Are you ready to take the next step in your fundraising and stewardship career at the University of Oxford? This Senior Fundraising and Stewardship Officer role is an opportunity to lead high-quality donor engagement and stewardship support activity across the Development and Alumni Engagement Team, working closely with senior fundraisers, while managing a specialist support team.
Location: Oxford, with possible options for hybrid working.
Salary: Grade 7: £39,424 – 47,779 per annum with possible extension to £51,983 including an Oxford University Weighting of £1,730 per year (pro rata).
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full-time
This opportunity is open to University of Oxford staff and Oxford College Applicants only
About Us
Development and Alumni Engagement (DAE) works across the collegiate University to build meaningful relationships with alumni and donors that support Oxford’s academic priorities, research and student opportunities. The Donor Relations, Stewardship and Fundraising Support team plays a key role in enabling donor engagement activity across the University, ensuring high standards of stewardship, coordination and supporter care.
About the Role
This is an exciting opportunity for an internal candidate to step into a senior coordination and team leadership role within Development and Alumni Engagement at a key moment for the Oxford Excellence campaign.
As Senior Fundraising and Stewardship Officer, you will lead a local fundraising and stewardship support team delivering proposals, donor reports, stewardship activity, briefings, events support and prospect research processes.
The role combines people management, operational oversight and hands-on delivery. You will allocate and prioritise work across the team, monitor quality and deadlines, resolve day-to-day operational issues, and step into delivery where required to maintain service continuity. You will work directly with senior fundraisers, academics, and major donors.
You will line manage a team, allocating work across competing priorities, maintaining quality and consistency of delivery, supporting continuous improvement across local processes and ways of working, and ensuring excellent donor care.
About You
You will bring:
- Experience in fundraising support, stakeholder coordination or a similar professional services role within Oxford
- Experience of supervising, coordinating or supporting staff or work allocation
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build effective working relationships across a wide range of stakeholders.
- Confidence using CRM systems, data and reporting tools
- Excellent written communication skills, including experience drafting materials such as reports, briefings or proposals
Application Process
Please upload:
- CV
- Supporting statement
- Details of two referees
The closing date for applications is 12 noon on Tuesday 16 June 2026.
Interviews will take place in the week commencing 22 June 2026 and will be held face-to-face.
