Development Officer - (Corporate Relations)

Functional areas/departments where this position may be located:

• Development

• →Maintain development functions, including annual giving, appeal mailings, gift processing and fundraising events
• →Cultivate, steward, and facilitate solicitation of donors for assigned area
• →Cultivate and nurture relationships with current and potential individual donors, corporate, and foundation prospects
• →Implement sponsorship efforts for major fundraising events for assigned area
• →Oversee all gifts, acknowledgements and other constituent-related information in the Development donor database for assigned area
• →Execute all direct mail and online fundraising appeals (e.g., thank you letters, invoices, sponsorship follow up and database updates)
• →Work with Communications department to develop and implement a comprehensive marketing and public relations strategy to support fundraising efforts
• →Monitor all financial contributions and donations and ensure accuracy of records, receipts and databases
• →Oversee individual ticket sale process for major fundraising events
• →Reconcile allocations in donor database vs. allocations in Fiscal department to ensure consistency
• →Maintain donor database to ensure software is functioning properly and train other donor database users (including, but not limited to preparing queries, exporting information, running reports, etc.)
• →May create, maintain and analyze organization merchant accounts
• →May conduct Annual Employee United Way and Annual Fund campaign
• →May make travel arrangements for employees within the organization as needed
• →May create and review content for special event marketing
• →Maintain currency in fundraising and development techniques
• →Operate standard office equipment and use required software applications
• →Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned

Knowledge of:

• Intermediate concepts, principles and practices of fundraising/development
• Donor relations and stewardship
• Database architecture and development
• Blackbaud (Altru) software is preferred

Skill in:

• Operating standard office equipment and using required software applications for program area and other applications, including Microsoft Office

Ability to:

• Establish and maintain effective working relationships at all levels of the organization and with external business partners and donor
• Incite enthusiasm and influence, motivate and persuade others to achieve desired outcomes
• Organize and prioritize multiple tasks and meet deadlines
• Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing
• Work independently as well as collaboratively within a team environment
• Effectively utilize tools/resources to work efficiently
• Demonstrate the highest level of personal and ethical standards
• Analyze and troubleshoot problems
• Provide a high level of customer service

• Minimum Degree Required:

• Bachelor’s degree

• Required Disciplines:
  • Business, Marketing, Public Relations or related field

~and~

• At least 2 years development or business experience with a track record of successfully meeting goals
• Any equivalent combination of experience, education and/or training approved by Human Resources

• Licenses/Certifications Required at Date of Hire: None

Hours: Normal business hours, some additional hours may be required

Travel Required: Local and in-state travel, up to 10%

Working Environment: Climate controlled office