The Development Coordinator works with colleagues within the chapter and across the organization to ensure gifts and pledges are accurately recorded to reflect donor intent and promptly acknowledged. They process donations, pledges and in-kind gifts for the Maine chapter, and they revise and send acknowledgment letters, pledge reminders, and internal forms. The Development Coordinator is responsible for ensuring all gifts have documentation which is properly filed in the donor record. They review grant award documentation to ensure appropriate approvals before gift acceptance. They are responsible for updating electronic donor records in the Conservancy’s fundraising database and will extract and analyze fundraising progress reports for development staff. They also facilitate the pledge review and fulfillment process in partnership with the finance manager. They assist the Development team in entering donor interactions into the database, scheduling meetings, and filing expense reports, along with other tasks as needed. The Development Coordinator runs the annual donor thank you call programs to steward our planned giving donors, new members, and monthly supporters. This position works with trustees and other chapter staff to recruit callers and provide training, scripts, and tracking of the thank you call programs.

Desired Skills & Experience
We are looking for someone with a Bachelor’s degree and 1 year related experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience; experience in in business writing, editing and proofreading; experience managing diverse activities to meet deadlines; experience working and communicating with a wide range of people; strong organizational skills and attention to detail required; and the ability to analyze information for the purpose of preparing reports, coordinating projects, and solving problems. We’d love to find someone with multi-cultural or cross-cultural experiences who has database skills, including managing data and tracking prospects. If your experience looks a little different from what we’ve identified and you think you can rock the role, we’d love to learn more about you.