Community Engagement and Fundraising Coordinator

Job Title: Community Outreach Coordinator

Job Type: Full-time

- Early morning meetings, on-call evenings for events and volunteer calls

- Saturday, events throughout the year, on-call for volunteers

- Sunday, HIA church days throughout the year, Sunday night program meeting from 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm, minimum attendance twice a month

Salary: Negotiable based on experience

Job Brief:

The Community Outreach Coordinator will be responsible for sourcing, establishing, and maintaining lasting relationships within the community to organize events, raise funding, and secure volunteering for the sober recovery program. They will ensure a streamlined donor/volunteer engagement process is experienced for those engaging with the organization.

Benefits:

• Medical insurance (w/ company contribution)
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Company-paid life insurance
• Company-paid long-term disability
• Voluntary life insurance
• Voluntary short-term disability
• Paid time off
• Health savings account
• Flexible spending account
• Dependent care flexible spending account (w/ dollar-for-dollar match)
• 401(k) (Roth/traditional) w/ up to 6% company match

Responsibilities:

• Maintain a high level of relationship accountability of the organization's current donor portfolio.
• Research new financial donor organizations, businesses, and individuals.
• Prepare and implement a plan for cultivating and soliciting a portfolio of new and existing donors in local city to provide high-level touchpoints that cater to donors while reinforcing the organization's impact.
• Explore potential new prospect opportunities in partnership with the leadership team and through making new connections with philanthropy, business, and foundation networks.
• Conduct virtual and in-person visits and other high-level interactions with donors and prospects, documenting actions
• Participate actively in donor strategy meetings
• Collaborate with internal and external partners on donor materials.
• Lead solicitation efforts with communication to new and existing donors.
• Develop and implement events to engage donors in new ways.
• Host several fundraiser events yearly including invites, logging data in the event database, speaking at events, raising funding, and developing relationships with attendees. 
• Collaborate with events teams, board members, leadership team, and volunteer groups to implement donor cultivation and stewardship events when appropriate; identify, recruit, and support hosts for these events.
• Foster a collaborative and enjoyable work environment.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date donor records, interactions, and communications in the CRM database.
• Engage in fundraising activities/events to achieve goals set by the Executive Team including prospecting, cultivation, and stewardship of of donors
• Facilitate new and ongoing partnerships and opportunities with churches and other agencies
• Create new volunteer opportunities and work with individuals to match their skills and talents with relevant tasks.
• Organize Sunday night meetings, including booking speakers, meals, set-up, tear-down, expressing gratitude, and following up.
• Handle incoming and outgoing correspondence, including emails, mail, and packages.
• Properly thank all volunteers and donors.
• Ability to effectively communicate and establish rapport with multiple teams and modes of communication across locations to suit differing audiences.
• Assist in coordinating program residents for volunteering and recruiting activities.
• Post updates and information on social media.

Requirements:

• Passion for the organization and its mission.
• Willingness to work evenings and weekends as needed.
• Cold call individuals, businesses
• Natural charisma and leadership skills with the ability to inspire and motivate groups of people. 
• Speak on stage while following a script
• Must be a self-starter 
• Must know and be willing to accept the challenges of remote responsibility/management and the self-accountability that is required.
• Be willing and able to take consistent direction.
• Must be able to learn, adapt to and adhere to Process/Procedure
• Enthusiasm for teaching others how to serve and enjoy leading and working with a team.
• Positive and professional attitude. 
• Reliability, responsibility, and availability.
• Self-motivation and forward-thinking.
• Strong organizational and multitasking skills.
• Ability to find local community resources and funding.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Willingness and ability to travel (in and out of state) during event seasons.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 1 year of public speaking, sales, or public relations experience.
• Ability to work independently.
• Physical ability to perform tasks such as bending, squatting, and lifting up to 30 pounds.

Bonus Qualifications:

• Prior experience in a fast-scaling organization.
• Familiarity with Google Suite and Dazos.
• Experience in meeting and event planning.

Note: This job description is a general outline of the duties and responsibilities expected for this position. It is not exhaustive, and additional tasks may be assigned as needed.