Senior Manager, Development Communications & Stewardship

Summary

Join Jobs for the Future (JFF) as a Senior Manager, Development Communications & Stewardship! This newly created role is crucial to JFF's expanding fundraising efforts. You will be responsible for managing donor communications, overseeing project deliverables, and collaborating with various teams. The ideal candidate is a highly organized project manager with experience in non-profit development communications and stewardship. JFF offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and flexible work arrangements, including remote options and a home office stipend. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to JFF's mission and build a best-in-class development communications function.

Requirements

• You bring experience designing, writing, editing, and collaborating with staff on donor communications in non-profits and/or social impact organizations
• You have experience developing and executing development communications and stewardship initiatives for corporations, foundations, and high net worth individuals
• You have experience building relationships across teams including but not limited to program staff, marketing and communication staff and development staff within a matrixed organization and place a premium on service-orientation and excellent communication; you build positive relationships with internal leaders and external stakeholders based on trust and building mutual understanding
• You have strong time management skills and can effectively execute across multiple workstreams and priorities
• You have experience using CRM tools (Salesforce) and see the value in maximizing the use of these tools
• You possess high energy and passion for JFF’s mission and North Star, and the ability to apply JFF’s core values to all areas of your work
• You are energized by stewarding JFF’s DEIBW values and practices within your day-to-day work, including embracing the differences and celebrating the diversity that everyone brings to JFF
• You have leveraged professional development and other learning opportunities to stay current with advances in fundraising and development
• You value building positive and collaborative relationships with others, including people whose identities and backgrounds differ from your own

Responsibilities

• Advance JFF’s fundraising goals by contributing to the stewardship and donor communications strategy
• Project manage, review, edit, and provide feedback on all reporting commitments associated with JFF’s funding (approximately 200+ reports per year)
• Oversee donor stewardship communications including acknowledgments, thank you notes, congratulatory, and condolence messages
• Collaborate with colleagues across Development and Marketing & Communications to design and implement a suite of development communications materials for Development colleagues and Business Units
• Manage donor recognition opportunities in the annual report and on the website as well as coming up with innovative ways to share their stories of impact
• Support the Director of Development Communications & Stewardship with conceptualizing and executing benefits levels across JFF
• Manage and implement tools to enhance the experience of our funders/donors such as Loopio (for content management) and ThankView (for digital acknowledgement)
• Oversee and manage key administrative functions, including key fundraising components
• Enter, update and maintain relevant donor information and ensure that all donor stewardship activity is entered into the database
• Strategically utilize knowledge management and project management tools such as Salesforce, Asana, and other similar tools

Preferred Qualifications

• New hires at the Senior Manager level at JFF typically bring 5-10 years of prior professional experience through a combination of full-time, part-time, internship, and/or freelance positions
• You are someone who likes to think outside of the box and is excited to develop a new area of development work for JFF

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Comprehensive benefits program
• Flexibility
• Choice
• JFF has offices in Boston, Oakland, and Washington, DC; employees are welcome to use JFF office space to work in-person or hybrid, or completely remote
• Annual home office stipend to all regular full-time and part-time employees
• New employees receive office equipment as needed