Positions Available: Development & Community Affairs Coordinator
Job Status: Exempt / Full Time
Location: CIS Central Office (601 E. Fifth St., Charlotte, NC)
SaPosting Date: February 1, 2012
Primary Function:
Develop and cultivate community and financial support for Communities In Schools through various special projects, campaigns and events and other advancement-related activities. Job will occasionally require some week night or weekend event work.
Major Areas of Responsibility:
- Primarily responsible for project-managing, supporting, and executing special events, i.e., coordinating vendors, working with VP on events: development themes, sponsorship solicitations, cultivation of key contacts
- Work on special event-related tactics: fundraisers, donor relations, prospect cultiivation, and Development Office activities suporting students
- Project-manages and administers donor recognition for special events
- Participates in networking, agency fairs, and other advancement-related functions
- Develops effective project plans with corresponding timelines for fundraising event/activity and executing to completion or delivery
- Captures and records prospect and existing donor information in Raiser's Edge software, as it relates to special events and other fundraising activities to help build, support and quantify successful donor solicitation, stewardship, and cultivation strategies
- Support, monitor, achieve fundraising total goals
- Explore/coordinate extended learning opportunitites for identified students engaged in the program
- Project manage and assist in executing activities related to advancement strategies, including advancing the CIS individual donor base and helping to upgrade existing donors
- Attend all monthly staff and team meetings, providing logistical assistance, as needed, and recording all minutes and subsequent distribution
- Work to develop and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external clients
Job Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in field related to Project Management, Sales and/or Fundraising, Resource Development, Marketing, Business or related area
- Three years of successful speciial events and/or fundraising experience
- Possess strong project-management skills, have specific examples of such work-related experience, self-starter, well organized, detail oriented and work independently and within a team framework
- Computer literate in using Microsoft Office
- Awareness of local community and available resources
- Must have exceptional inerpersonal skills and an ability to build and maintain strong relationships while fostering a spirit of collaboration with external partners and among Board Members, staff, and volunteers
- Proficiency in Raiser's Edge donor software preferred
- Reputation and experience in managing well known and respected, well-received in community, civic and/or agency fundraisers a plus
Contact Information: Please submit resume, references, and cover letter to Gina Salvati by February 10, 2012 by e-mail or fax. E-mail: gsalvati@cischarlotte.org | Fax: 704-335-0697 |
