Duties And Responsibilities

Primary Responsibilities:

• Assist Development Director in implementing comprehensive fundraising strategies through research, cultivation, and stewardship support for new corporate, foundation, community, and individual prospects.
• Assist with planning and implementation of all annual fundraising campaigns and events.
• Write and review grant applications and reports.
• Research potential new grants and funding streams.
• Serve as the department expert on database management, and technologies and services necessary to achieve department goals.
• Create and maintain internal department process, procedure and database training as needed.
• Proficiently process donations, generate gift acknowledgements, and ensure timely receipting and reporting.
• Administrative tasks including producing reports, queries, and list from database as needed.
• Manage coding of appeals and solicitations to ensure ongoing data integrity.
• Coordinate monthly reconciliation and annual audit requests in cooperation with Finance Department.
• Gather, analyse, and report out on organizational and community-wise statistics (demographic, income and industry trend data) for use in monthly, quarterly and annual reports to board, staff leadership and existing and potential funders.
• Provide onsite event support for annual fundraiser, including processing donations, tracking sponsorship benefits,
• Collaborate closely with the communications department to create social content that increases donor visibility, expresses gratitude to our partners, and messages donor impact on programs and community.
• Tell the story of Neighborhood House and its impact to all stakeholders.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• A minimum of two (2) years of experience in development, fund raising, grant writing program management or an equivalent combination.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven experience with data management, statistical analysis, and process creation.
• Strong analytic skills, attention to detail and a commitment to excellence.
• Practiced time-management skills, the ability to multitask under pressure, and have strong organizational and project management skills
• Computer expertise includes all Microsoft Office products, donor database systems (CRM), and social marketing tools.
• Established reliability and ability to work effectively as part of a collaborative team, and independently.
• Demonstrate a positive, collaborative, and productive attitude, and be a flexible team player.
• Energetic personality with commitment to effective communication across diverse populations.
• Spanish language skills (written and verbal) preferred.
• Must be available to work on-site, occasional weekends and after hours.
• Must be able to pass a background check.