Donor Events & Stewardship Manager

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $120k - $140k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🎪 Events

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PolicyLink

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1999

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

Non-profit • Social Impact

PolicyLink is a national research and action institute that works to advance racial equity, inclusive economic opportunity, and thriving communities across the United States. Through research, policy advocacy, capacity building, and partnerships, it focuses on areas such as housing, infrastructure, transportation, equitable economy, and civic power so that race or zip code do not predict life outcomes. PolicyLink operates as a nonprofit organization centered on social impact and public-policy change.

📋 Description

• Create a consistent, high-quality donor experience across fundraising portfolios • 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 • Manage event briefs, budgets, timelines, vendors, invitations, registration, guest experience, run of show, and post-event follow-up • Ensure events have clear audiences, relationship assignments, executive preparation, and documented next steps • Apply standards for accessibility, hospitality, confidentiality, and donor experience • Produce stewardship updates and impact materials with Development Communications and Programs • Manage recognition levels, listings, preferences, confidential recognition, and donor-facing benefits • Support donor reporting on partner-distributed funds using evidence from Programs, Impact, and Finance • Coordinate with portfolio owners to tailor stewardship to relationships • Track commitments, event participation, donor preferences, and follow-up in Salesforce • Collect donor feedback and identify patterns to improve engagement, communications, and program design • Create templates, playbooks, and service standards for portfolio managers • Partner with Development Operations to monitor retention, event conversion, and stewardship performance • Lead and participate in frequent remote video and telephone conferences

🎯 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 • Commitment to racial and economic equity and the mission of PolicyLink • 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 • Experience supporting major gifts, institutional partnerships, corporate partnerships, or a campaign is preferred • Experience in a national nonprofit or complex, matrixed organization is preferred • Must reside in and be authorized to work in the United States • Candidates selected for hire must provide proof of eligibility to work in the United States • Two required written application prompts; incomplete answers will not be considered

🏖️ 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 • Paid week off between Christmas and New Year’s Day • 13 paid holidays • 100% remote position • Travel required

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