Application Guide
How to Apply for Development Operations Manager
at Keep America Beautiful, Inc.
🏢 About Keep America Beautiful, Inc.
Keep America Beautiful is a historic national nonprofit with 70+ years of community impact, uniquely positioned at the intersection of environmental stewardship, volunteer mobilization, and corporate partnerships. Working here offers the chance to support a mission-driven organization that combines grassroots action with national scale, making tangible improvements to communities across America.
About This Role
This Development Operations Manager role is the operational backbone of fundraising at Keep America Beautiful, managing Salesforce CRM, donor data, and reporting systems to drive revenue growth. You'll directly support the Office of the President in donor cultivation while ensuring seamless collaboration between development, events, and cross-functional teams to meet organizational fundraising goals.
💡 A Day in the Life
Your day might start with reviewing Salesforce gift processing and data integrity reports, then move to creating donor analytics for an upcoming cultivation meeting with the President's office. You'd likely collaborate with the events team on fundraising logistics, troubleshoot a reporting issue with corporate partnership data, and end the day preparing prospect research for major donor outreach.
🚀 Application Tools
🎯 Who Keep America Beautiful, Inc. Is Looking For
- Has 4+ years of hands-on nonprofit development operations experience with proven expertise in Salesforce gift processing, campaign management, and complex reporting
- Demonstrates specific experience supporting individual giving programs, corporate partnerships, and executive leadership in a nonprofit setting
- Possesses strong analytical skills to define engagement metrics, interpret fundraising data, and create actionable reports that drive revenue decisions
- Can balance technical CRM management with donor-focused administrative support for the President's office engagement activities
📝 Tips for Applying to Keep America Beautiful, Inc.
Quantify your Salesforce experience with specific examples: mention the size of databases you've managed, types of campaigns you've run, and how your reporting influenced fundraising decisions
Highlight any experience with environmental or community-focused nonprofits, as Keep America Beautiful values mission alignment beyond just technical skills
Demonstrate understanding of their funding model by mentioning how you've supported both individual giving AND corporate partnerships in previous roles
Include specific examples of how you've provided operational support to executive leadership in donor cultivation activities
Show how you've collaborated across departments by describing a specific cross-functional project that improved fundraising outcomes
✉️ What to Emphasize in Your Cover Letter
['Your hands-on Salesforce experience with gift processing, queries, and campaign management in a nonprofit context', "Specific examples of how you've used data analysis to improve fundraising outcomes and support revenue growth", 'Experience supporting executive leadership in donor engagement activities and cultivation strategies', 'Why the combination of community improvement and environmental mission at Keep America Beautiful resonates with your professional goals']
Generate Cover Letter →🔍 Research Before Applying
To stand out, make sure you've researched:
- → Explore their recent corporate partnerships and major donors through their annual report and press releases
- → Understand their program areas: litter prevention, recycling, and community beautification/greening initiatives
- → Review their affiliate network structure and how national programs support local community action
- → Study their fundraising events and annual giving campaigns mentioned on their website and social media
💬 Prepare for These Interview Topics
Based on this role, you may be asked about:
⚠️ Common Mistakes to Avoid
- Focusing only on technical Salesforce skills without demonstrating understanding of nonprofit fundraising context
- Generic application materials that don't specifically address development operations (vs. general development)
- Failing to show how you balance data/system management with donor relationship support for executive leadership
📅 Application Timeline
This position is open until filled. However, we recommend applying as soon as possible as roles at mission-driven organizations tend to fill quickly.
Typical hiring timeline:
Application Review
1-2 weeks
Initial Screening
Phone call or written assessment
Interviews
1-2 rounds, usually virtual
Offer
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