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Job Title: Database Associate
Department: Development (Fundraising)
Reports to: Director, Database

About the Foundation
Located in Santa Monica, California, the Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) is the world's largest philanthropy supporting prostate cancer research. PCF was founded in 1993 with an urgent mission: to find better treatments and a cure for recurrent prostate cancer. PCF reaches out to private industry, the patient advocacy community and government research institutions and has established a system that encourages collaboration, reduces bureaucracy and speeds the process of discovery. These partnerships provide a model to speed the cure for prostate cancer.

Primary Responsibilities
This is an administrative position. The role of the Database Associate is to provide administrative support and information to the fundraising team by maintaining data integrity to the foundation痴 primary donor database. The Database Associate is responsible for daily processing of donations received both by mail and online.

Specific Duties

• Ensure regular and accurate data entry and fulfillment of donations.
• Generate and distribute gift logs to fundraising staff and senior management team.
• Regular data imports and exports, to and from the database, from CRM and Direct Mail.
• Generate financial and analytical reports and lists, primarily utilizing pre-defined queries, and basic edits.
• Donor research and profiling of donors, prospects, and event attendees using online research tools and other resources as available.
• Insure appropriate coding of constituents for accurate identification and prospecting for all Direct Mail campaigns and all ongoing donor cultivation.
• Perform regular clean up of historical data as necessary.
• Acknowledge donor and major donor gifts when necessary.
• Help establish in-house procedures for data management and train employees on these procedures.
• Manage Matching Gifts processing and follow-up.
• Complete additional tasks as assigned.

Qualifications

• Data entry experience (Microsoft Access, Raiser痴 Edge, Millennium, etc.)
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel- especially mail merges and pivot charts
• Ability to effectively organize and complete multiple, concurrent projects.
• Knowledge of fundraising principles a plus.
• Demonstrate knowledge of Campaigns, Funds and Appeals as well as Importing and Exporting Data
• Strong interpersonal, communication, organizational and problem solving skills required.
• Attention to detail, accuracy and efficiency vital to success in this position.
• May be required to attend fund-raising events in a support capacity.
• Excellent writing and proofreading skills

The Prostate Cancer Foundation offers a great work environment and benefits package including free on-site employee gym. Please e-mail your resume and cover letter to: careers@prostatecancerfoundation.org
No calls or faxes please.