Advancement Services Manager

This position is responsible for overseeing the entry, integrity, and maintenance of alumni and donor data within the Raiser’s Edge database to support the college’s engagement and philanthropic initiatives. The role develops and maintains data standards, processes, and tools to ensure accurate data collection, verification, reporting, and analysis. It manages data imports, record coding, and database audits while fulfilling requests for reports, mailing lists, and information to support development, stewardship, and alumni engagement activities.

The position also collaborates with campus offices and the Rhode Island College Alumni and Foundation, serves as the liaison to IT for system support, and assists with staff training and reporting needs.

• Develop and implement effective tools and procedures to collect, process, and verify data.
• Oversee the entry, integrity and maintenance of alumni and donor prospect data in the Raiser’s Edge database management system.
• Oversee importation of selected lists within the database system and the batch coding of records for tracking purposes, including organizational relationships, communication codes and event attendees.
• Audit the integrity of the data maintained in Raiser’s Edge database management system
• Collaborate with other college offices and the Rhode Island College Alumni and Foundation as necessary while entering and maintaining data.
• Develop and maintain data standards, procedures and processes in accordance with best practices.
• Fulfill requests for information, queries, mailing lists, email lists, data analysis and reports for the Rhode Island College Alumni and Foundation.
• Work closely with and provide support to Rhode Island College Alumni and Foundation staff on the coordination of development and stewardship activities.
• Assist in the preparation of mailing and invitation lists for alumni engagement and donor cultivation activities.
• Serve as the primary liaison to Information Technology/ MIS as it relates to system support and updates to the system. Support academic and administrative requests for department lists.
• Assist in the development of unit annual reports.
• Maintain knowledge of updates, new features of Raiser’s Edge to support the work of the Division.
• Assist in the training of staff working with the Raiser’s Edge database system.
• Oversee the importation of new RIC graduates’ data from Peoplesoft to Blackbaud Raisers Edge.
• Provide statistical Alumni data to the RIC Office of Institutional Research on an annual/as needed basis.

• Undergraduate degree in relevant areas:
  Computer Science, Management, or related areas.

• Familiarity with reporting tools such as Microsoft Excel.
• Working knowledge of PC software for data management.
• Working knowledge of Blackbaud’s Raisers Edge and Raisers Edge NXT .

The employee is not exposed to known adverse environmental conditions.

FLSA Exempt

As an affirmative action/Equal Opportunity institution that values and is committed to inclusion and to expanding the diversity of our faculty and staff, the College invites members of protected classes, including minorities and persons with disabilities, to identify themselves as such at the time of application.