Thrive Scholars

Manager

• Lead the annual fundraising planning process, translating historical performance and pipeline data into clear revenue outcomes and strategic assumptions.
• Serve as a strategic analytical partner to senior leadership through reports and spreadsheets, helping them derive actionable insights from data.
• Identify technical improvements year over year and create and drive solutions.
• Design and maintain performance reporting that promotes accountability and timely course-correction across the Development team.
• Collaborate with finance team to build detailed full-year revenue projections, aligned with current and historic pipeline performance.
• Lead monthly and annual pipeline / revenue reviews, synthesizing data into clear narratives and recommended actions for leadership.
• Identify emergent technical issues and create and drive solutions within existing systems and processes.
• Track progress and promote accountability of development team members.
• Collaborate with finance team to update existing revenue projections.
• Build and continuously improve reporting in CRMs and google sheets, increasing the speed, clarity, and confidence with which organizational financial health can be assessed.
• Build and improve forms, reports, and dashboards to increase development, community engagement and alumni, and corporate partnerships team members’ access to and utilization of Thrive’s data systems.
• Identify barriers to data adoption and proactively drive solutions that increase usability.
• Deepen use of existing tools and increase automation.
• Conduct all gift processing, acknowledgments, and processing payments for the Development Team.
• Own the integrity, analysis, and reporting of donor and prospect data, regularly auditing for quality and surfacing insights that inform cultivation and solicitation strategy.
• Pull customized reports and donor lists for evaluation of prospects, updated revenue projections and other Development outreach, including regional events and donor communication.
• Lead implementation and ongoing training efforts to plan, test, deploy, and support systems or tools as they are introduced.
• Mentor and supervise staff in operational roles in systems utilization and data reporting.
• Support sustained training that helps staff not just access data, but understand, interpret, and apply insights in their day-to-day work.
• Oversee administration of the organization’s primary fundraising and CRM systems (currently Salesforce), ensuring data structures, permissions, and automations support accurate reporting and strategic analysis.
• Lead and manage processes to solve complex business problems, develop innovative solutions, and ensure data collection and management that serves fundraising execution and success.

Manager, Data Systems & Development

• Deliver college access counseling through 1:1 student engagement, with an emphasis on selective college admissions.
• Create and execute college access programming, which may include admissions information sessions, group coaching sessions, community building events, and student engagement opportunities through synchronous and asynchronous methods.
• Engage with admissions officers to build collaborative relationships to strengthen the college access pipeline and remain current on admissions trends.
• Monitor student progress and performance towards goals, recording applicable activities via Salesforce in a timely and accurate manner.
• Collect and use data to understand admission trends and develop strategies to support Scholars in their pursuit of highly selective institutions.
• Contribute to the planning of Summer Academies, including logistical preparation, curriculum and content curation, and program delivery.
• Support cross-departmental and organization-wide events and initiatives, including student recruitment and selection, college success transition programs, development opportunities, and career exploration programming.

College Access Manager

Communications

• Create and build templates for email newsletters, blog posts, event collateral, annual reports, and other materials as needed
• Assist with writing and proofreading Scholar and alumni stories
• Coordinate the distribution of marketing materials to internal and external audiences
• Support social media posting, scheduling, and asset gathering
• Create original marketing content across platforms, including social media posts, reels, short-form videos, and graphics aligned with Thrive’s brand
• Build and lead a centralized intake and coordination process for internal marketing and communications requests, including campaign and content needs
• Develop strategy for short-term and regional campaigns, and own content calendars and digital campaign timelines
• Coordinate internal approvals and production logistics
• Manage website vendors and support updates to the Thrive website using a CMS (e.g., WordPress or Squarespace)
• Oversee scholar summer interns by planning and managing campaign and content deliverables, while coaching them on content creation best practices
• Compile and interpret communications metrics, producing clear analytics reports that highlight key trends and results
• Support data hygiene best practices, including consistent naming, tagging, and documentation of campaigns and content
• Support the development of Thrive’s visual style across materials
• Ensure consistent application of Thrive’s brand guidelines across materials
• Organize and maintain inventory of branded templates, flyers, and presentations
• Track usage of photos, logos, and brand assets in materials
• Assist with scheduling meetings, managing folders, and organizing digital assets
• Provide logistical support for communications-related events and campaigns
• Other duties as assigned.

Manager, Marketing and Communications

Director

• Support division-wide fundraising strategy, planning, and priority-setting.
• Lead coordination of Development operations—including workflows, systems, accountability structures, and team communication.
• Strengthen Salesforce discipline, reporting, donor data quality, stewardship systems, and data transparency.
• Refine fundraising processes across regions and revenue channels.
• Partner with Finance on reconciliation, revenue pacing, and forecasting.
• Support national Board Development initiatives, including meeting preparation, cultivation plans, and donor engagement follow-through.
• Manage a portfolio of major donors and prospects, including individuals, HNWIs, and board-aligned relationships.
• Support and lead high-level donor strategies and solicitations.
• Partner with Corporate Partnerships, Foundations, Communications, Program, and Regional teams to ensure unified messaging and strong donor experiences.
• Support major campaigns, national events, and year-end fundraising initiatives.

Manager, Data Systems & Development

College Access Manager

Manager, Marketing and Communications

Director, Development