Development Manager

Location: Stamford, CT and Greater Fairfield County

Salary Range: $60,000–$75,000, commensurate with experience

Schoke Jewish Family Service strengthens our community by providing vital services and fostering meaningful connections across Fairfield County. Guided by our values of compassion, dignity, and responsibility, we support individuals and families in areas including food security, mental health, senior care, and emergency assistance.

The Development Manager owns the day-to-day coordination and execution of Schoke JFS’s fundraising operations, ensuring that development work is organized, accurate, timely, and donor-centered. Reporting to the Chief Strategy Officer, this role is responsible for strong development systems and execution across gift processing, database management, donor acknowledgments, reporting, campaign coordination, corporate sponsor ships, events, and the annual development calendar.

The Development Manager works closely with development colleagues, Finance, Marketing, program staff, vendors, and volunteers to keep fundraising priorities moving forward and provide the operational structure needed to support donor relationships and revenue growth.

• Manage timely and accurate entry and updating of gifts, pledges, donor records, contact information, and related activity in the agency’s CRM.
• Maintain data integrity through routine review, cleanup, duplicate management, and consistent documentation standards.
• Produce mailing lists, donor segments, event lists, and other data extracts needed for campaigns, donor outreach, and stewardship activities.
• Coordinate with Finance on gift reconciliation, pledge tracking, and the maintenance of accurate and consistent financial and fundraising records.
• Identify opportunities to improve development processes, data practices, and workflows.

• Own the donor acknowledgment process, including preparing letters and receipts, coordinating signatures and personalized notes, and ensuring timely delivery.
• Prepare tribute notifications, sponsorship acknowledgments, and other routine donor communications; respond to basic donor questions or route them to the appropriate staff member.
• Maintain systems for tracking stewardship commitments, follow‑up, renewal dates, donor recognition, and other relationship‑management activity.
• Work with development colleagues to ensure donor interactions and next steps are consistently documented and completed.

• Coordinate development operations and logistics for the annual gala, donor appreciation events, cultivation gatherings, and other fundraising activities.
• Maintain event and sponsorship records and coordinate registration, guest lists, seating, materials, vendor logistics, day‑of execution, and post‑event follow‑up.
• Coordinate the operational components of corporate sponsorship efforts, including prospect and outreach tracking, sponsorship commitments, benefits fulfillment, recognition materials, renewals, and reporting.
• Support development leadership in maintaining and expanding relationships with corporate sponsors and community partners.
• Coordinate annual appeals and other fundraising campaigns through list preparation, mailings, response tracking, donor follow‑up systems, and production of campaign materials.

• Own and maintain the annual development calendar, including campaign, event, reporting, acknowledgment, stewardship, sponsorship, and communications deadlines.
• Prepare regular fundraising reports and dashboards on revenue, donor participation, campaign progress, events, sponsor ships, and other key…