The Philanthropy Associate is responsible for supporting all aspects of the philanthropy program in the Northwest. This includes assisting the Northwest Director of Philanthropy and other philanthropy staff with donor cultivation, solicitation, and recognition; donor events, the management of donor tracking in the fundraising database; conducting research on donors and prospects; scheduling meetings, travel, and appointments; and assistance in the production of donor communications. 

This position will be based out of Seattle and the selected candidate should be prepared for at least one day in the office per week.  If not in Seattle, the candidate should have the ability to travel to the Seattle office.

Responsibilities:

• Provide administrative support for the Philanthropy Program, including drafting and producing donor correspondence; coordinating mailings; processing gifts and pledges; creating and maintaining files, calendars, and ongoing reports; and ordering or updating development materials as necessary.
• Maintain donor contact and gift records in database tracking system, enter data in records, produce gift and contact reports for staff, and write contact summaries.
• Provide assistance to philanthropy staff with donor cultivation and volunteer engagement with our Next Gen Council and Advisory Board.
• Support fundraising events including logistics, invitations, and communications.
• Schedule internal and external meetings and conference calls, plan logistics for meetings, make travel arrangements, process expenses and provide other standard clerical and organizational functions for philanthropy as required or assigned by supervisor.
• Provide research and solicitation strategy support for the Philanthropy Program, including tracking (and in some cases generating) foundation, corporate, and individual research.
• Work with other TPL philanthropy departments and fundraising teams as needed
• Other duties as assigned by supervisor.