Development Assistant

At New Narrative, we believe mental health care is community care. As a nonprofit organization, we partner with individuals to promote healing, housing stability, and long-term wellness through compassionate, equitable support. If you’re passionate about community impact, we invite you to join our team. Pay Rate: $23.00/hr - $25.00/hr we’re hiring a Development Assistant! Are you the person who keeps everyone organized, remembers the details, and makes sure nothing falls through the cracks?

New Narrative is looking for a Development Assistant to help keep our fundraising, events, and community engagement efforts running smoothly. You'll work with donor databases, support fundraising campaigns, coordinate grant deadlines, help prepare for major events, and keep projects moving forward. This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys working behind the scenes, is comfortable with technology, and takes pride in getting things done right.

You'll be part of a collaborative team working to expand New Narrative's reach and strengthen our connections throughout the community. If you're organized, dependable, curious, and ready to put your skills to work for a meaningful mission, we'd love to hear from you.

Purpose:

(General description and summary) The Development Assistant provides the administrative, CRM, campaign, grant-workflow, event and project support that allows the Development Department to execute consistently with clear ownership and reliable follow-through. The Assistant maintains accurate records, supports fundraising and stewardship campaigns, coordinates back-end event and sponsorship systems, and keeps Development projects, files and deadlines organized. Supports routine gift entry and transactional processing.

• Maintain accurate donor, prospect, sponsor, foundation and partner records in Every Action or the successor CRM, including contact information, coding, segmentation, relationship notes and assigned next actions.
• Prepare mailing lists, campaign segments, RSVP lists, sponsor reports, donor reports and other queries needed for fundraising, stewardship and events.
• Support CRM data cleanup, documentation, imports/exports, standard operating procedures and future system transitions as assigned.
• Support accurate fundraising reporting by coordinating with the Development Director and Finance on needed records and documentation.

• Provide administrative support for Give!
  
  Guide, year-end fundraising, recurring-donor stewardship and other approved campaigns, including lists, tracking, source codes, acknowledgments, mailings, follow-up and closeout.
• Coordinate mailing production, printing, fulfillment, donor communications and campaign logistics as assigned.
• Support donor and sponsor stewardship by tracking commitments, recognition, benefits, thank-you actions, renewal dates and follow-up needs.
• Maintain organized campaign and donor files in SharePoint and other approved systems.

• Manage or support back-end event and fundraising platforms such as Auctria, including registration, ticketing, auction records, check-in support, sponsor tracking and event closeout.
• Coordinate invitations, RSVPs, name tags, lists, materials, volunteer information, sponsor fulfillment and other event-administration tasks.
• Participate in significant Development-led and major organizational events as part of the team, with emphasis on registration, event systems, materials, volunteer coordination, sponsor fulfillment, data capture and administrative support; arrive prepared, be visible and welcoming, and help with setup, execution and closeout as assigned.
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