Company description

For nearly four decades, University District Food Bank has helped prevent hunger in Northeast Seattle neighborhoods. Our mission to "build a hunger-free Northeast Seattle by providing our neighbors with reliable access to healthy food and life-changing resources" recognizes the urgency of providing access to healthy, culturally familiar food today and building systemic changes which create equity and opportunity for our customers long term.

Each week, more than 1,300 different families receive the groceries they need to prepare nutritionally balanced meals at home through our University District pantry location. Modeled after a grocery store, our customers shop for the groceries they want directly.

Our home delivery program reaches almost 400 home-bound customers every week. Our backpack program, at 16 nearby schools, provides almost 700 kids with meals and snacks for the weekend when school meals aren’t available.

Our two off site food pantries located at Mercy Magnuson Place and North Seattle College provide groceries to another 200+ households a week.

Last year, we had 70,000 customer visits and distributed 3 million pounds of food.

Job description

Development Coordinator
Classification: Regular, full-time, exempt
Reports To: Development Director

University District Food Bank works every day to build a hunger free Northeast Seattle through reliable access to healthy food and connections to life-changing resources. Our programs offer community members the healthy, culturally familiar options they need.

Position Summary
Our fundraising team is expanding! We want to increase the resources available to do our work and ensure that our community of donors are better connected to our programming. This new position will help us support our donors by promptly and accurately documenting and acknowledging gifts, supporting our fundraising events throughout the year, especially the auction every fall, researching and authoring grants, and broadening how we communicate our work to community. As we continue to evolve our programming, we want to ensure that our donors remain aligned and supportive of our mission and values. The Development Coordinator in collaboration with our Development Director will enable this to be possible. Your detailed and timely engagement will help with our success. Our Development Coordinator will report directly to our Development Director. While the position involves some occasional evening or weekend work, much work will be done Monday through Friday during a mutually agreeable schedule at our University District location. Some remote work is possible. This position will offer an opportunity for your personal growth and development. Beyond simply building proficiency in our donor management software, Little Green Light and Greater Giving, we will invest in helping you build the skills you need to thrive in this role.

Responsibilities and Work Tasks
Your primary responsibility will be helping to support our individual giving program. While the amount of time you spend on different tasks will fluctuate throughout the year, yearend giving tasks can get busy from October through January. Overall, about one-third of your time will be spent working directly in support of our individual giving program.
You will use our donor database Little Green Light to:
• Record and process online and offline financial contributions
• Track and manage donor acknowledgments
• Update donor information to ensure accuracy of communication
• Generate giving reports to meet internal needs for accounting, budgeting, strategic planning, and donor research
• Respond to donor inquiries in a timely and courteous manner

About one-third of your time will be spent supporting other key fundraising activities including:
• Researching and authoring grants for general operating and program specific support
• Writing interim and final grant reports
• Supporting procurement and marketing efforts for the fundraising auction
• Entering auction information into the Greater Giving database
• Working with the Development Director to create regular donor appeals
• Working with the Development Director to create the annual fundraising plan
• Supporting general administrative functions

About one-third of your time will be spent coordinating our external communication by
• Working with our marketing /communications manager to develop a strategy and schedule for communication via our social media channels
• Writing and publishing planned social media posts
• Writing and publishing spontaneous social media posts in collaboration with co-workers
• Writing print and electronic newsletter articles

Other duties in support of our annual fundraising efforts and accurate communication with our donor community.

Skills and Qualifications
We’re looking for an organized, detail oriented, and collaborative individual to join our team. You should have a passion for our mission and find joy in connecting others in our community to this as well. Our preferred candidate will have:
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Eye for and attention to detail
• Reliability in communications and in completing work assignments on time
• Ability to enter data accurately and swiftly into online databases

Commitment to our work individually and collectively to undo white supremacy culture, promote diversity, equity and inclusion, and build racial justice in our fundraising practices, and our food bank programs
• Experience with donor management (Little Green Light) or relationship tracking software preferred
• Experience using social media and creating original and compelling content
• Experience working or volunteering in a nonprofit environment
• Ability and desire to work in a collaborative and cooperative environment
• Enthusiasm for mission-driven work and interest in food-insecurity and poverty
• Strong personal integrity and ability to maintain confidentiality
• Competent and comfortable Microsoft Office application use
• Experience in graphic design and using design software such as InDesign
• At least two years of work experience in administrative support, database maintenance, or nonprofit fundraising
All candidates must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and be willing to provide proof as of their start date to comply with requirements by our government partners.

Salary & Benefits
This full-time position pays $31 per hour to start ($64,500 per annum). Other benefits include paid vacation, sick, and holiday leave, medical, dental, and vision benefits, and an employer contributed SEP IRA plan.

Compensation

this position is: salaried, $50,000 - $75,000

Application instructions

Deadline

February 27, 2023

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