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Development analyst visa sponsorship jobs in Washington draw from the state's dense concentration of technology companies, financial institutions, and government contractors. Microsoft, Amazon, and Boeing actively sponsor international analysts, while Seattle's urban core and the Eastside corridor host the highest volume of openings. Public agencies and research universities also generate consistent demand.
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12
Work Model:
Hybrid Work Eligible
Seattle University will be one of the most innovative and progressive Jesuit and Catholic universities in the world, educating with excellence at the undergraduate, graduate, and professional levels. We embrace an intersectional framework for defining diversity in its broadest sense, including differences in gender, gender identity, race, ethnicity, generational history, culture, socioeconomic class, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship status, political perspectives, geographic origin and physical ability. Seattle University strives to be a welcome, open and safe campus climate for all who learn, live and work at Seattle University.
Seattle University's Core Competencies
Effective Team Collaboration: Works harmoniously with others towards a common goal, leveraging individual strengths to achieve shared objectives.
Emotionally Intelligent Communication: Engages in a skillful exchange of information, thoughts, and feelings, verbally and non-verbally.
Ethics and Integrity: Demonstrates an unwavering commitment to honesty, professionalism, and alignment with our Jesuit mission in all actions and decisions.
Flexibility and Innovation: Embraces change, approaching problems with curiosity adaptability, and is committed to making a positive impact.
Mindful Inclusion: Fosters mindful inclusion by consciously creating a workplace that celebrates differences, embraces cultural humility, and empowers uniqueness.
Outcomes-Driven Orientation: Sets clear objectives, pursues excellence, and delivers measurable outcomes while upholding Jesuit Catholic values.
Job Description Summary
Reporting to the Director of Prospect Development, the Prospect Development Analyst supports Seattle University’s prospect research, identification, and portfolio management programs by providing data-driven analysis and strategic insights that strengthen the University’s fundraising pipeline.
The Analyst partners closely with major gift development officers and Advancement leadership to identify, evaluate, and prioritize prospective donors. This role conducts prospect research, analyzes wealth and engagement data, and develops actionable intelligence that informs fundraising strategies and portfolio management decisions.
As part of the Prospect Development team, the Analyst contributes to building and maintaining a sustainable pipeline of philanthropic prospects. Through rigorous analysis, proactive prospect identification, and collaboration with development officers, this position helps ensure that Seattle University’s fundraising efforts are informed by high-quality data, strategic insight, and effective prospect management practices.
Position Description:
Portfolio Management
- Serve as primary liaison to a group of major gift development officers to assess and meet their needs for discovery prospects, portfolio balance and time management.
- Orient development officers to research and relationship management policies and system procedures in the database; interpret the policies as needed.
- Interpret relationship management data for fundraisers compared to baselines, in regular meetings; troubleshoot ways for fundraisers to better capture their activity.
- Use software (Excel, Tableau, Power BI) to provide descriptive statistics of assigned gift officers prospect pools and portfolios in order to help with prioritizing prospects relative to specific fundraising needs.
- Recommend and assign new prospects to appropriate fundraisers/UA leadership, for discovery and cultivation, balancing portfolios by various data points as fits each constituency.
- Establish ways to monitor and seek feedback to ensure gift officers receive appropriate support and understand uses of prospect development data.
Prospect Identification and Analysis
- Work as an internal consultant to meet prospect identification goals for each assigned gift officer by initiating, performing and evaluating results of a variety of prospect identification projects that align with portfolio needs.
- Advise development officers on use of predictive modeling and wealth screening data.
- Design systematic, as well as one-time projects, to qualify and quantify segments of the university’s prospect pool for multiple engagement purposes and campaign priorities, through the use of screenings, predictive models, and querying the database.
- Communicate clearly the process and results of data analysis projects in a variety of formats that support emerging cultivation strategies.
- Maintain an active and thorough knowledge of key university constituencies and institutional priorities.
Research of Identified Potential Donors
- Create appropriate, timely, strategic briefings on top prospects for UA and University leadership and strategy sessions. Includes analyses of donor gift capacity, philanthropic motivation/interests, timing of gift, engagement with SU, and factors affecting wealth as well as identifying what critical information may be missing.
- Collaborate with colleagues to identify possible networks and synthesize pertinent relationship data for each level of research, using visual displays as appropriate.
- Participate actively in advancement staff meetings by proactively offering relevant research findings, industry analyses and strategic recommendations.
Data Management
- Identify and recommend process improvements and new sources of data that can better evaluate prospect pools/constituencies, becoming a partner in preserving and enhancing the quality of information in the database.
