Special Projects and Events Manager

at  Trickle Up

ABOUT TRICKLE UP

Since 1979, Trickle Up has focused on the poorest and most vulnerable, working with participants who live in extreme poverty and face multiple levels of exclusion due to gender, ethnicity, religion, and disability. The organization has worked with over 485,000 participants and their families, helping to sustainably lift over two million people out of extreme poverty in India, Africa, and the Americas. Our mission is to partner with women in extreme poverty to build economic opportunity and drive inclusion. Trickle Up works through partner organizations, to build paths to savings, food security, and agency, resulting in sustainable poverty reduction at scale.

POSITION OVERVIEW

The Special Projects and Events Manager reports to the Director of Development and Individual Giving and manages projects including appeals, special events, donor stewardship, research, and overall support of the department that raises Trickle Up’s unrestricted income from individuals, private foundations, and corporations. The manager will work closely with the Director of Development, Vice President of Development, Database Manager, Communications team, and the President & CEO.
The position requires a highly organized, detail-oriented, entrepreneurial, and, ideally, mission-driven person who can complete projects individually while collaborating with a small, ambitious, nimble team working to grow its revenue going forward. The right candidate will be proactive, eager to learn and contribute, creative, and able to build effective fundraising systems while helping manage key internal and external vendor and donor relationships.

EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s Degree as a minimum.

EXPERIENCE

• Minimum 3 years of relevant experience.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

• Strong analytical skills and ability to synthesize and summarize large amounts of information.
• Demonstrated ability to shepherd reports through the report-writing process (sometimes with incomplete data).
• Understanding of the highly detail-oriented nature of and expectations for all work products coming out of a high-functioning development/fundraising team.
• Experience setting and clarifying priorities, managing multiple tasks, meeting deadlines, and tracking various projects’ development simultaneously while maintaining high-quality work products.
• Strong writing/editing skills.
• Microsoft Office proficiency, basic graphic design skills, and/or openness to learning (or building upon existing skills in the latter), including a strong background in Excel and/or PowerPoint.
• Eager to learn, build, and manage the fundraising systems, processes, and reporting that support effective fundraising and success.

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

• Ability to occasionally work extended hours to meet deadlines and manage in-person events.

Please refer the Job description for details