Advancement Operations Manager
Dowling Catholic High School
Accounting, Education-Teaching/Admin, Technology | Full Time | Onsite | West Des Moines
Posted: 4/4/25
Job Description
Position purpose:
The Advancement Operations Manager oversees the business operations of the Advancement department to support Advancement stewarding and fundraising goals.
The goal is to maintain the integrity of the CRM donor database, process gifts, track renewals and acknowledgements and research and identify new prospects, using the Blackbaud CRM.
● Oversee Raiser’s Edge CRM database to ensure quality of constituent records including regular monthly, quarterly, and annual data maintenance utilizing Blackbaud data update programs and other solutions. (Student activities, physical addresses, life events, phone numbers, email addresses, etc.)
● Manages the processing of gifts, invoice pledges and thank-you acknowledgements to sponsors and donors. Assists in processing when necessary.
● Produces timely reports on donor giving, pipeline development and end-of-month/year accounting through strong command of the Raiser’s Edge database.
● Works as a liaison with the Business department to reconcile monthly and annual Advancement donations and pledges.
● Manages matching gift and memorial gift donations and stewards donors and families.
● Assist with prospect research to identify new donors for fundraisers.
● Provide software support for events throughout the year (Golf outing, Pancake Breakfast, Bash, reunions and one-off events.
● Oversee, support and train staff on RE modules and other Advancement fundraising software.
Deadline to Apply 6/30/25