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Development Coordinator 🔥


About the IWMF:

The International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) is the only global non-profit organization that offers emergency support, safety training, global reporting opportunities, and funding for both staff reporters and freelancers, all specifically tailored for women and gender diverse journalists. Our mission is to ensure more opportunities, bylines, and recognition of women journalists and create a greater diversity of voices in journalism.

Role Overview:

The IWMF is run by a staff passionate about protecting, supporting, and promoting women and journalists. Our development department is seeking a creative, independent, detail-oriented, and highly motivated Development Coordinator.

Responsibilities

Reporting to the Senior Development Manager of the IWMF and working closely with the IWMF’s Executive Director, the Development Coordinator will assist the development department to create and implement original campaigns and strategies that will engage new donors and convert them into regular contributors to our mission.


The Development Coordinator will assist in in bringing structure and efficacy to IWMF’s donor outreach throughout the year and will initiate the implementation of a constituency databases, keeping track and updating such lists, enhancing fundraising efforts, helping organize event logistics, and other tasks related to partnerships, cultivation, and development.

 

This position is based at the IWMF’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. The IWMF is committed to maintaining a diverse workforce, and we seek applications from candidates of all backgrounds.


Fundraising

  • Assist with coordination of Courage fundraising with senior development manager and executive director
  • Assist in the development of fundraising campaigns throughout the year
  • Contribute to ongoing communications with donors, including tacking of such
  • Assist senior development manager in analyzing donor database, developing data prospect list and initiating outreach as prioritized with the executive director.
  • Research to identify funder prospects.
  • Working with finance and accounting firm to ensure reconciled record keeping.
  • Process credit card payments in Classy, as needed, retrieving record of website payments from the IWMF website.
  • Distribute contribution acknowledgments.
  • Assist with logistics of cultivation events, including liaising with external partners and creating internal Asana work plans

 

Database Management and Logistics

  • Assist in tracking and inputting data into Salesforce
  • Keep accurate record on partner and donor names and affiliation for recognition.
  • Coordination of thank you correspondence.
  • Coordinate with the senior development manager, the executive director, and relevant consultants on partners and donor cultivation, including strategy, correspondence, tracking, follow up & thank you's.

 

Grants

  • Track existing partnerships, grants including funder payments, reports and other deadlines.
  • Co-write foundation reports, letters of inquiry, grant proposals and funder reports.
  • Oversight of reporting to ensure the IWMF meeting guidelines and needs.
  • Electronic (Salesforce) and hard copy (office files) record keeping of partnerships, grants proposals, reports and payments.

 

Other

  • Occasional scheduling, correspondence, administrative tasks and travel arrangements.

 

 Role Requirements

  • A deep passion and commitment to non-profit work and the role of women and journalists in a flourishing and progressive society.
  • 2-3 years of experience working in a media, journalism, gender equity, or related/adjacent industry
  • 2-3 years in a development or fundraising role with external-facing duties
  • Experience with social media platforms is a plus
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Familiarity with Salesforce, Asana, and Evernote strongly preferred.

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