Senior Fundraising and Stewardship Officer (Internal 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.