Senior Foundation Database and Operations Analyst

Company: Sanford Health
Location: Sioux Falls
Posted on: July 2, 2025

Job Description:

Careers With Purpose Sanford Health is one of the largest and fastest-growing not-for-profit health systems in the United States. We're proud to offer many development and advancement opportunities to our nearly 50,000 members of the Sanford Family who are dedicated to the work of health and healing across our broad footprint. Facility: Sanford House Location: Sioux Falls, SD Address: 2335 East 60th St N, Sioux Falls, SD 57104, USA Shift: 8 Hours - Day Shifts Job Schedule: Full time Weekly Hours: 40.00 Salary Range: $26.00 - $41.50 Pay Info: Pay starts at $26 and increases according to years of applicable experience. Department Details The Senior Foundation Operations Specialist plays a critical role in advancing the mission of the Sanford Health Foundation by ensuring the integrity, functionality, and strategic use of our donor database and supporting operational excellence across the Foundation. This position serves as the subject matter expert on donor data, reporting, and CRM systems (such as Raiser’s Edge NXT), and partners closely with fundraising, finance, and marketing teams to drive informed decision-making and improve processes. Key Responsibilities Database Management (60%) * Manage and maintain the donor database (e.g., Raiser’s Edge NXT), ensuring accuracy, consistency, and security of all donor and gift records. * Develop and implement data hygiene protocols, duplicate resolution, and regular audits to maintain data integrity. * Generate complex queries, lists, and exports for fundraising campaigns, events, stewardship, and marketing initiatives. * Create and maintain dashboards, reports, and analytics to monitor fundraising performance and pipeline development. * Serve as the primary liaison with IT and database vendors, ensuring system updates, backups, and troubleshooting are handled promptly. Operations Support (40%) * Partner with leadership to assess internal workflows and recommend improvements to enhance operational efficiency and impact. * Lead and document standard operating procedures (SOPs) for data entry, reporting, gift processing, and donor stewardship. * Support budget tracking, compliance, and audit requests related to fundraising activities. * Collaborate with finance to reconcile gift records and ensure accurate revenue reporting. * Contribute to cross-functional projects that support strategic planning, campaign readiness, and stakeholder engagement. Job Summary Provides advanced level of support to Foundation Operations activities. Independently seek out additional information, knowledge and training to further understand the Foundation CRM and other platforms. Analyze process workflows within various functional areas to best understand improvements and associations, specifically with relation to fundraising reporting, database analysis and donor analytics. Provides advanced level of support and coordination of foundation operation activities with a knowledge of the principles, practices, and ethics for non-profit fundraising. Collaborates with Foundation team members to support the processing and analysis of outreach efforts and fundraising strategies that maximize participation and/or contributions and minimize costs. Prioritizes and completes activities associated with gift acceptance, processing and receipting ensuring confidentiality of associated data information. Fully understands and applies industry and professional standards related to regulations of varied gift types contributing to the analysis of gifts ensuring appropriate, accurate and timely documentation within associated CRM systems. Prepares receipts and acknowledgement letters in accordance of IRS regulations. Oversees database maintenance, accessing and updating donor files and maintaining information with proficiency and accuracy. Develops and deploys standard and custom reports, communications and dashboards in a manner suitable for those receiving it, including both internal and external recipients. Develops and maintains standards for internal foundation CRMs processes. Creates reports and tools necessary to assist with Foundation strategic planning. Provides recommendations to support the identification and analysis of trends or patterns within complex data sets to support the Foundation's development and stewardship functions by assisting with identifying potential stewardship strategies and portfolio management. Completes the monitoring and analysis of return on investment of various communication activities, including events, mailings, and digital communications. Utilizes outside sources, including social media and digital analytics, to monitor online engagement and marketing performance. Provides guidance in creating and executing data management strategies, making recommendations to improve data flow, availability, and quality. Works closely with all areas of the organization to develop an understanding of business requirements and goals to provide best service. Ability to be adaptable and accommodate changing situations and workloads. Detail orientated with accuracy regarding processing and analysis. Proactively seek improvement and monitor feedback to make recommendations for information system modifications needed to support effective and accurate reporting and analysis for the organization. Qualifications Bachelor's degree required. In lieu of education, leadership may accept five years of applicable experience. Previous experience of five or more years in business, finance, data science, statistics, information management, analytics, fundraising or related field is preferred. Previous experience operating reporting and analytic tools, such as Raiser's Edge or another CRM is preferred. Benefits Sanford Health offers an attractive benefits package for qualifying full-time and part-time employees. Depending on eligibility, a variety of benefits include health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan, work/life balance benefits, and a generous time off package to maintain a healthy home-work balance. For more information about Total Rewards, visit . Sanford is an EEO/AA Employer M/F/Disability/Vet. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation for help with your online application, please call 1-877-673-0854 or send an email to talent@sanfordhealth.org . Sanford Health has a Drug Free Workplace Policy. An accepted offer will require a drug screen and pre-employment background screening as a condition of employment. Req Number: R-0216300 Job Function: External Affairs Featured: No

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