The Development Assistant, Individual Giving position offers the opportunity to play an integral role assisting the Brooklyn Museum’s advancement efforts at a pivotal moment in the Museum’s history.
Responsibilities:
Support the Individual Giving team’s moves management process
Support the Individual Giving team’s fundraising efforts by assisting in the moves management process, including: maintaining prospect lists, tracking fundraising timelines, and project-managing fundraiser tasks
Track the Director of Individual and Major Gifts donor communications in Raiser’s Edge and keep contact records up-to-date
Work with Development Operations to process gifts and pledges, update gift opportunities, and pull reports from the database that further the Individual Giving team’s cultivation and stewardship efforts
Assist the Manager of Individual Giving and Campaigns in conducting research into prospective major gift, patron group, and exhibition donors
Undertake one major writing task per quarter, such as the creation of an exhibition appeal with an accompanying deck or a major gift proposal
Build, maintain, and centralize Individual Giving materials and collateral, such as templates, decks, and other donor communications
Manage Patron Group administrative support
Working with the Associate Development Officer, support the drafting and mailing of both patron group membership renewal notices and gift acknowledgement letters; and prepare membership packets
Facilitate membership benefits fulfillment by coordinating ticket reservations for Museum events, securing parking passes, and supporting tour logistics
Coordinate with Development Operations to ensure that all memberships are up to date
Help manage and support cultivation events, including early-stage planning, pulling invitation lists, generating logistics, tracking RSVPs, supporting check-in, and liaising with vendors
Assist the Director of Individual and Major Gifts
Provide special administrative support to the Director of Individual and Major Gifts, including calendar management, fielding phone calls, drafting correspondence and memoranda, and financial and human resources reporting
Organizing logistics for the Director of Individual and Major Gifts’ donor meetings, both on- and offsite
Compile language about the department’s achievements and challenges to share with Development and Museum leadership
If you have questions about our online application system, please get in touch with us at job.application.questions@brooklynmuseum.org.
At the Brooklyn Museum, we value all types of experience. For us, a successful candidate has many of the qualities listed in our job postings, and the desire and capacity to learn the rest on the job. So if much, but not all, of a job posting describes you, then we welcome your application.