Description

The Legal Aid Justice Center is a nationally recognized, non-profit organization that partners with communities and clients to fight for racial, social, and economic justice. We understand that the harms our clients endure are inextricably linked to overarching systems of injustice. Together we are dismantling those systems through a combination of community organizing, litigation, policy advocacy, public relations, and individual legal services.

Very recently, we helped lead the fight to reform Virginia’s unemployment insurance system including advocacy that resulted in the distribution of over $1 billion in illegally withheld payments to over 160,000 Virginians. During the pandemic, we helped hundreds of families avoid eviction through a combination of legal representation and help accessing rent relief funds. Our staff are on the front lines of some of the most important anti-poverty fights happening today.

Founded in 1967, LAJC has offices in Charlottesville, Richmond, Petersburg, and Falls Church and provides services under six key program areas: Civil Rights & Racial Justice, Economic Justice, Youth Justice, Health Justice, Immigrant Justice, and Worker Justice. For more information, visit www.justice4all.org.

About the Position:

LAJC is seeking a Senior Development Associate to join our six-person, multi-office fundraising team. This position will be based in the Charlottesville office and will report to the Director of Development. The Senior Development Associate will be responsible for our team’s primary database functions (data entry, generating acknowledgements, running lists and reports) and will assist in the generation of donor-specific mass communications and solicitations as well as responding to inquiries from monthly and annual donors. Goals for the position will be built around the efficient function of our database processes and effective and consistent communication with annual and monthly donors giving between $1 and $999. Excellent candidates will demonstrate personal strengths in organizational skills, attention to detail, and writing ability.

Job Duties

• Managing essential database tasks including managing development inventory, entering gifts as they arrive, generating acknowledgments quickly, running regular reports, data clean up, and generating lists for mailings.  
• Execution of logistics for several mailing projects each year including developing production timelines, sophisticated segmentation of donors lists, and engaging with a mail house/volunteers. 
• Running advanced reports and doing analysis to inform team strategy. 
• Developing effective written mass communications to monthly and annual donors including acquisition letters, solicitations, thank you notes, and stewardship e-blasts. 
• Occasional correspondence with individual donors. 
• Assistance identifying major donor prospects to be elevated into major gift portfolios.  
• Learning about and integrating community-centered fundraising concepts into your practice. 

Skills Required

Required Qualifications: We’re seeking candidates who can handle details and databases efficiently and who is also confident in their writing skills. It is essential that the candidate enjoys working with people to promote racial, social, and economic justice.

• Experience in fundraising, sales, customer services, or nonprofit work. 
• Strengths in high attention to detail, time management, and demonstrating initiative 
• Strong written and story-telling communication skills 
• A demonstrated commitment to partnering with and advocating in low-wealth communities and communities of color 
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word & Excel 

Preferred Qualifications:

• At least two years of professional experience in fundraising 
• Prior experience working with database programs 
• Prior experience (work or lived) using an explicit race equity lens 

Additional Info

Application Instructions: Complete the application which may require a cover letter, resume, and contact information for three references. Please note, this position requires strong written and story-telling communications skills. Therefore, your cover letter will be evaluated for this requirement. References will not be contacted without advance consent from candidates. Please submit your application at: https://secure6.saashr.com/ta/6191828.careers?ShowJob=470217290