Community Engagement Coordinator

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Position Summary

The Community Engagement Coordinator (CEC) is a relationship cultivator extraordinaire. S/he is a champion for the National Service Center (NSC) to acquire new giving partners while building awareness of YFC’s work through effectively using the processes and practices provided through YFC’s national development model. Both relationally gifted and motivated by metrics, the CEC is energized by proactive conversations that culminate into seeing a potential giving partner introduced to YFC’s work, invited to give, and by seeing enhanced missional commitment towards stated benchmarks and goals.

Additionally, s/he is motivated by seeing partners become more generous in their ongoing giving, and by seeing lapsed partners re-engage with our mission. S/he is involved in the entire process of bringing in new prospects and cultivating relationships that connect them to opportunities for involvement and financial giving and ultimately life-long partners of Youth For Christ.

Essential Functions

Relationship Development (Find > Win > Keep > Lift)

• Builds relationships through faithful, personalized touchpoints with current and potential giving partners interested in funding YFC’s mission/national service center operations, going beyond mass communications.
• Graciously and respectfully invites prospects toward financial partnership, and encourages NSC staff to do the same.
• Effectively follows-up with attendees of all events, and respondents of all communication, entering information into database, cultivating relationships with new partners, guiding them to involvement.
• Pro-actively reaches out to potential giving partners in an effort to inspire participation with YFC’s mission.
• Leads in relational care of all partners by reporting missional progress, and by expressing gratitude through thank you notes, personal calls, and gifts as appropriate.
• Develop a 'YFC Champions' program, by inspiring giving partners to indicating their future or regular intents to give, helping YFC plan ministry sustainability and expansion into our future.

• Organizes and executes one "See The Story" event monthly, one "Be The Story" event annually and one "Appreciation Event" annually (virtual or physical):
• Organizes and hosts regular “no-ask” donor acquisition tours according to targeted goals (virtual or physical)
• Organizes and hosts “financial ask” events and strategies according to targeted goals (virtual or physical)
• Organizes and hosts appreciation events and strategies according to targeted goals (virtual or physical)
• In partnership with the External Marketing Team, executes acquisition-oriented events on social media channels.
• Manages invites and RSVP’s to all events.
• Follows YFC Marketing Plan for promoting each event.
• Participates in tracking and reporting of data from events, mailing campaigns, etc.
• Adheres to YFC USA training and coaching, moving toward being a See The Story/Be The Story Champion coach for other CECs
• Assembles, empowers, and works with a team of volunteers to execute events.

• Cross-trains with Operations Manager to utilizes tools and platforms provided by YFC's External Marketing department to prepare and send ministry updates to our giving partner base in the form of monthly letters, emails, etc.
• Collects ministry update content from staff, volunteers and kids (i.e. quotes, stories, images, footage) on an ongoing basis to customize monthly communications where appropriate.
• Implements lapsed donor communication strategies and personally follow-up, as advised and equipped by the YFC USA Development model.
• Implements special communication projects, as assigned

• Works with interested adults to see them through the YFC Onboarding Process and serves to encourages them in their volunteer role with kids.
• Coordinates with the Ministry Director to assign volunteers their ministry roles.
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