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Position: Part-Time (minimum of 24 hours)/Full Time

Reports To: Director of Development

The Wolf School inspires Complex Learners to discover confidence, compassion, and a love of learning to reach their full potential.

The Wolf School, a small independent day school in East Providence, Rhode Island, was founded in 1999 to provide a unique educational environment for children with complex learning challenges. The goal was to create a school that would provide children with the opportunity to reach their full academic and social potential. The founding members of the Board, including educators, clinical specialists, and a family, created the Immersion Model© that emphasizes the development of core grade-level skills taught through a therapeutically guided curriculum. As a result, our students make significant gains academically and socially. Today, the Wolf School educates 75 students from Rhode Island and Massachusetts.

General Summary of Job: Working directly with the Director of Development and as a member of The Wolf School’s Advancement Team, the Development Assistant plays a key role in supporting the fundraising program at The Wolf School, including both the Wolf School Fund (annual fund) and our capital campaign.

Working directly with the Director of Development, the Development Assistant is responsible for assisting with all development related tasks including maintaining and updating our donor database, handling all appeal mailings, including mailing lists, processing and acknowledging gifts in a timely manner, pulling accurate donor lists and report for the Annual Report, developing, maintaining, and strengthening our alumni network, and working directly with the Director of Development and the Director of Finance to reconcile revenue and maintain the office budget.

The Development Assistant will be the key point person for a variety of events, including all Wolf School Parent Organization (WSPO) meetings and community events (e.g., All School Dance, Fall Festival), alumni reunions, donor appreciation events, school sponsored events (e.g., Founders’ Day, Grandparents Day), and our signature fundraising event, Discover the Difference.

The Development Assistant will be responsible for logistics, planning, coordinating and supervising volunteers, event set up, check-in and check out, and additional tasks as needed.

The Development Assistant will work closely with the Director of Development and the Director of Marketing and Communications to ensure timely awareness of special event opportunities.

The Development Assistant will be motivated, passionate, highly organized, detail-oriented, and possess superior communication skills (both written and oral). Ideally, we are eager to find a candidate willing to build strong systems within this role and support a growing organization.

Requirements: Bachelor’s degree preferred; 2-4 years of professional experience in nonprofit development, fundraising, or related field

Prior experience with donor databases required; Raiser’s Edge preferred

Event planning experience preferred