Community Engagement Officer

Specific Duties

• Participate in and serve as a model for SVdP’s Culture of Philanthropy
• Develop and manage various individual, group, and organizational donor and volunteer relationships to achieve individual, department and organizational goals
• Model gold star volunteer engagement, ensuring volunteers feel welcomed and appreciated and are invited to participate with SVdP in additional ways (i.e., drives, financial donations, etc.)
• Recruit volunteers, understand their interests, connect them to opportunities at SVdP aligned with their interests
• Manage and effectively steward relationships with volunteers, donors and corporate partners in partnership with members of the Development team
• Regularly, professionally, graciously communicate with volunteers and volunteer prospects (i.e., writing, calling, and meeting with)
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to successfully steward and express gratitude to supporters
• Represent the organization in meetings with community partners
• Track and record data and communications in Salesforce
• Execute and support community events
• Responsible for program development in specialty areas and managing initiatives in collaboration with team members

Key Skills/Abilities

• Interdepartmental collaboration and community outreach
• Commitment to, and passion for, the organization’s faith-inspired mission of serving those in need
• Ability to/interest in collaboration as a way of working: with team members, interdepartmentally, externally
• Creative and strategic thinker; a person who is capable of finding ways to accomplish the goals of volunteers/donors, within the context of organizational priorities
• Positive, collaborative, service-oriented attitude
• Hard-working, goal-oriented self-starter
• Ability to set and work towards goals, in collaboration with SVdP leadership
• Able to use both independent judgment as well as collaboration to make decisions