Senior Associate, Prospecting & Donor Relations

Senior Associate, Prospecting & Donor Relations

New York, NY

Hybrid

Anticipated deadline to submit application: March 26, 2025 at 12:00pm EST. Position may close early if application limit is met. Apply promptly for full consideration.

The Opportunity

The Senior Associate, Prospecting & Donor Relations is a key contributor to CEO’s fundraising efforts, driving the identification, qualification, cultivation, and stewardship of prospective foundation, corporate, and individual donors. This role offers an exciting opportunity to leverage creativity in engaging individual donors/funders in support of CEO’s mission. By strengthening CEO’s donor pipeline and stewardship efforts, the Senior Associate plays a crucial role in ensuring the long-term sustainability of CEO’s revenue and funding strategy. 

Reporting to the National Development Specialist, the Senior Associate collaborates closely with the Director of Advancement and Major Gifts, Regional Development Managers, and other internal stakeholders to conduct prospect research, generate detailed donor profiles, and prepare briefings and reports to enhance external funder and donor relationships. Using industry best practices from professional organizations such as AFP, GPA, and AASP, they will lead acknowledgment, recognition, and stewardship efforts, manage a small portfolio of annual fund donors, and analyze key donor indicators, including affiliations, wealth data, and philanthropic history. Additionally, the Senior Associate will ensure the integrity and organization of prospecting data within Salesforce and Monday.com.

A highly organized and motivated professional, the Senior Associate will play a vital role in attracting and retaining donor resources to support CEO’s mission. They will embrace CEO’s values and results-driven culture, effectively managing multiple deadline-driven projects while collaborating across departments to advance CEO’s work in reentry and workforce development.

As part of our mission, we strongly encourage individuals who have lived experience of incarceration or involvement in the justice system to apply for this role.

Who We Are

The Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) provides employment services to people recently released from incarceration. Across the United States, 8,000-9,000 people participate in CEO each year, transitioning to employment that supports themselves, their families, and their communities.

What began as a demonstration project of the Vera Institute of Justice in the 1970s to address employment barriers facing the formerly incarcerated following release in New York City has grown into the leading reentry employment organization in the country, where over 30,000 formerly incarcerated individuals have secured full-time employment since 1996.

Who You Are

Education and Experience 

• You have at least 3-5 years of related fundraising, business development, philanthropy or sales experience with a proven track record of achieving goals. 
• You have donor and funder research experience  using both public search engines and paid sources such as Foundation Directory Online, iWave, etc. required
• You are fluency in use of Microsoft Office suite and Google Workspace
• You have proficiency using data and/or donor management platforms such as Salesforce
• You have fundraising-related professional certifications encouraged (such as CFRE, GPC, APRA courses, etc.)

Competencies

You have strong time management, organizational, and follow-up skills

• You have the ability to evaluate and verify the accuracy of information and sources
• You demonstrate the ability to synthesize large volumes of information and present findings & recommendations to stakeholders at all levels

You have excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to present complex information to diverse audiences

• You have the ability to work autonomously to produce materials on deadline, while often managing multiple concurrent deadlines
• You have the ability to balance/execute on feedback from a variety of collaborators
• You have meticulous attention to detail and the ability to prioritize work in a fast-paced environment

You have the willingness to learn, ability to adapt, and agility to quickly shift priorities to meet the changing needs of our work

Skills to be learned on the job

• Delivering presentations on funder/donor cultivation recommendations to Senior/Executive team leadership