Company Overview

Improve Your Tomorrow, Inc. (IYT) is a college access and completion organization focused on increasing the number of young men of color to attend and graduate from colleges and universities. IYT’s vision is a nation where young men of color are overrepresented in higher education, underrepresented in the criminal justice system and are leaders in their communities. IYT is an AmeriCorps partner organization serving over 3,500 members across more than 60 sites in Sacramento County, Humboldt County, Yolo County, Central Valley, Bay Area and college students across the nation. 

Position Overview:

Reporting to the Sr. Director of Development, the Development Coordinator serves as the backbone support for the Development team’s operations by overseeing administrative tasks and procedures to managing IYT’s donor relationships. The Development Coordinator will manage the donor database and the donor acknowledgement process. 

Responsibilities:

• Manage the timely acknowledgment of gifts and assure that all types of donations (cash, pledges, matching gifts, and planned gifts) are appropriately documented. 
• Prepare research and materials on prospective donors. 
• Assist with the writing and editing of appeals, acknowledgments, donor news, reports, and proposals. 
• Assist in special projects and donor events, including the annual fund.
• Assist in the calendaring and coordination of both internal and external development meetings (scheduling, note taking, follow up and action items).
• Manage development of Salesforce application. 
• Work in partnership with the Salesforce team to assist with training and maintaining up-to-date donor records.
• Ensure data integrity through accurate data entry and ongoing clean-up efforts.
• Coordinate the production and distribution of recurring donor communications. Maintain both physical and digital documentation to include, but not limited to, development processes, procedures, and donor records (ex. development handbook, forms, email templates etc).
• Coordinate updates with the grant writing team. 
• Assist with coordinating projects between Board and Development.
• Perform all other duties as assigned by supervisor or manager. 

Desired Qualifications

• Believe in the mission, vision, and values of IYT
• Knows and can successfully articulate the organization and program mission, vision, and values to other stakeholders and collaborators
• Ability to communicate well with internal and external stakeholders while maintaining confidentiality
• Excellent customer service skills
• Attention to detail, with an ability to spot numerical errors 
• Ability to collaborate and work well with others 
• Ability to self-motivate to achieve results
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize work, meet deadlines, and produce quality results 
• Preferred experience working in a nonprofit, foundation, or public agency

• One year of events management experience
• One year of related office experience is required
• Familiarity with Salesforce, and Microsoft Suite applications (preferred but not required)

Education

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution or equivalent work experience.

Schedule

Monday-Friday, 8:30am-5pm, some weekends, evenings and organization-wide events are required.

Location: This position must be based in Sacramento, Central Valley or the Bay Area (temporarily remote).

Compensation

This is a full-time, exempt position with a salary range of $66,560 - $70,000 per year commensurate with experience. Benefits include vision, health, dental, 403(b) retirement with 3% employer match after one year of employment, 2 weeks of accrued paid vacation, and up to 3 weeks paid time off for annual school breaks per the approval of the organization. 

Requirement

Clearance from background checks is required for employment, with fingerprinting expense covered by employer.

IYT provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.