Development - Coordinator

Job Description: Development - Coordinator

Position: Development - Coordinator

Reports to: Development and Communications Director

Location: Remote in the United States (East Coast preferred)

Employment Category: Full Time

Salary Range: $45,000-$60,000

Start Date:  March, 2024

About us: The LoveYourBrain Foundation is a US-based nonprofit that improves the quality of life of people affected by traumatic brain injury (TBI). Since 2014, we’ve been pioneering the use of yoga and mindfulness for healing after TBI (including concussion), advancing the science behind its benefits, and re-imagining how people can actively participate in improving their quality of life. This is an exciting time for our organization - 2024 is our 10-year anniversary, and our Executive Director was recently recognized as a Top Ten CNN Hero (see video segment here: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/10/us/yoga-meditation-retreat-traumatic-brain-injury-cnnheroes/index.html). Our comprehensive model of care is growing, and continues to be available at no-cost because of our fundraising efforts.

Job summary: The Development Coordinator plays a crucial role in meeting our annual fundraising goals, which leads to more impact and support for the brain injury community around the world. This role requires a combination of project management and relationship building - you’ll be responsible for all administrative, operational, and logistical support, and charged with building authentic and compassionate relationships with our fundraisers, donors, and stakeholders. The ideal candidate will be detail-oriented, proactive, personable, self-motivated, and ready to grow and evolve with our organization. 

LoveYourBrain believes that TBI, caregiving, and the intersections where our organization works - namely within healthcare, yoga, and wellness spaces - disproportionality impact the most marginalized in our society, including BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, women, non-binary people, people living with disabilities, people with intersecting identities, and others with lived experience being part of marginalized communities. We believe these communities must be centered in the work we do. Therefore we strongly encourage applications from people with these identities or who are members of other marginalized communities. 

Essential duties and responsibilities 

  • Donor relations: Support cultivation, stewardship, retention, and engagement of LoveYourBrain’s pipeline of donors and fundraisers. Draft inspiring communications for individual and institutional donors - such as acknowledgement letters, donor reports, LOIs and grant proposals. Manage and track donor pipeline(s) and moves-management processes, conduct prospect research, and serve as the first point-of-contact for our donors. Provide 1:1 support to peer-to-peer fundraisers and maintain our monthly giving program - the Building Resilience Project. 

  • Systems, data and projects administration: Develop, maintain, and update project plans and workbacks for development campaigns, events, and projects, tracking key progress, milestones and deadlines, and flagging risks or delays for leadership. Serve as lead in Classy and Salesforce for all fundraising CRM activities, including working with Classy customer support as needed, and running weekly and monthly reports. Oversee data and gift processing, and maintain a weekly revenue allocation process. 

  • Annual Events and Campaigns: Support with all logistics associated with our virtual and in-person fundraising events (including Ride for Resilience, Golf Tournament, Major Donor luncheons). Serve as primary contact with vendor(s), and lead day-of volunteers. Coordinate all annual campaigns (including Giving Tuesday, MindfulMarch, and our Revel raffle), and serve as fundraiser point-of-contact. You’ll identify, advertise, and ship fundraising prizes and donor gifts. 

  • Other: Oversee administration of online storefront, and participate in other activities as needed, including organization-wide activities such as retreats and team off-sites. Minimal travel to specific events will be required (>10%). 

While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed as assigned.

Qualifications and skills 

  • Committed. To the mission, vision, work and model of LoveYourBrain

  • Proactively communicative. You have excellent written and verbal communication, and produce polished, high quality work. You let your team know when priorities need to be reset, when you need support, and when you foresee challenges before they arise.

  • Growth mindset. You see feedback as an opportunity for growth, and recognize that with work, skills can improve over time

  • Collaborative. Work effectively with donors, colleagues, volunteers, stakeholders, and more, all of whom may have different communication and work styles, because you prioritize strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills

  • Innovative. Brain injury is common, chronic, and complex, and the nature of what we do - like brain injury - is often ‘invisible’. You’ll have the opportunity to innovate how we motivate and engage new, increased, and repeat gifts

  • Organized. Strong organizational and multitasking skills with high capacity for attention to detail

  • Discreet. Exercise mature decision making and ability to maintain confidence related to executive, donor, foundation, and board information

  • Experienced. Min. 1 year experience in previous development/fundraising role, or 2-3 years in related field

  • Proficient. Able to use or be efficiently trained on our many systems (Google products, Classy, Salesforce, Canva, Zoom, YouTube, Foundation Directory Online, Squarespace and more)

Physical requirements/work environment:

  • Travel in the US  (by air and car) (must have license)

  • Drive a car (rarely)

  • Ability to effectively work remotely 

  • Ability to work on a computer for up to 8 hours per day

  • Ability to talk over the phone or video conferencing (multiple times a day)

  • Ability to work over weekends (occasionally)

LoveYourBrain is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment  process, please email us at laurel@loveyourbrain.com and let us know. LoveYourBrain is an Equal Opportunity Employer and actively seeks candidates from diverse backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. 

Benefits:

We provide the following benefits for full-time employee positions:

  • Health insurance coverage for 100% of BCBS VT Bronze level or a pre-tax stipend

  • Delta Dental insurance (basic plan)

  • 19 days PTO (longer based on duration at LYB) + 7 days sick/personal + 9 Federal Holidays

  • 12 weeks fully paid leave for person giving birth/primary caregiver and 4 weeks fully paid for secondary caregiver

  • Summer hours – half days on Fridays in July and August

  • And more!

Application process:

Please submit to Laurel Crosby, Director of Development, at laurel@loveyourbrain.com:

  1. A cover letter that directly addresses: 1) how you meet the selection criteria and 2) motivations for applying to this position

  2. Resume or CV

We encourage you to apply as soon as possible as interviews are scheduled on a rolling basis. Potential candidates will be offered a formal interview via videoconference with key LoveYourBrain staff and then a subsequent interview with the Executive Director.