About Us

Row New York is a sports-based youth development non-profit organization founded on the premise that the discipline and teamwork that rowing instills, when combined with rigorous academic support, has the power to change lives. At full capacity, our Youth Program serves 150 high school student-athletes from diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. It is a high-dosage, year-round rowing and academic program with a goal of ensuring that 100% of our young people graduate high school and matriculate to college or begin an alternative post-secondary plan. In addition, we offer rowing for students with disabilities in NYC School District 75, Veterans, community organizations, and corporations looking for team-building opportunities. Lastly, Row New York offers summer camps and a fee-for-service rowing program for New York City independent high schools. Our programs are offered at two rowing sites: Upper Manhattan and Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

Position Summary

Row New York is seeking an experienced development operations professional to provide interim, part-time support to our fundraising team through December 2026, with the opportunity to re-evaluate at the end of
the year. We are looking for someone who can step in quickly, keep our systems accurate and organized, and ensure the operational side of the development team runs smoothly.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsibilities may include:

• Salesforce management, data entry, data hygiene, record-keeping and troubleshooting

• Gift processing, acknowledgment tracking, and reconciliation

• Maintaining fundraising trackers, spreadsheets, and dashboards

• Producing regular fundraising, pipeline, and revenue reports

• Supporting moves management and ensuring next steps and donor activity are captured accurately

• Helping improve development processes, documentation, and workflows

• Providing ad hoc operational support to the CEO and development team as needed

Qualifications

We are looking for someone with at least 2-3 years of professional experience in development operations who is fluent in nonprofit fundraising operations and Salesforce; a Salesforce administrator credential, or equivalent knowledge, is preferred. The ideal candidate is exceptionally organized, detail-oriented, and can successfully and reliably work independently. This interim support work will be performed remotely.

We anticipate this would be an approximately 5–8 hour per week engagement to start. While this is initially an interim consulting engagement, there is opportunity to transition to an ongoing contract or longer-term
part-time employment opportunity.

Salary

The budget for this engagement is $35 - $45 per hour, dependent on qualifications and experience. The successful applicant will be required to sign a standard consultant agreement. This is not a benefits eligible position.

How to Apply

Interested individuals should send a resume and a cover letter that includes their fee structure and elaborates on their experience to Katherine Serrano at development@rownewyork.org. Please include “Interim Development Operations Consultant” in the email subject line. No phone calls, please.

Row New York is an equal opportunity employer. We value a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage all candidates, including people of color, women, Veterans, LGBTQIA+, older candidates, and candidates with disabilities to apply. We appreciate all applicants, but please be advised that our capacity allows us to only respond to those best qualified for the position.