Reports to: Director, Community Engagement

Work Location: 675 23rd Street Oakland, CA 94612

Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 8:30 a.m.- 5 p.m.

Status: Non-Exempt

Salary: $22-$24 per hour

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Administrative Support:

• Assist with administrative tasks related to fundraising and donor management.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date donor records and databases.
• Prepare correspondence, reports, and presentations as needed.
• Enter data into the fundraising database.
• Prepare and send correspondence to donors.
• Update information regarding gifts on a frequent basis.
• Assist co-workers in preparing furniture invoices for conferences.
• Reconcile gift information monthly with data from the accounting department.
• Be point person for receiving, delivering and storing in-kind donations.
• Be point person for 23rd Street gate opening/closing (answering the door)

Fundraising Support:

• Assist in organizing and coordinating fundraising events, campaigns, and appeals.
• Help in researching and identifying potential donors and funding opportunities.
• Collaborate with the development team to implement fundraising strategies.

Communication and Outreach:

• Support efforts to engage and steward donors through regular communication and updates.
• Assist and serve as back-up for maintaining the organization’s website and social media presence.

Grant Management:

• Assist in researching grant opportunities.
• Help in compiling necessary documentation and reports for grant applications and compliance.

Collaboration:

• Work closely with other departments and team members to support overall organizational goals.
• Participate in meetings and contribute to strategic planning related to development efforts.

Requirements

GENERAL QUALIFICATIONS: 

• Strong work ethic. Willingness to work hard to accomplish difficult goals.
• Complies with written and verbal instruction and willingly to perform assigned tasks.
• Accountability to supervisor and to a performance plan.  Willingness to accept supervision.
• Positive attitude and ability to be a positive influence on a team.
• Demonstrates proactivity, flexibility, creativity, and enthusiasm.
• Professionalism, maturity, good decision-making and problem-solving abilities.
• Disciplined self-starter who can set and achieve goals.
• Can feel and express passion for the mission of a leading human service charity.
• Is reliable, dependable and trustworthy.
• Strong written and verbal communications skills in English (Spanish a plus).
• Ability to communicate well with external and internal customers.
• Excellent customer service skills, for both internal and external customers/stakeholders. Demonstrated ability to serve stakeholders in a professional, welcoming, and efficient manner.
• Ability to thrive in a flexible, fast-paced and growth-oriented environment, while maintaining a sense of humor and a positive, solution-oriented approach.
• Ability to work well with others, to ensure a positive, constructive environment within the program or department, and throughout the organization, and to resolve conflict and avoid difficulties.
• Cooperative, friendly, and helpful attitude with clients and co-workers.
• Attention to detail.
• Excellent administrative and organizational skills.
• Ownership of job’s responsibilities and of accomplishing goals.
• Ability to model highly professional work etiquette including informing supervisor of your activities, responding to communication in a timely manner, doing what you say you will do, respectful behavior in meetings, avoiding any behavior which could cause negative perceptions of you or of SVdP.
• Interest in seeking out additional challenges and opportunities.  A commitment to ongoing learning and self-development.
• Coordinating, managing, developing, and engaging volunteers.
• Ability to utilize, engage, and develop others, including volunteers, to work enthusiastically and productively on your team.
• Ability to control unusual situations as they arise without escalating.

SPECIFIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Previous experience in nonprofit development, fundraising, or related fields is advantageous.
• Strong organizational skills with attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and familiarity with donor databases (experience with donor databases is a plus).
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a dynamic environment.

EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field (such as nonprofit management, communications, or business) preferred.