Passionate and driven advancement professional; looking to further grow my career in Advancement at the University of Toronto, where I can apply my 7+ years of diverse skills and work experience and to make a positive impact and promote the University of Toronto's strategic goals.
• Provided the highest level of administration support to the Philanthropy Directors, specifically to the major gift portfolio's for the Odette Cancer Program and Tory Trauma Program.
• Monitor donor activity, ensuring contact reports, gift agreements, coding, and follow-up actions are recorded and completed.
• Regularly monitored major gift reports to ensure accuracy of pipeline and metrics.
• Ensured that appropriate donor cultivation, acknowledgement and stewardship activities were in place and executed.
• Assisted in organizing, coordinating and managing donor cultivation and stewardship events and tours.
• Regularly attended internal meetings with hospital partners and stakeholders both as a active participant speaking on major gift reports, and notetaking.
• Creating briefing notes for the Director, Vice President and CEO to ensure they are prepared for meetings.
• Drafting and editing donor-facing documents such as; gift agreements, stewardship reports and proposals.
• Analyze gifts to determine appropriate campaigns, funds, appeals for each gift to be processed; select appropriate stewardship officer to write acknowledgement letters based on the above criteria and source of the gift
• Aid in the processing of all Cheque donations ranging from $10 to
$1,500,000, by accurately coding and subsequently, scanning all gift back-ups and depositing via ChequePro and RBC express.
• Appropriately triage all phone calls and e-mails to the correct team to ensure each and every donor is followed-up with.
• Create and update donor records with appropriate attributes to ensure
• Accurately audited and reconciled 11+ registers to ensure any discrepancies over $10 are appropriately investigated then corrected and create detailed financial reports of this information all within a timely manner.
• Successfully trained 15+ employees and addressed customer, online invoice and POS-related challenges as they arose, and quickly created appropriate solutions to each problem.
• Collaborated with Manager's and other Cash Handler's to ensure everyone is up to date on any discrepancies or issues, and collectively generate effective solutions to these monetary issues.
• Frequently read and replied to emails in a professional manner to ensure the group is accessible and up to date, then reported this information to the team.
• Aided in the creation of appealing digital content to successfully market the organization via social media.
• Proficient use of Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel to create engaging and informative presentations for members, and organized spreadsheets of budget and event information for executive team to view.
• Visualize, plan, then execute 6+ remote but unique events during COVID-19 pandemic to ensure the association remains accommodating and relevant.
• Coordinated vendors, timelines and budgets for 15+ events.