Martha’s Table seeks a detail-oriented Development Assistant to join its dynamic Development & Communications team at an exciting time in its history. In 2020, Martha’s Table will celebrate its 40-year anniversary and develop its next strategic plan, laying the groundwork for another 40 years of meaningful impact. The primary focus of this role is to ensure the proper tracking of all financial contributions to Martha’s Table and timely stewardship of our donors.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

Gift Processing and Donor Acknowledgment

• Ensures accurate and timely processing of all financial gifts to Martha’s Table by:

• Supervises our account with Direct Mail Processors, our external caging service 

• Enters gift and constituent information into the donor database system

• Ensures gifts are accurately coded according to organizational protocols

• Ensure accurate and timely stewardship of donors to Martha’s Table by:

• Coordinating batches of acknowledgment letters, including pulling reports of new gifts, cleaning mailing lists, and approving final acknowledgment letters

• Create in-house acknowledgment letters for major and VIP donors

• In coordination with relationship managers, ensures pledge payments are received according to gift installment plans by pulling regular reports on pledge balances and issuing invoices

• Proactively creates codes for campaigns, funds, appeals, and packages within donor database to allow for accurate tracking of gifts