Job openings/Development Associate
From the Wikimedia Foundation
- Title
Development Associate, Wikimedia Foundation
- Purpose
As Development Associate, your job is to manage the Wikimedia Foundation's donor database and oversee all development-related donor and prospect research and tracking.
- Summary
This position will manage the Wikimedia Foundation's open-source donor database and oversee all development-related donor and prospect research and tracking. This is a critical role: 96% of the Foundation’s revenue is derived from donations.
- Responsibilities
- Drive the optimization of the Wikimedia Foundation's donor database, including increasing user-friendliness and automation of tasks;
- Manage the database from a user perspective;
- Craft and maintain an array of internal materials including prospect research files, etc.;
- Help craft and maintain an array of support materials aimed at donors and potential donors;
- Create tax receipts and automated thanks;
- Support the optimization of the Wikimedia Foundation's online donation pages in order to increase donations;
- Support the development of other donation streams, such as corporate matching programs, donations-by-Facebook, donations-by-SMS, etc.
- Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent preferred;
- Some fundraising experience, ideally with a large high-profile international organization
- Good general understanding of donation streams including emerging trends
- Excellent writing skills particularly including the ability to explain and summarize
- Ability to evaluate, analyze and prioritize; self-motivated and independent
- Good technical literacy from a user perspective: comfortable using various tools such as IM, social media, and blogging software;
- Ability to learn web-based research tools such as the Foundation Directory Online and Lexis-Nexis for Development Professionals;
- Experience using CiviCRM open-source donor management software is a major plus
- Willingness to learn open-source office solutions;
- The ability to speak multiple languages is a major plus;
- Experience living or working outside the United States is a major plus.
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About the Wikimedia Foundation The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a US-registered 501(c)(3) tax-deductible non-profit charity dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. The Wikimedia Foundation operates some of the largest collaboratively-edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia, one of the world's 10 most visited websites, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikinews and the Wikimedia Commons media repository. The organization has received numerous honors for its work, among them the Webby Award, the Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica, the Japan Advertisers Association's Web Creation Award and the World Technology Award in Communications Technology. The Wikimedia Foundation was created in 2003 to manage the operation of Wikipedia and its sister projects and is based in San Francisco, California. It currently employs 23 staff members. Wikimedia is supported by local chapter organizations in 21 countries. |
Please send a CV and cover letter to jobs Applications that do not include a cover letter will not be considered. In your cover letter, please lay out some opening thoughts about how, in your view, the Foundation might best implement its overall fundraising strategy. Please copy and paste the text of your CV into the e-mail, in addition to attaching the file. Due to the volume of applications we receive, we regret that only those selected for an interview will be contacted. This position is based in our San Francisco headquarters. If you are not currently living in the San Francisco Bay Area, please make that clear in your cover letter. |
