Meet our Team

Stellenbosch University’s Development and Alumni Relations Office builds relationships, creates awareness and generates support for the institution’s academic, research and community vision. We strive to ensure the future success of Stellenbosch University by securing private philanthropic donations. We engage donors on academic priorities important to them. Putting donors at the centre of the process, we foster an environment where excellence in student, staff and community interaction success can be achieved through greater private funding.

Karen Bruns

Senior Director: Development & Alumni Relations

Tel: +27 21 808 4895

E-mail: kbruns@sun.ac.za

Professor Niel Krige

Chairperson: Development Office

Tel: +27 21 808 9263

E-mail: jdkrige@sun.ac.za

Sarah Archer

Director: Fundraising

Tel: +27 21 808 9349

E-mail: sarcher@sun.ac.za

Felicia de Kock

Personal Assistant to Senior Director

Tel: +27 21 808 9266

E-mail: Felicia@sun.ac.za

Units

Alumni Relations

Alumni Relations offers lifelong interaction and engagement for former students. We create opportunities for alumni to participate intellectually and socially to enhance and share in the experience of being an alumnus. Please visit http://www.sun.ac.za/english/alumni and keep in touch!

Shaun Stuart
Manager: Alumni Relations
Tel: +27 21 808 2941
E-mail: sstuart@sun.ac.za

Marvin Koopman
Alumni Coordinator
Tel: +27 21 808 9265
E-mail: marvin@sun.ac.za

Bequests

The Bequests Office works with individuals who seek to make testamentary donations to the University. These might take the form of student bursaries, research grants, capital equipment, endowed chairs and fellowships. Consider leaving your own legacy for the Stellenbosch University of tomorrow and ensure your visionary commitment to education is secured for future generations.

Hugo Steyn
Manager: Individual Giving
+27 21 808 3615
hugos@sun.ac.za

Fundraising

We engage philanthropic and grant-making leaders who hold a special interest in seeing growth accrue at the University and creating opportunities for student success, research excellence, and community interaction benchmarking policies, targets and fundraising focus areas.

Sonia Schoeman

Fundraiser: Special Projects

E-mail: sonia@sun.ac.za

Tel: +27 21 808 4640

Candice Egan

Fundraiser: Corporates and Government

E-mail: eganc@sun.ac.za

Tel: +27 21 808 2711

Anneke Müller

Fundraiser: Faculty of Science

Tel: +27 21 808 4904

E-mail: annekem@sun.ac.za

Randall Adams

Coordinator: International Fundraising

Tel: + 27 21 808 9262

E-mail: adamsr@sun.ac.za

Jasmine Erasmus

Fundraiser: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

Tel:+27 808 4929

E-mail:jasminae@sun.ac.za

Individual Giving

The Individual Giving Office facilitates gift cultivation from individual philanthropists. The section is responsible for overseeing leadership, major and minor annual, as well as long-term gifts from alumni and other individuals. Gift planning, solicitation, and stewardship are offered.

Professor Niel Krige

Major gifts (Individuals)

Tel: +27 21 808 9263

E-mail: jdkrige@sun.ac.za

Pieter Swarts

Director: Special Projects

Tel: +27 21 808 9974

E-mail: pieterswart@sun.ac.za

Development Services

This Office provides an information systems platform that enables interaction and communication with major stakeholders. We manage an alumni, donor and prospect database of hundreds of thousands, consistently updating records. The office is directly responsible for mass business intelligence gathering, analysis and interpretation, and providing tools and software platforms to share that knowledge.

Vera Adams

Manager: Development Services

Tel: + 27 21 808 9262

E-mail: va@sun.ac.za

Malena Fourie

Senior Admin Officer: Data Management

Tel: +27 21 808 4843

E-mail: mfour@sun.ac.za

Junita Isaacs

Data Officer

Tel: +27 21 808 2710

E-mail: junita@sun.ac.za

Jill Moses

Data Officer

Tel: +27 21 808 2709

E-mail: jill@sun.ac.za

Tashreeq Cornelius

Data Officer

Tel: +27 21 808 4843

E-mail: tashreeq@sun.ac.za

Proposal Development

Proposal Development plays a fundamental role in the fundraising process. Through direct partnership with University project leaders and development officers they produce funding proposals, concept notes and fact sheets. These documents serve as tools to support donor cultivation and to solicit funds for the University.

Jill Sloan
Proposal Developer
Tel: +27 21 808 9346
E-mail: sloan@sun.ac.za

Jolene Fransman
Proposal Developer
Tel: +27 21 808 9346
E-mail: jolene@sun.ac.za

Prospect Research

Prospect Research supports Advancement through high-quality business intelligence, information gathering and knowledge creation on individuals, corporations, industries, philanthropists and other key university stakeholders. Working closely with the Office of Data Management, prospect researchers ensure the currency of information leading to competitive advantage through collection and analysis of biographical, financial, company, foundation, philanthropic and other relevant information. The research unit subscribes to the highest ethical.

Cecille Van Staden Head: Donor Market Research Tel: +27 21 808 4638 E-mail: cecille@sun.ac.za
Yasmine Raziet Donor Market Researcher Tel: +27 21 808 9245 E-mail: yasmine@sun.ac.za Shamin Gaffoor Donor Market Researcher Tel: +27 21 808 4640 E-mail: sgaffoor@sun.ac.za

International Development

This office works with international funding organisations, foundations, government agencies, trusts and corporations that share in Stellenbosch University's strategic objectives and initiatives in the respective focus areas of teaching, research and community engagement. Identification and initiation of relations and the stewardship thereof, between Stellenbosch University and international partners are some of the functions of this office.

Karen Bruns

Senior Director: Director: Development

Tel: +27 21 808 4895

E-mail: kbruns@sun.ac.za

Donor Relations

The donor experience at Stellenbosch University is guided by a philosophy of continued partnership and relationship renewal. By staying in touch with our stakeholders, we remain engaged with their perspectives and needs, and them with us. We steward donors through gift acceptance, recognition and dedication events of our Donor Recognition Policy, wider University Development protocols and statutory and governance requirements of various countries.

Cheryl Benadie