Jew­ish Book Coun­cil seeks a high­ly moti­vat­ed full-time devel­op­ment coor­di­na­tor who will sup­port Jew­ish Book Council’s devel­op­ment infra­struc­ture, cam­paigns, and growth.

A Man­hat­tan-based non­prof­it, JBC is sit­u­at­ed at the inter­sec­tion of the Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ty and the pub­lish­ing world. JBC has pro­mot­ed Jew­ish-inter­est lit­er­a­ture through its foun­da­tion­al pro­gram, Jew­ish Book Month, since 1925, and has added pro­grams such as the Nation­al Jew­ish Book Awards, Natan Notable Books, JBC Net­work author tours, book reviews, author sem­i­nars, book club resources, a lit­er­ary jour­nal, Paper Brigade, and more over the fol­low­ing decades to meet the needs of an ever-chang­ing Jew­ish and pub­lish­ing landscape.

JBC con­sists of a small, ded­i­cat­ed team; we enjoy work­ing togeth­er and pitch­ing in to sup­port each oth­er. We are look­ing for an enthu­si­as­tic new mem­ber who thrives in a col­lab­o­ra­tive envi­ron­ment, and is pas­sion­ate about lit­er­a­ture, pub­lish­ing, and the ways in which Jew­ish lit­er­a­ture can be an excit­ing access point to Jew­ish life, iden­ti­ty, and culture.

Job Respon­si­bil­i­ties

Report­ing to the exec­u­tive direc­tor, the devel­op­ment coor­di­na­tor will sup­port a grow­ing devel­op­ment pro­gram and help stream­line all oper­a­tions and donor man­age­ment. Respon­si­bil­i­ties will include, but are not lim­it­ed to:

• Main­tain­ing JBC’s CRM, includ­ing inputting and updat­ing records
• Pro­cess­ing and track­ing incom­ing gifts
• Gen­er­at­ing time­ly donor acknowl­edg­ment let­ters, includ­ing hand­writ­ten notes
• Man­ag­ing phys­i­cal mail­ings to and from JBC supporters
• Man­ag­ing JBC’s read­er mem­ber­ship pro­gram, includ­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tions and phys­i­cal materials
• Sup­port­ing JBC’s pro­gram direc­tor in devel­op­ing and imple­ment­ing both in-per­son and vir­tu­al donor-focused events
• Assist­ing in grant writ­ing and report generation
• Con­duct­ing research on prospec­tive and cur­rent donors to JBC
• Assist­ing in devel­op­ment of JBC’s emerg­ing lead­er­ship ini­tia­tive, an oppor­tu­ni­ty to help grow the donor base and poten­tial­ly man­age a pipeline of low to mid-lev­el donors
• Man­ag­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tions for JBC board of direc­tors meetings
• Per­form­ing gen­er­al office duties, attend­ing meet­ings; assist­ing with appoint­ments and calendars

Addi­tion­al

Like all mem­bers of the JBC team, the devel­op­ment coor­di­na­tor will work at JBC events, includ­ing our annu­al three-day con­fer­ence, annu­al Sun­day writer sem­i­nars (adult and children’s), evening pub­lic pro­grams, and annu­al gala.

Qual­i­fi­ca­tions

• BA/BS degree
• Min­i­mum of 2 years work­ing in a non­prof­it fundrais­ing envi­ron­ment, ide­al­ly with an under­stand­ing of devel­op­ment oper­a­tions or trans­ferrable experience
• Expe­ri­ence with data­base man­age­ment sys­tems (e.g., Sales­force, Lit­tle Green, Patron Man­ag­er, etc.) preferred
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills; pro­fi­cient in stan­dard word pro­cess­ing and spreadsheets
• Detail ori­ent­ed with strong orga­ni­za­tion and time man­age­ment skills
• Excel­lent com­mu­ni­ca­tion and inter­per­son­al skills, with a cus­tomer-ori­ent­ed mind­set, and an abil­i­ty to take a col­lab­o­ra­tive approach to work, with an eager­ness to be an active mem­ber of the JBC team
• Demon­strat­ed abil­i­ty to nego­ti­ate a fast-paced envi­ron­ment and to per­form well inde­pen­dent­ly as well as part of a team
• Sound judg­ment and the abil­i­ty to exer­cise dis­cre­tion with con­fi­den­tial or sen­si­tive information
• Writ­ing expe­ri­ence (sam­ples may be requested)
• Cre­ative thinker who stays up-to-date with the lat­est engage­ment trends and can proac­tive­ly inte­grate new ways of think­ing into devel­op­ment cam­paigns and processes
• Some famil­iar­i­ty with Jew­ish cul­ture; knowl­edge of Judaism is a plus
• Will­ing­ness to be flex­i­ble in accor­dance with the real­i­ties of work­ing at a small nonprofit.

The salary range for this posi­tion is $48 – 55k.

Inter­est­ed appli­cants should send a cov­er let­ter and resume to jobs@​jewishbooks.​org.

Loca­tion: *Cur­rent­ly, due to COVID-19, the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil team is work­ing remote­ly — can­di­dates should be in the Metro New York Area and have the abil­i­ty to return to JBC’s office in Man­hat­tan begin­ning in Decem­ber 2021.*

We do not dis­crim­i­nate on the basis of race, reli­gion, col­or, gen­der expres­sion or iden­ti­ty, sex­u­al ori­en­ta­tion, nation­al ori­gin, cit­i­zen­ship, age, mar­i­tal sta­tus, vet­er­an sta­tus, dis­abil­i­ty sta­tus, or any oth­er char­ac­ter­is­tic pro­tect­ed by law.