Position Summary: The Development Assistant will support the overall fundraising efforts of the Livermore Valley Arts (LVA), and will, with the guidance of the Development Manager, be responsible for the administration and maintenance of gift processing and response system.
Key Responsibilities:
- Receive and accurately process all donations to LVA into the database system (currently Patron Manager, a Salesforce application).
- Enters, updates and maintains detailed donor records in Patron Manager.
- Responsible for timely documentation and reporting of donations.
- Generates acknowledgment letters and renewal request letters.
- Responds to telephone and in-person inquiries by donors and patrons.
- Supports membership events, attends the Founders Room for performances when needed.
- Fulfill Donation Requests for Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center.
- Works with the Development Manager to plan annual member party and other member-related events.
- Any other duties needed to help drive the organization’s vision, mission, and abide by the organization's values.
Qualifications:
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Interpersonal skills, including public relations and diplomacy and the ability to work with staff and board members at all levels
- Willing and able to work additional hours at night and/or weekend
- Strong organizational, time-management and negotiating skills
- Schedule driven and detail oriented
- Creative and self-motivated
- Skilled in prioritizing work on multiple projects simultaneously
- Minimum 3 years’ experience in nonprofit administration
- Solid knowledge of Word and Excel including strong mail merge and letter writing abilities
- Knowledge of databases
- Must be punctual and reliable
- Ability to lift up to 25lbs
- Ability to sit or stand for long periods of time