KAP 2025 - 2026 - Senior Development Associate - Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
Washington, DC
Koch Associate Program – Foreign Policy Concentration /
ST Fellowships - On-Site /
On-site
The Koch Associate Program (KAP) is a career accelerator for early to mid-career professionals with a drive to tackle our country’s most pressing challenges in more effective, principled ways. KAP equips associates with the tools, mindsets, and community to succeed as social entrepreneurs—individuals excited to find new and better ways to break barriers and eliminate injustice. Associates spend one day each week engaging in experiential learning with Stand Together Fellowships and work at one of our many partner organizations the rest of the week. Our curriculum is designed to supercharge your development and equip you for long-term success as you seek to have an impact on the problems that prevent people from realizing their potential.
Public interest work relies on a strong development capacity to raise funding from diverse sources and via a wide range of approaches. Quincy Institute is a young organization and is still building out its development department. The senior development associate will assist the director of development on all aspects of development, from prospect research and profile development to identifying pathways to engage and data management. This is a great opportunity for someone who has a passion for QI’s work.
This position requires strategic mindedness, clear and compelling writing and editing, creativity, and social intelligence -- among many other skills. The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate a keen interest in the work of the Quincy Institute. The senior associate will closely follow the work of the entire staff to be able to sell the organization’s work and tell its success stories effectively. The associate will utilize strategic thinking skills to crystallize program work into compelling and succinct proposals. This associate will report to QI’s director of development.
Responsibilities
- Closely follow the daily and weekly news cycle, tracking issues of relevance to the organization, including philanthropic news. Make mental connections between the news and QI’s work and see opportunities for QI to reach out in support of its development and strategic goals.
- Manage QI’s donor management system (Raiser’s Edge) and email distribution system (Mailchimp), including entry and maintenance of donor records and produce custom reports. Assist with financial reports and general analysis of data as it relates to fundraising, financial reconciliation and donor recognition. Maintain and produce lists for email campaigns, event invitations, programmatic updates and successes and annual reports.
- Own production of the organization’s annual report and distribution, including management of relationships with internal stakeholders, outside vendors, artists, and printers.
- Creativity, clarity and brevity will be needed when you help develop targeted collateral materials to encourage giving across different aspects of QI’s focus.
- Build relationships across internal teams at QI to assist in program development and securing support for new mission oriented projects.
- Liaise with the operations team to develop program budgets and accurate fiscal reporting in support of the audit and 990.
- Support donor and board maintenance, and research and write prospect profiles for potential board additions and identify pathways for outreach and asks.
- Help staff and run the organization’s Leadership Circle and develop donor incentive programs, as well as assist in developing and planning travel and speaking tours to further our development goals.
- Maintain the development calendar, ensuring that board meetings, grant applications, reports, and regular contacts with donors and board members are made.
- Help develop digital fundraising strategies, including via email, LinkedIn, FaceBook, and video ads and plan and implement multiple direct mail and email appeals annually, with a high degree of customization and emotional appeal. Work with the communications team and coordinate key QI staff.
- Maintain the organization's public facing development profiles including the QI website and other nonprofit transparency sources like GuideStar.
- Prospect new sources of funding from individuals and foundations, beginning with online supporters, and provide personalized donor impact updates on an as-needed basis
- Support the director of development in organizing and staffing weekly meetings of the development leadership team and the board development committee.
Qualifications
- Minimum of 3-5 years of experience raising foundation funds, writing grant applications for a nonprofit organization, and/or stewarding individual donors.
- Commitment to QI’s mission and knowledge of and interest in issues related to U.S. foreign policy and ongoing policy debates in the United States, as well as familiarity with the IR theories of Realism and Restraint.
- Extremely strong written and oral communications skills; able to discuss policy in an engaging manner. Clear, compelling and careful writing and deep research skills are essential.
- Excellent project management skills; able to evaluate and prioritize concurrent proposals, reports, and prospecting projects, and respond flexibly to changes.
- Ability to think creatively and anticipate the needs of senior leadership and colleagues; ability to listen to and synthesize ideas from colleagues into products that satisfy funder requirements.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and meet tight deadlines. You will be detail-oriented and well-organized, take initiative, and be able to meet deadlines while producing high-quality work.
- A graduate degree in political science, international relations, business, psychology, or marketing, preferred.
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