Part-Time Project Manager / Fundraising Consultant (Contract)

Role Summary

The Part-Time Project Manager / Consultant is a contract-based role supporting Seven Cranes Consulting’s client engagements on a part-time, flexible basis. This position combines day-to-day project management with hands-on fundraising consulting and systems implementation. This role is designed for an independent contractor who thrives in a structured but flexible consulting environment and is comfortable balancing coordination, documentation, data management, and execution across multiple workstreams. This role is for you if you thrive on operationalizing strategies and plans. Success in the role means client projects stay on track and within scope; deliverables are timely, clear, practical, and client-ready; and you are increasingly proactive, observant, and creative with time in the role.

About Seven Cranes Consulting

In many Asian cultures, the crane has come to symbolize longevity and good fortune. Origami paper cranes (or senbazuru) are a Japanese symbol of hope and peace. A legend in Japan says anyone who unfolds one thousand paper cranes will be granted a wish. At temples throughout the country, people leave strings of senbazuru behind as a prayer. The cranes are left exposed to the elements, slowly becoming tattered and dissolving as symbolically, the wish is released. 

So many nonprofits struggle to see a path to longevity when constantly under-resourced. At Seven Cranes Consulting, our mascot is more than a wish. We aspire to get clients and their teams to a level at which they can soar confidently into their future with the wind at their tail. As their fundraising consulting and recruiting partners, we don’t tell clients what to do; we teach them how to do it. We deliver work that is thoughtful, implementable, and sustainable. Our goal is to go from essential to unnecessary by equipping nonprofit clients with proven methods, tools, and experienced teams.

Engagement Structure

• Contract position (1099)

• Part-time commitment, typically two to three days per week (flexible based on project load)

• Project-based assignments with clearly defined scopes and timelines

• Remote, with occasional online client meetings during business hours

• Contractor may support multiple client engagements simultaneously

Key Responsibilities

Project Management & Client Coordination

• Manage day-to-day project operations for assigned client engagements

• Develop and maintain project plans, timelines, and work plans

• Track milestones, deliverables, risks, and dependencies, proactively flagging scope changes, risks, or timeline issues

• Schedule and facilitate client meetings and working sessions, including preparing agendas, meeting notes, action items, and follow-ups

• Serve as a consistent point of contact for client coordination

• Coordinate tasks across internal consultants or subcontractors as needed

• Maintain shared project documentation and templates

• Proofread and ensure deliverables meet Seven Cranes' quality and consistency standards

• Support the continuous improvement of Seven Cranes workflows and tools

Fundraising Consulting & Systems Implementation

• Build and maintain CRM queries, reports, dashboards, and exports to support development infrastructure and inform evidence-based fundraising strategy

• Assist with data audits, cleanup, and quality control

• Develop work plans and materials for campaign planning studies and development assessments

• Draft high-impact client-facing presentations, materials, and progress reports

• Draft SOPs, policies, templates, data standards, and user guides, and develop and conduct trainings for client implementation of recommendations

• Maintain clear, client-ready documentation and implementation notes

• Support workshops, client training sessions, and knowledge transfer

• And much more, depending on your experience in development and communications

Qualifications & Skills

• Experience in nonprofits, fundraising operations, consulting, or project management

• Strong organizational, project management, and time-management skills

• Excellent written communication and documentation ability

• Close attention to detail and follow-through

• Excellent quantitative analytical skills and comfort working with Excel, data, systems, and structured processes

• Experience with fundraising CRMs (especially Raiser’s Edge NXT) preferred

• Ability to independently manage multiple workstreams and proactively initiate activities to maintain deadlines in a part-time consulting context

Other Details

• Location: Remote

• Pay: Commensurate with experience, scope of work, and client budget

To apply: Please submit a resume (no cover letter needed) and the URL to your LinkedIn profile to amanda@sevencranesconsulting.com. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis in alignment with project team needs.