Development Manager at Harvard Hillel

Socket.dev; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Life, AD&D and LTD insurances

Flexible Spending accounts

Generous vacation/sick time

Parental leave

Professional development and mentoring

Job summary

Harvard Hillel in Cambridge seeks a Development Manager to connect donors, funds and programs across campus and online, supporting a Jewish home for students. You will manage fundraising systems, coordinate cross-department projects, write proposals, and engage with board and staff to steward gifts.

As the organization grows, you will be mentored into donor-facing work while expanding fundraising strategy and program impact across Harvard University.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• No less than 3 years of experience in a dynamic position in a non-profit organization.
• Skilled at creative, data driven presentations.
• Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Office tools; comfortable in both PowerPoint and Canva.

Responsibilities

• Develop fundraising operations, maintain databases, and ensure donor stewardship.
• Plan, coordinate, and communicate Development department activities across teams.
• Lead grant research, proposals, budgets and reporting with Finance and leadership.
• Manage HEART and student engagement tools; support event planning and registrations.
• Collaborate with Board and staff to steward gifts and coordinate fundraising events.

Skills

Project management

Fundraising

Donor data management

Strategic planning

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Donor Perfect

Constant Contact

PowerPoint

Canva

Microsoft Office

Job description

Development Manager

Harvard Hillel

Role Overview

Make your mark on Jewish student life by joining Harvard Hillel as the Development Manager. You'll connect people, vital funds, and resources to our mission of being a Jewish home, both physical and virtual, on the Harvard University campus — a place where students find meaningful connections and friendship while engaging in unique opportunities to make Jewish thought and culture integral in the life of the University.

The development manager serves as a hub of information, pro-active project management, and administrative expertise for Harvard Hillel's fundraising team.

The manager's primary responsibilities are to plan, coordinate, and communicate upcoming activities of the Development department, and to coordinate and communicate upcoming shared projects effectively across departments. The manager engages across the organization to play an active role leading and supporting high-impact projects.

As the organization's needs evolve, and the manager develops their experience and skills, it is anticipated that the manager will be mentored and trained into a donor-facing Development role.

What You’ll Do

Key responsibilities in year one:

Development Operations

Support fundraising success and learn about fundraising strategy. Maintain the fundraising management database and related online systems, as the key tools of development operations, to ensure effective stewardship of existing constituents.

• Actively manage the fundraising management system (Donor Perfect), ensuring clean records, data, outreach lists.
• Actively manage the communication tools (Constant Contact and HH website), ensuring effective engagement of audience segments.
• Work closely with colleagues across departments, including Operations, central services, and finance, to record and track information and materials for pledges, gifts, donations, grants and contracts, routinely scanning, tracking, communicating, and acknowledging as needed between departments.
• Project manage a donor records project, establishing an implementation timeline and metrics of success, to verify the accuracy, completeness, and confidentiality of donor records.
• Maintain relationships with donors, customers, and vendors to bring forward payments, billing, contracting, and trouble-shoot inquiries as needed.

Development Engagement

Plan and implement future fundraising activities, guided by research and engagement of prospective donors, funders, and other constituents of Harvard Hillel.

• Conduct research to identify prospective donors, corporate funders, and private foundations.
• Coordinate fundraising appeals across social media, email, website, and print.
• Track gifts in Donor Perfect; generate and send acknowledgements for pledges, gifts, donations, and other payments.
• Engage with Harvard Hillel Board of Directors and staff to steward gifts and pledges.
• Engage with colleagues across departments to coordinate and implement fundraising events.

Grants and Institutional Giving

Own Harvard Hillel's grant portfolio, writing compelling proposals and reports that translate our programs into fundable, measurable work.

• Research and qualify private foundations, family foundations, corporate funders, and government or Hillel International funding opportunities aligned with Harvard Hillel's strategic priorities.
• Draft, edit, and submit letters of inquiry, full proposals, budgets and budget narratives, and supporting attachments, working with the Director of Development and Executive Director to shape the case for support.
• Maintain a rolling grants calendar covering all application, reporting, and renewal deadlines, and drive the internal timeline so every submission is complete and on time.
• Gather program data, outcomes, and stories from Program, Rabbinic, and Operations colleagues to build accurate narratives and to write interim and final reports that meet each funder's requirements.
• Partner with Finance to build proposal budgets, track restricted funds, and ensure spending and reporting align with award terms.
• Record all grant activity in Donor Perfect — submissions, awards, declines, payment schedules, and reporting requirements — so institutional revenue is forecast accurately.

Program Operations

• Manage HEART, the Harvard Hillel student engagement database, guided by programming goals to engage students throughout the academic year.
• Design and manage forms across multiple tools to support student engagement through event registrations, student surveys, and payments for student trips.
• Support student-led travel and logistics as needed, working closely with the Program Director, student leaders, and others as needed.
• Work closely with colleagues who are planning and coordinating program-related events. Engage in shared support as needed for High Holidays and on-site events.
• Other duties as assigned.

What You’ve Accomplished

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• No less than 3 years of experience in a dynamic position in a non-profit organization.
• Skilled at creative, data driven presentations.
• Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Office tools; comfortable in both PowerPoint and Canva.

What You’ll Bring to the Job

• Open and willing to engage in conversations about religion, and to learn about Judaism and Israel in a way that inspires stakeholders to invest in our work.
• Highly collaborative problem-solver with curiosity to engage across teams both inside and outside of Hillel to successfully manage competing priorities.
• A self-starter, adept at project management tools and practices, time-management and effective communications both verbally and in writing.
• Highly comfortable working effectively both independently and in teams to meet goals and deadlines.
• Highly empathetic with a positive attitude and sense of humor.

What You’ll Receive

• Salary range is $70,000-$75,000 commensurate with experience.
• A comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, retirement plan, Life, AD&D and Long-Term Disability (LTD) insurances, Flexible Spending accounts, generous vacation/sick time, and parental leave.
• Great professional development, mentoring, and skill building opportunities.
• A unique opportunity to develop and promote a vibrant, pluralistic Jewish community at Harvard Hillel.
• The chance to serve, work, and grow with a remarkable community of young adults, lay leaders, and colleagues.

About Harvard Hillel

The mission of Harvard Hillel is to be a Jewish home, both physical and virtual, on the Harvard University campus. Harvard Hillel welcomes all students to experience the variety of Jewish identity, tradition, practice, values, culture, and community and to inspire and enable connections on campus and beyond. Harvard Hillel (HH) students find meaningful connections and friendship while engaging in unique opportunities to make Jewish thought and culture integral in the life of the University.

Harvard Hillel is affiliated with Hillel International. Hillel International enriches the lives of Jewish students so they may enrich the Jewish people and the world, and envisions a world where every student is inspired to make an enduring commitment to Jewish life, learning and Israel.

About Hillel International

In 1923, Rabbi Benjamin Frankel started Hillel with humble means, a noble mission and a breathtaking vision: to convey Jewish civilization to a new generation. Today, Hillel International continues to enrich the lives of Jewish students and is the largest Jewish campus organization in the world at nearly 1,000 colleges and universities across North America and around the world. As Hillel evolves as an organization, the mission remains steadfast: to create lasting connections with every Jewish student that foster an enduring commitment to Jewish life, learning, and Israel and train them to become the next Jewish leaders.

Hillel is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an accepting and inclusive environment for all.