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Development Coordinator
Position Title: Development Coordinator
Reports To: Director of Community Engagement and Brand Strategy
FLSA Status: Full time - Salaried, exempt as defined under Fair Labor Standards Act
Location: Sanford Administration
Content Last Revised: 03/28/2025
Organization Overview
The Central Florida Family Health Center, Inc. dba True Health is a private, not-for-profit federally qualified health center (FQHC) serving Central Florida since 1977. Our mission is to provide high-quality, comprehensive healthcare at a reasonable cost to everyone.
Job Summary
The Development Coordinator is responsible for supporting fundraising, donor engagement, and outreach efforts to increase financial support and community partnerships for True Health. This role assists with donor cultivation, event coordination, sponsorship outreach, and relationship-building activities to enhance True Health’s philanthropic initiatives. This is NOT a remote position.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintains a transparent, effective relationship with the executive and senior leadership team by supporting the organization’s activities
- Fosters an environment and culture that focuses on fulfilling the company’s mission, vision, and values
- Creates fundraising strategies to secure financial and in-kind support
- Assist with identifying and cultivating relationships with individual donors, corporate sponsors, and community partners
- Support donor communication efforts, including thank-you letters, donor updates, and stewardship initiatives
- Assist in coordinating fundraising campaigns and sponsorship outreach efforts
- Maintain donor databases, track contributions, and generate reports as needed
- Assist with donor and community engagement efforts to support fundraising and development initiatives
- Support fundraising and donor appreciation events, including planning, logistics, and execution
- Represent True Health at community outreach events, networking functions, and donor cultivation meetings
- Develops event-related promotional materials and outreach strategies to increase donor engagement
- Support and/or lead efforts to enhance brand visibility and positioning through external communication and storytelling
- Develop/and or participate in content development for external audiences, including digital and print materials, newsletters, and community reports
- Participate in strategic engagement initiatives that expand True Health’s presence in the community
- Build and maintain partnerships with businesses, nonprofits, and civic organizations to foster collaboration and engagement
- Build and maintain consistent communication with federal, state, and local government agencies, legislators, and support personnel
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to coordinate development and donor initiatives
- Advocate for True Health within the community by cultivating relationships with local leaders, policymakers, and mission-aligned organizations
- Collaborate with the Director of Community Engagement and Brand Strategy to support donor cultivation and sponsorship engagement
- Participate in annual budget planning for the organization
- Assist with organization fundraising projects as needed
- Establishes and implements short- and long-range organizational goals, objectives, strategic plans, policies, and operating procedures; monitors and evaluates programmatic and operational effectiveness, and effects changes required for improvement
- Develops and implements written, objective policies and procedures
- Participates in professional development activities and maintains professional affiliations
- Fosters and develops partnerships to further the mission of the organization
- Travel as necessary using personal vehicle (must maintain current auto insurance at own expense)
- Other responsibilities as assigned
Essential Functions
- Problem Solving
- Project Management
- Customer Service
- Verbal Communication
- Written Communication
- Leadership
- Professional Judgement
- Planning/Organizing
- Adaptability
- Initiative
- Innovation
- Administration/Operations
- Financial Management
- Vision
Minimum Qualifications
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Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in the Public Administration, Communications, Marketing, or similar field preferred
- Associate’s degree required
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Experience:
- Minimum of one (1) years’ experience in Fundraising, Major Gifts, or Non-Profit Development preferred
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office (Ex. Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Canva) preferred
- Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) or community health experience a plus
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Licenses or Certifications:
- N/A
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Criminal Background Clearance:
- True Health is a Health Center Program grantee under 42 U.S.C. 254b, a deemed Public Health Service employee under 42 U.S.C. 233(g)-(n), and partners with agencies that require criminal background checks. True Health has established policies and procedures that may influence the overall employment process, hiring, and “just cause” for the termination of employees. An employee’s career could be shortened if there is a violation of any policies and procedures.
Prohibited criminal behavior is defined in Florida Statute (F.S.) 408.809. Any employee arrested for any offense outlined in the F.S.408.809 will be immediately suspended and remain suspended until the charges are disposed of in court. The employee will be terminated for an arrest or conviction of any violation listed above.
DRUG/ALCOHOL SCREENINGS
A post-offer drug and alcohol screen is a requirement for employment. Failure to successfully pass the drug/alcohol screen will be cause for the offer to be rescinded. Employees are subject to random drug/alcohol screenings throughout the duration of their employment with True Health. If an employee fails to pass the drug/alcohol screening, then this shall become grounds for discipline up to and including immediate termination.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
- The employee is subject to prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
- The employee is subject to perform repetitive hand and wrist motions.
- The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, talk, and hear.
- The employee is occasionally required to use hands to handle or feel objects, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, and move or lift up to twenty-five (25) pounds.
- The employee is required to use close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and adjust focus.
- A reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
WORKING CONDITIONS
The employee will work as the needs of the operation require. Normal work days and hours are Monday through Thursday, 8am – 6pm and Fridays, 8am – 12pm; however, there will be times when the employee will need to come in or work on “off hours” or “off days” to meet the needs of the position.
CORE COMPETENCIES
Mission-Focused: Commits to and embraces True Health’s mission to enable access to care for uninsured and underinsured individuals.
Relationship-Oriented: Understands that people come before process and is essential in cultivating and managing relationships toward a common goal.
Collaborator: Understands the roles and contributions of all sectors of the organization and can mobilize resources (financial and human) through meaningful engagement.
Results-Driven: Dedicated to shared and measurable goals for the common good; creating, resourcing, scaling, and leveraging strategies and innovations for broad investment and community impact.
Brand Steward: Steward of True Health’s brand and understands his/her role in growing and protecting the reputation and results of the greater organization.
Visionary: Confronts the complex realities of the environment and simultaneously maintains faith in a different and better future, providing purpose, direction, and motivation.
Team-Builder: Fosters commitment, trust, and collaboration among internal and external stakeholders.
Business Acumen: Possesses a high-level of broad business and management skills and contributes to generating financial support for the organization.
Network-Oriented: Values the power of networks; strives to leverage True Health’s breadth of community presence, relationships, and strategy.
SELECTION GUIDELINES
The job description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and employee and is subject to change by the employer as the needs of the employer and requirements of the job change.
INCUMBENT’S ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
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