Development Project Manager

About East Bay Community Law Center

East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC) is a non-profit legal services organization the community-based clinical program for U.C. Berkeley Law School and one of the Bay Areas largest and most effective systems disrupters. With a dual service and teaching mission EBCLC is a racial justice organization committed to building a culturally diverse workplace centered on equity. With about 50 staff 120 law students a year and a nearly $7.5 million annual budget EBCLC is the largest provider of free legal services in Alameda County providing multimodal collaborative and holistic legal services to over 4000 clients annually and engaging in legislative and policy advocacy at the state and local level.

Development Project Manager

The Development Project Manager provides support with the fundraising and communications activities of the organization. The position requires an extremely organized individual with attention to detail excellent judgment and discretion strong writing skills a flexible and proactive attitude and a strong commitment to EBCLCs racial justice mission.

As a member of a high-performing and collaborative Development Communications and Data (DCD) team this position will play a key role in growing EBCLCs fundraising efforts. The Development Project Manager reports to the Co-Deputy Director and will support activities across the DCD team in three key areas:

Individual Giving

• Manage EBCLCs two seasonal fundraising drives with the supportof Co-Deputy Director; including creating donor solicitation lists based on individual giving history identifying campaign theme and drafting solicitation emails and supporting board and staff in solicitation.
• Manage EBCLCs donor Customer Relationship Management program (DonorPerfect) and ensure timely recording and acknowledgments of gifts from individual donors.
• Maintain a donor acknowledgement system to manage and record communications and donor touchpoints with the goal of ensuring all donors are incentivized to make an annual contribution to EBCLC.
• Support fundraising and community events with a focus on the board donor and alumni engagement and experience.
• Work closely with the Finance Department to ensure smooth and accurate gift processing including month-end reconciliation.

Communications

• Manage social media platforms and create social media posts to amplify EBCLCs work.
• Make regular and timely updates to ensure EBCLCs website content is compelling and engaging.
• Support the design content and production of external-facing communications including quarterly alumni newsletters and annual report.
• Create and maintain active press contacts list.
• Track share and archive press coverage of EBCLC.

Grants and Reporting

• Support Senior Contracts Officer with ongoing tasks related to government contracts including monthly and quarterly billing and reporting activities.
• Draft and edit grant proposals or research briefs as directed by Senior Contracts Officer and Institutional Giving Manager.
• Liaise with programs to create or collect client stories and information for grant proposals and reports.

Salary and Benefits

Starting salary for this full-time exempt position is $74340 - $85340 as dictated by EBCLCs salary scale.

Benefits include fully paid health insurance (medical dental and vision) for employees and their dependents life and disability insurance and generous paid leave (vacation sick and holidays). EBCLC also offers flexible spending accounts for qualified health dependent care and commute expenditures; and retirement options.

Workplace Expectations

EBCLC is a hybrid workplace. This position is primarily remote but will require in-person attendance at meetings and events.

Working At EBCLC

EBCLC is strongly committed to advancing justice through education and advocacy and the need to transform legal services and legal education. Please take time to review EBCLCs mission vision programs and website and ensure that your cover letter reflects how your background experience and expertise have prepared you to be successful in performing the responsibilities of the position.

We strongly encourage individuals from traditionally underrepresented communities to apply. EBCLC does not discriminate on the basis of race color religious creed sex gender gender expression gender identity age national origin ancestry disability marital status sexual orientation military status prior contact with the criminal legal system or any other basis prohibited by law.

EBCLC is a unionized workplace and members of the bargaining unit are represented by the Engineers and Scientists of California Local 20 IFPTE. This position is part of the bargaining unit.

Minimum Qualifications

• At least 4 years of experience in communications fundraising and/or advocacy
• Commitment to EBCLCs racial justice mission
• Extremely detail-oriented with time-management priority-setting and organizational skills
• Excellent written communications skills
• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively and to work effectively with a diverse range of people including Board members funders donors attorneys and community clients
• Strong proficiency with MS Office
• Experience with social media applications including Instagram LinkedIn and Facebook
• Friendly independent self-starter and outstanding team player
• Flexible and able to work in a fast-changing environment

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with DonorPerfect or similar customer relations management program
• Experience designing communications tools with Canva