CNHF Development Coordinator, Foundation Relations

The Development Coordinator plays a key role in supporting the Foundation Relations (FR) team's operations, donor engagement, and grant development efforts. This position is ideal for a detail-oriented professional with strong organizational and communication skills and a passion for advancing philanthropic partnerships.

Responsibilities include providing administrative and operational support, participating in donor engagement and stewardship, conducting prospect research and cultivating donor relationships.
May also manage relationships with faculty and a portfolio of donors and prospects with the expectation to maintain and grow relationships.

Other duties as assigned related to Children's National Hospital Foundation.

• Assist in in the cultivation, solicitation and stewardship of prospects and donors.

• Participate with in-person/virtual visits with donors and prospects under the direction of management; may be involved in direct solicitation and have fundraising goal.

• Host tours to prospective donors and prospects to demonstrate the need for fundraising and steward previous giving.

• Manage post meeting and event donor stewardship and data clean-up.

• Draft strategic fundraising materials, briefings, and presentations based on independently gathered information.

• Anticipate and responds to needs and requests from donors and the team; is pro-active in assisting and follows up until needs are met.

• Evaluate the data generated from Raiser's Edge and online fundraising platforms for accuracy and then independently follows through to correct errors and analyze fundraising trends.

• Coordinate sections of large projects or entire small projects, independently.

• Provide project management support to ensure deadlines are met, input is gathered from appropriate staff, and approvals are obtained.

• Provide project management for proposals, stewardship reports, donor communications, business plans, briefings, presentations, agendas, minutes, etc.

• Assist to enter and track donor information in Raiser's Edge to inform strategies and tactics

• Provide high-quality writing and editing assistance on proposals, reports and correspondence.

• Anticipate and responds to customer needs; follows up until needs are met

• Demonstrate collaborative and respectful behavior

• Partner with all team members to achieve goals

• Receptive to others' ideas and opinions

• Contribute to a positive work environment

• Demonstrate flexibility and willingness to change

• Identify opportunities to improve clinical and administrative processes

• Make appropriate decisions, using sound judgment

• Use resources efficiently

• Search for less costly ways of doing things

• Speak up when team members appear to exhibit unsafe behavior or performance

• Continuously validate and verify information needed for decision making or documentation

• Stop in the face of uncertainty and takes time to resolve the situation

• Demonstrate accurate, clear and timely verbal and written communication

• Actively promote safety for patients, families, visitors and co-workers

• Attend carefully to important details - practicing Stop, Think, Act and Review in order to self-check behavior and performance