The Jewish Senior Housing and Healthcare Services (JSHHS) Senior Development Associate is responsible for planning, implementing, and managing activities related to the development function, with a focus on fundraising, donor cultivation and stewardship, and community engagement to support Jewish Senior Housing and Healthcare’s (JSHHS) mission. This role emphasizes relationship management with individual, corporate, and foundation donors, collaboration across departments and partner agencies, and execution of fundraising strategies aligned with organizational goals. The Senior Development Associate serves as a liaison to internal and external stakeholders as assigned.

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop, implement, and manage fundraising strategies and plans in alignment with JSHHS and Federation-wide priorities. Prepare all fundraising plans and ensure compliance with all company strategies. Monitor all associate fundraising activities and perform research on various projects to prepare projections for revenue.
• Identify, research, cultivate, solicit, and steward relationships with individual, corporate, and foundation donors.
• Manage the full lifecycle of donor stewardship, including acknowledgments, recognition, cultivation activities, and ongoing engagement.
• Analyze historical giving trends, fundraising performance, and prospect data to inform strategy and increase donor support.
• Identify prospects for annual, major, and planned giving opportunities.
• Organize and manage fundraising campaigns, appeals, special projects, and events that support strategic initiatives.
• Prepare fundraising materials, donor communications, proposals, and presentations for donors, stakeholders, and boards in collaboration with the Marketing team.
• Write and contribute content for direct mail, publications, marketing materials, and other donor-facing communications in collaboration with the Marketing team.
• Identify and research potential funding sources. Research and compile data on donors and prospects identified by leadership, board members, and colleagues.
• Maintain accurate prospect and donor records, documentation, and metrics using both JSHHS fundraising databases and Federation CRM system.
• Develop and manage fundraising budgets and monitor progress toward revenue goals.
• Collaborate with colleagues across JSHHS, the Jewish Federation, and partner agencies to support coordinated fundraising initiatives.
• Serve as a liaison to senior leadership and other departments, providing updates on fundraising progress.
• Represent JSHHS and Federation professionally at meetings, events, and community programs as required.
• Stay current with industry best practices, ethical standards, and applicable laws and regulations governing charitable giving.
• Participate in professional development and maintain memberships in relevant professional associations, as appropriate.
• Prepare and deliver presentations to stakeholders and boards.
• Secure annual, capital and legacy gifts from a portfolio of prospects.
• Assist to promote agency(s) to various prospective and existing donors and prepare effective programs and strategies to identify all fundraising activities.
• Assist in other financial development projects as assigned.

Education/Experience Required:

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Experience working in non-profit management desired.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills. Visual communications a strong plus.
• Event planning skills a plus: demonstrated attention to detail in a relevant context a must.
• Fundraising or nonprofit experience plus strong project management skills are preferred.
• Proficient in MS office applications.
• Comfortable with using customer relationship management databases.
• Ability to plan and manage own workflow, priorities and results accomplished.
• Requires the ability to present and disseminate data to various levels.

Benefits include: Generous PTO; Medical, dental, and vision care included; 403b plan eligible; Group term life insurance; Voluntary disability insurance plan; FSA & HSA options available; Gym membership included and other employee discounts are available.

EEO Statement:

The Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey, and our family of agencies, is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon a person’s actual or perceived gender, race, creed, color, sex (including pregnancy), affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital/civil union status, domestic partnership status, familial status, religion, national origin, nationality, ancestry, age, veteran or military status, disability that does not prohibit performance of essential job functions, or other legally protected characteristics.

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