Foundation Project Coordinator

About the role

The Foundation Project Coordinator will coordinate a wide range of tasks, projects, and ongoing initiatives that ensure the success of the Division of Advancement and the MWSU Foundation.

Responsibilities

• Planning and executing complex on- and off-campus special events;
• Donor engagement and stewardship programs;
• Documentation and data management initiatives;
• Handling administrative functions within the Division of Advancement, including preparing financial documents and monitoring budgets;
• Advancing and reporting on all assigned projects;
• Ensuring each is staying on time, on budget, and at a level of quality to perform as intended;
• Regularly reporting and communicating the status and outcomes of all projects to leaders and stakeholders;
• Acting on direction from senior staff, exercising significant autonomy regarding how to allocate available time and resources to complete each project, and working closely with top donors, key volunteers, external partner organizations, campus leaders, and external vendors of services, events spaces, catering, collateral materials, and more.

Requirements

• A dynamic self-starter, talented and positive communicator and collaborator;
• A strategic thinker with high attention to detail;
• Comfortable successfully balancing multiple high-priority projects;
• Professional, poised, and acting with considerable discretion.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, and One (1) year of coordinating programs or office operations, or an equivalent combination of training and experience to successfully perform the duties of the position.
• Three (3) years of successful professional office management, project management, event management, or marketing, or a PMP (project management professional) certification.