Development Associate

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities - Washington DC; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 55,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) in Washington, DC, is hiring a full-time Development Associate to join its Development team. The role reports to the Senior Director of Individual Giving and supports the nine-person team, including work with the Vice President for Development.

The Associate will develop familiarity with CBPP funders and donors, assist with Salesforce-based grants management, and may contribute to foundation writing assignments.

Responsibilities

• Provide cross-cutting support across the Development team functions.
• Assist with Salesforce database-related grants management as needed.
• Support foundation writing assignments and donor relations.

Job description

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) is a high-caliber strategic policy institute that informs and shapes public policies to reduce poverty, promote equity, and build opportunity, while also supporting efforts to ensure progressive fiscal policies that can support these investments. It has a national reputation for conducting rigorous research and analysis, developing evidence-based policy ideas and strategies, shaping a broad array of policy debates at the federal and state level, influencing policy outcomes on a range of critical issues, and advancing strong implementation through a variety of strategies. It focuses its efforts on improving the lives of people with low or moderate incomes and examines how policies affect particular groups, including people of color, immigrants, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ people. The Center is known for its unique capacity to blend rigorous, timely analysis with effective communications that enable policymakers and the media to make use of its work.

ABOUT THE POSITION

The Center has an opening for a full-time Development Associate to join its Development team, based in the Center’s Washington, D.C. office.

The Development Associate provides vital cross-cutting support across all Development team functions. This pivotal position reports to the Senior Director of Individual Giving but will collaborate and support work across the nine-person Development team, including key projects with the Vice President for Development. In addition to work related to the individual giving program, the Development Associate will assist with Salesforce database-related foundation grants management as needed and may be tasked with some foundation writing assignments. The Associate will be expected to develop a working familiarity with CBPP funders and donors, their giving histories, and their relationships with staff, CBPP Board members, other CBPP individual donors, and the larger philanthropic community.

COMPENSATION

$55,300 - $63,000