Jobs at Obama Foundation

Maintains and optimizes the Foundation’s Salesforce ecosystem, manages development data tickets, supports fundraisers, builds reports and dashboards, designs workflows, performs QA testing, audits data quality, manages duplicate records, documents system standards, and provides backup gift-processing support.

Supports the Prospect Research team by conducting donor and prospect research, developing capacity ratings and profiles, preparing event and tour briefings, monitoring relevant media, performing reputational vetting, and identifying new fundraising prospects. The role also assists with pipeline building, donor data updates, and portfolio management while providing timely information to frontline fundraisers.

Manages Development Operations’ budgets, procurement, vendor contracts, executive reporting, hiring coordination, onboarding, professional development, culture initiatives, and administrative processes. Supervises a Development Operations Analyst, partners with Finance and People teams, improves workflows, and supports operational efficiency, compliance, team cohesion, and revenue goals across the division.

Leads Midwest fundraising strategy and manages a portfolio of 100+ major-gift prospects. Cultivates, solicits, closes, and stewards six- to seven-figure donations, targeting approximately $10 million annually. Partners with executives, board members, volunteers, regional fundraisers, and development teams to advance donor relationships, events, proposals, and stewardship. Uses Salesforce and performance metrics to manage pipelines and improve fundraising effectiveness.

Leads corporate and foundation fundraising, managing seven- and eight-figure partnerships, prospect strategy, cultivation, solicitation, stewardship, board engagement, and a team of five fundraisers. Builds relationships with executives and foundation leaders, oversees personalized proposals and fundraising collateral, promotes Salesforce adoption, and collaborates across departments to achieve ambitious fundraising goals for the Obama Foundation and Presidential Center.

Supports the West Coast Development team through project coordination, administrative operations, donor correspondence, briefing materials, meeting management, Salesforce data entry, reporting, and trip coordination. The role tracks project deliverables, coordinates with Central Development, prepares research and meeting materials, and helps improve internal processes that support fundraising effectiveness.

Own the Workday product strategy, roadmap, backlog, sprint priorities, governance, and stakeholder alignment across People, Finance, Payroll, Operations, and IT. Direct internal administrators and external AMS partners, oversee configurations and complex projects, manage SOWs and vendors, coordinate UAT and release adoption, and develop training and documentation. The role requires broad Workday module expertise, Agile delivery experience, technical resource triage, and strong cross-functional communication.