Community Engagement Coordinator; Richmond

Overview

Position Title: Community Engagement Coordinator (Greater Richmond)

AT Life Net Health, you are the advantage. Every day, you help us to save lives, restore health, and bring hope to patients and families around the world. We cultivate growth, innovation, and collaboration, where your contributions drive solutions that benefit humanity. Together, we are united by a mission greater than ourselves, a purpose rooted in healing.

About this job

Location: Remote (Greater Richmond)

Department: Donation Awareness & Advocacy

Schedule: Monday–Friday, Full-Time (8 hours);
Weekends & Evenings, Flex Schedule, 70% Field Based

Clinical Status: Non-Clinical

As a Community Engagement Coordinator, you’ll play a vital role in advancing our mission. You will be responsible for advancing the mission of donation awareness by fostering meaningful connections, delivering impactful education, and supporting strategic engagement initiatives. This position cultivates trust and understanding within diverse communities, ensuring that individuals are informed, empowered, and inspired to support donation and register as an organ, tissue, and cell donor.

Working collaboratively across departments and with external partners, the Coordinator designs and implements outreach strategies that reflect the organization’s values and commitment to saving lives, restoring health, and giving hope. Through relationship-building, storytelling, and culturally responsive programming, the Coordinator helps bridge gaps in knowledge and perception, creating inclusive spaces for dialogue and advocacy. Your work will have purpose every single day, contributing directly to life-changing outcomes.

What you’ll do

• Community Relationship Building: Develops and maintains strong, trust-based relationships with community organizations and leaders, donor families and recipients, volunteers, and advocacy groups. Serves as a liaison between the organization and the public, representing the mission with authenticity and compassion.
• Education and Awareness: Organizes, promotes, and attends events, workshops, and informational sessions to raise public awareness about the organization’s mission and organ/tissue donation. Creates and distributes outreach materials like brochures, flyers, and digital content. Delivers educational presentations tailored to various audiences including schools, multicultural organizations, faith-based organizations, healthcare organizations, and civic groups. Translates complex donation concepts into accessible, culturally sensitive messaging that resonates with diverse populations.
• Engagement Strategy & Implementation: Develops and implements outreach strategies, promoting programs, and educating the public. Executes community events, campaigns, and initiatives that promote donation awareness. Collects, tracks, and analyzes community feedback, VA state registration rates, event evaluations, and other pertinent metrics to improve effectiveness and strategies of outreach efforts.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborates with other organizations, community leaders, and stakeholders to create partnerships and expand the reach of programs and messages about donation. Partners with internal teams such as communications, hospital development, national donor development, and donor family advocates to align messaging and maximize awareness effectiveness. Contributes to organizational initiatives that elevate public understanding and support for donation.

Minimum Requirements:

• High School Diploma or GED
• Valid Driver’s License
• One (1) year of community health and/or education, public relations, or related work experience

Preferred Experience /Skills/

Certifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Healthcare, Education, Business, Marketing, or related field
• Three (3) years of community health and/or education, public relations, or related work experience

Key Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

• Team orientation: able to work collaboratively in a team environment
• Initiative: able to be resourceful and work without always being directed
• Problem solving & analytical: able to break down a problem, gather facts, and find a…