Foundation Development Assistant
Employer
College of The Albemarle
1208 North Road Street
Elizabeth City, NC 27909
Phone: 252-335-0821
Job Location
COA - Elizabeth City
Salary/Grade
$33,429 - $41,787 annually
Benefits
Full Time Benefits
Job Category
- Technical/Paraprofessional
Application Period
Opens: Tuesday, June 28, 2022
Closes: Thursday, July 28, 2022
Closes: Thursday, July 28, 2022
Target Start Date
Thursday, July 28, 2022
Expected Work Hours
M-F
Reports to
Executive Director, Foundation
Employment Type
Full Time
Minimum Qualifications
Required:
- Bachelor’s Degree in business, marketing, accounting, or a related field from a regionally accredited college or university.
- Two years of work experience in an office setting.
Preferred Qualifications
- Three to five years of work experience in an office setting.
- Work experience in a non-profit and/or higher education environment.
- Experience working with volunteers.
- Working knowledge of Blackbaud’s Raiser's Edge or other donor database software and NextGen scholarship awarding software or similar.
Position Description
Position Subject to Availability of Budgeted Funds
**Open until filled**
FLSA: Technical-Paraprofessional - Non-Exempt
Salary is commensurate with education and experience.
The role of the Foundation Development Assistant is to offer support related to the management of the College of The Albemarle Foundation to include: Alumni Association and Alumni Association Board, Foundation Board and Finance Committee, donor stewardship, Foundation Scholarships, events, and other needs of the Executive Director.
The Foundation Development Assistant receives supervision from the Executive Director, Foundation.
Examples of Duties:
- Provide administrative assistance to the Executive Director, the Alumni Association and Board and the Foundation Board.
- Gift entry and database management, generate gift reports, donor stewardship including acknowledgement letters and endowment reports, donor correspondences and event invitations.
- Submit Foundation check requests, complete daily deposits and other responsibilities related to the Foundation and the Business Office.
- Work closely with Financial Aid to coordinate and review procedures and processes for awarding Foundation scholarships, including scholarship application, entering and updating scholarship information in the scholarship awarding database, NextGen and college website, as well as managing student award notifications.
- Maintain cross-departmental communications and relationships within the college including the President's Office, Communications and Marketing, Student Success and Enrollment Management (SSEM), Business Office, faculty and staff.
- Establish regular communication with outside funding organizations and community partners.
- Schedule all Foundation Board, Finance Committee and Alumni Board meetings, to include reserving meeting space, creating Zoom meetings, sending meeting reminders, in addition to providing agendas and supplemental documentation needed for meetings and taking minutes at aforementioned meetings.
- Support the needs of the Alumni Association and Board with Annual Meeting and other events; work with alumni volunteers to program events and activities.
- Track, manage and report Alumni Association memberships and renewals.
- Manage event budgets, invitation lists, invitation, RSVP and reports in the donor database, Raiser's Edge.
- Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned by the Executive Director.