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Development Assistant, Part-Time

Lenoir-Rhyne University
Hickory, NC Part Time
POSTED ON 12/11/2025 CLOSED ON 1/9/2026

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Development Assistant, Part-Time position at Lenoir-Rhyne University?

Wage Class: Hourly, Part-Time, Temporary

Reports To: Executive Director of Advancement

Rate: $16/hour, 15-20 hours per week

Location: Hickory, NC (on-site)

This position supports the university’s fundraising efforts through gift entry, records management, receipting and related tasks. The role works with confidential information to record gifts in university systems.

Job Duties

  • Assist with data entry, including scanning documents, preparing mailings, and filing and maintaining records.
  • Work with large spreadsheets and perform basic reconciliations.
  • Use mail merge tools, produce and prepare complex mailings.
  • Provide additional clerical support as needed.

Required Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

  • High School Diploma or GED required; bachelor’s degree preferred.
  • Demonstrate Lenoir-Rhyne’s core values: integrity, excellence, care and curiosity.
  • Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
  • Excellent keyboarding skills.
  • Must be proficient working with spreadsheets and mail merge tools.
  • Prior office or data-entry experience are a plus.

About Lenoir-Rhyne University

Lenoir-Rhyne University is a co-educational, private, comprehensive liberal arts institution founded in 1891, with its traditional campus located in Hickory, North Carolina, a city of more than 40,000. The university has additional graduate centers in Asheville, N.C., and Columbia, S.C. Situated in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Lenoir-Rhyne is less than an hour’s drive from Charlotte, and the Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton Metropolitan Statistical Area has a population of about 365,000. The university now offers more than 45 undergraduate and 20 graduate degree programs to approximately 2,400 students. Lenoir-Rhyne University seeks to liberate mind and spirit, clarify personal faith, foster physical wholeness, build community, and promote responsible leadership for service to the world. Affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), Lenoir-Rhyne is open to people from all religious and non-religious backgrounds.

Non-Discrimination and Equal Opportunity Policy

Lenoir-Rhyne University is committed to providing a workplace and educational environment, as well as other benefits, programs, and activities that are free from discrimination, harassment and retaliation.

LR is committed to creating a safe campus environment for all members of the LR community, including, but not limited to, those who identify as transgender and gender non-conforming. To that end, LR does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex (including sex stereotypes and sex characteristics), ethnicity, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, marital status, pregnancy or related conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran or military status or any other characteristic or status protected by applicable law.

To ensure compliance with federal and state civil rights laws and regulations and to affirm its commitment to promoting the goals of fairness and equity in all aspects of the educational program, activity and employment, LR has developed internal policies and procedures that provide a prompt, fair and impartial process for those involved in an allegation of discrimination or harassment, and for allegations of retaliation.

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