Fundraising Coordinator, Individual and Major Gifts

Job Summary:
The Philanthropic Investment team plays an integral role in supporting the mission, vision, and impact of the Commit Partnership by cultivating, securing, and stewarding investors in the organization’s work. We work collaboratively across the organization and with external partners to secure an annual budget of at least $40M.

The Fundraising Coordinator will serve as a critical team member within the Philanthropic Investments Team, supporting individual and major giving and investor communications and engagement. This role requires strong communication, organizational, analytical, and project management skills to support and streamline the team’s efforts along with critical thinking and problem-solving skills to troubleshoot and creatively bring solutions to the team. Reporting to the Director of Philanthropic Investments, this role will work closely with all Philanthropy team members to meet personal, team, and organization-wide goals.

This job description is only a summary and is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required by the employee. This document is subject to change at any time.


Essential Duties and Responsibilities

1. Individual and Major Giving Coordinator:
   1. Assist in planning and implementing individual giving strategies, such as annual campaigns, online/digital solicitations, and direct appeals with the Director of Philanthropic Investments.
   2. Plan and implement the North Texas Giving Day campaign and End of the Year Campaign annually using online and digital fundraising appeals.
   3. Conduct investor research, analyzing net worth, giving history, interests, and potential to support engagement efforts and qualify leads and prospective investors.
   4. Support the planning, scheduling, and execution of fundraising events, cultivation activities, and investor engagement experiences such as networking events, cocktail hours, and investor meetings.
   5. Develop project timelines, manage schedules, and coordinate all necessary event logistics (e.g., room reservations, accommodations, transportation, and catering) for events with guidance from the Manager of Investor Communications.
   6. Support project management and execution of investor communications, including planning and implementing mail and email campaigns, webinars, one-pagers, stewardship gifts, and periodic investor updates.
   7. Execute administrative functions, including preparing investor reports, mailing/email lists, data management, and metric reporting.
   8. Maintain and update investor information in Salesforce.
   9. Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications and Skills Required (Minimum):

• Have a passion for public education and a commitment to excellence for all students. 
• Demonstrate strong organizational skills and attention to detail. 
• Exhibit strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills. 
• Able to adapt quickly to frequent change.
• Be an ambitious self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment and is eager to learn and contribute.  
• Proficient in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Salesforce (or similar CRM).

Education and/or Experience Required (Minimum):

• A bachelor’s degree or higher in business, communication, marketing, nonprofit administration, or other related fields.
• At least 2 years of experience in office administration, education, project management, nonprofit, and/or fundraising.

Preferred:

• Experience with gift project management and/or fundraising in a nonprofit.
• Familiarity with nonprofit investor management practices.
• Experience with Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud (or other fundraising CRM) with the knowledge, understanding, and ability to conduct accurate and efficient data entry, build reports, and create mailing lists.
• Experience with Teamwork project management (or similar) software with the knowledge, understanding, and ability to build projects, create templates, and manage workflows.

Philanthropic Investments Team Standards/How We Work:

• Relationships drive our work.
• We are obsessed with communicating to our investors about outcomes and their impact on students and systems.
• We are students of Commit and public education and continuously seek to stay informed about our work and public education.
• We operate with a customer service mindset.
• Our work is data-driven, future-thinking, innovative, and entrepreneurial.
• We are meticulous about systems, processes, data, and our numbers.
• We lead with our individual strengths and skills and succeed as a team.

BENEFITS
Basic life and AD&D insurance provided
Professional Development 
Hybrid work environment
8 paid holidays
Flexible PTO
Volunteer hours
Voting hours
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
Health savings account
Flexible spending account
Paid maternity and paternity leave
And More!

Work Environment:

• This is a Dallas-based position with a minimum requirement to be in person in the Commit Partnership offices on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.

Job Requirements:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed must be representative of the knowledge, skills, minimum education, training, licensure, experience, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

 

About The Commit Partnership:

Our Mission

We believe that through our actions, Dallas County – which educates 10% of Texas and 1% of the nation– can be an inclusive and prosperous region where economic opportunity is shared equitably. That’s why our true north goal is that by 2040 at least half of all 25-34-year-old residents of Dallas County, irrespective of race, will be provided the opportunity to earn a living wage.

To increase living wage attainment, we must equitably increase educational success aligned with high-demand jobs, maximizing the cumulative impact from early education all the way to college, career, and/or military readiness and accessing and completing a strong postsecondary education. Our staff aligns community stakeholders around this shared future roadmap – analyzing data to lift up strategic initiatives that improve policies, practices, and funding that grow our community’s capacity to serve every student more effectively.

Our Story

Founded in 2012, this partnership is the nation’s largest educational collective impact organization, composed of backbone staff and over 200 partners across Dallas County and the state of Texas working collaboratively to solve systemic education challenges. Our staff aligns community stakeholders around a shared future roadmap – analyzing data to lift up strategic initiatives that improve policies, practices, and funding that grow our community’s capacity to serve every student more effectively.

Together, we work to advocate for excellent and equitable public education that ensures all students – regardless of race, place, or socio-economic status – have the power to determine their future and earn a living wage. We do this work through several ventures including Early Matters Dallas, North Texas Tutoring Corps, Dallas County Promise, Texas College Bridge, Dallas Thrives, Commit’s Policy Team, the Texas Impact Network, and several coalitions.

True North Traits

Our True North Traits creates a mission-driven environment and champions us to do our best work each day.

Systemic Impact: You understand the barriers and lived experiences that our students face and are skilled at delivering systemic solutions at scale that address these needs. You achieve significant, sustainable results that increase equitable outcomes through your work (including the reallocation or improvement in public funding), and you recognize the difference between activity and impact.

Judgment: You exhibit a relentless “students first” focus by thinking strategically about what data must be collected, analyzed, visualized, and activated (and what steps must be taken, in what order) to cause resources to be reallocated and actions to be taken to systemically overcome the root causes hindering achievement of the Partnership's mission.

Communication: By listening to understand before seeking to be understood, you’re able to build trust and facilitate collaboration across lines of difference, recognizing that both are essential to our success. You are also able to find common ground with diverse stakeholders and can tailor the organization's message to different audiences as needed to influence meaningful change.

Innovation: You can create or meaningfully contribute to the design and execution of a systemic and transformational strategic plan to solve complex problems, often at scale, that improves organizational effectiveness and/or closes equity gaps for our students and families.

Equity and Inclusion: You intentionally create spaces where relevant stakeholders have a seat or voice at the table, ensuring that each person at the table's thoughts and perspectives are shared, valued by all others at the table, and reflected in our work. You're excited to help build and/or contribute to teams where everyone feels welcomed, respected, valued, and highly supported.

Joy: You recognize that people are central to our work, striking a balance between people and process, and you inspire others with your optimism and thirst for substantive change in service to the mission.

Integrity: You admit mistakes openly, share learnings widely, and elevate bad news quickly, also capable of making difficult decisions in all situations to ensure the success of the organization.

The Commit Partnership is an Equal Opportunity Employer that seeks to hire individuals with backgrounds similar to that of the stakeholders they serve. As an organization that embraces equity and inclusion, all employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local laws.

Commit does not sponsor visas of any kind.

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