DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE

Requirements:

● Excellent planning and organization skills.

● Ability to facilitate collective planning, decision-making, and evaluation processes with

diverse stakeholders and organizations.

● Excellent communication skills; ability to assess and discern multiple requests from

various stakeholders and prioritize and coordinate responses accordingly.

● Strong writing and editing skills in English.

● High level of cultural competency and/or successful experience working with low-wage,

immigrant, workers of color.

● Bilingual in English and Spanish

● Experience in non-profit fundraising

● Experience in data entry and management

● Ability to track/manage projects and meet deadlines

● Must be fully COVID-19 vaccinated (this includes booster)

Responsibilities:

● Writes, edits, submits, and manages grant proposals and reports for foundations,

corporate, government and individual sources, both independently and in collaboration

with the Program Managers and the Executive Director.

● Research potential foundations, corporations, and government funding opportunities.

● Works with Management Team to understand the specific goals, activities and outcomes

of each program and to monitor and evaluate progress to ensure accurate reporting to

funders.

● Enters and manages data as part of grant reporting processes.

● Monitors fundraising progress on a monthly basis.

● Prepares donation acknowledgement letters, maintains giving records, and manages

individual donor engagement.

● Works with Management and other staff to plan and execute grassroots fundraising

campaigns.

● Assists Management Team with foundation, government, and donor relations.

● Drafts compelling development communications such as annual reports, quarterly

newsletters, decks, meeting briefs, event packets, and correspondence, sometimes in

collaboration with other staff.

● Represents the organization with foundations, and other donors and grantors.

Compensation & Benefits: $75,000/year. Benefits include health, dental and vision insurance. Sick days, personal & vacation days and holidays.

To apply, email a cover letter, resume and three references with name, address and telephone number to jobs@idepsca.org Please include a daytime phone number where you can be contacted. Please email your documents as PDF form.

Women, LGBT People of Color urged to apply.

IDEPSCA is an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action Employer.