Development Associate

General Responsibilities:

• Sponsorship Management (60%): Curate and maintain the corporate sponsorship database, tracking engagement, benefits, and renewal timelines.
• Opportunity Identification (20%): Collaborate with the development team to identify and explore additional fundraising opportunities, including leveraging tools like Double the Donation for matching gift programs.
• Database Management (10%): Manage and maintain the organization’s donor database, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and confidentiality of all donor records, gift entry, and administrative tasks associated with database upkeep.
• Calendar Curation (5%): Curate and maintain the grants calendar, tracking deadlines, submission requirements, and reporting schedules for all grant opportunities.
• Report Preparation (5%): Prepare various development reports, including donor giving histories, campaign progress, and grant outcomes.

Required Qualifications:

• Respect, appreciation, and/or curiosity for ALL faith traditions, ideologies, and political leanings.
• Proven experience (2+ years preferred) in a development, fundraising, or administrative role within a non-profit organization.
• Demonstrated experience and proficiency with a donor CRM system such as Bloomerang, BlackBaud, DonorPerfect, EveryAction, Bonterra, Neon, Kindful, Classy, Little Green Light, DonorDock, or similar platforms.
• Strong research abilities, particularly in identifying and qualifying potential donors and funding opportunities.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines effectively.
• Creative and innovative; the ability to see alternatives and solutions.
• Show the ability to multi-task effectively and balance priorities in an ever-changing, fast-moving, time-sensitive environment.
• Your application will be considered as a priority if you email future@minaretfoundation.com and write ‘Stargate SG-1 is the best sci-fi show’ in the subject line. Include your resume as a PDF attachment. Congratulations on reading the entire job description.
• Ability to manage time with great efficiency and can operate with little oversight and minimal direction.

This position is remote, part-time, between 15 to 20 hours a week, with the possibility of additional

hours within two months of hire. The hourly wage is between $23 – $27/hour. Paid family leave, 20+

days of paid holiday leave, two weeks of paid time off (PTO), and Gympass are among the benefits

each part-time employee enjoys. While we are currently unable to provide healthcare assistance, we

are actively working towards this goal, along with a range of additional benefits.