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Development Associate

Employer
Breast Cancer Action
Location
San Francisco, California
Salary
The Development Associate is a full-time, exempt position. Salary range is $45,000-55,000, commensur
Closing date
Apr 25, 2019

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Focus Areas
Education, Healthcare
Job Function
Development / Fundraising, Event Planning
Position Type
Full Time

Job Details

About the Role

The Development Associate provides essential support for our small team of staff, Board, and volunteer fundraisers, and works with our national membership of over 60,000. The Development Associate manages donor records, optimizes the membership database (Salesforce), and contributes to a variety of fundraising tasks. The successful candidate is excited to implement systems, is motivated by our positive impact on bureaucracy, is eager to support colleagues, and enjoys problem solving. This is an exciting position for someone with development experience who wants to support our important mission.  You will have opportunities to grow your donor relations skills, increase your knowledge and mastery of the Salesforce database, and learn more about the tenets of fundraising for social justice from a grassroots membership.

The Development Associate is a full time, salaried position that reports to the Deputy Director. We are based in San Francisco.

Responsibilities

Maintain Data Entry and Integrity

  • Ongoing database management and maintenance to ensure data integrity;
  • Data entry of donations, pledges, and member information in Salesforce;
  • Pull and prepare mailing lists for appeals, events, and stewardship mailings;
  • Prepare reports and dashboards, providing accurate data and metrics quickly and efficiently.

Facilitate Donor Identification, Stewardship, and Cultivation

  • Acknowledge all donations with accurate, personalized acknowledgment within 72 hours of receiving a donation;
  • Conduct donor prospecting and research existing donors;
  • Assist in creating fundraising plans for prospective and existing donors;
  • Create materials and prepare packets for donor meetings;
  • Assist in developing and executing cultivation and stewardship activities and events.

Additional Fundraising Activities

  • Prepare applications for all local, state, and federal employee giving campaigns;
  • Coordinate in-house mailings of appeals, event invitations, and stewardship mailings;
  • Work with the Office Manager to recruit and supervise volunteers;
  • Keep inventory of all onsite event supplies and restock as needed;
  • Assist the development department with event prep and special projects;
  • Research and identify potential businesses for special promotions and event sponsorship;
  • Assist with social media and e-alerts as they relate to fundraising.

Qualifications

This position is ideal for candidates looking to build on their current donor relations experience. Applicants should have an understanding and appreciation of donor-centered fundraising as it applies to a grassroots base. The successful applicant is self-motivated and an excellent multi-tasker, has keen attention to detail, and enthusiastically embraces the mission and culture of Breast Cancer Action.

  • 2+ years fundraising experience with a non-profit organization;
  • Experience using and managing donor databases, experience with Salesforce a plus;
  • Ability to manage multiple projects and tasks at the same time, juggling short-term and long-term tasks and priorities in a fast-paced environment;
  • Strong communication skills, including with both technical and non-technical audiences;
  • Proactive, can-do attitude;
  • Keen attention to detail;
  • Sound judgement and willingness to ask for help;
  • Sense of humor and willingness to take self lightly while working hard;
  • Ability and willingness to work some evenings and weekends.

    TO APPLY

    Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis and position will remain open until filled. Please email your resumé and a detailed cover letter, highlighting relevant experience to info@bcaction.org using the subject line “Development Associate.” Please include a writing sample that provides evidence of your ability to clearly communicate complex information in an accessible way (no longer than 4 pages). No phone calls please. People of color, gender and sexual minorities, and people with a personal experience with cancer are strongly encouraged to apply.

Company

Mission

Breast Cancer Action’s mission is to achieve health justice for all women at risk of and living with breast cancer.

Core Values

We believe in:

  • Health justice as a human right
  • Honesty, fearlessness and truth-telling about the breast cancer epidemic
  • Honoring women’s diverse voices and lived experiences
  • People’s health and well-being over corporate profits
  • Transparency and accountability for ourselves and others
  • Integrity and freedom from conflict of interest
  • Collective action that changes the world for the better

 

  Vision

A world where lives and communities aren’t threatened by breast cancer.

Our Commitment to Social Justice

Breast Cancer Action recognizes that the breast cancer epidemic is a social justice issue. Breast cancer is a widespread health crisis that predominantly effects women in a male-dominated and profit-driven society, and addressing and ending the breast cancer epidemic requires profound changes at every level of our society.

In mainstream U.S. culture, breasts are linked to femininity, sexuality, and attractiveness. As a result, breast cancer is a highly sexualized and gendered disease. As a health justice organization with roots in the women’s health movement, we challenge the narrow definitions of femininity, womanhood, and sexuality that mainstream narratives about breast cancer impose on people at risk of and living with the disease. We recognize and honor the many ways people express their gender identity, including outside of the either/or of man/woman. We work to challenge mainstream assumptions about gender and sexuality as it relates to breast cancer risk, diagnosis, and treatment in order to make room for people of all gender identities in the breast cancer movement.

In our work for health justice, we strive to practice principled allyship by using the power and privilege we hold as an organization to build solidarity with communities who currently and/or traditionally have had less access to power, information, and resources.

The current breast cancer epidemic impacts communities unequally and leads to unacceptable differences in who develops breast cancer and when it develops, who gets high quality and timely treatment, and who dies from breast cancer. In order to address and end the breast cancer epidemic, we must tackle the root causes of these health inequalities, which are the result of a complex interplay of culture, power, economics, racism, and sexism.

Achieving health justice requires that each of us be free from oppressions that prevent all of us from living healthy lives in healthy communities. We believe that no single injustice can be effectively addressed in isolation, and we recognize that injustices in our society reinforce each other in many ways and at many levels.

Our Commitment to Being the Watchdog

We will work tirelessly and fearlessly to address and end the current breast cancer epidemic:

  • Until no community bears a disproportionate burden of the disease
  • Until fewer people are exposed to toxins that increase their risk of breast cancer
  • Until everyone affected by breast cancer has access to unbiased information about the disease
  •  Until quality healthcare, and more effective and less toxic breast cancer treatments, are available and accessible to all who need it
  •  Until fewer women experience the harms of overdiagnosis and overtreatment
  •  Until people everywhere have access to the resources and opportunities they need so they can fully engage in decisions about their healthcare and overall well-being according to their values and priorities
  •  Until people’s health comes before corporate profits
  •  Until fewer people develop and/or die from this disease in the first place.
Company info
Website
Telephone
415.243.9301
Location
548 Market St
PMB 17179
San Francisco
CA
94104-5401
US

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