Manager, Development Research and Operations

About The Position 

The KIPP Foundation raises funds to support tens of thousands of students from Black and Latinx communities coast-to-coast so they will be equipped with the knowledge and skills required to live choice-filled lives. Expanding the set of champions invested in and engaged with KIPP at the national and regional level is critical to deliver our ambition. Reporting to the Senior Director Development Operations the Manager Development Research and Operations will play an important role in fueling our plans and advancing educational opportunity. 

The Manager is responsible for identifying and researching potential individual and institutional donors to invest in KIPP at the national and regional levels. They will also manage data surfaced through research annual campaigns at the Friends Donor Level (Up to $25000) and other projects within Development Operations.  

Development Operations is a collaborative service-oriented group within the Development team focused on providing the front-line fundraisers with the data analytics reporting research systems processes and training needed to do their jobs effectively. 

Responsibilities 

Prospect Research 

• Conduct comprehensive fundraising research to identify individuals corporations and foundations with the capacity to make major and principal gifts to KIPP Foundation. Utilize various resources including internal and external databases wealth screening tools AI and publicly available information to gather prospect data. 

• Work closely with the frontline fundraising team to align prospect research efforts with fundraising goals and priorities. As requested provide support to fundraising staff in prospect identification and cultivation strategies. 

• Assist with meetings and events preparation including creating well-written and researched profiles event bios and briefs that are provided to Foundation fundraisers and senior leadership. 

• Support fundraisers in tracking donor interactions solicitations and outcomes to measure portfolio progress. 

• Proactively suggest targeted wealth screening to conduct and/or new prospects to research based on knowledge of KIPP the charter school and ed reform sectors and of KIPP supporters. 

• Working closely with the Senior Director participate in regular portfolio management meetings with fundraisers ensuring that accurate and up-to-date records of prospect information is reflected in the database. 

Friends-Level Giving & Development Operations 

• Working closely with the Senior Director Development Operations as well as the Vice President Individual Giving operationalize plan for frontline fundraisers to secure annual fundraising gifts from individuals in their portfolios using a variety of outreach methods. 

• As directed coordinate and oversee Development Operations projects from inception to completion ensuring they align with goals and expectations. 

• For all projects develop detailed project plans including scope timelines and resource allocation to guide team efforts and track progress. 

• Facilitate communication among project stakeholders to maintain transparency and project alignment. 

• Monitor project performance identifying any issues or risks and implement timely solutions to mitigate impact on project deliverables. 

• Conduct project reviews and create reports to document learnings and provide insights for continuous improvement.

Qualifications :

Skills and Mindsets 

• Mission and Student Focus: Demonstrates passion and commitment to KIPPs mission and possesses the desire and ability to uphold KIPPs core values (Focus on Excellent Results Collective Impact and Courageous Action)  

• Achievement & Outcomes Orientation: Demonstrated record of co-creating ambitious goals with their managers and driving toward desired outcomes; Effectively monitors progress toward goals for multiple workstreams; Leverages understanding of an organizations operating model structure and core operational process to effectively drive work to achieve goals; effectively works through others to follow through on commitments ensuring others do the same. 

• Effective Work Management: Effectively drives work they own through clear action planning. Manages time effectively around competing priorities. Skilled in creating and executing project plans through partnership with stakeholders and effective delegation to achieve intended results on time. Skilled in knowledge management.   

• Communications: Effectively creates communications plans that supports team buy-in. Able to lead change efforts through clear and compelling communications. Acts as a champion for change with peers and within teams. 

• Continuous Learning: Engages in the work of personal development at work knowing that personal development is ongoing and vital to their personal and professional success; hold themself accountable to evolving growing learning and unlearning in ways that improve results for students adults and the larger community. 

• Collaboration: Leads successful stakeholder management accounting for varied perspectives when gathering feedback.  Builds coalition by prioritizing end-user experiences.  Builds trusting relationships and effective communications.  Able to identify and remove barriers to working across teams. 

Experience and Qualifications 

• Minimum 3 years of full-time work experience in a related field preferably in a nonprofit fundraising conducting prospect research and managing projects. 

• Experience with CRM systems for tracking and reporting purposes. 

• Demonstrated curiosity about and ability to use AI to advance projects and research mindful of AIs potential limitations and the need for guardrails and ethics. 

• Experience working effectively in a fast-paced collaborative working environment. Experience working in the K-12 or charter school sector is preferred. 

• Commitment to uphold confidentiality of information with maturity and sensitivity; to abide by ethical standards set by Apra and AFP; and to understand and work within GDPR; the UK DPA; US federal and state; and/or other applicable privacy laws and regulations. 

• Familiarity with standard biographical and financial reference sources preferred as well as knowledge of basic donor prospect research practices. Ability to use prospect research resources (including but not limited to public information sources AI news media and company-research databases foundation lookup tools search engines etc.) to synthesize large volumes of data to go beyond simply reporting facts to presenting information into relevant context. 

• Experience working with high net-worth donor constituencies. 

• Demonstrated ability to use MS Office applications including Word Excel and PowerPoint. 

Additional Information :

Work Conditions 

• Travel requirements: 210-0%

• Full-time Exempt role 

Location 

It is preferred but not mandatory for this role to be based out of a KIPP Foundation office. This role also has the option of working from a remote office full-time. KIPP Foundation offices are in NYC and Chicago. 

Compensation and Benefits 

In compliance with local law we are disclosing the compensation or a range thereof for roles in locations where legally required. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors including but not limited to external market data internal equity and relevant experience. The salary range for this position is $80000 - $95500. In addition KIPP Foundation provides a variety of benefits to employees including: 

• 25 holidays for 18 days additional flexible PTO days (flexible PTO increases to 23 days for years 3 and 4 and to 28 days for years 5). 

• 100% paid parental leave 

• 100% coverage of the premium for employee and 75% for employee familys medical/dental/vision plans. 

• Wellness benefits such as fitness reimbursements discounted tickets to theme parks/attractions backup care support for children and adults/elders and our employee assistance program 

• Finance Security benefits include such as a 401K retirement plan with 4% match employer-sponsored legal plans life/disability insurance and flexible spending accounts 

KIPP Foundation embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of the students and communities with whom we work and the world thats around them. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit without regard to race color religion national origin gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression age mental or physical disability and genetic information marital status citizenship status military status protected veteran status or any other category protected by law. 

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time