- Assess the quality, reliability, and accuracy of current and emerging research tools and resources, understanding the emerging tools that can reveal prospect interests, relationships and networks.
- Maintain an active role in professional research/relationship management networks, and develop and maintain familiarity with fundraising best practices, in order to present research in strategic and relevant ways and to contribute to the growth of the prospect development team as internal knowledge providers.
- Act as internal consultant to UA to help define prospect analytics partnership opportunities.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- One to three years of experience in prospect research, advancement services, development, analytics, or a related field.
- Understanding of the principles of fundraising and philanthropy, preferably in a higher education setting.
- Strong proficiency working with relational databases and data analysis tools.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze and synthesize complex information from multiple sources and translate findings into clear written reports, visualizations, and presentations.
- Strong research and computing skills, including proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and experience using online research tools, databases, and search engines.
- Excellent organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences across multiple levels of the organization.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, respond to urgent requests, and adapt to changing work demands while maintaining attention to detail.
- Demonstrated curiosity and initiative with a commitment to continuous learning, process improvement, and applying insights in innovative ways.
- Commitment to maintain strict confidentiality and exercise sound judgment consistent with prospect research standards and Seattle University’s mission and values.
Preferred Qualifications
- 3-5 years of experience working in prospect research or relationship management, with proven ability to recognize and identify patterns of giving, propensity, and relationships for prospect pool development.
- Advanced research skills: detailed knowledge and extensive use of online reference and information systems, libraries, data screening products and other reference tools. Mastery of all aspects of real property research and SEC data analysis.
- Advanced skills in Excel and enterprise fundraising CRMs, such as Raisers Edge NXT.
- Familiarity with data management principles and basic statistics; understanding of screening strategies and methods, including data mining, segmenting and analytics.
- Advanced knowledge of predictive modeling, wealth screening tools, and portfolio management strategy.
- Technical skills to work with programmers and vendors on special data enhancement and systems projects.
Compensation at a Glance
$65,000 - $72,000
Application Instructions
Please attach a cover letter with your resume when applying. Job postings are open until filled, unless otherwise specified.
Seattle University has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what the University may pay for the position at the time of posting. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal salary equity considerations, and available market information, and not based on a candidate’s gender or any other protected status.
Your total compensation goes beyond the number on your paycheck. Seattle University provides generous leave, health plans, and retirement contributions that add to your total compensation package.
Benefits at a Glance
Consistent with its fundamental Jesuit values, Seattle University offers a wide range of benefits designed to care for the whole person. Benefits are available to eligible employees working at an FTE of 0.53 or greater. Eligible employees may choose from three medical plans, as well as dental and vision insurance programs. Protect your income with life, short- and long-term disability coverage. Plan for your future with up to a 10% employer contribution toward retirement benefits, comprised of a 5% nonelective employer contribution and an additional dollar-for-dollar match of your voluntary contributions, up to a maximum of 5%.
Eligible employees may also take advantage of 100% paid tuition benefits for themselves and eligible dependents, a subsidized transportation benefit, a wellness program with free access to an on-site fitness facility, and a wide variety of campus events. Enjoy a generous holiday schedule, including a paid December holiday break closure, vacation and paid sick leave, and paid community service leave.
Positions designated as hybrid eligible may offer the opportunity for a hybrid work schedule after successful completion of an introductory period of 3–6 months. In these cases, the role typically begins fully on campus to support onboarding and training, with the potential to transition to a hybrid arrangement thereafter.
Positions designated as on-site are not eligible for hybrid work and are expected to remain fully on campus.
All flexible work arrangements are subject to periodic review and may be modified or discontinued at any time at the university’s discretion.
Months Per Year:
12
Work Model:
Hybrid Work Eligible
Seattle University will be one of the most innovative and progressive Jesuit and Catholic universities in the world, educating with excellence at the undergraduate, graduate, and professional levels. We embrace an intersectional framework for defining diversity in its broadest sense, including differences in gender, gender identity, race, ethnicity, generational history, culture, socioeconomic class, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship status, political perspectives, geographic origin and physical ability. Seattle University strives to be a welcome, open and safe campus climate for all who learn, live and work at Seattle University.
Seattle University's Core Competencies
Effective Team Collaboration: Works harmoniously with others towards a common goal, leveraging individual strengths to achieve shared objectives.
Emotionally Intelligent Communication: Engages in a skillful exchange of information, thoughts, and feelings, verbally and non-verbally.
Ethics and Integrity: Demonstrates an unwavering commitment to honesty, professionalism, and alignment with our Jesuit mission in all actions and decisions.
