Senior CRM Administrator

Senior CRM Administrator Remote Apply Senior CRM Administrator Summary The fundraising team at the Wikimedia Foundation conducts worldwide campaigns across nearly 40 countries and 20 languages, collecting small donations (averaging about $15) as well as large and small offline donations to support the Wikimedia Foundation’s mission to empower and engage people around the world with free knowledge. The CRM Administrator is a critical part of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Fundraising Technology team, which supports the fundraising program. The team is responsible for our Customer Relationship Management (CRM), data analytics platform (including a data lake, reporting, and integrations), payments integrations, and any donor-facing software.  Reporting to the Director of Fundraising Technology, the CRM Administrator will be responsible for managing and maintaining our CRM system, CiviCRM , to support our fundraising colleagues in their use of the database to deliver on our fundraising strategies. This includes having a holistic view of our donor data management tooling and driving data management and governance. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of non profit fundraising operations, strong technical skills (including familiarity with scripting and automation), and have extensive experience driving strategic improvements to donor databases for similar sized non-profit organizations. Responsibilities: User Support and Training: Oversee the user support lifecycle, from onboarding, access control management, and offboarding, for our donor data management tooling which includes CiviCRM and Acoustic. Develop user documentation and procedures, help troubleshoot user issues, and train fundraising staff and others on database use and business rules for entering or editing supporter account information. Collaborate closely with the Data Engineer to ensure that the database is complete and accurate and that data imports, uploads, queries, reports, and extracts are performed accurately. Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices in database administration. System Administration and Customization: Customize the CiviCRM and Acoustic platforms based on business needs, configuring layouts and fields, creating and managing custom objects, developing and maintaining automation processes, and designing and managing reports and dashboards. Partner with the CRM product manager to identify process and design improvements, manage issues and user requirements/workflows, and drive timely completion of key actions. Maintain CiviCRM user management by creating user accounts, configuring permission sets and user access controls, troubleshooting access issues, monitoring system usage, and creating and maintaining documentation. Data Management: Gather, develop, document, and validate business, functional, and technical requirements for configurations and integrations (e.g., Acoustic and Metabase). Maintain CiviCRM data quality and accuracy by using and implementing tooling to support data cleansing, enhancement, and deduplication. Support streamlining data import processes for offline gifts. Govern and maintain data flows between CiviCRM and the downstream users of its data (eg Acoustic and Sage Intacct); update and adjust shared data based on program objectives. Monitor the CRM and downstream uses to ensure data accuracy. Oversee data functions and hygiene within Acoustic, running recurring data and GDPR jobs, and pulling raw recipient data. Data Privacy and Governance In collaboration with WMF Legal & Security teams support and refine data privacy best practices. Develop and enforce database usage and security policies. Train and enforce CRM data privacy best practices with staff. Ensure governance of CRM data, defining schema in consultation with Analytics Enforce standards for segmentation Implement and document gift attribution rules Audit CRM for data hygiene and good governance. Project and Team Collaboration: Collaborate with CRM Product Manager, fundraisers, analysts, engineers, and other key stakeholders to define system requirements, constraints, and risks for implementing solutions that enhance fundraising and fundraising operations processes. Manage vendor partners to ensure timely delivery of services aligned with organizational priorities. Participate in sprint-based teams to facilitate the estimation, prioritization, and execution of tasks. Perform functional and integrated testing. Prepare and maintain project and technical documentation and artifacts, including release notes, analysis, reports, and user documentation. Evaluate new and existing CRM and database products and services and stay updated with product updates. Ensure data security practices comply with organization standards and regularly monitor system audit trails. Skills and Experience: Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience managing and maintaining a CRM environment as an administrator, preferably at a nonprofit organization; familiarity with CiviCRM, Acoustic or other CRM certification credentials a plus. Proficiency in CRM configuration, including objects, fields, page layouts, workflows, and validation rules. Strong technical skills in data management, reporting, and dashboards. Familiarity with automation and integrating CRMs with other systems and tools. Understanding of fundraising strategies and best practices is preferred. Experience with system integrations and third-party APIs. Experience with data analysis and SQL is preferred. Qualities: A strong value and mission fit with the Wikimedia movement and Foundation. Comfortable working in a highly collaborative, consensus-oriented environment. Ability to work effectively in multiple cultural contexts. Excellent verbal and written communication skills, as well as the ability to clearly communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders. A desire to make meaningful contributions to knowledge equity, free culture, and open access. Possess a growth mindset with the ability to identify additional skills, knowledge, and/or expertise required and the drive to develop themselves where needed. Ability to communicate clearly in both synchronous and asynchronous channels. Additionally, we’d love it if you have: Experience with open-source technologies and communities. Conceptual understanding of cron or other automated scheduler tools. Experience working with noSQL and non-structured data. Experience building donor-facing products. Experience with the CRM we use, CiviCRM and our email marketing system, Acoustic. Experience working in a global organization that has a distributed workforce. Comfort and experience in a dynamic and mission-driven organization. Fluency in a language other than English. About the Wikimedia Foundation The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge, and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge freely. We host Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive.  The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable, not-for-profit organization that relies on donations. We receive donations from millions of individuals around the world, with an average donation of about $15. We also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. The Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA. As an equal opportunity employer, the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace. We encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race, traits historically associated with race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics. The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based 40+ countries * . Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive, equitable, and consistent with our values and culture. The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$ 109,047 to US$ 169,455  with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living in the location, being the determinants of the offered pay. For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire. We neither ask for nor take into consideration the salary history of applicants. 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