Stewardship Specialist
Are you passionate about building meaningful relationships and delivering exceptional donor experiences? Do you thrive in a dynamic and collaborative environment where your creativity and attention to detail can make a tangible difference? If so, Baycrest Foundation invites you to join our team as a Stewardship Specialist.
Why Baycrest:
Baycrest stands as a global leader in aging and brain health, recognized as one of the world’s top academic health sciences centres. Located at the forefront of Canada’s efforts to address dementia, Baycrest integrates care, education, research, and innovation in an unparalleled way, creating an impact far greater than the sum of its parts.
Our comprehensive programs span prevention, early detection, treatment, and care, all shaped by collaboration with physicians, researchers, individuals living with dementia, and their caregivers. This inclusive approach ensures that our initiatives are both evidence-based and deeply human-centered.
Baycrest Foundation drives this transformative work by inspiring and engaging donors through tailored strategies and meaningful events, providing the critical funding necessary for groundbreaking research, education, and compassionate care. By joining our team, you’ll contribute to an organization that redefines what’s possible in aging and brain health.
Role Summary:
Reporting to the Director, Leadership Gifts, as a Stewardship Specialist, you will play a key role on the Major Gifts team, ensuring that the Baycrest Foundation consistently exceeds donor expectations. Through innovative recognition, customized communications, and thoughtful stewardship, you will strengthen relationships with our donors and inspire ongoing support for Baycrest’s transformative mission.
Key Responsibilities:
- Personalized Recognition: Develop and implement customized recognition plans for donors, working closely with major gift officers to ensure alignment with Foundation standards.
- Physical Recognition: Design mock-ups and visuals for donors, coordinate the installation of physical recognition elements, and liaise with vendors to ensure timely, high-quality outcomes.
- Stewardship Reports: Oversee the creation and delivery of stewardship reports, donor communications, and compelling donor story features.
- Strategic Organization: Maintain accurate donor listings, uphold a detailed stewardship calendar, and ensure all deadlines are met.
- Innovative Storytelling: Lead the production of Donor Spotlight stories for digital platforms and other communications, collaborating with the Marketing and Communications team.
- Accuracy & Compliance: Review and verify gift documentation, donor listings, and recognition materials for accuracy and adherence to agreements.
- Recognition Displays: Manage updates to the Hall of Honour wall and digital display, ensuring accurate records and effective vendor coordination.
- Acknowledgment Letters: Draft personalized acknowledgment and stewardship letters that meaningfully convey donor impact and gratitude.
How to Apply
Apply in confidence with your cover letter and resume here: https://www.baycrest.org/Baycrest-Pages/About-Baycrest/Careers (posting #8468) by January 7, 2025, at 11:59p.m. EST.
For additional inquiries, please contact: Kim Morrison, Talent Acquisition Specialist, HR KMorrison@baycrest.org.
Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
Please note that Baycrest has implemented mandatory vaccination for all employees. It is a condition of employment that new employees provide proof that they are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to the start date of employment. This means that all new employees must have received all required doses of a COVID-19 vaccine approved by Health Canada at least 14 days prior to their start date. In addition, it is a condition of employment that all new hires obtain and submit proof of all booster vaccines as approved and recommended by Health Canada.
Baycrest is committed to fostering a climate of equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility. We welcome and respect the diversity of all members of our community, and we support an inclusive culture for our clients, families, research scientists, staff, and participants, trainees, volunteers, trustees, and partners. We welcome applications from Black individuals and other racialized persons, Indigenous Peoples, women, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ2SA+ persons, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas within our community. We are committed to fair assessment of a candidate’s abilities, and consideration for diversity of thought, method, and experience, including non- traditional career paths. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process where needed.