Stewardship Editor

The Stewardship Editor, serving on a temporary three-month basis, supports a key donor stewardship initiative focused on fall annual scholarship reporting. The role is responsible for ensuring that a high volume of student-generated content is accurate, polished, consistent, and appropriate for presentation to leadership and principal-gift level donors.

Essential Responsibilities

• Manages critical milestones and deliverables that comprise the complex, large-scale annual scholarship reporting. Independently reviews, edits, and approves hundreds of student-written biographies and letters with discretion and judgement. These pieces go out to the Institute’s highest-level donors under the signature of the vice president of Resource Development, the chancellor and the vice chancellor for undergraduate and graduate education.

• Handles confidential student information in compliance with The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA).

• Leverages the tagging capabilities of the scholarship reporting system to identify compelling scholarship beneficiary and donor impact stories to be featured in marketing and communications materials produced by the Communications, Events, Donor Relations & Stewardship team, as well as Institute publications.

• Assists with stewardee verification process to confirm that salutation and delivery data are accurately coded ahead of scholarship report production and distribution.

Key Performance Indicators:

• Timely and efficient delivery: Complete a high volume of assigned content and meet established milestones and deadlines for the fall annual scholarship reporting cycle while maintaining quality and attention to detail.

• Editorial quality and accuracy: Review and approve student biographies and letters with a high degree of accuracy, ensuring they meet standards for grammar, clarity, consistency, tone, formatting, and content.

• Data integrity and confidentiality: Accurately verify stewardee information and appropriately handle confidential student information in accordance with requirements.

• Stewardship impact: Identify and appropriately tag compelling student and scholarship impact stories for potential use in donor communications, marketing materials, and

• Collaborative: Develops, maintains, and strengthens relationships in a respectful manner with others inside and outside the institution

• Accountable: Demonstrates, with a high level of ownership, commitment to quality outcome of individual and team activities.

• Proactive: Demonstrates initiative by actively identifying opportunities and anticipating potential issues and acting upon them.

• Strategic: Evaluated current state or situation, identifies desired outcomes, and implements solutions to achieve those outcomes.

Qualifications & Skills

• Minimum 2+ years of relevant work experience in a high-volume and complex organization.

• Excellent communications skills (oral and written); experience with content writing andresearch, as well as knowledge about stewardship programs in higher education.

• Exceptional writing and editorial skills and a proven ability to perform copyediting work for grammar, spelling, accuracy, format, and tone to maintain the highest standards at

all times.

• Proven ability to exercise discretion and sound independent judgment; ability to analyze, synthesize, and present information clearly.

• Ability to solicit information across departments, interact well with others, and serve as an ambassador.

• Strong initiative, motivation, and organizational skills; prioritize work assignments, and meet tight deadlines, while maintaining precise attention to accuracy and detail.

• Must be highly adept with computer systems to maintain confidentiality.

• Limited evening and weekend work, as needed.

• Bachelor's degree preferred.

• Experience and interest in higher education and/or advertising