Overview:
Beyond Housing is a nationally recognized community development organization that works to strengthen families and transform underserved communities to create a stronger, more equitable, and prosperous St. Louis region for all. We engage where we’re needed, focusing on building consensus among leaders, providing and preserving housing, fostering community structures that shape lives, and guiding systems that make people’s lives better.
We lead with vision for what a community can be ~ every community is different, but thriving communities tend to share the same basic set of positive traits regarding housing, safety, education, health, infrastructure, and access to basic human services.
We bring together leaders and resources, volunteers, and citizens, and pursue a wide assortment of creative approaches to build stronger, healthier communities for life.
Finally, we are community builders, not kingdom builders. “It’s their neighborhood, future, & dreams”. Our objective is to help build and contribute the good things we do for the sake of adding value to the lives of the people we’re honored to serve.
Position Summary:
The Donor Database Manager (“Manager”) plays a key role in working with the Fund Development and Marketing staff responsible for annual fund campaigns, appeals, and other major gifts; events; planned giving; communications; and stewardship. The position is responsible for data integrity as well as timely and accurate entry in the databases, maintaining records, preparing reports, and providing information and available insights to improve fundraising decisions and outcomes.
Duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Assist in establishing best practices and maintaining the overall quality and integrity of the databases, including working with Blackbaud support staff to troubleshoot problems and stay current with updates to the system and data audits.
- Assist the Fund Development and Marketing staff with individual and giving report summaries, generating lists for all fund development and marketing activities, including support for weekly fund development and marketing donor development meetings.
- Work with Fund Development and Marketing staff to capture all information on prospects and donors in the Raiser’s Edge database to enable review and analysis efforts.
- Update and maintain gift and contribution information on a timely basis.
- Remain aware of Beyond Housing’s top donors and keep informed of the organization’s fundraising efforts, programs, initiatives, and projects.
- Coordinate matching gifts program, including managing gift applications, processing pledges and payments.
- Provide database assistance and training as needed.
- Maintain standard operating procedures manual for databases.
- Work with Fund Development and Marketing Staff to generate weekly donor acknowledgement letters.
- Other duties as assigned.
Experience and Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree with preferred studies in management information systems (MIS), computer science, information systems, or information technology.
- 2+ years of professional experience in database management, analysis, and reporting.
- Proficient with Raiser’s Edge, RE NXT, and Blackbaud preferred.
- Organized with strong detail orientation and ability to consistently meet deadlines.
- Familiarity with Salesforce a plus.
Personal Qualities:
- Critical thinking – The ability to analyze information, identify patterns, and make decisions based on data.
- Research skills – The ability to find and gather information from various sources.
- Data analysis – The ability to analyze data and draw meaningful insights from it.
- Attention to detail – The ability to notice small details and identify errors.
- Problem-solving – The ability to identify problems and develop effective solutions.
- Creativity – The ability to think outside the box and come up with innovative solutions.
- Communication – The ability to communicate complex ideas and findings effectively.
- Reliable – Leadership skills that reflect and value a team approach, demonstrated integrity, effectiveness, efficiency, and the ability to deliver high-quality service. Highly capable of handling multiple tasks, projects, and timelines. Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Driven – Passion for the work and an interest in continuous learning and improvement.
Supervisor:
- Sr. Director of Philanthropy
Salary and Benefits:
- $55,000 to $65,000 annually
- Benefits for full-time position as determined in current Beyond Housing Employee Handbook.
Application Instructions:
Please send resume and cover letter to hr@beyondhousing.org or complete the form on this page. For more information on Beyond Housing, visit www.beyondhousing.org.
