Donor Engagement Officer Administrator

Job no: 562041
Work type: Management (MPP)
Location: East Bay
Categories: MPP, Administrative, At-Will, Full Time

PLEASE NOTE: The starting salary placement depends on qualifications and experience and is anticipated to be in the range of $85,000 to $90,000 per year.

Cal State East Bay offers a broad range of benefits that includes medical, dental, vision, retirement (CalPERS), 401k, 457, 403(b), dependent and health care reimbursement accounts, life insurance, vacation and sick, 14 paid holidays, one personal holiday and tuition fee waiver.
For more information on the benefits program, please visit our benefits website. The CSU Total Compensation Calculator demonstrates the significance of our benefits package.

Cal State East Bay's beautiful main campus is located in the Hayward hills with panoramic views of the San Francisco Bay shoreline. Situated above the city of Hayward, the campus offers an ideal setting for teaching and learning and yet easy access to the many cities along the bay. The University has a satellite campus in Concord, a professional development center in Oakland and a significant presence online.

Founded in 1957, Cal State East Bay is one of 23 universities of the California State University system (CSU). Cal State East Bay is recognized as a regionally engaged and globally oriented university with a strong commitment to academic innovation, student success, engaged and service learning, diversity, and sustainability.

Please Note:

Review of applications will begin on October 15, 2026.

The Donor Engagement Officer is a frontline fundraiser responsible for expanding Cal State East Bay’s pipeline of individual donors and future major gift prospects. Reporting to the Senior Director of Development, the position manages a portfolio of alumni, donors, and prospective donors, with an emphasis on identifying, qualifying, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding individuals capable of making annual gifts generally between $1,000 and $15,000.

Through personalized outreach, strategic engagement, and targeted donor communications, the Leadership Annual Giving Officer will acquire new donors, retain and upgrade existing donors, and identify individuals with the capacity and inclination to progress toward major gifts of $25,000 or more. The position works collaboratively across University Advancement and with campus partners to deepen alumni and donor relationships, strengthen philanthropic engagement, and build a sustainable pipeline of future major donors.

• Build a robust pipeline of leadership annual giving donors and future major gift prospects through systematic identification, qualification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship.
• Manage an assigned portfolio of alumni, donors, and prospective donors with the capacity and inclination to make annual gifts generally between $1,000 and $15,000.
• Develop and execute individualized strategies to acquire, retain, renew, and upgrade donors and increase philanthropic support for University, college, program, and student-success priorities.
• Conduct substantive donor qualification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship conversations through phone, virtual, in-person, and other appropriate channels.
• Personally solicit and close leadership annual gifts and multi-year commitments in accordance with established annual fundraising goals and performance metrics.
• Identify current donors and prospective donors with the capacity and inclination to make gifts of $25,000 or more and coordinate their strategic transition to the appropriate major gift officer.
• Maintain current knowledge of University priorities, academic programs, student needs, and philanthropic opportunities and effectively communicate the impact of private support.
• Develop appropriate donor proposals, correspondence, follow-up materials, stewardship communications, and other materials supporting individual fundraising strategies.
• Record substantive donor contacts, prospect information, strategies, outcomes, and next steps accurately and promptly in the University's advancement database.
• Meet established annual performance expectations for donor contacts and visits, solicitations, gifts, donor retention and upgrades, new donor acquisition, and qualified major gift referrals.

• Expand the pool of engaged…