Community Engagement Coordinator; Development, Events, Media

Position:
Community Engagement Coordinator

Employment:
Full-time

Location:

Petoskey, Michigan

Reports to:

Development Director & Headmaster

Key Collaborators:
Executive Director, Headmaster, Office Manager, and Leadership Team

This is a highly collaborative position with significant responsibility for building relationships, coordinating initiatives, supporting enrollment, and communicating the mission and story of St. Michael High School to the community.

SMHS is a private, independent Classical high school (9th through 12th grades) located in beautiful Petoskey, Michigan. We serve an ever-expanding network of families along the Lake Michigan shoreline in the Little Traverse Bay communities of Charlevoix, Petoskey, Harbor Springs and beyond.

Our school has a member of its Board of Directors appointed by the Bishop of the Diocese of Gaylord. It is the only high school in the Little Traverse Bay region that teaches in the Catholic tradition and is the only high school in Northern Michigan with a classical curriculum.

Community Engagement Coordinator

(focus areas: Development, Event planning, & Marketing)

St. Michael High School, a Chesterton Academy in Petoskey, Michigan, is seeking a dynamic, organized, and mission-driven Community Engagement Coordinator to join our team full-time.

This position will play a key role in strengthening relationships with donors and supporters, coordinating school events, supporting student recruitment and enrollment, and helping promote the mission and story of St. Michael High School throughout our community.

Working closely with the Executive/Development Director, Headmaster, Office Manager, and school leadership team, this individual will serve as an important connector between the school, its families, benefactors, prospective families, and the broader community.

The ideal candidate is a strong communicator and relationship-builder who is highly organized, proactive, personable, and passionate about Catholic education and the mission of St. Michael High School and the Chesterton Academy network.

Working under the direction of the Development Director, the ideal candidate will:

• Assist with cultivating and strengthening relationships with current and prospective donors.
• Support donor communications, stewardship, acknowledgments, and follow-up.
• Help coordinate donor meetings, outreach, and engagement activities.
• Maintain accurate donor and supporter records and assist with development-related administrative tasks.
• Assist with annual giving campaigns, fundraising initiatives, and other development efforts.
• Help identify opportunities to deepen donor involvement and strengthen the school's culture of philanthropy.
• Represent St. Michael High School professionally and warmly in interactions with benefactors, alumni, families, and community supporters.

Working in coordination with the leadership team and Office Manager, the ideal candidate will:

• Oversee the planning and execution of fundraising, community, admissions, and special events.
• Develop event timelines, checklists, budgets, communications, and logistics.
• Coordinate with faculty, staff, volunteers, vendors, families, and community partners.
• Ensure events are welcoming, professional, mission-aligned, and well organized.
• Assist with post-event follow-up, including donor stewardship and evaluation.

Working closely with the Office Manager and Headmaster, the Coordinator will support student recruitment and enrollment efforts by:

• Assisting with prospective-family communications and follow-up.
• Helping coordinate open houses, information nights, shadow days, campus visits, and other admissions events.
• Supporting timely and welcoming communication with prospective students and their families.
• Helping develop and maintain recruitment materials and outreach initiatives.
• Assisting with tracking prospective-family engagement and enrollment activity.
• Identifying opportunities to increase awareness of St. Michael High School among prospective families, parishes, homeschool communities, and other appropriate audiences.
• Helping ensure that prospective families experience a warm, organized, and mission-focused admissions process.

Working with the leadership team, the Coordinator will help advance the public presence and reputation of St. Michael High School by:

• Assisting with the development and implementation of the school's marketing and…