Prospect Research Manager

• Identify new prospects using databases, supporter lists, and other resources to help the Development Team build and maintain a robust pipeline.
• Conduct wealth screenings to preliminarily evaluate capacity and propensity and provide recommendations about next steps for qualified prospects.
• Manage gift entry and pledge creation to ensure accurate, timely, high-integrity processing of all donations and earned income.
• Schedule Development Team meetings and coordinate the calendar for internal meetings that the Development Team has with other NLP teams.

This position will directly impact many thousands of educators and hundreds of thousands of students in schools across the country and plays a pivotal role in shaping and achieving our organizational strategy by ensuring philanthropic support to further our continued scale.

• A minimum of four years of progressively responsible experience in prospect research and nonprofit fundraising operations, with expertise in wealth screening platforms and CRM databases.
• Strong technical skills, including advanced Excel capabilities (pivot tables, formulas, data visualization), and experience working with high volumes of data.
• Strategic thinking and excellent analytical, problem-solving, and project management skills, with the ability to lead cross-functional initiatives.
• A collaborative, solutions-oriented mindset with strong written and oral communication skills and the ability to thrive in a remote, mission-driven work environment.

No specific compensation, perks, or culture highlights mentioned in the posting.

The News Literacy Project is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization building a national movement to ensure that all students are guaranteed to be skilled in news literacy before high school graduation, giving them the knowledge and ability to participate in civic society as well-informed, critical thinkers.