Development Assistant, Fundraise Way

Role/Department Summary

The Development Assistant, Special Events plays a key support role in advancing Boston Children's Hospital Trust's peer-to-peer fundraising goals, with a focus on the Fundraise Your Way program. Working within the Special Events team, this position engages community fundraisers and carries out administrative responsibilities that support the community-led fundraising efforts benefiting BCH.

• Provides support with activities such as scheduling donor, volunteer and physician meetings; handling acknowledgments, booking, and tracking of gifts; constituent management in donor database; budget reconciliation, preparing and processing mailings.
• Provides general office support, including responding to inquiries and managing the department inbox; answering phones; ordering supplies; booking meetings; and processing and acknowledging donations.
• Prepares meeting agendas and notes; books and reserves meeting space; and assists with calendar management and travel arrangement as needed.
• Maintains meeting calendar of supervisor and schedules internal and external appointments and meetings with donors, doctors, volunteers, trustees, and hospital staff. Reserves and prepares conference rooms and orders refreshments for meetings and donor visits.
• Maintains constituent information in donor and fundraiser database including biographical information, constituent interactions, attributes and prospect plans.
• Assists with preparing, organizing, and distributing materials used to cultivate, solicit, and steward fundraisers and prospects.
• Prepares invoices for the department including payment requisitions for vendors, employee reimbursements and serves as contact to resolve discrepancies. May reconcile monthly bills with overall budget. Manage small portfolio of donors as they host fundraisers to support the hospital.
• Assists supervisor and team with research, outreach, and special projects as needed.

• An Associate's Degree and 4 years of fundraising related work experience is required. Bachelor's degree preferred and would replace the experience requirement.

• Customer service experience preferred.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent attention to detail and highly proficient in proofreading and project management.
• Highly organized and self-motivated to meet critical deadlines, with the ability to work under pressure while coordinating several projects simultaneously.
• Ability to develop strong relationships with others and foster a positive work environment.
• Strong critical thinking skills and the ability to proactively problem solve and recommend process improvements.
• Skilled in Microsoft Office Suite (WORD, Excel, PowerPoint);
  Ability to work with data and databases.

The posted pay range is Boston Children's reasonable and good-faith expectation for this pay at the time of posting.

Any base pay offer provided depends on skills, experience, education, certifications, and a variety of other job-related factors. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive benefits package that includes flexible schedules, affordable health, vision and dental insurance, child care and student loan subsidies, generous levels of time off, 403(b) Retirement Savings plan, Pension, Tuition and certain License and Certification Reimbursement, cell phone plan discounts and discounted rates on T‑passes.

Experience the benefits of passion and teamwork.