Development Associate

OUR MISSION

Riverside Immigrant Services & Empowerment (Riverside) is an immigrant integration center in New York City that supports the economic mobility and social inclusion of newly arrived immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. Our mission is to help immigrants successfully integrate into life in the U.S. by rapidly improving their English language skills, providing wraparound case management and counseling, and offering workforce development training, digital literacy classes, pro bono legal clinic hours, and civics instruction.

These supports and skills ensure that Riverside program participants are better positioned to know their rights and access job training, stable employment, higher education, and other meaningful opportunities to help them navigate re-settlement successfully.

Riverside seeks a full‑time Development Associate to support the organization’s fundraising efforts to build capacity and expand programs and services. This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate, motivated professional interested in advancing their career in nonprofit fundraising. The Development Associate will report to the Director of Development and Executive Director. The successful candidate will be highly detail‑oriented, computer‑savvy, able to manage multiple projects simultaneously, and able to work both collaboratively with the team and autonomously.

• Process donations and manage data entry into the CRM database, ensuring accurate gift processing, coding, and record‑keeping and general account maintenance (de‑dupes, complete National Change of Address updates, etc).
• Create monthly fundraising reports and dashboards using CRM data to communicate accurately with various stakeholders (staff, Board, funders, etc).
• Prepare acknowledgment letters and relevant development correspondence, such as tailored donor impact reports. Maintain foundation, corporation, and individual donor files in the CRM database, cloud drive, and office files.
• Conduct preliminary research on prospective individual and institutional donors.
• Reconcile donation records with the Finance Team monthly.
• Riverside plans to implement new membership programs during the 2026‑2027 fiscal year. In collaboration with the development team, the Development Associate will support the new annual fund programs in the following ways:
  • Support the development and implementation of acquisition strategies to secure and solicit new donors.
  • Create and distribute communications to maintain and steward supporters.
• Execute key administrative tasks associated with development operations and communications, as assigned (i.e., schedule committee meetings, etc)

• Coordinate and manage key logistics for fundraising events like the International Food Festival, including but not limited to: venue research, coordinating vendors, managing the registration team, organizing event volunteers & duties, etc.
• Compile invitation lists and send invitations to development‑related events
• Track event RSVPs, maintain the event’s primary guest list, and create accurate name tags for confirmed attendees.
• Support the prospecting of corporate sponsor ships for the International Food Festival, Riverside’s largest annual fundraiser.
• Provide essential on‑site support at fundraising events and execute other event‑related tasks as assigned.

• Ensure proper record‑keeping for volunteers and alumni, tracking engagement in the CRM in addition to any monetary contributions (ie capturing participation hours, etc)
• Research alumni to identify success stories, mission ambassadors, and potential donors, collaborating with the case management team on initial prospect research lists.
• Execute other volunteer and alumni tasks…