What are the responsibilities and job description for the Marketing and Outreach Coordinator position at Futures Unlimited, Inc?
The Marketing & Outreach Coordinator drives the Agency’s marketing, fundraising, outreach, grant and contract procurement efforts to secure the resources needed to advance the organization’s work. The Marketing & Outreach Coordinator reports to the CFO/Assistant Executive Director and performs day-to-day activities to build and maintain sustainable revenue in partnership with donors, foundations and corporate partners. The Marketing & Outreach Coordinator works closely with management and staff, Finance and Administration and other departments as needed.
Essential Functions: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Researching and identifying new business and marketing opportunities both for the agency and our clients and within the communities that Futures Unlimited Inc. and their facilities reside in.
- Market and develop leads with a variety of business/manufacturing/service organizations to secure work that provides meaningful opportunities for clients and staff.
- Positively represent the Agency in all client interaction and business development responsibilities.
- Implement fundraising activities to develop holistic and personalized partnerships that engage individual contributors, corporations and community groups:
- Use ethical fundraising principles.
- Oversee the planning and execution of fundraising events specified in Agency’s development plan.
- Identify and nurture endowments.
- Manage all deadlines, workflows, and project plans for fundraising activities, including:
- Internal timelines for collection of information.
- Timely completion schedules.
- Projection of successful achievement of funding requests.
- Participate in the planning and coordination of creative, strategic, and meaningful appeals, campaigns, and activities to engage new and existing donors both online and in-person.
- Understand all aspects of the Agency’s Mission.
- Actively seek to deepen current donor relationships and forge new ones, while cultivating past supporters and re-engaging lapsed donors/sponsors.
- Work with CFO to develop a comprehensive communications plan to promote the Agency to its donors and maximize public awareness of fundraising activities of the organization; prepare or oversee the development of a high-quality donor communications materials that demonstrate deep knowledge of the Agency’s programs and promote its’ Mission, (e.g. solicitation materials, thank you letters, annual reports).
- Manages all social media accounts and up dates regularly.
- Develop and maintain relationship management systems that increase the organization's capacity to cultivate and sustain meaningful relationships with donors and funders.
- Attends and represents Futures Unlimited at business and community events during off hours, evenings and weekends as necessary.
- Research, evaluate and recommend new fundraising opportunities and tactics in alignment with the Agency’s values. strategic priorities, and program work.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date donor and fundraising data that respects the privacy and confidentiality of donor information.
- Identifies and secures grants from various resources that support the mission and purpose of Futures Unlimited.
- Follow-up action items by completing tasks and documenting results.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in marketing, journalism, public relations, social services or related field.
- At least 2 years of fundraising, marketing or sales experience required.
- Experience working in a career field with individuals with disabilities.
- Ability to process a high volume of work.
- Strong administrative, organizational and customer service skills, with impeccable follow-up.
- Solid communication and interpersonal skills, including cold calling and the ability to build rapport.
- Ability to process computer data and format/generate reports.
- Mathematical knowledge to include basic addition, subtraction, division, multiplications and computing averages.
- Advanced Microsoft Office skills such as Word and Excel.
This position is a Full time position, Monday through Friday. Schedule based on marketing/business development and outreach needs. Additional hours may be required to assure quality of service. This individual reports directly to the CFO/Assistant Executive Director.
Benefits Offered: Medical, Dental , LTD, company provided and optional life insurance, 401(k), Sick, PTO, Holidays.
