Development Officer Corporate Relations

Development Officer – Corporate Relations

Organization: ACCESS – Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services

Job Status:
Full‑time

Functional Area

s/Departments:
Development

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 the assigned functional area are attained. The Development Officer is responsible for achieving fundraising goals and cultivating and nurturing relationships with current and new donors.

• 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

• Intermediate concepts, principles and practices of fundraising/development
• Donor relations and stewardship
• Database architecture and development
• Blackbaud (Altru) software is preferred

• Minimum Degree
  
  Required:
  
  Bachelor’s degree
• Required Disciplines:
  Business, Marketing, Public Relations or related field
• 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

• None

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