Senior Development Officer, Leadership Annual Giving and Planned Gifts

Date Posted: 11/24/2025
Req ID: 46153
Faculty/Division: Faculty of Pharmacy
Department: Faculty of Pharmacy
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)
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About us:

The Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto is Canada's top faculty of pharmacy and ranked among the top in the world. We bring together Canada's leading scientists, researchers, and educators in the heart of Toronto's innovation and health research ecosystem. We advance professional pharmacy practice and pharmaceutical science through world-leading education and research and are recognized worldwide for our outstanding scholarship, ingenuity, creativity, and impact.

Our faculty, students, staff, and alumni come together to create a vibrant, collaborative environment rich with possibilities. We are at the forefront of redefining pharmacy's impact in health care and developing the capacity of pharmaceutical science to pinpoint better therapeutic targets, create new ways of building medications, and ensure medication use is safe and effective. We are committed to achieving inclusive excellence and fostering an environment where each member of our community can achieve their full potential.

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Your opportunity:

As part of the collaborative and performance driven Advancement Team at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, the Senior Development Officer (SDO) will work under the general direction of the Director of Advancement. You will contribute to fundraising at the Leadership Annual Giving Level ($5,000-$49,999) as well as through planned gifts by building and strengthening relationships of importance and promote culture of philanthropy through the donor cycle of identification, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship. In this position, the incumbent will work closely with the Development Officer (DO, Annual, Leadership Giving - non-supervisory), as well as other colleagues on the Advancement Team, and across the Faculty, to build relationships and solicit contributions that will advance the priorities of the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy. Direct front-line fundraising and relationship building is a key function of this role, including meeting face-to-face, by phone or online and supporting giving interests, Faculty priorities, gift logistics and more. You will meet with potential donors to discuss giving interests and opportunities and evaluate a prospect's giving capacity and readiness to give a major contribution to the Faculty. Stewardship is an important part of the Department, and you will have the oversight of the Faculty's stewardship program, including the annual donor reporting cycle and managing donor recognition. As a member of the team you will play a critical role in the operations of the unit, supporting our value proposition with our donors and alumni, contributing greatly to our development goals and strengthening the Faculty's major gift pipeline and the Faculty's mission.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Assessing needs and contributing to the development and implementation of plans for prospect identification, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship of donors giving at the Leadership levels ($5,000-$49,999)
• Meeting face-to-face with current and potential donors to discuss giving interests and opportunities
• Managing donor relations by building successful relationships with prospective and current donors that lead to philanthropic investment
• Aligning institutional priorities with donor interests and developing strategies that ensure a strong and sustainable donor pipeline
• Developing tailored fundraising initiatives that support strategic initiatives
• Developing marketing/communications strategies that support fundraising campaigns and programs
• Producing complex donor reports, which includes creating donor created award records, fund summary sheets and seeing them through to implementation and stewardship reporting
• Developing and implementing plans to support donor management and stewardship strategies and/or activities including donor reporting and the donor wall updates

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or acceptable combination of equivalent experience.
• Minimum five years experience in a non-profit development office. Preference given for prior experience with leadership annual giving and or major gift fundraising experience in a University setting.
• Demonstrated successful track-record in annual pipeline building and one-on-one donor identification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship.
• Must have a proven record of upgrading and acquiring donors for annual support at the Leadership or major gift level.
• Demonstrated initiative, a careful attention to detail, the ability to work within specific deadlines, prioritize, maintain multiple tasks.
• Strong organizational and analytical skills.
• Passion for individual giving fundraising techniques, including face to face solicitations, direct marketing, and tailored philanthropic strategies.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with a strong ability to influence and engage a wide range of donors and build long-term relationships.
• Ability to deal with individuals of affluence and influence, some of who have their own agendas without alienation.
• Proven ability to motivate and manage volunteers.
• Demonstrated proposal and presentation skills.
• Excellent research and analytical skills.
• Demonstrated leadership skills, initiative, tact, diplomacy, and creativity.
• Possesses the highest level of integrity, donor confidentiality and discretion with sensitive information, tasks, and relationships.
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities and meeting established personal and team goals.

To be successful in this role you will be:

• Achievement oriented
• Articulate
• Diplomatic
• Proactive
• Resourceful
• Self-confident
• Team player

Closing Date: 12/07/2025, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW 
Appointment Type: Budget - Continuing 
Schedule: Full-Time
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:
USW Pay Band $97,348. with an annual step progression to a maximum of $124,491. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol. 
Job Category: Administrative / Managerial

Lived Experience Statement

Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity deserving groups are encouraged to apply, and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the posted position.