Development Assistant, Principal & Major Gifts

About This Role

This Development Assistant supports the Principal & Major Gift teams at Boston Children's Hospital Trust, helping to achieve fundraising goals for cutting-edge research, community outreach, patient programs, and medical education. The role provides a career development opportunity in fundraising within a highly impactful organization.

Responsibilities

• Maintain supervisor's meeting calendar and schedule internal/external appointments with donors, doctors, and staff
• Organize and potentially attend donor visits
• Coordinate travel for Trust staff, track donor visits, and report expenses
• Assist in developing materials for donor cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship
• Maintain constituent information in the donor database
• Provide general office support including answering phones and greeting guests
• Prepare department invoices, payment requisitions, and reconcile monthly bills
• Organize events including invitation lists, attendance, room space, refreshments, and staffing
• Assist supervisor with special projects and report preparation
• Develop proficiency in donor database to run basic reports and queries
• Provide training to other administrative staff

Requirements

• Associate’s Degree
• 4 years of fundraising related work experience
• Ability to develop strong relationships
• Good critical thinking skills
• Strong communication (written and verbal) skills
• Ability to proactively problem solve and recommend process improvements
• Strong time management skills and attention to detail
• Skilled in Microsoft Office Suite (WORD, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Ability to work with data and databases

Qualifications

• Associate’s Degree or Bachelor's degree (preferred)
• Min of an Associate’s Degree and 4 years of fundraising related work experience is required. Bachelor’s degree preferred and would replace the experience requirement. One (1) additional year of development, marketing, events or customer service experience preferred.

Nice to Have

• Bachelor's degree
• Additional year of development, marketing, events or customer service experience

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits