Company description

FoodCorps partners with schools and communities to nourish kids’ health, education, and sense of community. Our AmeriCorps members serve alongside educators and school nutrition leaders to provide kids with nourishing meals, food education, and family-driven experiences with food that celebrate and nurture the whole child. Building on our service program, FoodCorps develops leaders, grows networks, and advocates for policy change in service of every kid’s health and well-being.

Job description

What We’re Looking For:

FoodCorps seeks a highly efficient and organized individual to provide outstanding support for its fundraising, donor communications, and development operations functions. Reporting directly to the Director of Philanthropic Experience and Operations, the Philanthropic Partnerships Coordinator works collaboratively with the expanding Revenue team, within the External Relations unit, to deeply engage and steward FoodCorps’ supporters, and is integral to the day-to-day operations of the department.

This is a full-time, remote position and requires occasional travel for department meetings.

Who You Are:

You are passionate about FoodCorps’ mission and eager to enter the field of fundraising and/or nonprofit management. You are a highly motivated individual with a strong ability to learn quickly and adapt to new challenges. You are skilled at articulating ideas clearly and anticipating obstacles all while effectively as part of a team to achieve shared goals. You approach your work with impeccable discretion, and are skilled at juggling multiple projects and tight deadlines. You are comfortable with technology and open to quickly learning new systems, graphic design programs, and databases. You’re excited to support intentional community-building and effective communications in a remote work environment. In short, you are energized by working in a fast-growing, high-paced work environment.

Primary Responsibilities:

Donor Relations

Coordinates and manages lists for external donor communications, including email and paper updates, annual report distribution, and donor office hours calls, among others. Executes monthly Gmail merges for donor communications purposes.
Provides support for executing cultivation and fundraising events and creative donor engagement opportunities, as needed.
Responsible for the logistics of physical donor mailings (such as the annual report highlights booklet), including printing, mail merges, and shipping.
Creates and maintains Salesforce campaigns for donor engagement opportunities.
With the Director of Philanthropic Experience & Operations, maintains the donor communications calendar in Asana.

Operations

Ensures the timely and accurate processing of gifts and notification of internal moves managers.
Manages FoodCorps’ gift acknowledgement processes, including sending thank you letters, receipting, and maintaining accurate donor listings.
Helps track donor relationships in Salesforce, FoodCorps’ CRM.
Assists the Director of Prospect Research & Management and Philanthropic Operations Coordinator with research and evaluation of current and prospective supporters.
Fields general fundraising inquiries from the public via phone and email.
Performs other administrative and organizational duties as assigned and as appropriate to the workload and needs of the FoodCorps External Relations team and its effective day-to-day operation.

Department Support

Supports the coordination of efficient departmental meetings, including scheduling, agenda development, and keeping track of key ideas and items for follow-up.
Works closely with Revenue Team Leads on regular internal communications and intentional community-building spaces for the department and External Relations unit.
In the future, could support cross-departmental work such as account service teams and ad hoc work groups by managing meetings, tracking Revenue deliverables, and partnering with department leaders and/or Executive Team.

Measures of Success:

By the end of year 1, the Philanthropic Partnerships Coordinator will have:

Produced timely, accurate acknowledgment letters for our donors each week.
Sent monthly Donor Digest e-newsletters to major donors and facilitated follow-up from Moves Managers as needed (ex: updating bounced email addresses in Salesforce).
Provided vital support for the planning, execution, and follow-through of top-notch donor engagement opportunities and communications.
With Revenue Team Leads, spearheaded a holistic department and unit meeting strategy and a regular cadence of internal updates.
Added capacity to our prospect research efforts with briefs that are thorough, highlight major points, and are easily understandable.
Notified the appropriate Moves Manager(s) of new gifts in Slack’s #giftprocessing channel within 1 business day of the gift being posted.

Compensation

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

Location

job can be done remotely

Application instructions

Deadline

March 11, 2025