demonstrated successful track-record in building and strengthening relationships with key donor contacts.
-Experience conceptualizing, organizing and executing donor events that support strategic objectives.
-Experience delivering presentations to promote programs, opportunities or initiatives.
-Experience drafting donor acknowledgement, recognition, and stewardship communications.
-Strong data management skills to update and maintain prospect databases and portfolios.
-Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with a strong ability to influence and engage a wide range of donors as well as build and maintain long-term relationships
-A high level of integrity, donor confidentiality and discretion with sensitive information, tasks, and relationships.
-Proven organizational skills, ability to adapt to constantly changing priorities, manage multiple projects concurrently, and complete work in required time frames.
To be successful in this role you will be:
-Achievement oriented
-Articulate
-Diplomatic
-Persuasive
 
Closing Date: 03/11/2024, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW 
Appointment Type: Budget - Continuing 
Schedule: Full-Time
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:
USW Pay Band 12 -- $78,308 with an annual step progression to a maximum of $100,144. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol. 
Job Category: Administrative / Managerial
Lived Experience Statement
Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity deserving groups are encouraged , and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the posted position.