Prospect Strategy Manager

North Park University•Chicago, IL

18h•$78,050 - $88,050•Hybrid

About The Position

About North Park Founded in 1891, North Park University is a Christian university affiliated with the Evangelical Covenant Church of over 3,200 students from around the country and the world. North Park University is located in the Albany Park neighborhood of Chicago, one of the most ethnically diverse zip codes in the United States. It is nine miles from downtown Chicago. The North Park campus has often been referred to as an oasis in the heart of the city – a place where students from urban, rural, and suburban backgrounds alike can call home. And all of this within the major metropolitan backdrop of Chicago: one of the world’s largest and most diversified economies, renowned for its museums and music, and voted best large city in the U.S. for four years in a row by Condé Nast Traveler. Mission The mission of North Park University is to prepare students for lives of significance and service through education in the liberal arts, professional studies, and theology. Vision Building on our core institutional identity—Christian, city-centered, intercultural—our vision is to create a university of uncommon character and enduring excellence, where faith, learning, and service meet.

Requirements

Master’s degree in Business Analytics or related field
2 years of related experience
Any amount of experience designing and developing Power BI dashboards to enhance marketing insights and optimize sales performance
Any amount of experience utilizing tools PivotTables, VLOOKUP and INDEX-MATCH to clean and structure datasets for accurate reporting and analysis
Any amount of experience developing and optimizing SQL queries to export, clean, and aggregate data for use in dashboards and reports
Any amount of experience creating measurable KPIs to track performance across departments and integrating them into reporting for leadership use
Must live within normal commuting distance of worksite.

Responsibilities

Analyze data and provide strategic information on achieving advancement and alumni engagement goals
Manage donor analytics data and collaborate with the Advancement and Alumni Engagement staff to provide recommendations-based analysis to ensure the team is maximizing fundraising potential across giving channels
Develop and employ analytical techniques and visualization tools to drive a more strategic fundraising and alumni engagement process through forecasting data models, prospect ranking tools and new strategies for mining and tracking prospects
Design integrated dashboards and portfolio management tools highlighting fundraising KPI’s and performance metrics that will help inform strategies
Manage prospecting efforts using Raiser’s Edge and other external databases to meet prospect identification and prioritization needs
Use data to build a prospect pipeline to include all stages of the donor cycle – Identification, Qualification, Cultivation, Solicitation and Stewardship
Establish prospect pipeline guidelines and workflows that ensure a steady flow of new prospects with the goal of relationship managers moving all assignments through the donor cycle
Customize pipeline strategies for major giving prospects based on data to better identify and strategize next steps while working in close collaboration with relationship managers.