Responsibilities

• Create touch points for the Executive Director and other development team members. Set goals for the number of touch points annually and ensure they are met.
• Assist in developing a stewardship plan of Gathering for Women’s major donor portfolio, ensuring donors experience high-quality interactions that foster long-term engagement and investment.
• Support with conveying the impact of gifts and ensure that donors are kept up to date on key developments in Gathering for Women’s campaigns and priorities.
• Assist with developing an active pipeline of major donors by working closely with the Executive Director, staff and consultants to identify prospects based on giving history.
• Strengthen strategies to identify and recruit new potential individual donors.
• Assist with writing solicitation letters, proposals, donor recognition pieces for publications, newsletters, and other materials as needed.
• Liaise with other fundraising staff, interns, and consultants.
• Support annual giving campaigns, individual donor drives, and strategic fundraising initiatives.
• Coordinate appeal letter production and mailing.
• Maintain an accurate donor database including foundations, corporations, and individual donor files (and on the server).

Requirements

• Proficiency in database management.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent keyboard skills and fluency in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), and Gmail.
• Exemplary and compassionate customer service skills.
• Effective interpersonal and relationship building skills.
• Ability to communicate with a variety of internal and external contacts.
• Excellent planning, organizational, time and project management skills.
• Strong reasoning, analytic thinking and critical thinking skills and experience.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Multi-tasking skills; flexibility.

Benefits

• Cell phone reimbursement
• Dental insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance