Development & Communications Specialist

Looking for a role where your fundraising, writing, and communication skills can make a real impact? WABS is seeking a dynamic
Development & Communications Specialist
to join our team. In this role, you’ll craft compelling content for grants, fundraising campaigns, and external communications. You’ll also support communications strategy, data management, and outcomes reporting for the organization as we measure and share our impact.

Development & Communications Specialist

This is a full-time non-exempt 1.0 FTE scheduled 40 hours per week

$70,000-$80,000 annually (an hourly rate equivalent of $33.65 - $38.46 per hour), depending on experience

Estimated at $90,200-$100,200 in total compensation, WABS provides excellent public sector employee health and retirement benefits, including pension through the School Employee Benefits Board and Department of Retirement Services.

This position offers annually: 20 days of paid Vacation, 12 days of paid Sick leave, 13 paid Holidays, and 1 Personal Floating Holiday.

Director of Development & Communications

This position offers a hybrid weekly Monday through Friday schedule in-person at our Shoreline office (Tuesday-Friday) and remote (Monday).

Priority deadline for interviews is October 14, 2026. Applications must be received by October 21, 2026 for consideration.

Washington Alliance for Better Schools leads a partnership of school districts, industry, and community dedicated to ensuring students furthest from opportunity can pursue a future that embraces their strengths, passions, and dreams.

Equity in every school. Opportunity for every student.

We lead a partnership of school districts, industry, and community dedicated to ensuring students furthest from opportunity can pursue a future that embraces their strengths, passions, and dreams.

• Engage:
  We authentically engage with students, families, community, and partners
• Create:
  We co-create innovative programs and strategies to advance equity for students
• Amplify:
  We activate and amplify the capacity that exists in people, communities, and systems

We are committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion, which requires that we use our collective voice to identify and eliminate institutional barriers that deny equitable access and impact the success of Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC), and other underserved students.

• Development (75%)
• Write and submit compelling grant proposals that align with the organization's strategic goals and adhere to funder requirements
• Identify and research potential public and private funding opportunities at the local, state, and federal levels
• Write and submit timely grant reports
• Manage individual giving platforms and digital fundraising pages
• Develop donor stewardship materials, including emails, thank yous, and mailed letters
• Create content for individual giving campaigns, including social media content, photo and video assets, and emails
• Report and analyze key metrics related to the organization’s development efforts, such as grant submissions and outcomes of individual giving campaigns, to inform development strategy
• Support implementation and management of organizational CRM
• Ensure timely entry of all fundraising data to support fundraising reporting and strategy
• Support events management
• Communications (25%)
• Build out an effective communications strategy for the organization in coordination with the Director of Development & Communications
• Develop and manage WABS’ editorial calendar
• Create and manage social media content in collaboration with program staff, partners, and key stakeholders to…