Development and Communications Assistant

Position Description 

LISC seeks a Development and Communications Executive Assistant who will serve as a strategic operations partner to both departments, strengthening internal infrastructure and enabling leadership to focus on high-level strategy, communications, donor engagement, and strategic growth. The successful candidate will support and manage core administrative, operational, and compliance functions, including but not limited to the following:

Responsibilities

• Serve as an administrative lead for the Development and Communications teams, ensuring workflow management, prioritization, and timely execution of strategic initiatives.
• Track and monitor funder compliance requirements, reporting deadlines, and deliverables in coordination with program and finance teams to ensure accuracy and responsiveness.
• Support donor engagement coordination, including maintaining accurate records in Salesforce, tracking cultivation activities, and managing acknowledgement and stewardship communications.
• Prepare, track, and reconcile expenditure records, consultant contracts, vendor invoices, and credit card transactions against department budgets to strengthen internal controls.
• Develop and maintain systems that improve visibility into development pipelines, fundraising progress, and communications campaigns.
• Coordinate cross-functional collaboration between Development, Communications, Program, and Finance teams to ensure alignment on proposals, reports, messaging, and deliverables.
• Support data collection, impact reporting, and presentation materials to ensure storytelling reflects measurable outcomes and strategic priorities.
• Manage departmental travel, conferences, executive scheduling, and high-level meetings with internal and external stakeholders.
• Oversee organization of the Communications Department’s digital assets, including photo and video libraries and shared knowledge platforms.
• Assist with special projects, board-facing materials, strategic events, and other initiatives that advance revenue generation and brand visibility.

 

Qualifications

• Associated degree from an accredited college/university or relevant work experience.
• Minimum 5 year’s work-related experience in administrative, project management, nonprofit or other related duties.
• Excellent computer skills including competency with Microsoft Office Suite and ability to learn and work in multiple systems (Net Suite, Conga, Salesforce, proprietary systems)
• Experience in Salesforce for departments’ contact information management.
• Strong organizational skills; efficient and detail-oriented; strong skills in communicating progress on projects and duties.
• Excellent writing and editing skills preferred
• Knowledge of community development is a plus
• Ability to collaborate with multiple LISC teams and representatives from nonprofit, corporate, philanthropic, and public sectors.
• Capacity to multitask and set priorities for a challenging workload.
• Commitment and/or experience working in the nonprofit sector preferred.

 

COMPENSATION:

LISC offers a competitive salary ($65,000-$80,000) and excellent fringe benefits.