Job: Multiple Positions at BAA Foundation
Boston Arts Academy Foundation is seeking a Gift Processing Manager and Director of Institutional Giving. Boston Arts Academy Foundation is an independent 501(c)3 charitable non-profit organization with a mission of raising and providing funding for Boston’s only public high school for the visual and performing arts. Boston Arts Academy was founded as a pilot school by Boston’s ProArts colleges in 1998, and it was dependent, from the start, on a combination of Boston Public Schools and private, philanthropic funding.
Today, Boston Arts Academy Foundation raises between 30-35% of the school’s annual budget, as well as funding for college access and scholarships, special programs and urgent needs, specialized equipment, and an endowment – all to ensure that Boston Arts Academy is available to generations of students to come.
The Gift Processing Manager is a Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge intermediate-level database expert who will manage the gift life cycle operation, supervise gift processing, gift acknowledgment, financial reporting, and donor database hygiene and processes. Rewarding opportunity to help support amazing public arts education, creating life-changing experiences for the diverse and talented students of Boston Arts Academy.
Hybrid work schedule available, office located in the Fenway neighborhood of Boston. Pay range $55,000-65,000.
SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES
- Manage the Raiser’s Edge NXT donor database, including data integrity, security, and reporting.
- Develop queries, generate revenue reports, export data, and manipulate data using Raiser’s Edge and Excel.
- Track quarterly goals, data analytics, and gift officers’ progress.
- Prospect and research to support solicitations and fundraiser events.
- Conduct gift processing and recording with direct report, Gift Processing Coordinator.
- Steward donors with timely acknowledgments and informative communications about their gifts.
- Communicate with donors about fulfilling gifts and pledges.
- Work with finance on monthly reconciliations and preparation of documents for the annual audit.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required.
- 3 – 5 years of relevant development, fundraising, or nonprofit experience.
- Intermediate proficiency in Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge or comparable fundraising software is essential.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office software, in particular, Excel.
- Accounting knowledge is beneficial.
- Familiarity with Greater Boston and surrounding communities is preferred.
- Occasional evening and weekend assignments to support fundraising events.
DIRECTOR OF INSTITUTIONAL GIVING
DESCRIPTION
The Director of Institutional Giving is a grant writer responsible for all aspects of solicitation and stewardship of philanthropic support from foundations, public grant funding, and federal grant opportunities. Maintain and/or establish long-term partnerships with grant funders and foundation partners. This is a visible and rewarding opportunity to help support amazing public arts education, creating life-changing experiences for the diverse and talented students of Boston Arts Academy.
Hybrid work schedule available, office located in the Fenway neighborhood of Boston. Pay range $75,000-85,000.
SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES
- Serve as the lead writer and the grant outreach process; write, edit, submit, and steward funding proposals.
- Develop high-quality proposals, briefings, and reports to meet BAAF’s fundraising goals.
- Manage outreach and prospect research to build awareness and support colleagues’ cultivation and acquisition of new philanthropic funders.
- Develop and maintain methodical systems of stewardship that sustain and strengthen funders’ and corporate partners’ engagement and commitment to BAAF’s mission.
- Manage all relevant data in database on Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT®
- Manage a portfolio of 60 – 75 constituents, including: family foundations, private foundations, and state and federal funding opportunities.
- Work with BAA faculty and the BAAF Finance team to monitor effective, appropriate use of awarded grants in preparation for reports.
- Serve as the Foundation’s internal expert on BAA school programming, such as STEAM, Health & Wellness, and Multimedia Entertainment Production.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required.
- 5 – 7 years of grant writing, communications, and/or public relations experience.
- Knowledge of Raiser’s Edge is strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated and proven track record of securing five- and six-figure grants and multi-year funding; soliciting and securing grants from a variety of sources and developing relationships with donors.
- Intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Office software; Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
- Familiarity with Greater Boston and surrounding communities is preferred.
- Occasional evening and weekend assignments to support fundraising events.
FOR BOTH POSITIONS
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
- Generous paid time off and approx. 11 holidays per year
- Health Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance, and Life Insurance
- 403(b) Retirement plan
- Hybrid office schedule
- Bonus-eligible
BAA Foundation is an equal-opportunity employer committed to workplace diversity and inclusion.
To apply, please send your resume and cover letter to our managing human resources consultant at karen@sleincompany.com by June 05, 2023.