Internship Position Description
American
Red Cross of Greater Columbus
Position
Title: Major Gifts Development
(Intern), Financial Development
Purpose
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Provide
assistance to the Major Gifts Officer, who is responsible for making and
cultivating relationships for individual and private foundation donors.
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Key
Responsibilities
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§ Conduct individual
and private foundation research including potential and current donors
§ Write email
correspondences for relationship cultivation with staff, donors, and
prospects
§ Organize
development meeting notes
§ Help create, edit,
and proofread reports, mailings, letters, response, and thank you cards
§ Help set-up and
facilitate the assembly of major gift mailings with staff
§ Track and organize
incoming donations
§ Help organize gift
and donor data on excel spreadsheets
§ Modify, edit, and create
spreadsheets on donation amount and other data, as needed
§ Other duties as
assigned
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Reports
To
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Major
Gifts Officer
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Time
Commitment
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15-20
hours per week minimum. Flexible, during business week (Monday-Friday 8:30am-5pm)
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Length
of Appointment
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One
Semester
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Qualifications
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§ Working knowledge
of Microsoft Office software
§ Intermediate or
advanced knowledge of Mail Merge functions (MS Word and Excel)
§ Extremely
detailed-oriented
§ Ability to organize
efficiently
§ Advanced written
and oral communication skills
§ Customer-service
and relationship-building focus
§ Self-motivated,
creative, willing to learn by hands-on experiences
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Training
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§ Intern Orientation
§ On-the-job training
§ Disaster Services:
An Overview (online)
§ CPR/First Aid/AED
Training (2 year certification)
§ Community
Transportation Program shadowing experience (schedule permitting)
§ Disaster Response
Team shadowing experience (schedule permitting, if disaster occurs)
§ Opportunity to
become trained for other volunteer roles, if desired
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Budget
Support
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§ Will be provided
with free training and access to adequate work supplies including desk,
chair, computer, printer, telephone and office supplies as needed.
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Benefits/Development
Opportunities
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§ Affiliation with one of the most well-respected, internationally known
humanitarian organizations
§ Gain valuable
experience in nonprofit fundraising with a special emphasis on major donor
relationships
§ Refine writing,
research, organizational, oral and written communication skills
§ Gain valuable work
experience and professional networking opportunities
§ Ability to undertake valuable life-saving First Aid/CPR/AED and
Disaster Response training, among other opportunities
§ Documentation of
service, letter of reference as requested
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If
you would like to be considered for this internship, please forward your resume
and a Letter of Intent to vanessa.oliphant@redcross.org
as soon as possible. The Letter of Intent is NOT a cover letter.
Please
take a moment to answer the following questions to serve as the body of your
Letter of Intent:
· Why do you want to be an intern for
the American Red Cross?
· Why are you interested in
this specific position?
· What do you hope to gain
from this internship?
· Why are you an ideal
candidate for this position?
Please
note***All Red Cross internships are unpaid***