Communications & Research Associate (Remote • Part-Time)
The Grauer School
Encinitas, CA (Remote)
In-houseFull-timeEntry level
16 hrs ago
Director of Development & Communications
Culver City, CA (Hybrid)
Salary Not AvailableDirector/ExecutiveFull time
Posted 1 month ago
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Job Summary
Own the grant lifecycle and donor program with a data-driven, partnership-focused approach that ties fundraising to social content and reporting.
- Growth Infrastructure: Own end-to-end grant lifecycle including sourcing, applying, tracking, reporting and boilerplate maintenance.
- Donor Pipeline: Build a recurring donor base with retention, upgrade, and new acquisition benchmarks.
- Data & Partnerships: Align with finance on budgets, reports, and data practices; manage databases and enable grant materials, social content, and partner outreach.
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Development & Fundraising: Oversight of the full grant life-cycle from sourcing grants, applying for grants, tracking grants, and grant reporting; creating and maintaining grant boilerplates.
- Cultivation of an individual recurring donor base with benchmarks: donor retention rate, average gift size, donor upgrade rate, response rate, new donor acquisition, donor satisfaction.
- Development of financial and in-kind partnerships.
- Maintaining Kindful donor database, Airtable grant database, Asana grant tracking; training staff on effective use of systems and tools for developing donors.
- Collaborating with the JHFA finance team to obtain organizational budgets, financial reports, and other financial documents for donor and grant life-cycle.
- Maintenance and oversight of all organizational social media accounts; consistent social media engagement; developing original content and sharing relevant content.
- Direct email campaign outreach via MailChimp and direct email campaigns.
- Direct mail annual end of year ask campaign, when applicable.
- Facilitating and maintaining outreach and press related partnerships.
- Maintaining close communication with the JHFA data department; developing and maintaining processes for effective organizational data management; providing guidance on best practices for data gathering to support grant funding; developing and maintaining systems for data management; utilizing data to create social media content and grant drafts, templates and reports
Jazz Hands For Autism
Jazz Hands For Autism is a 501(c)(3) talent advocacy group that is creates pathways from expression to employment for musicians on the autism spectrum.We provide individualized social, professional and musical training tailored to help musicians on the autism spectrum (age 18+) succeed in music related jobs.We also offers music-related job search and job and internship placement to students and graduates of the Jazz Hands Musicians Academy
Traffic Signals
Monthly Visitors
1.2K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$179
Traffic Source Mix
Search
38%
Direct
42.2%
Referral
5.1%
Social
13.6%
Paid
1.1%
Headcount Trend
Current headcount: ~35
Marketing Team
Marketing Team Size
3 (9% of company)
