Raiser's Edge Consultant

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Role: Raiser s Edge Consultant

Rate: $55 C2C

Client: Windward School

Duration: Contract to hire

Interview Process: Video Interview and on-site interview

Work Status: or

Client Location: West Los Angeles, CA

The position is on-site 5 days a week on-site.

Job Description

• Strong communicator with a professional and polished presence. Higher education experience preferred.
• Comfortable engaging with banking institutions, finance teams, business offices, donors, alumni, and staff.
• 5+ years of Raiser's Edge and iWave Expereince for databases
• Strong back end technical expereince for high level processes
• Blackbaud experience

• Maintain and manage Windward s Raiser s Edge and iWave Development & Alumni Databases.
• Collaborate with the Director of IT to perform Raiser s Edge updates, maintenance, and integration with Education Edge.
• Establish and apply best practices in database administration to ensure optimal data management systems.
• Ensure database accuracy and relevance for donors, alumni, parents, grandparents, foundations, corporations, and other stakeholders.
• Process and record all gifts, pledges, and payments.
• Generate gift acknowledgments and pledge reminders.
• Design and run database queries to fulfill internal data requests and generate reports on gifts, fundraising progress, and financials.
• Create mailing lists, donor recognition lists, prospect files, and reports using Raiser s Edge for annual giving and campaign efforts.
• Utilize Raiser s Edge, iWave, Student Admin, Google Suite, Excel, and Word to manage and report data.
• Prepare annual donor recognition lists for school publications.
• Serve as liaison between Advancement, IT, Business Office, and external vendors like Blackbaud to manage system integrations.
• Safeguard the confidentiality of all donor data and records.
• Develop and implement quality control measures to maintain data integrity.
• Reconcile fundraising reports with the Business Office and prepare data for audits.

Campaign Management

• Manage the Prospect Management and Tracking System for the Capital Campaign, Major Gifts, and Windward Fund.
• Track proposals, staff and volunteer assignments, and cultivation/solicitation efforts.
• Create standard and custom campaign reports for fundraising initiatives (Annual Fund, Major Gifts, Spring Event, etc.).
• Attend campaign and major gift meetings; track and update related action items.
• Oversee and support prospect screening and ratings.