Flexibility and Innovation: Embraces change, approaching problems with curiosity adaptability, and is committed to making a positive impact.
Mindful Inclusion: Fosters mindful inclusion by consciously creating a workplace that celebrates differences, embraces cultural humility, and empowers uniqueness.
Outcomes-Driven Orientation: Sets clear objectives, pursues excellence, and delivers measurable outcomes while upholding Jesuit Catholic values.
Job Description Summary
Reporting to the Director of Prospect Development, the Prospect Development Analyst supports Seattle University’s prospect research, identification, and portfolio management programs by providing data-driven analysis and strategic insights that strengthen the University’s fundraising pipeline.
The Analyst partners closely with major gift development officers and Advancement leadership to identify, evaluate, and prioritize prospective donors. This role conducts prospect research, analyzes wealth and engagement data, and develops actionable intelligence that informs fundraising strategies and portfolio management decisions.
As part of the Prospect Development team, the Analyst contributes to building and maintaining a sustainable pipeline of philanthropic prospects. Through rigorous analysis, proactive prospect identification, and collaboration with development officers, this position helps ensure that Seattle University’s fundraising efforts are informed by high-quality data, strategic insight, and effective prospect management practices.
Position Description:
Portfolio Management
- Serve as primary liaison to a group of major gift development officers to assess and meet their needs for discovery prospects, portfolio balance and time management.
- Orient development officers to research and relationship management policies and system procedures in the database; interpret the policies as needed.
- Interpret relationship management data for fundraisers compared to baselines, in regular meetings; troubleshoot ways for fundraisers to better capture their activity.
- Use software (Excel, Tableau, Power BI) to provide descriptive statistics of assigned gift officers prospect pools and portfolios in order to help with prioritizing prospects relative to specific fundraising needs.
- Recommend and assign new prospects to appropriate fundraisers/UA leadership, for discovery and cultivation, balancing portfolios by various data points as fits each constituency.
- Establish ways to monitor and seek feedback to ensure gift officers receive appropriate support and understand uses of prospect development data.
Prospect Identification and Analysis
- Work as an internal consultant to meet prospect identification goals for each assigned gift officer by initiating, performing and evaluating results of a variety of prospect identification projects that align with portfolio needs.
- Advise development officers on use of predictive modeling and wealth screening data.
- Design systematic, as well as one-time projects, to qualify and quantify segments of the university’s prospect pool for multiple engagement purposes and campaign priorities, through the use of screenings, predictive models, and querying the database.
- Communicate clearly the process and results of data analysis projects in a variety of formats that support emerging cultivation strategies.
- Maintain an active and thorough knowledge of key university constituencies and institutional priorities.
Research of Identified Potential Donors
- Create appropriate, timely, strategic briefings on top prospects for UA and University leadership and strategy sessions. Includes analyses of donor gift capacity, philanthropic motivation/interests, timing of gift, engagement with SU, and factors affecting wealth as well as identifying what critical information may be missing.
- Collaborate with colleagues to identify possible networks and synthesize pertinent relationship data for each level of research, using visual displays as appropriate.
- Participate actively in advancement staff meetings by proactively offering relevant research findings, industry analyses and strategic recommendations.
Data Management
- Identify and recommend process improvements and new sources of data that can better evaluate prospect pools/constituencies, becoming a partner in preserving and enhancing the quality of information in the database.
- Assess the quality, reliability, and accuracy of current and emerging research tools and resources, understanding the emerging tools that can reveal prospect interests, relationships and networks.
- Maintain an active role in professional research/relationship management networks, and develop and maintain familiarity with fundraising best practices, in order to present research in strategic and relevant ways and to contribute to the growth of the prospect development team as internal knowledge providers.
- Act as internal consultant to UA to help define prospect analytics partnership opportunities.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- One to three years of experience in prospect research, advancement services, development, analytics, or a related field.
- Understanding of the principles of fundraising and philanthropy, preferably in a higher education setting.
- Strong proficiency working with relational databases and data analysis tools.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze and synthesize complex information from multiple sources and translate findings into clear written reports, visualizations, and presentations.
- Strong research and computing skills, including proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and experience using online research tools, databases, and search engines.
- Excellent organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences across multiple levels of the organization.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, respond to urgent requests, and adapt to changing work demands while maintaining attention to detail.
- Demonstrated curiosity and initiative with a commitment to continuous learning, process improvement, and applying insights in innovative ways.
- Commitment to maintain strict confidentiality and exercise sound judgment consistent with prospect research standards and Seattle University’s mission and values.
Preferred Qualifications
- 3-5 years of experience working in prospect research or relationship management, with proven ability to recognize and identify patterns of giving, propensity, and relationships for prospect pool development.
