Development Operations Manager

Donor Development, Stewardship & Pipeline Management

The Angelico Project

Lakeside Park, KY

Job Title:

Development Operations Manager

Reports to:

Executive Director

Location:

Greater Cincinnati / Northern Kentucky

Status:
Full-Time, Exempt

Salary:
Salary + Benefits, commensurate with experience

The Angelico Project is a fast-growing Catholic nonprofit dedicated to evangelizing through Beauty, Truth, and Goodness. We host events, concerts, art exhibitions, presentations, and performances that draw people to Christ and His Church through art, thought, and culture. Entering our eighth season, we aim to continue expanding our impact-growing annual attendance, reaching $1M+ in annual revenue, and building national influence as a hub of Catholic art and culture.

Our vision is to make our region the center of a new renaissance of art, thought, and culture. We are seeking a highly organized, mission-aligned, and relationship-focused Development Operations Manager to help build the fundraising systems, campaigns, and relationships necessary to fuel this growth.

The Development Operations Manager will manage the day-to-day execution behind Angelico's advancement efforts-growing membership, stewarding donors, developing the donor pipeline, pursuing corporate sponsor ships, coordinating fundraising campaigns and events, supporting grant development, and ensuring donors receive the gratitude, attention, and communication they deserve as shareholders in our mission.

Working closely with the Executive Director, who serves as Angelico's chief major-gift solicitor, this person will provide the organization, systems, research, coordination, and follow-through necessary to keep fundraising efforts and donor relationships moving forward.

This is an execution- and operations-focused advancement role-perfect for a highly organized person who loves building systems, managing details, following through, and cultivating relationships.

To build the relationships, systems, campaigns, and fundraising infrastructure that will sustain Angelico's growth-inviting more people to invest in the mission, caring well for those who already do, and helping provide the resources necessary to transform the culture through beauty.

Membership, Annual Giving & Sponsor ships

Manage and grow Angelico's membership and recurring giving programs, including recruitment, renewal, retention, upgrades, and lapsed-member campaigns.

Personally invite individuals to support the mission through accessible membership commitments, including $10/month or $120/year giving.

Develop systems and campaigns that move audience members toward deeper engagement and financial support.

Identify and contact prospective corporate event and season sponsors, initiate relationships, and coordinate follow-through with the Executive Director.

Track membership, sponsorship, and annual-giving goals and maintain consistent momentum toward revenue targets.

Donor Development, Stewardship & Pipeline Management

Help the Executive Director manage a portfolio of donors and prospects, ensuring consistent gratitude, attention, communication, and follow-through.

Conduct prospect research, qualification, capacity research, relationship mapping, and pipeline development.

Maintain cultivation stages, next steps, ask-readiness, and donor follow-up.

Support major-donor cultivation and solicitation through research, scheduling, correspondence, materials, and follow-through.

Manage donor stewardship systems, including acknowledgements, personalized touches, impact communications, donor hospitality, appreciation opportunities, and sponsorship fulfillment.

Advancement Operations, CRM & Reporting

Own the day-to-day integrity of Angelico's CRM and advancement systems, including donor records, contact history, pledges, segmentation, and stewardship tracking.

Manage CRM contractors and build volunteer teams as appropriate to assist with data entry and advancement administration.

Maintain fundraising dashboards, calendars, pipelines, reports, and KPIs that provide clear visibility into advancement performance.

Coordinate gift processing, donor acknowledgements, documentation, and advancement workflows.

Build, document, and continuously improve advancement processes and systems.

Fundraising Campaigns, Events & Grants

Own the fundraising side of major advancement events and initiatives, including the Gala, annual 5K, seasonal appeals, giving campaigns, and other fundraising initiatives.

Coordinate contractors, volunteers, event staff, timelines, sponsorship efforts, solicitation plans, materials, and follow-up necessary for successful execution.

Build and oversee volunteer Membership Solicitors who staff membership tables and invite participation at Angelico events.

Coordinate grant research, calendars, deadlines, applications, reporting, and foundation communications.

Serve as liaison with Angelico's grant-writing agency and assist directly with grant…