Development Coordinator

Position Summary

The Development Coordinator plays a foundational role on the National Council’s growing Philanthropy team, providing the data, project management, and programmatic support that powers donor engagement and fundraising efforts across the organization. This is the first coordinator-level hire supporting the two-person Philanthropy function, so in the near term the role will be focused primarily on donor data and systems with real opportunity to grow into more individualized, externally-facing stewardship work as the donor database and program mature.

The ideal candidate is a detail-oriented self-starter who is comfortable learning and adapting to new systems and platforms, translating data into insights, and managing several recurring projects ’re looking for someone who anticipates needs and proposes solutions rather than waiting for explicit direction, and who is excited to grow within a fast-building development function. Given this role’s close proximity to senior leadership, comfort preparing clear, polished communications for executive-level audiences is important from day one.

Data Management & Insights (60%)

• Maintain accurate donor and constituent records within the organization’s CRM and other fundraising or engagement platforms, including spreadsheet-based systems.
• Ensure data integrity through routine audits, record maintenance, and quality control processes.
• Generate reports, dashboards, and donor insights that support stewardship, fundraising, and organizational decision-making, including real-time dashboards for staff involved in strategic decisions.
• Support gift processing, donor segmentation, and constituent record management.
• Partner with colleagues to improve data collection practices and streamline workflows as systems evolve.

Project management (25%)

• Serve as project manager for the Philanthropy team’s core recurring donor engagement deliverables — a quarterly investor report, a quarterly webinar, and a CEO snapshot series — tracking timelines and ensuring materials are complete, accurate, and well-designed.
• Support execution of other stewardship team programmatic engagement and report-out activities as they are developed.
• As the donor database and stewardship program mature, take on more individualized, externally-facing donor stewardship work, to the extent of interest.
• Longer term, support planning for an anticipated philanthropy convening event.

Departmental support on frontline fundraising (15%)

• Support the Senior Major Gifts Officer and broader frontline fundraising team with research and preparation for donor meetings and cultivation (e.g., donor packets, pool reports, briefing materials).
• Partner with the Philanthropy team on ad hoc research requests in support of major gift cultivation.
• This role does not include administrative/executive-assistant functions, such as travel scheduling for frontline fundraisers.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
• 2–4 years of professional experience in fundraising, donor relations, communications, nonprofit administration, database management, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience contributing to mission-driven work.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including comfort preparing executive and senior leadership-level communications.
• Experience maintaining constituent, donor, customer, or organizational databases with a high degree of accuracy.
• Demonstrated ability to learn and adapt across different systems and technology platforms; proficiency with a specific CRM matters less than the ability to understand a new system quickly and thoroughly.
• Strong organizational and project management skills with exceptional attention to detail.
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