Advancement & Events Manager
- Sacred Heart Academy
- 47 Cathedral Avenue, Hempstead, NY, USA
- Dec 19, 2025
Job Description
Position Title: Advancement & Events Manager
Location: Hempstead, NY
Reports to: Executive Director of Advancement
Job Summary: The Advancement & Events Manager is responsible for helping develop and execute comprehensive fundraising and advancement strategies that support the organization’s mission and long-term sustainability. This position plays a critical role in donor cultivation, stewardship, and solicitation, while also helping manage the planning and execution of special events designed to strengthen engagement with donors, alumnae, families, and community partners.
Key Responsibilities:
● Support all annual fund campaigns, capital campaigns, and grant submissions.
● Help with donor cultivation and stewardship efforts: assist in the preparation of mailing lists, donor segments, and donor communications.
● Assist with donor database upkeep. Accurately enter donations, pledges, constituent updates, and event attendance into the donor database (e.g., Raisers Edge, GiveCampus).
● Conduct basic prospect research to support fundraising and stewardship efforts.
● Assist in the planning and coordination of events (e.g., donor receptions, gala dinner, cultivation events, reunions and golf outing): vendor contracts, venue logistics, guest lists/RSVPs, event budget tracking, on-site support.
● Work with cross-department teams (marketing, communications, admissions) to ensure fundraising and events align with institutional goals and donor experience.
● Post-event follow-up: capture event data (attendance, revenue, donor conversions), manage thank-you communications, track sponsorship and gift fulfillment.
● Provide general development operations support: help prepare reports/memos for leadership, maintain calendar of development activities, assist with grant or special campaign support as needed.
Qualifications:
● Bachelor’s degree in Fundraising, Event Management, Communications, Marketing, Public Relations, or a related field.
● 3+ years of relevant experience in fundraising, event coordination, or nonprofit development.
● Strong organizational and project management skills with keen attention to detail.
● Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
● Commitment to the values and mission of Catholic education.
● Proficiency with event software, donor databases, and office productivity tools.
● Ability to work occasional evenings and weekends.
Salary: $75,000-$85,000 based on experience.
To Apply: Please submit a resume and cover letter to Craig Pinto, Executive Director of Advancement, craig.pinto@sacredheartacademyli.org.
Our Mission
Rooted in the mission of Jesus, we are committed as one CSJ family to live and work with inclusive love to bring about unity and reconciliation of all creation and all people with God and with one another. Unity, reconciliation, inclusive love, peace and justice.
As a community, we educate both the heart and the mind of our students through the values of hospitality, excellence, accountability, respect, reverence, truthfulness, and trust.
Accreditations
Sacred Heart is accredited by the New York State Board of Regents and by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools and holds full membership in the National Catholic Educational Association.
In May 1996, Sacred Heart was recognized by the United States Department of Education as a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence – the highest honor a school can achieve.
SHA snapshots of excellence: a few fast facts
- On average, 99% of SHA graduates attend 4-year colleges.
- In 2021, 90% of the graduating class received academic, artistic or athletic scholarships to college, totaling over $58 million.
- SHA graduates routinely take their places among the top echelons of business, government and academia.
- As one aspect of fulfilling our mission of "bringing about union and reconciliation by awakening in our community an awareness of the unconditional love God has for all people," each SHA student is required to complete at least 20 hours of community service annually. However, most students far exceed this, devoting up to 200 hours of their time each term to helping their neighbors.
- Thanks to our exceptional 13:1 student-teacher ratio, combined with a faculty extraordinarily dedicated to our students' success, SHA students routinely surpass their state peers in standardized test scores and the majority earn Advanced Designation Regents Diplomas each year.