City Year Greater Boston (CYGB) is pleased to welcome Aura Guir as Director of Development Operations. In her new role, Aura will be responsible for supporting strategic and accountable decision-making, providing the Development team with accurate data in timely and relevant reports and making effective use of available tools in support of City Year Greater Boston’s mission.
Reporting to the Managing Director of Development, Aura will work closely with the Executive and Managing Directors to set strategy and achieve team and site goals. Aura will spend time managing and ensuring accuracy and integrity of City Year Greater Boston’s donor database and leading the Development team to deepen their use and understanding of donor database. She will also lead efforts to plan and track revenue generation by creating dashboards, reports and trackers to support fundraising efforts that are regularly reviewed with the Development team and Executive Director as well as collaborate with the national office to manage annual fund direct mail and online giving program to grow and diversify City Year Greater Boston’s donor base.
Aura brings a deep and comprehensive understanding of development operations with over 20 years of experience. She most recently worked as Associate Director of Gift Compliance for Boston Children’s Hospital Trust, where she spearheaded specialized projects aimed at optimizing systems and departmental efficiencies in gift processing including establish crucial connections with hospital finance for seamless cash reconciliation processes, overseeing processing and reporting of all gift types, and maintaining meticulous records and compliance. Aura is happy to be joining the City Year Greater Boston team and is excited to see the impacts her development systems expertise will bring to the organization.
About City Year Greater Boston
For more than thirty years, City Year Greater Boston has delivered a powerful double bottom line: improved outcomes for students in under-resourced schools and the cultivation of the next generation of leaders through their alumni. City Year is an AmeriCorps program – a national network of programs that engages thousands of members in service to meet critical needs across the country. City Year AmeriCorps members serve in systemically under-resourced schools as student success coaches—full-time, near-peer tutors, mentors, and role models who are uniquely positioned and trained to support students’ social, emotional, and academic growth, while helping to create engaging learning environments. This work, to support student and school success, helps to advance educational equity and creates more opportunity for everyone.
