Donor Relations Manager

The Louis

D. Brandeis Center (LDB) is dedicated to advancing the civil and human rights of the Jewish people and promoting justice for all.

We enable institutions and the public to recognize contemporary forms of anti-Semitism and hold accountable those who perpetuate it. LDB’s work is built on four strategic pillars: advocacy, education, leadership, and research.

While LDB is best known as the leading organization fighting anti-Semitism in higher education, our recent work has also included cutting-edge legal advocacy to address anti-Semitism in labor unions, public schools, public accommodations and corporations.

Reporting to the Chief Development Officer, this position will be integral to the effective identification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of donors and prospects.

The Donor Relations Manager (DRM) will serve as the lead persuasive writer and editor for all development communications, including solicitations, newsletters, and web-based appeals, in coordination with the Director of Communications. The DRM will also help strengthen relationships with donors and prospects by planning and implementing stewardship and cultivation initiatives.

Key responsibilities include preparing stewardship reports and acknowledgements, coordinating tailored donor recognition and stewardship events, designing and executing donor engagement opportunities, and ensuring timely, accurate tracking of all related activities.

This new position requires a keen understanding of the importance of donor relationships to LDB’s mission. The DRM must be able to prepare sensitive and confidential correspondence and documentation with a high degree of discretion and precision.

As a key member of a growing team, the ideal candidate will possess exceptional verbal and written communication skills, a collaborative and solutions-oriented mindset, and strong editing, research, analytical, and organizational abilities. The role requires the capacity to manage a high-volume workload with shifting priorities, a strong sense of initiative, attention to detail, and the ability to work independently.

• Working with the Chief Development Officer, create a comprehensive, best-practice donor relations program that supports the cultivation, recognition, and stewardship of donors and prospects, at all levels, and fosters their ongoing engagement.
• Facilitate ongoing stewardship and donor relations ensuring, in collaboration with the Development Manager, including high-quality, individualized experiences for top donors and prospects, acknowledgment letters, gift-fund management, and impact reporting.
• Monitor “in the door” funds, including checks, wire, stock, and online donations.
• Create and implement an innovative stewardship program that includes receipts, events, and acknowledgments.
• Work with gift officers and leadership to identify unique and meaningful expressions of gratitude for all assigned donors.
• Create an efficient but meaningful acknowledgement process to express gratitude to all donors.
• Collaborate across the organization to ensure stewardship and donor engagement efforts continually prioritize a donor’s cultivation, retention and growth, engagement, and satisfaction.
• Be accountable for cultivating relationships of individuals and organizations with a focus on retention, recapture, and growth.
• Collaborate with the finance and marketing teams to design and implement stewardship policies and procedures related to donor recognition and gift-fund management and reporting.
• Respond to requests for information from donors regarding giving processes, procedures, and opportunitiesandgift documentation such as tax receipts and thank you letters.
• Create and implement a robust donor relations program with multiple points of engagement for prospects.
• Work closely with leadership, and frontline development staff to leverage high level donors in creating sophisticated, intimate events that draw in new prospects.
• Coordinate with attorneys, leadership and program leadership on engagement events and projects.
• Become immersed in the key strategies and initiatives of Louis
  
  D. Brandeis…