Development & Communications Manager

About InvestED

Since 1963, InvestED has removed the small financial barriers that keep low-income Washington middle and high school students from getting to school, engaging in school, and graduating — school supplies, sports equipment, instrument fees, activity costs. No paperwork, no delay: our trust-based model puts the decision in the hands of the school, not a review committee. We partner with 668 schools across Washington's nine Educational Service Districts, reaching approximately 55,000 students a year — against an addressable population of 250,000–300,000 WA students living at or near poverty.

We're now building the infrastructure, team, and donor base to close that gap.

Position Summary

We're hiring the person who makes InvestED's external-facing development engine run — institutional and grant funding, school-based fundraising, community giving, event and sponsorship coordination, public visibility — with the discipline to keep gift records accurate and audit-ready underneath all of it. This is a role for someone who can build a grant calendar, manage a video production schedule, and reconcile a donor database in the same week without dropping a thread, and who does it inside a small, tight-knit team where initiative matters as much as follow-through.

You'll have real ownership from day one, working directly with our Executive Director and Associate Director of Development to shape how this function scales as InvestED grows.

This is a 40-hour, hybrid role (approximately 2 days/week in our Renton office), with occasional evening or weekend work around events, and periodic travel within Washington State. Salary range: $75-85K annually.

• Manage InvestED's multi-channel (email, mail, social) communications calendar — appeals, newsletters, stewardship sends, and campaign-specific emails (Back to School, Annual Appeal, End of Year, GiveBIG, Giving Tuesday)
• Compile and draft newsletter content, coordinating with program and development staff for stories, updates, and impact data
• Execute InvestED's social media presence and content calendar in partnership with the Associate Director of Development
• Support production and distribution of donor- and community-facing content (video, print, digital)
• Identify and pursue community visibility opportunities that build InvestED's public profile and pipeline

• Manage a full-cycle grant pipeline: prospect research, LOIs, proposals, reporting, and renewal — tracked and current in LGL
• Independently own and submit smaller-dollar and community-affiliated grant applications (e.g., Rotaries, Elks, Windermere offices, other multi-chapter organizations)
• Partner with the Executive Director to draft applications for major institutional funders (e.g., Raikes, Gates, Murdock, BECU) — supporting research, drafting, and reporting on strategic accounts where the ED holds the primary relationship
• Build and maintain funder relationship records and stewardship touchpoints for institutional accounts in partnership with the Associate Director of Development and ED
• Draft timely, accurate grant reports paired with real program outcomes and student-impact stories, sourced only from verified data

• Serve as InvestED's primary point of contact for school coordinators, maintaining a regular communication cadence
• Maintain and improve coordinator-facing fundraising (SEED Program) materials — training, templates, promotional assets
• Drive a consistent outreach cadence to grow school participation and per-school fundraising result; track and report SEED performance by school on a quarterly basis

• Manage and execute daily administration and transaction processes to ensure all donations are accurately recorded in LGL on a timely basis, ensuring each gift is correctly coded to campaign, fund, and donor segment;
  Provide feedback and insight on the areas that the Assoc. Director oversees: data integrity, architecture, segmentation, reporting, and the one-directional sync to the email platform.
• Generate and send timely, accurate donor welcome,…