Job Opportunities
Current openings:
Development Specialist
Hawk Mountain Sanctuary seeks a motivated Development Specialist to support fundraising, donor relations, and campaign coordination for the first and best raptor conservation organization in the world.
The Development Specialist provides essential administrative, operational, and fundraising support for fundraising activities at Hawk Mountain and is a year-round part-time position that reports to the Membership Director. Excellent interpersonal written and verbal communication skills are a must. This position requires an understanding of the Hawk Mountain mission, including raptor conservation science and education.
Responsibilities include maintaining accurate donor communications, database updates, donor stewardship, and assisting with special events and campaigns to help the organization meet its revenue goals. The ideal candidate is friendly and extroverted, highly organized, detail-oriented, and passionate about the organization’s mission.
Schedule: Part-time with occasional weekends required.
Competencies and Attributes
Communication: Highly effective communicator including verbal, written, and social media.
Flexibility: Demonstrates professionalism and ability to seize opportunities while respecting organizational goals as well as its chain of command.
Motivation: A self-starter with a genuine passion for raptor conservation science and natural history. Promotes the work of Hawk Mountain to all audiences.
Solution-oriented: Projects a positive attitude and helps to solve problems.
Teamwork: Integrates development collaboratively across the organization.
Attendance: Regular and predictable attendance.
Primary Duties
Donor Stewardship and Communication:
- Help Membership Director with membership renewal, recapture, and acquisition mailings.
- Monitor donor inquiries received via phone or email, ensuring prompt, professional responses.
- Prepare and send personalized thank-you letters, tax receipts, and acknowledgement packages for capital campaign and other gifts. Ensure the President, Director of Development, or Membership Director personalize thank you notes as appropriate.
- Help execute and create exciting donor cultivation events by assisting with logistics including registration, check-in, and donation collection.
- Assist with data entry and updating donor information.
- Track actions and follow-up with donors to ensure follow through.
- Support the cultivation of individual and corporate donors through research.
- Aid in the follow-up with the donors, coordinating presidential and department tasks, calls, letters, and meetings. Assist with quarterly donor updates.
- Assist with the logistics of a fundraising campaign.
- Manage inventory of visitor or donor marketing materials.
- Help create exciting events, such as having a scientist or educator present a program.
- Flexible schedule attending some weekend events, managing onsite weekend information table, or participating in offsite membership tables as required.
Administrative Support and Other:
- Assist with Board of Directors’ meetings.
- Assist with volunteer coordination as needed.
- Help prepare database reports for the Business Office.
- Perform other duties, as assigned, to support the development team.
To Apply:
Email resume and cover letter to Business Manager Shelley Davenport at [email protected].
Please do not call to inquire. Candidates will be contacted for interviews.