- Advanced research skills: detailed knowledge and extensive use of online reference and information systems, libraries, data screening products and other reference tools. Mastery of all aspects of real property research and SEC data analysis.
- Advanced skills in Excel and enterprise fundraising CRMs, such as Raisers Edge NXT.
- Familiarity with data management principles and basic statistics; understanding of screening strategies and methods, including data mining, segmenting and analytics.
- Advanced knowledge of predictive modeling, wealth screening tools, and portfolio management strategy.
- Technical skills to work with programmers and vendors on special data enhancement and systems projects.
Compensation at a Glance
$65,000 - $72,000
Application Instructions
Please attach a cover letter with your resume when applying. Job postings are open until filled, unless otherwise specified.
Seattle University has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what the University may pay for the position at the time of posting. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal salary equity considerations, and available market information, and not based on a candidate’s gender or any other protected status.
Your total compensation goes beyond the number on your paycheck. Seattle University provides generous leave, health plans, and retirement contributions that add to your total compensation package.
Benefits at a Glance
Consistent with its fundamental Jesuit values, Seattle University offers a wide range of benefits designed to care for the whole person. Benefits are available to eligible employees working at an FTE of 0.53 or greater. Eligible employees may choose from three medical plans, as well as dental and vision insurance programs. Protect your income with life, short- and long-term disability coverage. Plan for your future with up to a 10% employer contribution toward retirement benefits, comprised of a 5% nonelective employer contribution and an additional dollar-for-dollar match of your voluntary contributions, up to a maximum of 5%.
Eligible employees may also take advantage of 100% paid tuition benefits for themselves and eligible dependents, a subsidized transportation benefit, a wellness program with free access to an on-site fitness facility, and a wide variety of campus events. Enjoy a generous holiday schedule, including a paid December holiday break closure, vacation and paid sick leave, and paid community service leave.
Positions designated as hybrid eligible may offer the opportunity for a hybrid work schedule after successful completion of an introductory period of 3–6 months. In these cases, the role typically begins fully on campus to support onboarding and training, with the potential to transition to a hybrid arrangement thereafter.
Positions designated as on-site are not eligible for hybrid work and are expected to remain fully on campus.
All flexible work arrangements are subject to periodic review and may be modified or discontinued at any time at the university’s discretion.
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Which companies sponsor visas for development analysts in Washington?
Washington's largest visa sponsors for development analysts include Microsoft, Amazon, and Boeing, all of which file Labor Condition Applications regularly for analyst-level roles. Financial institutions such as Washington Federal and regional bank holding companies also sponsor, as do government contractors concentrated around the Puget Sound naval corridor. Consulting firms with Seattle offices, including national practices, round out the sponsoring employer pool.
Which visa types realistically fit development analyst roles in Washington?
The H-1B visa is the most common path, covering development analyst roles that require a bachelor's degree in a directly related field such as finance, economics, or business analytics. The H-1B is subject to an annual cap and selection process. Candidates from Australia may qualify for the E-3 visa, which requires an LCA and a specialty occupation but has no lottery. F-1 students may use OPT for up to 12 months of post-graduation work. EB-2 and EB-3 green card categories apply for longer-term sponsorship.
Which cities in Washington have the most development analyst sponsorship jobs?
Seattle accounts for the largest share of development analyst sponsorship activity in Washington, driven by its concentration of technology headquarters and financial services firms. Bellevue and Redmond on the Eastside corridor generate substantial volume through Microsoft's campuses and surrounding vendor ecosystem. Tacoma and Olympia contribute a smaller but steady pipeline through government agencies, defense contractors, and state-level financial institutions.
How to find development analyst visa sponsorship jobs in Washington?
Migrate Mate lists Washington development analyst roles specifically at employers with verified sponsorship history, so you can search without filtering through companies that don't file for analyst positions. The platform covers both technology-sector employers in the Seattle metro and financial institutions operating across the state. Searching by city or employer type lets you narrow results to the sub-sectors where sponsorship activity is most concentrated for this role.
Are there state-specific factors that affect development analyst sponsorship in Washington?
Washington has no state income tax, which affects how employers calculate prevailing wage compliance relative to other states, and may influence offer structuring for sponsored roles. The University of Washington and Washington State University supply a steady pipeline of analysts on OPT, making Seattle-area employers familiar with F-1 work authorization. Washington's tech-heavy economy also means many development analyst roles sit within product and engineering organizations rather than standalone finance departments, which can affect how employers define the specialty occupation requirement.
What is the prevailing wage for sponsored development analyst jobs in Washington?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.