What are the responsibilities and job description for the Development Specialist position at YSS?
The Development Specialist will help to ensure the organization’s donor database is up-to-date and gifts are recognized in a timely manner. The successful candidate will be able to create reports using input from other members of the Community Engagement Team, while also using his/her critical thinking skills to analyze the data and identify giving trends.
This position will play a key role in supporting the organization’s philanthropic agenda by serving as the point-person for the input, tracking and reporting of donor activity in the donor database system. Additionally, the Development Assistant serves as the agency-wide donor stewardship coordinator, ensuring all gifts are appropriately recognized and donor intent is operationalized.
What We Offer
This position will play a key role in supporting the organization’s philanthropic agenda by serving as the point-person for the input, tracking and reporting of donor activity in the donor database system. Additionally, the Development Assistant serves as the agency-wide donor stewardship coordinator, ensuring all gifts are appropriately recognized and donor intent is operationalized.
What We Offer
- A team of bright, collaborative, dependable, and fun colleagues
- An exciting, welcoming workplace
- A clear, mission-driven purpose to create hope and opportunity by putting kids first
- Employee recognition program
- Retirement offerings
- Opportunities for development
- Programs focused on your personal wellness
- Discounts on pet insurance for your furry family
- * Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
- * Supplemental accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity insurance
- * Accrued paid time off, plus paid time off for holidays, your birthday, and volunteering
- * Employee Assistance Program
- * Public Student Loan Forgiveness Program
- available for full-time staff.
- Administers the YSS donor database, including entry of donations
- Ensures the appropriate stewardship of donations and the compliance of appropriate agency obligations to deliverables
- Oversees and coordinates training and use of database by other agency users
- Provides administrative support to the Community Engagement Team, including arranging meetings, travel arrangements and undertaking any other tasks as may be deemed reasonable and appropriate
- Conducts and maintains research on prospective donors; uses this information to provide briefings, as required
- Maintains current knowledge of national trends in donor behavior and data mining techniques
- Serves as YSS’ point of contact with the donor database system) and makes agency requests for support
- Develops and maintains additional donor database information as requested
- Coordinates with Community Engagement Team and community-based centers on additional donor database needs, etc.
- Collects and maintains information for organization and development officer performance measures
- Ensures that all donations are consistently acknowledged across all YSS programs
- Processes thank you letters for all donations including in-kind contributions
- Processes monthly reminder notices for all outstanding pledges
- Maintains all records of planned gifts and bequests from donors
- Prepares all donation reports, as requested
- Reconciles campaign, Friends/donor reports monthly with the Fiscal Department
- Provides lists of donors for agency publications and mailings, as requested
- Authors letters, documents, tables and forms, as needed
- Supports the preparation and sending of mass email
- A Bachelor’s degree in business, communications, public relations, philanthropic studies or related field.
- Three years of experience in working with donor databases, development, marketing or similar fields is required. Attention to detail, excellent written and verbal communication skills and basic computer skills necessary.
- Experience with software used in performing duties of the job (Blackbaud, Raiser’s Edge) is a plus.
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