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About the Role
The Development Associate, Special Events provides comprehensive administrative and logistical support for 92NY’s fundraising, stewardship, and donor cultivation events. The Associate helps coordinate and execute a wide range of events throughout the year while ensuring a seamless and welcoming experience for donors and guests.
Responsibilities
- Provide support for various fundraising, stewardship, and cultivation events, including correspondence, report generation and day-of administration and greeting.
- Assist with event administration and reporting including processing all event-related contributions, generating lists and reports, tracking RSVPs, producing acknowledgment letters and solicitation mailings, and keeping invitee/donor records up to date.
- Manage a portion of logistical planning for events including registration, building reservations, set-ups and breakdowns.
- Manage creation and distribution of electronic event communications including list creation, email design, and distribution.
- In advance of events, assist as needed with providing confidential research profiles producing biographical, financial, and philanthropic information.
- Submit event expense reports and vendor invoices for payment.
- Assist in benefit fulfillment and ticketing services for donors, including tracking and fulfilling requests, and producing ticketing reports.
- Provide impeccable customer service to 92NY supporters of all levels, including answering phone and email inquiries.
- Perform other related duties as requested or assigned.
Requirements
- Minimum of 1–2 years of experience supporting development special events and fundraising required, with experience in event coordination, donor relations, event administration, and the execution of fundraising, cultivation, and stewardship of events ranging from 20-500 guests.
- Strong project management and administration skills with the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal and diplomacy skills required to deal with the public, including major and high-profile donors as well as internal colleagues.
- Detail-oriented with strong writing, editing, proofreading and analytical skills.
- Must work well under pressure and adhere to strict deadlines.
- Proven high-level of expertise in using Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel, Outlook and Word and comfort navigating complex databases.
- Ability to organize, prioritize and execute responsibilities in the face of conflicting priorities or unexpected situations.
- Interested applicants should forward a resume and a cover letter with salary requirements.
Skills
- Event coordination
- Donor relations
- Event administration
- Fundraising
- Stewardship
- Cultivation of events
- Project management
- Administration
- Communication
- Interpersonal skills
- Diplomacy
- Writing
- Editing
- Proofreading
- Analytical skills
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Excel
- Outlook
- Word
- Databases
- Tessitura
- Salesforce
- CRM databases
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- 40 hours per week
- Monday to Friday 9am to 6pm with a one-hour unpaid lunch break
- Evening and weekend events will be required
- Hybrid working model
Experience Level
- 1-2 years
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree
Salary/Compensations
- $58,000 - $62,000
About the Company
- 92NY’s fundraising, stewardship, and donor cultivation events