Communities in Schools Development and Communications Coordinator

General Description

The Communities in Schools (CIS) Development and Communications Coordinator supports fundraising and communications. This role involves advancing CIS's fund development, marketing campaigns, and donor cultivation and retention efforts.

Job Description

• Develops and implements a comprehensive annual communications plan
• Organizes, catalogs, and maintains media coverage, media archives, and photo library
• Produces content for social media platforms, schedules posts, and tracks analytics to improve engagement
• Sends monthly eNewsletter to stakeholders, highlighting key achievements, upcoming events, and relevant information
• Identifies grant opportunities and prepares and submits grant proposals as needed
• Updates and maintains website content with current news, events, and other relevant information
• Affords logistical, marketing, and volunteer support for organizational fundraising events
• Supports the execution of development and communications related meetings
• Supports the Development Specialist with donor cultivation, implementing stewardship strategies, and monitoring retention rates to develop long-term engagement strategies
• Designs communications collateral, such as brochures, flyers, and presentations
• Ensures donor records are current and prepares and sends acknowledgements to donors
• Performs regular database maintenance and clean-up to ensure data integrity and accessibility
• Takes meeting minutes for development and communication related meetings
• Participates in donor prospecting to solicit new funding opportunities
• Performs other duties as assigned

Budgetary Responsibility

N/A

Work Direction/Supervision

N/A

Decision Making

Performs work under the direction of the CIS Coordinator within the policy boundaries and established objectives and interprets policy on own initiative as necessary.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here represent those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, reach with hands and arms, handle paper files, records, computer and equipment controls; talk and hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit and drive. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and depth perception.

Work Environment

The employee regularly works in an office environment, with some time out of the office to visit CIS of Chesterfield school sites and participate in work-related events and meetings. The noise level is quiet to moderate.

Qualifications

• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with donors, community representatives, schools, students, families, and the general public
• Proficiency in Microsoft & Google applications, a donor database management system such as Network For Good, Canva, and Wordpress website management
• Experience with social media campaign development, crafting newsletters, and artistic/creative interests
• Hightly organized, with strong communication, interpersonal, and writing skills, with a keen attention to detail
• Demonstrated sound judgment and decision-making skills, with sensitivity to the nature of work performed

Additional Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree and 3 - 5 years experience is preferred, or an equivalent combination of education and demonstrated related experience
• Prior experience with donor database systems is preferred