Donor Events & Stewardship Manager
About The Position
PolicyLink is seeking a Donor Events and Stewardship Manager to create a consistent, high-quality experience for donors across its fundraising portfolios. The Manager establishes stewardship standards, coordinates recognition and reporting touchpoints, and gathers donor feedback to improve how PolicyLink thanks, informs, and engages its supporters. The Manager also produces cultivation events and Development-led convenings that deepen relationships and lead to renewed and increased giving. The role is part of a seven-person Development team working across institutional, individual, and corporate giving. It is 100% remote, with travel required, and involves leading and participating in frequent remote video and telephone conferences. The employee must reside in and be authorized to work in the United States.
Requirements
- Strong project and event management skills, with careful attention to hospitality, accessibility, confidentiality, and donor experience.
- Excellent written communication, judgment, organization, and follow-through.
- Ability to coordinate donors, executives, fundraisers, program leaders, vendors, and external partners.
- Ability to balance consistent stewardship standards with tailored donor engagement.
- Comfort using Salesforce or a comparable CRM to manage calendars, preferences, commitments, participation, and next steps.
- Commitment to racial and economic equity and the mission of PolicyLink.
- A minimum of 5–7 years of relevant experience in donor relations, stewardship, fundraising events, advancement services, or a related field.
- Demonstrated experience producing high-touch donor events and coordinating recognition or stewardship programs.
- Must reside in and be authorized to work in the United States.
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting major gifts, institutional partnerships, corporate partnerships, or a campaign.
- Experience in a national nonprofit or complex, matrixed organization.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain stewardship standards by donor segment, gift level, restriction, and relationship stage.
- Build annual stewardship plans and calendars with institutional, corporate, and individual portfolio owners.
- Coordinate acknowledgments, recognition, impact updates, renewal touchpoints, and donor preferences.
- Ensure donor commitments are visible, assigned, and delivered on time.
- Plan and produce donor salons, briefings, dinners, roundtables, and other cultivation or stewardship experiences tied to clear relationship objectives.
- Manage event briefs, budgets, timelines, vendors, invitations, registration, guest experience, run of show, and post-event follow-up.
- Ensure each event has a clear audience, relationship assignments, executive preparation, and documented next steps.
- Apply consistent standards for accessibility, hospitality, confidentiality, and donor experience.
- Partner with the Director of Development Communications and Programs to produce timely stewardship updates and impact materials.
- Manage recognition levels, listings, preferences, confidential recognition, and other donor-facing benefits in accordance with policy.
- Support donor reporting on partner-distributed funds using evidence supplied by Programs, Impact, and Finance.
- Coordinate with portfolio owners to ensure stewardship is tailored to each relationship.
- Track stewardship commitments, event participation, donor preferences, and follow-up in Salesforce.
- Collect structured donor feedback and identify patterns to improve engagement, communications, or program design.
- Create templates, playbooks, and service standards for consistent use by portfolio managers.
- Partner with Development Operations to monitor retention, event conversion, and stewardship performance.
Benefits
- 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision plans.
- 401(k) with employer and employer-matching contributions.
- Flexible spending account.
- Short- and long-term disability insurance.
- Group term life insurance plus voluntary life insurance.
- Unlimited vacation and sick leave and other generous leave benefits.
- Two required organization reset weeks.
- A paid week off between Christmas and New Year’s Day.
- 13 paid holidays.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
