Major Gifts Development Coordinator

Harvard Kennedy School; Cambridge (MA); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Tuition assistance

Job summary

Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge, MA, is seeking a Development Coordinator for Principal and Major Gifts. You will support two fundraisers with calendar, travel, reporting, and donor outreach. The role requires organization, discretion, and collaboration across university units.

Responsibilities include maintaining prospect activity, drafting briefings, coordinating international travel, and producing data-driven reports. A congenial team environment and hybrid on-campus schedule are offered.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of administrative and customer service support experience.
• Experience with calendar, expense, and travel itinerary management.
• Bachelor's Degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provides general office support including responding to phone and email inquiries, maintaining calendars, filing, and updating the development database.
• Pulling and updating prospect lists with stage codes, quarterly solicitation, and next steps; generate monthly activity reports.
• Calendar coordination for donor and faculty meetings.
• Coordinates travel arrangements including international travel; drafts detailed itineraries.
• Updates weekly next steps on prospects in each fundraiser’s portfolio.
• Drafts contract reports and enters data into the database after donor visits.
• Creates shell briefings for leadership visits with prospects.
• Creates and revises curated prospect lists with staging and next steps for fundraisers.
• Collaborates with Alumni Relations and other staff on donor-related items and event prep.
• Preps materials for standing meetings with Centers.
• Provides initial research and vetting for new prospects; performs data pulls and analysis using Advance, QlikView, Word, Excel.
• Contributes to fundraising project planning, staffing committees and drafting reports.

Skills

Highly organized

Strong communication

MS Office proficient

Confidential information handling

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree preferred

Tools

Advance

QlikView

MS Word

Excel

Job description

Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge, MA, is seeking a Development Coordinator for Principal and Major Gifts. You will support two fundraisers with calendar, travel, reporting, and donor outreach. The role requires organization, discretion, and collaboration across university units.

Responsibilities include maintaining prospect activity, drafting briefings, coordinating international travel, and producing data-driven reports. A congenial team environment and hybrid on-campus schedule are offered.