Summary

The Individual Philanthropy Group focuses on developing relationships with major donors and prospects contributing gifts of $10,000 and above, with a focus on six and seven figure gifts. The Assistant, Individual Philanthropy, plays a critical role in ensuring excellence in our support and cultivation of top donors and in the smooth running of our fast-paced team. The individual will provide all necessary administrative support to the Senior Managing Director, Individual Philanthropy and our sub-team of four other fundraisers who support primarily East Coast donors. The Assistant will have a variety of responsibilities and support different projects with great opportunities to learn about and contribute to the work of Save the Children.

What You'll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

Provide donor support and administrative assistance to the Individual Philanthropy sub-team and Senior Managing Director (80%):

• Cultivation and Stewardship: Under the direction of the Senior Managing Director, Individual Philanthropy, support the fundraising team's cultivation activities and relationship development with major donors and prospects.
• Participate in the creation of donor outreach strategies and monitoring of prospect contacts; help maintain the donor database and serve as a point of contact for award management, among other duties.
• Prepare donor materials, including but not limited to mail merges, printing and binding donor materials, hand-addressing and handwriting custom mailings and notes; creating field visit photo books, submitting tracker requests, calendars, and other related duties.
• Assist with the development of materials for senior management meetings, donor meetings and additional high value meetings as needed; draft presentations as required.
• Establish strong internal working relationships and coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to execute projects and obtain support across departments.
• Coordinate calendar of the Senior Managing Director in a dynamic and ever-changing environment, ensuring accuracy, timeliness and clear communication.
• Obtain budget codes, process gifts and be the point person for Gift Processing in Finance.
• Manage international and domestic travel and conference arrangements.
• Support the fundraising team's event planning efforts.
• Update and maintain external and internal website landing pages as needed.
• Support ad hoc requests and support other projects as requested.

Assist with special projects as requested by the Senior Managing Director and members of the team (15%):

• Circulate professional development opportunities to keep the team apprised of relevant seminars, webinars, trainings etc. to encourage ongoing learning and exposure to the latest trends and practices in the field.
• Coordinate campaigns as needed such as the year-end thank you campaign for high value donors, working cross-departmentally within the agency
• Assist with salons, galas, private parties, and other events as needed.
• Coordinate email campaigns as needed using online marketing platform and ensure that donor records are updated accordingly.
• Perform other duties as may be required.

Growth and professional development opportunities (5%):

• Participate in agency trainings and support colleagues within the department and the agency on various initiatives such as continuous improvement and innovation projects as needed.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of a High School Diploma or equivalent, no additional years of experience required.
• Professional proficiency in MS Office suite.
• Professional proficiency in spoken and written English.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with individuals and teams at all levels, both internally and externally.
• Demonstrated commitment to fostering and maintaining an environment of diversity, inclusion, and belonging.
• Strong customer service orientation for internal and external constituents with the ability to make people feel welcome and appreciated.
• Highly efficient administrator with strong time management skills.
• Ability to self-organize, set priorities, handle multiple tasks simultaneously and flexibility to shift priorities as needed.
• High level of organization, accuracy, attention to detail and follow-through skills.
• High level of personal confidence and comfortable working independently.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality at all times.
• Creative problem solver.
• Positive, upbeat personality and calm under pressure.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with donor databases, especially Blackbaud or Salesforce.

Compensation

Save the Children is offering the following salary ranges for this position, dependent on candidate location:

• Geo 1 - NY Metro, DC, and other locations with labor costs significantly above national average: Target hourly pay for this position is $19.62 - $21.92
• Geo 2 - Locations around the US National Labor Cost Average: Target hourly pay for this position is $17.98 - $20.10
• Geo 3 - Locations significantly below the US National Labor Cost Average: Target hourly pay for this position is $16.35 - $18.27

The salary ranges listed above are for US based candidates. For candidates located outside of the US, salary ranges will be based on the salary scales of the local employer of record.

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location (more information on job structure is available ). Employee may be eligible for an incentive program. Save the Children US also offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, a retirement savings plan with employer contribution, paid vacation leave, safety & wellness leave, family leave, parental/adoption leave, caregiver leave, and much more.

About Save the Children

Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children - every day and in times of crisis - transforming their lives and the future we share.

Our work for children and their families requires that we commit-at every opportunity-to work together to identify and dismantle persistent systemic and structural racism, inequality, and any other forms of discrimination in this country and beyond. As an anti-racist organization, Save the Children will not tolerate discrimination in any form-in our employment practices, amongst our staff, in our leadership or toward the people we serve. We stand in solidarity with all people to fight for equal rights, justice, inclusion, and belonging.

Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom we are in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse.

Save the Children is committed to minimizing safety and security risks for our valued employees, ensuring all are given training, support and information to reduce their risk exposure while maximizing the impact of our programs for children and families. Our shared duty, both agency and individual, is to seek and maintain safe working conditions for all.