Senior Coordinator, Advancement

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Posting Reason:

Temporary replacement of a regular position

Job Type:

Employee

Anticipated Duration in Months (for contracts and temporary assignments):

12

Job Family:

Advancement and Alumni Relations

# of Open Positions:

1

Faculty/Service - Department:

Office of Advancement - Philanthropy - Planned Giving

Campus:

Main Campus

Union Affiliation:

SSUO

Date Posted (YYYY/MM/DD):

2026/10/22

Applications must be received BEFORE (YYYY/MM/DD):

2026/11/02

Hours per week:

35

Salary Grade:

SSUO Grade 08

Salary Range:

$68 149,00 - $86 083,00

University Advancement plays a pivotal role in fostering meaningful connections between the University and its alumni, donors, and partners. Our team is dedicated to advancing the University's mission by securing philanthropic support, engaging with our vibrant alumni community, and building partnerships that drive innovation and excellence. Through strategic initiatives and collaborative efforts, we help shape the future of the University, ensuring that it continues to thrive as a leading institution of higher education and research. Together, we empower our students, faculty and researchers to make a lasting impact on the world.

Position Purpose
This position plays a critical role in contributing to the University of Ottawa’s fundraising success by providing administrative, operational, and project management support to the advancement team. This position ensures the efficient execution of major, principal, planned, and annual gift fundraising strategies and initiatives. The incumbent manages the prospect pipeline in collaboration with fundraisers, cultivates strong donor relationships through stewardship activities, and facilitates seamless communication and coordination among internal and external stakeholders, including faculties and donors. Additionally, the role involves organizing prospect and donor meetings, preparing fundraising communication materials, and maintaining meticulous donor records.

In this role, your responsibilities will include:

• Fundraising Operations & Project Coordination: Provides administrative and operational support to ensure the smooth execution of fundraising strategies across major, principal, planned, and annual giving portfolios. Assists with the planning and coordination of projects, events, and initiatives that drive donor engagement and revenue growth. Supports fundraisers by managing timelines, logistics, and follow-up activities.
• Prospect Pipeline & Records Management: Manages and monitors the donor and prospect pipeline in close collaboration with fundraisers to support effective cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship strategies. Maintains accurate and current records in the CRM and internal systems, tracks engagement activities, and contributes to proposal development and prospect assignments. Ensures data integrity, generates fundraising reports, and gathers key insights to enhance prospect profiles, enabling informed decision-making, accurate forecasting, and targeted fundraising efforts.
• Donor & Stakeholder Engagement: Cultivates and maintains strong relationships with donors, faculties, and internal stakeholders. Organizes prospect and donor meetings, prepares detailed briefing notes, and ensures timely, personalized follow-up. Coordinates strategic donor engagement and stewardship activities that reinforce trust, demonstrate impact, and align with University priorities.
• Gift Implementation & Compliance: Collaborates with academic and development leadership to align fund usage with institutional priorities and long-term goals. Ensures strategic management of scholarships and fund allocations to maximize student impact and reporting accuracy. 
• Communications & Proposal Development: Facilitates the creation and delivery of high-quality fundraising communications and donor materials, including pitch decks, proposals, and reports. Ensures messaging is consistent, professional, and tailored to donor interests. Coordinates the translation, review, and approval of communications, and supports faculty and fundraiser collaborations to strengthen donor outreach.
• Other related duties: Performs other duties in support of the unit coordination efforts as assigned.

What you will bring

• An undergraduate degree, preferably in administration, business, arts, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• A minimum of three (3) years of relevant experience in a field related to the responsibilities of the position. 
• Bilingualism – French and English (spoken and written).
• Proven experience in administration and project management. 
• Exceptional planning and time management skills. 
• Superior written and communication skills in English and French. 
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to synthesize information from various sources and produce clear, accurate reports. 
• Ability to deal with the public, senior officials and high-profile stakeholders. 
• Sound judgement, with excellent listening, problem solving, priority setting, and organizational skills.
• Proficient in databases, spreadsheets word processing, e-mail and Internet tools, with the ability to analyze and manage data via a computerized system. 
• Ability to demonstrate a high level of professionalism and able to exercise professional discretion. 
• Proven ability to take initiative and work in collaboration with volunteers. 
• Experience or knowledge of post-secondary environment.

*This position may be subject to a telework agreement.

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Key Competencies at uOttawa:
Here are the required competencies for all or our employees at uOttawa: 
Planning: Organize in time a series of actions or events in order to realize an objective or a project. Plan and organize own work and priorities in regular daily activities.
Initiative: Demonstrate creativity and initiative to suggest improvements and encourage positive results. Is proactive and self-starting. Show availability and willingness to go above and beyond whenever it is possible.
Client Service Orientation: Help or serve others to meet their needs. This implies anticipating and identifying the needs of internal and external clients and finding solutions on how to meet them.
Teamwork and Cooperation: Cooperate and work well with other members of the team to reach common goal(s). Accept and give constructive feedback. Able to adjust own behaviour to reach the goals of the team.
The University of Ottawa embraces diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We are passionate about our people and committed to employment equity. We foster a culture of respect, teamwork and inclusion, where collaboration, innovation, and creativity fuel our quest for research and teaching excellence. While all qualified persons are invited to apply, we welcome applications from qualified Indigenous persons, racialized persons, persons with disabilities, women and LGBTQIA2S+ persons. The University is committed to creating and maintaining an accessible, barrier-free work environment. The University is also committed to working with applicants with disabilities requesting accommodation during the recruitment, assessment and selection processes. Applicants with disabilities may contact [email protected] to communicate the accommodation need. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.
Note: if this is a union position: The hiring process will be governed by the current collective agreement related to the union affiliation noted above; you can click here to find out more.
If this is a front-line position with responsibilities to interact with students, selected candidates must be rated at the Low Advanced proficiency level or higher for both oral comprehension and reading comprehension in their second official language. The rating is determined by a proficiency test designed by the Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute.

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