Portfolio Management Analyst

About the role

The Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association (WFAA), formerly known as the Wisconsin Alumni Association, is a private, nonprofit corporation that supports the University of Wisconsin-Madison through fundraising and alumni engagement. Founded in 1890, WFAA connects alumni and donors with the university, fostering a strong community among Badgers.

Responsibilities

• Consult with development colleagues during regular portfolio review meetings to advise on portfolio composition, activity, and prospect identification needs.
• Partner with new Development Directors and Prospect Identification Analysts to assist in establishing portfolios.
• Collaborate with Prospect Development Team members to identify, evaluate, and recommend assignments and qualifications for the University’s top prospects.
• Coordinate with business intelligence and analytics teams to deploy systems to help enhance prospect management strategies and reporting for success in all stages of development.
• Implement prospect management strategies, business processes, and protocols, specifically, those activities focused on informing and motivating prospect activity.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on prospect management policies and system processes, providing training and guidance to development colleagues as needed.
• Develop, document, and maintain a schedule of regular data audit tasks to ensure that prospect management data is optimized for portfolio management and organizational reporting.
• Research new prospects and use sound judgment to qualify prospects for major gift development, including verifying capacity, updating demographic information, assessing broad interests and philanthropic history, and providing rationale for unit assignment.
• Attend and participate in regular research meetings, offsites, and quarterly development group meetings.
• Share best practices and provide training for research colleagues and development partners.
• Lead or participate in strategic planning efforts, priority team projects, organization-wide task forces, and other cross-functional groups.
• Recommend research information sources and tools for subscription renewal, purchase, or regular team use.
• Participate in at least one appropriate professional development conference, continuing education course, or workshop per year.
• Present information on prospect development functions during staff training and orientation sessions.
• When applicable, share prospect development expertise with development officers and researchers at other organizations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional work experience.
• 1+ year(s)’ experience in prospect research, prospect management, development, or the information field.
• Experience with MS Office products, particularly Word and Excel.
• Ability and interest to become fluent in SQL, Salesforce, and Power BI.
• Understanding of information management in a database structure, particularly the ability to store, manipulate, and retrieve data.
• Ability and expertise in discerning data quality discrepancies that require further investigation.
• Experience with SQL and/or relational databases to perform queries and create reports (working knowledge of Salesforce and/or Microsoft Access or similar preferred).
• Advanced degree.
• Understanding of basic financial principles.
• Demonstrated interest, or application, of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools.