UTS - Temporary Stewardship and Communications Officer at NC State

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Department: 480501 - UHR Temporary Services

Location: Raleigh, NC

Essential Job Duties:

This Stewardship and Communications Officer role focuses on scaling impact reporting and developing a more robust advancement communications calendar. Key responsibilities include crafting donor reports, acknowledgment letters, and strategic advancement content, requiring strong writing, design, and organizational skills.

Please provide a sample of your previous writing that follows AP style. You can upload it under “other document 1”

Other Work/Responsibilities:

The ideal candidate is equally strong in design and writing. Most of the work takes raw submissions and turns them into finished, on-brand pieces. The ability to manage large segments of data and develop internal processes that automate data retrieval and sorting.

Required Qualifications:

• Strong organizational and multi-tasking skills

• A flexible, solutions-oriented working style with a willingness to take initiative, collaborate

• across teams, and contribute wherever needed in a fast-moving, all-hands environment.

• Adobe InDesign: advanced use of templates, master pages, paragraph and character styles, and data merge; able to prepare print-ready and accessible PDFs

• Writing and editing: turns student, faculty and donor submissions into clear, compelling narratives; strong proofreading and AP style

• Visual design: applies brand guidelines consistently across a series of profiles and reports

• Project management: tracks many submissions and deadlines at once; organized follow-up with departments and faculty

Discretion: handles confidential donor and gift information appropriately

Preferred Qualifications:

Other Adobe Creative Cloud tools: Photoshop for photo editing, Illustrator for simple graphics, Acrobat for PDF editing and accessibility

• Nonprofit or higher-ed fundraising writing (case statements, stewardship or impact reports)

• Interviewing skills for alumni and donor profiles

• Web content editing in a CMS such as WordPress, plus writing for the web

• Email marketing tools for the twice-yearly donor newsletter

• Google Workspace, especially Forms and Sheets for managing submissions

• Familiarity with NC State brand standards

Required license or certification:

n/a

Position Number: 48LS004

AA/EEO Statement:

NC State University is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal opportunities for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, and veteran status. The University encourages all qualified applicants, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities, to apply. Individuals with disabilities requiring disability-related accommodations in the application and interview process are welcome to contact 919-513-0574 to speak with a representative of the Office of Equal Opportunity.

If you have general questions about the application process, you may contact Human Resources at (919) 515-2135 or [email protected].

Final candidates are subject to criminal & sex offender background checks. Some vacancies also require credit or motor vehicle checks. Degree(s) must be obtained prior to start date in order to meet qualifications and receive credit.

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