Scholarship Program Admin, Seasonal 2-Month (Aug-Sept 2024)

Founded in 1975, The San Diego Foundation is a broad-purpose community foundation helping individuals, families and organizations carry out their charitable plans, with the common goal of improving the quality of life in the greater San Diego region, now and for generations to come. For additional information, please visit the San Diego Foundation at www.sdfoundation.org.

Summary of Scholarships Program: The San Diego Foundation Community Scholarship Program was established in 1997 with 21 funds and in its first year awarded 35 scholarships. Today, the program awards nearly 1,000 scholarships a year and is the largest provider of scholarships in San Diego outside of the universities, having granted more than $49M to thousands of students throughout the past 27 years. Our strategies and team goals reflect multiple priorities: addressing needs of San Diego students, stewarding our actively involved donors, generating new funds, and ultimately building a best-in-class scholarship program.  As we continue to grow and adapt to community needs, we recognize and champion the importance of advancing educational equity and do so by collectively focusing our efforts on first-generation, low-income and underrepresented students. 

Summary of Position: The Scholarship Program Admin, Seasonal will assist the scholarships team during the 2024-25 scholarship awards season during August and September. Duties will include:

• Updating and auditing scholarship recipient information into application platform and auditing 1000+ installments
• Sending out thank-you video requests, screening videos and prepping them to be sent to donors (~700-800 ThankView Videos)
• Working with scholarships Administrator on creating and sending messaging to recipients as needed
• Respond to student inquiries via email
• Maintain and update award renewal spreadsheet
• Update outreach contact spreadsheet

Supervisor: Manager of Community Scholarships

Please note this is a one-time, 2-month seasonal position, full time from the dates of July 29, 2024 to September 27, 2024.

Requirements

• Commitment to San Diego Foundation mission and vision
• A self-starter who can work autonomously
• Excellent database management skills
• Able to manage multiple projects at one time
• Exceptional customer-service skills
• Must enjoy working in a fast-paced team environment
• Good problem-solving skills
• Professionalism, candor, grace and a sense of humor under pressure
• Laser attention to detail with student payments
• 1 year of administrative experience

Benefits

Pay: $24.00 per hour; Hourly, nonexempt seasonal temp position (2 months: August and September 2024)

San Diego Foundation is committed to practices that promote pay equity and transparency. Actual offers will be reflective of qualifications, skills and experience, internal equity, alignment with market data, among other relevant factors.

• Supportive, inclusive company culture; awarded Top Workplace by the San Diego Union Tribune 4 years in a row
• This seasonal, temporary position is not benefits-eligible