Development Coordinator

Position Summary

The Development Coordinator at the Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust is a key ambassador to the community and a steward of relationships with the individual and institutional donors whose support sustains our mission and work. The candidate who thrives in this role should welcome meeting new people, embrace the variety of their personalities and motivations, and cherish connecting through shared love of our community’s precious natural areas.

This is a role for someone with the ability and eagerness to communicate the Greenway Trust’s mission and value in a wide variety of forms and situations, with a primary focus on winning support from new donors. The Development Coordinator: represents the Greenway Trust with energy and eloquence at events; fearlessly asks for support of the Greenway Trust’s work; plans and leads landscape experiences for donors;

and collaborates with internal teams on materials and communications for donor recruitment and retention.

The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust works to steward a diverse landscape that stretches 100 miles from the shores of Puget Sound across the Cascade Mountains to Central Washington. Designated a National Heritage Area in 2019, the Greenway landscape encompasses 1.5 million acres (900,000 acres publicly owned), two million people, 28 cities, three major river systems, and two Interstate highways. Its working lands support vast hay fields and grazing cattle to the east, evergreen timber to the west, and some of the nation’s most fertile farmlands.

Its protected alpine wilderness includes recovery corridors for wolves, grizzly bears, and other species once hunted to regional extinction. Its expansive access to nature, including 1,600 miles of trails, is the heart of Washington’s $25 billion outdoor recreation economy.

Vast natural resources, the nation’s 15th largest metropolitan area, and many competing interests create the potential for conflicts. Navigating these differing priorities, with the goal of conserving that vital and precarious balance between natural and built environments, is the founding and enduring purpose of the Greenway Trust.

An early adopter of "collective impact," the Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust was founded on the belief that to grow in harmony with nature instead of consuming it, the full community must be engaged. The goal of conserving this region’s wild and green character brought together the spheres of government, industry, and nonprofit organizations for the first time. Collaboration, compromise, and common good were the rules of engagement.

We are proud to say that, three decades later, they still are.

• Build and maintain positive relationships with corporate supporters to foster long-term commitment to the Greenway Trust mission
• Conduct corporate prospect research and manage pipeline of potential sponsors
• Solicit corporate donations and event sponsor ships
• Collaborate with emerging and existing corporate sponsors to calibrate impactful investments and engage employees through volunteerism and special events
• Collaborate with Volunteer team to customize sponsor experiences, increase retention, and communicate giving expectations
• Communicate effectively with board members to engage board assistance in recruiting new sponsors

• Collaborate with Fundraising and Communications teams to enrich donor relationships and improve giving and retention
• Seek opportunities to connect with new and existing donors through outreach appearances, Greenway volunteer events, and developing new ideas for donor engagement and appreciation
• Plan and lead donor-experience events on the landscape
• Record and curate donor information in Salesforce database
• Participate in planning and execution of Explore the Greenway events

• Support major Greenway Trust events (annual dinner celebration and spring fundraising breakfast)
• Perform other duties as situations require or as assigned by supervisor.

Please review the complete job description for this posting with additional information on skills, abilities and requirements. This is an entry-level…