Job Description

About Washington Lawyers'​ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs

The Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs (WLC) works to create legal, economic, and social equity through litigation, client and public education, and public policy advocacy with a primary focus on racial justice. For the last 55 years, the Committee has been on the cutting edge of civil rights advocacy in the region bringing precedent setting litigation to address discrimination. Our work focuses on injustices in housing, employment, the criminal legal system, education, public accommodations, and the civil rights of immigrants. We partner with individuals and communities facing discrimination and with the legal community to achieve justice. The Committee’s staff is unionized with the National Organization of Legal Service Workers Local #2320, UAW.For more information on the Washington Lawyers’ Committee, please go towww.washlaw.org.

About the role

The Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs (“the Committee”) seeks a Development Associate. The Development Associate will be a member of the Development Team and is the primary administrative and technical person on the Committee’s donor records database (Raiser’s Edge NXT).

Responsibilities

The position of the Development Associate provides administrative and strategic support to the development team. Core responsibilities of the role include:

• Conduct the data entry and processing of all donor pledges, gifts, contributions, and acknowledgments.
• Serve as the main point of contact and lead for the annual Associates Campaign, a peer-to-peer fundraising campaign each spring.
• Work effectively with finance to record and reconcile contributions.
• Ensure the data hygiene of donor, newsletter, and communications constituents.
• Coordinate fundraising events together with the development team.
• Produce reports to support development, communications, and litigation/program strategies and funding.
• Stay up to date on best practices in database technology and in the Committee’s donor databases. Identify opportunities for improved practices and procedures.
• Provide ongoing training and user-friendly policy and ‘help’ materials to relevant staff on donor database.
• Work collaboratively with staff to make sure our databases meet program needs.
• Provide support as needed on all development functions.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will possess the following skills and qualifications:

• 1 – 2 years direct experience working with relational database. Experience with a donor database CRM in a nonprofit environment strongly preferred, preferably Raiser’s Edge NXT, with experience including use of analytic tools, queries, and report. Comparable database experience and fluency considered;
• Experience with events management;
• Demonstrated awareness and sensitivity to the needs and concerns of individuals from diverse cultures, backgrounds and orientations;
• Able to contribute to the creation of a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture that encourages and celebrates differences;
• Excellent interpersonal and oral communication skills;
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced environment while balancing multiple priorities;
• Strong attention to detail;
• Self-starter and excellent team player; and
• Experience working in a non-profit environment and with attorneys is a plus.

Applicants with lived experience in communities historically under-resourced and marginalized due to race, class, gender, disability, etc. are encouraged to apply.

How To Apply

Please include with your application a letter detailing your interest, a resume, and brief writing sample. Ensure your interest letter and brief writing sample are one-pdf document submitted as your "cover letter" in the system.

Applications will be considered on a rolling basis, and the position will remain open until filled.