The Development Data Analyst supports the Development Team through constituent management, analysis, reporting, prospect research, growth, and expansion around donor relationships and stewardship. This position is responsible for gathering, analyzing, and managing information to help inform strategy and advance Holy Family’s development program outcomes.

The Development Data Analyst serves as a project manager and prospect researcher experienced in data management, data integrity, production, analysis, tracking, project management, campaigns, customer service, research deliverables, and determining/advising prospect strategy in coordination with the development team. This position is responsible for processing gifts, updating constituent records, preparing acknowledgment letters, generating mailing lists, recording pledges, and maintaining donor reports through Raiser’s Edge. This position also manages and implements the donor acknowledgment system and creates needed policies.

Responsibilities

Database Maintenance, Management, Planning and Reporting

• Develop and manage efficient systems for the data entry process to ensure that accurate, updated, and relevant information on donors and prospective donors is maintained and secured within the Raiser’s Edge (RE) database
• Identify areas of possible improved database usability and efficiency and execute solutions
• Manage and input gift and pledge entries, tracking and fulfillment
• Conduct ongoing quality checks on data to improve data integrity, including but not limited to verifying constituent information, updating addresses, and updating deceased records.
• Produce standard and custom reports to assist with donor management and donation tracking.
• Build queries and exports for segmented mailing lists for appeals, events, and other tactics.
• Document processes for automated and on-demand reports
• Generate regular and ad hoc reports for the development program 
• Interact with internal department team members to understand and translate their reporting requirements 
• Create and generate various financial/fundraising reports and dashboards for the development program
• Serve as the school’s Raiser’s Edge liaison with the technology department, business office, and Blackbaud and other related software vendors
• Coordinate with appropriate school personnel to perform Raiser’s Edge database maintenance, global updates, and integration with Education Edge/CORE regularly

Constituent Management and Acknowledgement

• Design and implement database queries in response to requests for information, providing timely and accurate records, reports, and lists
• Provide counsel regarding strategy, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship for all donor strategies ranging from annual to major.
• Participate in annual and major gift prospect strategy meetings with development officers to support coordinated and updated strategies.
• Execute various prospect management services, including but not limited to prospecting and major gift portfolio development, portfolio management, portfolio analysis and review, pipeline management, prospect management processes, and data management.
• Guide pipeline development and growth
• Manage gift recognition process, including hand-written, electronic, and verbal.
• Create and maintain policies for gift acceptance, gift counting, and naming.

Research and Analysis

• Analyze data to identify trends or opportunities proactively
• Engage development officers in proactive prospect identification and qualification
• Research those engaging with Holy Family for philanthropic purposes, using a variety of sources
• Conduct constituent segmentation and prospect research to maximize fundraising outreach and results
• Develop reporting and analytical tools that provide relevant and timely data to identify trends and metrics that help to support the department’s initiatives
• Identify, evaluate, and prioritize potential donors using database queries and analysis aligned with tactics and department goals
• Analyze data and synthesize research results to assess financial capacity, philanthropic tendencies, giving propensity, affinities, and other information to aid in the development process
• Perform complex data modeling, analyses, list segmentation, and reporting in support of fundraising and engagement efforts
• Combine data from numerous enterprise and 3rd party systems and load them into analytic software to provide the most accurate and useful lists for marketing efforts

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• Experience with The Raiser’s Edge Fundraising and Donor Management System, specifically Raiser’s Edge NXT and Connect Raiser’s Edge - high-level proficiency preferred
• Two to four years of work experience (preferably in a development department) involving data entry, database management, financial data, and report generation
• Experience demonstrating a high degree of accuracy in data entry and generating reports
• A strong sense of fundraising ethics and practices and respect for the confidentiality of donor information.