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.

Manager, Data Systems & Development

College Access Manager