Development Officer

Job Title: Development Officer

Job Status: Full-time

Functional areas/departments where this position may be located:

• Development

Job Summary: Under general supervision, the Development Officer uses specialized knowledge in fundraising and development obtained through experience and/or formal training to provide support and manage activity to ensure development goals and objectives for assigned functional area are attained. The Development Officer is responsible for achieving fundraising goals and cultivating and nurturing relationships with current and new donors.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• 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, Skills and Abilities:

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

Educational/Previous Experience Requirements:

• 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:

• Licenses/Certifications Required at Date of Hire: None

Working Conditions:

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