Development Manager

About the role

Development Manager

Reports to: Chief Strategy Officer Location: Stamford, CT and Greater Fairfield County Salary Range: $60,000–$75,000, commensurate with experience

About Schoke JFS

Schoke Jewish Family Service strengthens our community by providing vital services and fostering meaningful connections across Fairfield County. Guided by our values of compassion, dignity, and responsibility, we support individuals and families in areas including food security, mental health, senior care, and emergency assistance.

Position Summary

The Development Manager owns the day-to-day coordination and execution of Schoke JFS's fundraising operations, ensuring that development work is organized, accurate, timely, and donor-centered. Reporting to the Chief Strategy Officer, this role is responsible for strong development systems and execution across gift processing, database management, donor acknowledgments, reporting, campaign coordination, corporate sponsorships, events, and the annual development calendar.

The Development Manager works closely with development colleagues, Finance, Marketing, program staff, vendors, and volunteers to keep fundraising priorities moving forward and provide the operational structure needed to support donor relationships and revenue growth.

Key Responsibilities

Development Operations & Data Management

• Manage timely and accurate entry and updating of gifts, pledges, donor records, contact information, and related activity in the agency's CRM.

• Maintain data integrity through routine review, cleanup, duplicate management, and consistent documentation standards.

• Produce mailing lists, donor segments, event lists, and other data extracts needed for campaigns, donor outreach, and stewardship activities.

• Coordinate with Finance on gift reconciliation, pledge tracking, and the maintenance of accurate and consistent financial and fundraising records.

• Identify opportunities to improve development processes, data practices, and workflows.

Acknowledgments & Stewardship Operations

• Own the donor acknowledgment process, including preparing letters and receipts, coordinating signatures and personalized notes, and ensuring timely delivery.

• Prepare tribute notifications, sponsorship acknowledgments, and other routine donor communications; respond to basic donor questions or route them to the appropriate staff member.

• Maintain systems for tracking stewardship commitments, follow-up, renewal dates, donor recognition, and other relationship-management activity.

• Work with development colleagues to ensure donor interactions and next steps are consistently documented and completed.