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Hours: 10 hrs per week – work from home during Covid-19. When it’s safe, work in the office 5 hours a week and from home 5 hours a week.
Location: New York City, Upper West Side (home office)
We are the administrative office for Kulanu, Inc. (kulanu.org), a volunteer-run non-profit organization supporting isolated, emerging, and returning Jewish communities around the globe. We are an experienced, dedicated, and hard-working team seeking to add to our friendly workforce by hiring a Database Manager and Administrative Assistant to work in the home office of the organization’s full-time volunteer President. We think our work is fascinating, meaningful, and impactful, and our new team member will have exciting opportunities to learn about and connect with diverse individuals and communities spanning the globe.
Our paid staff also includes a Communications Director and a Program and Development Manager, with whom the Database Manager and Administrative Assistant will work closely.
Responsibilities:
Manage Kulanu’s eTapestry database that tracks donors, donations, people we work with in overseas communities, volunteers, and press contacts. Responsible for meticulous data entry of new and revised contacts, including donors, people who attend Kulanu events, and people who contact us online. Prepare queries and reports, providing lists for monthly emails, year-end letters, semi-annual magazines, volunteer phone calls, and other needs. Prepare the annual list of donors for our magazine. Provide quarterly data analysis to the staff, fundraising committee, and board to support decisions about fundraising strategy.
Manage receipt of donations and donor relations. Enter donations in eTapestry, deposit checks, track donations to special funds, send thank-you letters to donors, and review and enter transactions that come online and through electronic transfers. Handle correspondence with donors. Collaborate with an outside firm that will handle bookkeeping and accounting.
Manage the Kulanu boutique, our small online shop. Track inventory, fill occasional orders.
Help manage Kulanu’s photo archives. Upload photos into appropriate galleries. Set up galleries and give others access to upload files to them.
Serve as an administrative assistant. Format, print out and collate quarterly financial reports and occasional proposals, scan documents when needed, order office supplies, maintain filing systems. Take on other projects as time permits. Occasionally prepare and mail literature packages to organizations and individuals that are hosting Kulanu events.
Skills and experience needed
We are looking for candidates who:
- appreciate the importance of reliable, complete, and up-to-date data to a nonprofit organization,
- have knowledge and experience with database management,
- have fast and accurate typing skills, careful attention to detail, and good basic math skills,
- are organized and good at managing your time,
- are proficient with computers and technology, (especially Windows, Internet, Google Drive, Docs, and Spreadsheets),
- have strong interpersonal and communication skills, and
- understand and care about Kulanu’s mission, and
- are calm, flexible, and focused.
We are looking for someone who wants a part-time job in New York City for the long-term, not someone who wants a short-term or temporary position. (The person who is retiring from this position has served for nine years!) Kulanu, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
Salary: $20-$23 per hour, depending on experience. 10 hours a week. Two weeks of vacation.
How to Apply
Fill out and submit the form here and follow instructions there to submit your cover letter and resume.