Development Specialist
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The Development Specialist coordinates schedules and communications with development and campus leadership, arranges travel, and prepares correspondence and reports. The role supports donor research, stewardship, outreach, and follow-up materials, while planning meetings, retreats, donor visits, and other events. It also assists with onboarding Development Associates and facilitates internal team functions and collaboration with development colleagues across campus.
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Full job description
Coordinate and manage schedule and communicate with development and campus leadership.Plan trips and make travel arrangements.Prepare and submit travel, entertainment, and other miscellaneous reimbursements.Compose and prepare correspondence, reports, meeting agendas, thank you letters, and follow-up materials as requested.Plan and execute various events, such as internal and external meetings, team retreats, donor campus visits, or other special events.Record timely reports, letters, and proposals, or gift agreements following a donor contact.Assist with prospect and donor research and help strategize and carry out donor stewardship projects and various forms of donor outreach as needed.Assist in the onboarding of the Development Associates supporting the team, in coordination with FSS leadership.Facilitate and enhance internal team functions, including but not limited to team and leadership meetings, professional development opportunities, annual goal setting process, and supporting relations with development colleagues across campus as needed.Other related functions and duties as assigned.
How this job compares
Set against the 727 open Fundraising jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$77–101K/yr320 salary ranges
- US median$21–24/hr100 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 77 open Fundraising jobs in Texas and 727 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN (this employer)41 open
- American Heart Association9 open
- American Red Cross4 open
- Experience
- Fundraising postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 5 years (488 postings).
- Education
- 267 of the 727 open Fundraising jobs (37%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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