Development Administrator

Growing Home is a nonprofit organization founded in 1998 based in Westminster, Colorado. Growing Home collaborates with our community, providing families and individuals with critical resources, guidance, and wraparound services to grow pathways to stable and healthy futures. We strive to create a welcoming environment for all by cultivating a sense of home with our participants, staff, and community members. We work in partnership with those with lived experience to ensure programs and services are experience-informed to meet their needs.

Growing Home advocates for local and state policies that will create a thriving community where every family and individual has the foundation to flourish. Together, we grow stronger futures.

POSITION TITLE: Development Administrator

POSITION TYPE: Full Time, Non-exempt

REPORTS TO: Director of Development

CORE VALUES: Compassion, Commitment, Community, Adaptability, Impact

The Development Administrator plays a key role in advancing Growing Home’s fundraising and donor engagement efforts. This position is responsible for assisting the Director of Development in the following areas:

• Researching RFPs, funding, and grant opportunities to determine mission and program alignment, strategic fit, and operational considerations to provide an expert recommendation on feasibility, opportunity, and risks per case.
• Work with Programs, Data Analysis, and Accounting Staff to administer grant applications and reports.
• Writing compelling grant proposals, funding proposals, and reports, ensuring timely submissions and achievement of budgeted revenue goals in grants, government support, foundation and corporate contributions.
• Tracking deadlines and funder requirements to ensure letters of intent, applications, proposals, and reports are submitted on time to ensure ongoing funding.
• Ensuring all communications to current and potential grantors are written to reflect Growing Home’s data-driven decision making and community-centered approach.
• Communicating with appropriate staff to provide guidance associated with grant awards and award compliance inclusive of data collection and reporting.
• Grant reporting to ensure requirements and deadlines are met.
• Managing and creating a grants calendar that is inclusive of application and reporting deadlines.

• Maintaining and managing donor database integrity, policies, procedures, updates, and automated processes including accurate daily data entry, processing contributions and gifts, and ongoing database maintenance.
• Protect confidentiality and security of constituent information.
• Maintenance and effective utilization of the donor database, ensuring the team captures all data; preparing reports and providing information regarding fundraising goals as requested and required.
• Timely recording of all gifts and coordinating timely thank you correspondence to donors relative to their level of giving and preferences.
• Receive, process, and code non-monetary/in-kind donations in collaboration with the finance department.
• Generate and verify the accuracy of system-generated receipts.
• Stay up to date with donor database changes and make appropriate updates to the staff workflow.
• Maximize use of Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT database as an integrated daily working tool and ensure accurate and timely entries of donor opportunities, cultivation, gifts, receipting, and management information on interactions with corporations, grant funders and government entities, and assigned portfolio.
• Maintain all event and campaign-related data, ensuring accurate record-keeping and effective monthly reconciliations/year-end donor summaries of funds raised with the finance department as required by the IRS and best practices.

• Marketing campaigns for corporate giving and group volunteer opportunities.
• Organizing group volunteer opportunities for corporate and philanthropic group visits.
• Monthly/quarterly prospect reports for individual donor stewardship and engagement of existing and new donors.
• Manage and maintain cultivation efforts, including but not limited to site visits, yearlong engagement, design of volunteer opportunities, and external networking events.
• Collaborate with Marketing and Communications to ensure grantors and corporate sponsors are acknowledged in accordance with applicable communications and branding guidelines.
• Assist with fundraising events, including marketing, event set up and teardown, processing payments and processing reconciliation afterwards.
• Support additional development duties as they arrive.

• Support the planning, coordination, and execution of fundraising events, including logistics, timelines, and vendor communication.
• Assist with event-related donor outreach, including invitations, registrations,…