Development Manager

🕒 July 15

🏢🏡 New York City – Hybrid

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

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The James Beard Foundation

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11 - 50 employees

🍽️ Food & Beverage

🤝 Non-profit

📚 Education

Food & Beverage • Non-profit • Education

The James Beard Foundation is a national not-for-profit organization dedicated to celebrating, nurturing, and honoring chefs and leaders in America's culinary culture. With a mission to explore the significance of food in daily life, the foundation promotes diversity, sustainability, and education within the food industry. It offers various programs and events, including Chef’s Bootcamp, scholarship initiatives, and public conferences, and maintains the historic James Beard House in New York City as a venue for culinary performance. The Foundation plays a pivotal role in enriching America's food culture through education and community engagement.

📋 Description

• Serve as the primary owner of the day-to-day administration and execution of the JBF Patron Program • Coordinate with internal and external partners to oversee programmatic aspects of Patron Program events and other patron engagement opportunities • Monitor Development and Patron Program email inboxes and phone/voicemail and respond to all inquiries in a timely manner • Create and manage a departmental calendar of donor communications, initiatives, and events • Draft regular Donor and Patron newsletters, brainstorm content, and project manage • Manage and track table and ticket sales for the Annual Gala; interface with donors and attendees pre- and post- event • Conduct prospect research to identify individual, foundation, and corporate prospects • Support the Development team as needed.

🎯 Requirements

• 5 years minimum of professional experience • Experience with Salesforce or comparable CRM • Tech savvy, proficient in MS 365, including Adobe Acrobat Pro, and Monday.com • Excellent attention to detail • Proactive, customer service orientation • Strong verbal and written communication skills • Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining accuracy and meeting deadlines • Passion for food culture, culinary equity, and the JBF mission; ability to articulate a compelling case for philanthropic investment • Ability to travel domestically and attend evening events as needed.

🏖️ Benefits

• JBF offers its employees a dynamic work environment with benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their dependents; life insurance; flexible spending account; commuter benefits; retirement savings; employee assistance program; tuition reimbursement/ professional development; and generous paid time off. • We also offer fertility planning support and up to 18 weeks of paid parental leave. • Additional perks include staff events, tickets to events at Platform by JBF (Pier 57), and much more.