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Annual Fund Manager

Post Date: January 24, 2025
  • Organization Name: Connecticut Museum of Culture and History
  • Organization URL: https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/
  • Job Type: Full-Time
  • Contact Email Address: spresutti@connecticutmuseum.org
  • Contact Phone Number: (860) 236-5621 x244
  • Deadline: February 17, 2025
  • Reports to: Chief Advancement Officer
  • Department: Advancement
  • Classification: Non-exempt

Reporting to the Chief Advancement Officer, this position plays a vital role on the advancement team to supports the day-to-day annual fund activities, department operations, and donor engagement and stewardship. The role includes frontline fundraising (10%), managing appeal efforts (40%), donor and constituent management in CRM software (40%), and generating donor wealth analysis and bios (10%).  

Job Responsibilities: 

  • Manage multi-channel annual fundraising efforts (print, digital, in-person, and phone) that support donor engagement, retention, and new acquisition of donors.  
  • Identify, engage, solicit, and steward annual giving donors and prospects to support achieving annual fundraising goals.  
  • Meet with prospective and current annual giving donors to encourage gifts up to $10,000. 
  • Professionally and actively engages with prospects to share enthusiasm about Museum activities and plans.   
  • Record all gifts (restricted and non-restricted) into donor software and send acknowledgements.  
  • Tracks results of solicitations, compiling data, and assisting with analysis to measure progress towards organizational goals.  
  • Builds schedules, draft letters, and manage delivery of multiple appeals each year.   
  • Stays current on annual giving best practices and maximizes use of data to adjust when needed.  
  • Assesses Annual Fund donors’ giving history and philanthropic capacity to create and build pipeline from the annual to major gifts.  
  • Research new prospects, and compiles bios for leadership.  
  • Pull donor mailing lists, and create new queries based on projects requirements.  
  • Maintain donor records, assign attribute codes, mark deceased/inactive, NCOA lists, add donor capacity and propensity ratings to records from iWave.  
  • Conduct donor research and create new constituent records, to assign to portfolios.   
  • Log restricted and unrestricted gifts in the database, and print acknowledgements.   
  • Pull total annual fund and restricted donations lists for the annual report.  
  • Obtain quotes and maintain annual renewals of vendor software.  
  • Administrate user roles and access in donor software.   
  • Enter information on object donors into Altru that includes a description of the object, receipt number, accession number Ms number (if needed), and credit line.   
  • Collaborate with colleagues on advancement events managing specific assigned duties  
  • Additional duties and responsibilities as assigned.  

Qualifications: The Annual Fund Manager must have a desire to frontline fundraise, experience and/or comfort with learning CRM systems, take initiative and responsibility, work independently and as a team, and be detailed and deadline oriented. 

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience preferred.  
  • 3 – 5 years of previous experience in a nonprofit fundraising, business development, or similar.   
  • Excellent writing and communications skills.  
  • Strong data management skills, proficiency with Altru database preferred (or comfort/willingness to be trained)  
  • Strong Microsoft Office skills, and database and/or CRM software knowledge.  
  • Ability to complete detail-oriented work with accuracy.  
  • Strong ability to interact in friendly manner with colleagues and donors both in-person and over the phone.   
  • Capable of managing several projects simultaneously.   
  • Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively with a team.  
  • Ability to take direction and run with a project from start to finish.    
  • Ability to maintain the highest standards of integrity and confidentiality.   
  • Entrepreneurial mindset, willingness to think creatively, adapt, and grow in role.  

Compensation
$50,000 – $55,000 per year.  

Benefits
Eligible for generous full time employee benefits including paid vacation and sick time, participation in employer-contributing 403b plan, and health, life and disability insurance. 

Schedule
Full time, Monday through Friday. Mainly on-site in Hartford, CT; potential day per week remote.  

Other
Review of applications will commence immediately and continue until position is filled. Final candidate subject to background and reference check.  

How to apply
Please email cover letter and resume to Susan Presutti, Director of Human Resources, spresutti@connecticutmuseum.org, by February 17, 2025 

The Connecticut Museum is an affirmative action-equal opportunity employer. Candidates from historically underrepresented backgrounds are encouraged to apply.  

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