Community and Foundations Officer
About the position This position is responsible for serving as a Community and Foundation Officer throughout the state of North Carolina. This role combines the roles of fundraising, community and foundation relations, and development support. As a key member of a dynamic philanthropy team, duties include making calls to an active donor base and representing CHA to churches and civic organizations across the state and acting as a liaison with Foundation funders. May require periodic, overnight travel. This position is remote but needs to be centrally located for ease of travel throughout the state. A shared company vehicle will be accessible, as needed.
Responsibilities
- Assist in identifying, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding donors and prospects with the goal of increasing contributions and building relationships with individuals, churches and other organizations.
- Maintain a monthly travel schedule to meet donors and prospects in person.
- Assist the department in relation to donors, alumni, and community and/or faith-based organizations as directed by supervisor.
- Coordinate and cultivate existing Foundations
- Identify relationships with potential Foundations and steward gifts as directed by supervisor.
- Identify ways to promote the agency and child advocacy in general. Requires public speaking and serving as agency representative in churches, civic and other community groups.
- In conjunction with communications staff, assist with public affairs events as needed.
- Assist and participate and/or coordinate donor, volunteer, and community relation events.
- Be the point of contact for all community outreach; communicating with CHA departments as necessary.
- Record all donor information in Salesforce CRM software.
- Assist participation in overall strategic planning and support achievement of goals for all CHA fundraising and communication efforts.
- Contribute to department meetings; follow department procedures and practices on donor stewardship/follow-up/reporting.
- May be required to photograph miscellaneous donor/volunteer activities in assigned region.
- Assist communications staff in gathering client success stories in assigned region.
- Other tasks as requested by supervisor.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from four-year college or university or 1-2 years’ experience in development, marketing or fundraising for nonprofit organizations.
- Must be proficient in usage with Microsoft Office, Excel, Outlook, Teams and typing skills.
- Must be customer service oriented and possess a willingness to represent the agency to the public.
- Must be detail-oriented, have excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.
- Assist with some weekend and evening events.
- Must be culturally sensitive to children and families and support cultural diversity throughout the program.
- Must possess a valid driver's license and be insurable by agency insurance carrier.
- Must submit to and pass pre-employment checks, criminal records check, and DMV/MVR check.