Development & Communications Coordinator

Development & Communications Coordinator

POSITION SUMMARY

The Development & Communications Coordinator serves as the Trust’s primary staff resource for day-to-day fundraising, donor engagement, and external communications. Working under the direction of executive leadership, the Coordinator independently executes development initiatives, maintains donor information and reporting, supports donor and stakeholder relationships, and manages the Trust’s newsletter, social media, and other communications.

The position works across the Trust and its programs to gather and share information, stories, and outcomes that demonstrate organizational impact and strengthen engagement with donors, community partners, and other stakeholders.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Coordinate and execute fundraising campaigns, appeals, donor outreach, and other development initiatives based on organizational priorities established by executive leadership.
• Develop and maintain an annual development and communications calendar, including fundraising appeals, donor stewardship, newsletters, social media, events, and other stakeholder communications.
• Maintain donor and development information in the Trust’s donor management system, ensuring accurate and timely donor, gift, campaign, and stakeholder records.
• Generate routine and ad hoc reports on fundraising results, donor activity, campaigns, and engagement; maintain donor lists and segmentation for appeals and communications.
• Coordinate donor stewardship activities, including acknowledgments, thank-you communications, impact updates, donor recognition, and responses to donor inquiries.
• Support executive leadership with donor cultivation and fundraising activities by preparing donor information, correspondence, presentations, and other materials and coordinating appropriate follow-up.
• Manage the development and distribution of the Trust’s newsletter and other stakeholder communications, including gathering content, drafting and editing stories, and coordinating contributions from across the Trust and its programs.
• Manage the Trust’s social media accounts, including developing, scheduling, and posting engaging content highlighting programs, services, events, partnerships, donor and volunteer support, and organizational impact.
• Gather stories, photographs, program updates, outcomes, and other content from across the organization and create basic graphics and digital materials for fundraising, social media, and stakeholder communications.
• Coordinate fundraising, donor, and community events, including planning, communications, materials, volunteers, logistics, and follow-up.
• Independently manage routine development and communications projects, keeping executive leadership informed of progress, upcoming priorities, challenges, and matters requiring executive input or approval.
• Build and maintain positive working relationships with donors, volunteers, staff, community partners, vendors, and other stakeholders, and represent the Trust professionally at donor and community activities.

Lunalilo Home is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race, ethnicity, gender, veteran status, or based on disability or any other federal, state, or local protected class. We offer diverse opportunities for those interested in using their skills and experience to serve kūpuna (elders) and to make a difference in the lives of others by providing compassionate, quality care.

Lunalilo Home is a not-for-profit senior services organization focused on emphasizing our guiding principles of aloha (love, empathy, compassion), hō‘ihi (respectful and dignity), ho‘omanawanui (patience), mālama (caring), kulia i ka pono (striving for the right), laulima (cooperation and teamwork), lokomaika‘i (benevolence, grace, a nickname affectionately bestowed upon King Lunalilo). We seek diligent professionals who embrace these values to celebrate, perpetuate and advance the legacy of King Lunalilo to broader reaches and to greater impacts in our communities.

Employment Type:
Full Time