Date Posted: 10/20/2025
Req ID: 45510
Faculty/Division: Faculty of Dentistry
Department: Faculty of Dentistry
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)
Position Number: 00049822
Description:
About us:
Exciting new advances and global challenges are radically reshaping the field of dentistry. Our vision at the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Toronto is to not just address and respond to these changes – but to thoughtfully and conscientiously shape the field of the future.
With our robust and comprehensive educational training programs (DDS, MSc, PhD degrees, IDAPP and other specialty programs), our emphasis on community outreach and care, and our internationally known and interdisciplinary research mission, the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Toronto continues to earn its reputation as one of the top dental schools in North America. Throughout more than 150 years of dental education -- the oldest, largest and most comprehensive training program in Canada -- we have striven to graduate the highest quality of students while providing the public the highest standards of care.
We are driven by our vision to improve health byadvancing dentistry through inspired leadership, innovation, and excellence in education, research and practice.
Your opportunity:
Dentistry’s Advancement Office is critical to this vision. As the advancement professionals within the Faculty of Dentistry, we are committed to excellence and impact. We take pride in working with alumni, volunteers and donors to advance education, research and practice in the field of Dentistry. We value excellence, ethicality, respect, compassion, collaboration, accountability and social responsibility.
As an important member of the Faculty of Dentistry Advancement Office, you play a tangible role in shaping and advancing the future of our dentists and the dental care received by our patients. You will be an important member of a broader community of advancement professionals at the University of Toronto. You will also benefit from working within an institution that invests in its people. This comes in the form of competitive compensation, benefits, work-life programs, time-off policies, and resources.
As Dentistry moves through the Defy Gravity campaign, we are looking for a passionate individual to join our dynamic team. Under the general direction of the Director of Advancement, Faculty of Dentistry, the Development Officer, Annual and Leadership Giving provides structure and procedures necessary to achieve the largest capital campaign in the Faculty’s history. https://www.dentistry.utoronto.ca/giving
Using your strong relationship building, fundraising and communication skills, you will contribute to the development and implementation of plans for prospect identification, cultivation, solicitation and recognition and will monitor and evaluate a prospect’s giving capacity and readiness to give a major contribution to the Faculty. You will also support alumni and faculty in endeavours such as reunions and selected Alumni specialty days, sponsorship generation, gift-in-kind processing , as well as the management of student awards and funds. You will be responsible for the review, analysis and reconciliation of the Advancement budgets.
Stewardship is an important part of the Department, and you will have the oversight ofthe Faculty’s donor financial and narrative reports on an annual and ongoing basis and participate in other stewardship opportunities such as managing the holiday card program.
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, and strengthening the Faculty’s major gift pipeline.
This role is currently eligible for a hybrid work arrangement, pursuant to University policies and guidelines, including but not limited to the University of Toronto’s Alternative Work Arrangements Guideline.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Assessing needs and contributing to the development and implementation of plans for prospect identification, cultivation, solicitation and recognition
- Meeting face-to-face with current and potential donors to discuss giving interests and opportunities
- Developing and implementing leadership and annual giving plans to support donor management and stewardship strategies and/or activities
- Analyzing the impact of stewardship programming on fundraising initiatives
- Developing content for marketing and/or promotional materials
- Writing project-specific proposals related to fundraising campaigns
- Developing and implementing communication plans that support strategic objectives
- Supporting the reconciliation and of the Advancement budgets and the management of student awards and funds
Essential Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree or acceptable combination of equivalent experience in a fundraising and/or communications role
- Minimum three years of fundraising experience, preferably in leadership and annual giving within a University or healthcare environment and a proven track record of success
- Experience with donor contact and personal solicitation for donations
- Experience with identifying and cultivating steward prospects and donors at the leadership giving level(<$25,000)
- Experience with developing fundraising programs and initiatives designed to increase interest and involvement of donors and sponsors
- Experience with event coordination
- Experience working with a wide range of people froma variety of professional and social backgrounds and post graduate experience, and ability to manage complex relationships with multiple groups
- Proven face to face fundraising skills and ability to solicit for support and steward donors and supporters with verbal and written methods
- Proven ability to provide customized service to donors/prospects
- Ability to deal with extensive contacts throughout divisions of the University, the alumni population, senior volunteers and the community.
- Advanced analytical skills, including the ability to access and assess data from multiple sources in order to make informed decisions and recommendations
- Strong planning, organizational, and time management skills
- Excellent decision making and creative problem-solving skills
- Outstanding communication (oral and written) and interpersonal skills
- Proficiency in PowerPoint, Excel and Word, donor databases and budget management
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple and sometimes competing projects and priorities
Assets (Nonessential):
- Experience with the University’s policies, the Donor Information System (Arbor) and the Division of University Advancement is a strong asset.
To be successful in this role you will be:
- Goal oriented
- Meticulous
- Problem solver
- Resourceful
- Tactful
- Team player
This is for an 18-month term position with an anticipated start date of December 15, 2025.
Closing Date: 11/03/2025, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW
Appointment Type: Budget - Term
Schedule: Full-Time
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:
USW Pay Band 14 -- $91,677. with an annual step progression to a maximum of $117,242. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol.
Job Category: Communication/Media/Public Relations
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.
