Fundraising Systems & Research Associate
The Associate, Fundraising Systems and Research plays a vital role in strengthening World Central Kitchen’s (WCK) fundraising data infrastructure and ensuring the accuracy, accessibility, and usability of information that drives donor engagement and organizational growth. As part of the Development Operations team, this position focuses on proactive data hygiene, process streamlining, basic Salesforce NPSP administrative, and quality assurance of reports and dashboards, ensuring the data powering fundraising decisions is reliable and well maintained.
Functioning at the intersection of fundraising and systems work, the Associate contributes to WCK’s prospect research efforts by conducting targeted research, maintaining donor profiles, and enhancing data needed for strategic engagement and portfolio development. This role serves as a touchpoint between Donor Relations and Development Operations, and helps translate fundraising needs into data systems and tasks, identifies process bottlenecks, and supports alignment across teams to improve data quality and operational efficiency.
Ideal candidates are detail-oriented, tech-curious, and energized by opportunities to improve data quality, streamline workflows, support prospecting, and contribute to WCK’s scalable fundraising infrastructure.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Serve as touchpoint between fundraising teams and Development Operations, helping translate t
