Founded in 1952, Norwood School is a coeducational, independent day school with approximately 450 students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. The School sits on 40 beautiful and expansive acres in Bethesda, Maryland, less than six miles from Washington, D.C. As one of the finest PK-8 schools in the country, Norwood sets the bar high and is committed to educating the whole child in a diverse, student-centered, challenging, and nurturing environment, which continually promotes equity, inclusion, and cultural competence.

Norwood’s child-centered education emphasizes creating a happy place of learning where each child is loved, nurtured, and challenged. Ensuring each child is truly known, we recognize diversity as essential to supporting educational excellence and are dedicated to fostering a sense of dignity, belonging, and understanding across our community. As a result, children flourish at Norwood as we tend to both hearts and minds. They love learning; they are creative and critical thinkers. They are confident in who they are, and they feel safe taking risks. They are kind and caring people, who, fueled by our motto, How you lead your life matters, make helping others a priority in their lives. At the end of their eighth-grade year, our graduates leave Norwood exceptionally well prepared for high school and empowered to make positive contributions to our world.

The Development Services Manager’s key objectives include implementing and maintaining development systems, communicating and reporting on key data, reconciling donations between development and business offices, and supporting all aspects of the Development Team.  Essential job functions and responsibilities include:

Systems Thinking and Data Management:

• Developing and maintaining efficient systems for data cleansing, data entry, gift processing, prospect research, and relationship management
• Maintaining policies and procedures manuals for data entry and ensuring compliance across the development team; training users on proper data input and extraction; providing Raiser’s Edge training and supporting the team
• Designing, implementing, and extracting data to analyze giving trends and outcomes for the department

Reports:

• Producing with accuracy and excellence constituent and gift reports, mailing lists, mail merges, volunteer data lists, and financial reports, as requested by the Director of Development
• Generating reports for the annual audit and regular reconciliation with the Business Office
• Producing annual DASL and INDEX reporting

Donor Services Management:

• Managing the solicitation schedule; tracking and analyzing results; and communicating progress
• Managing donation process by ensuring daily gift entry into Raiser’s Edge per CASE and IRS standard protocols, including transmittal of payments and payment information to the Business Office

Stewardship:

• Administering timely stewardship for gifts including receipting and acknowledging gifts

General Development Activity and Team Collaboration:

• Assisting all members of the Development Office as needed with support tasks such as name tag production, segmented constituent lists, event follow up, stewardship, administrative tasks, and other projects
• Supporting Development and community-building events, which includes working occasional nights and weekends
• Maintaining confidentiality of sensitive information
• Fulfilling duties as assigned by the Director of Development

Qualifications:

A bachelor’s degree and database experience are required, fundraising experience preferred. The ideal candidate will have impeccable attention to detail, be a team player, demonstrate an ability to take initiative, work independently as well as collaboratively, organize and prioritize to meet deadlines, as well as multi-task on a regular basis. This person will have the capacity to maintain confidentiality and to communicate clearly and effectively, orally and in writing, and have mastery of Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge, NXT, and Research Point. A willingness to work some nights and weekends is required. A sense of professionalism and humor in dealing with donors, volunteers, and colleagues, as well as demonstrated passion for independent education in general will define the strongest candidate.

The salary range for this position is $80,000 to $85,000, dependent upon experience. This is a full-time, 12-month position. Work hours are 7:45am to 4:15pm, Monday through Friday. Occasional evening and weekend work may be required. Benefits include health, dental and vision insurance; life and disability insurance; 403(b) retirement savings with an employer match and non-elective contribution; employee assistance program; professional development opportunities; paid vacation, sick and personal days (PTO); paid parental leave and short-term disability after one year of employment; long-term disability insurance; tuition remission for eligible children; and lunch provided on school days.

Interested applicants should submit a cover letter and resume to Abigail Betts, Director of Development, at abetts@norwoodschool.org. No phone calls, please.

Norwood School does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.

About Norwood School

Norwood School’s mission is to ensure that each of its students grows intellectually, morally, physically, socially, emotionally, and spiritually, while preparing to function productively and generously in our pluralistic society. Norwood’s challenging educational program and broad-based activities are designed to help students experience joy in learning, develop self-confidence, and learn respect for the rights and feelings of others. Embracing diversity is integral to the School’s tradition that both recognizes the worth of each member of the community and emphasizes the common values of academic achievement, mutual respect, cooperation, and personal responsibility.

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