Development Coordinator

National Family Farm Coalition and North American Marine Alliance are looking for a full-time Development Coordinator to support the fundraising needs of both organizations. This position is shared between the two non-profit organizations in the context of a shared leadership model.

We are looking for someone who gets joy out of supporting vibrant, values-based food system work, has a keen attention to detail, is trustworthy, has a good grasp of technology, and can thrive as part of a team even if that team is spread across the country. Some prior development or fundraising experience is preferred, but qualified candidates who are excited about this aspect of nonprofit work are encouraged to apply.

This person reports to our Development Director and works closely with them and other team members and staff to ensure the organizations’ fundraising needs are met. This is a full-time exempt position with a starting pay range of $60,000 to $80,000 per year in addition to generous time off, flexible working hours, and other benefits. 

Most of our team members operate in the Eastern time zone. The Development Coordinator can work remotely from anywhere in the US or in one of our offices in Washington, DC, or Gloucester, MA if desired. Some travel to occasional team meetings and staff retreats is required (approximately 10-15% of total time).

Key Responsibilities and Primary Duties

• Conduct grant and foundation research using publicly available information and databases to build funder profiles
• Enter and maintain accurate up-to-date funder and donor information in our CRM system; Ensure accurate data synchronizes with our other systems
• Produce and share monthly reports with other team/board members as needed.
• Provide support for fundraising activities, including entering and maintaining donor data, processing donations, and issuing timely acknowledgments 
• Help launch and lead a new recurring giving program, and explore future peer-to-peer and team fundraising approaches
• Maintain our online donation platform and donor management system
• Collaborate to develop strategies, narratives, fundraising campaign themes, and messaging and content creation for use in funder/donor communications, end-of-year appeals, and funder-oriented events
• Grow into managing our annual fundraising campaigns in 2025
• Track, manage, and communicate about our development activities in our project management system, ensuring no deadlines are missed and all deliverables are produced on time
• Participate in the creation and delivery of short and long-term strategic development plans built on values-based, sustainable growth, authentic relationship-stewarding, and results
• Support the creation and delivery of grant proposals, letters of intent, and grant reports as needed
• Help create and support funder-specific communications, development collateral, and events as needed, in collaboration with other staff
• Work closely with other staff and teams, especially our communications and program teams, to ensure that we harmonize our shared narratives, messages, and framing across all communications
• Help maintain and steward our organizational brand identities

Required Qualifications

While no one candidate will possess every quality outlined for this position, the successful candidate will bring many of the following professional qualifications and personal attributes:

• Commitment to racial equity, social justice, economic justice, environmental sustainability, and movement-building
• Passionate about both organization’s missions and about helping them grow sustainably
• Minimum five years experience working in nonprofit settings, preferably with some development or fundraising experience (or very excited to learn development work)
• Excellent interpersonal, organization, and team-building skills
• Exceptional deep listening skills, emotional intelligence, and responsive communication style
• Attention to detail on multiple projects, often simultaneously, and careful proofing of one's own work and that of others
• Ability to write and present information in a clear, professional, and concise manner
• Ability to work independently in a remote/virtual work environment with minimal in-person interaction with other team members while using shared collaboration tools (CRM, project management, Google Suite) to share information and manage work.
• Proven ability to learn quickly, follow through, and see tasks through to completion
• Excellent problem-solving and time-management skills
• Ability to work well within a multicultural team environment with high standards, integrity, and a sense of humor
• Demonstrated technological proficiency, aptitude, and agility in the use of web-based platforms and various shared workplace tools as well as the ability to identify and master new digital tools
• Familiarity with Community Centric Fundraising principles, or willingness to orient in that direction

OUR COMMITMENT TO RACIAL EQUITY AND DIVERSITY

We are two national organizations that have made an explicit commitment to ensuring equity across our food system and society as a whole. We are engaged in national and global movement-building to support the food providers - fishermen, farmers, ranchers, and workers - who lead our work. They range from rural to urban and, although primarily white, also include Black, Indigenous, Latino, and immigrants from around the world. It’s important to us that our team reflects the diversity needed to lead a movement of people from across the planet working for an equitable and sustainable food system. Food-providing businesses are perceived as mostly male-dominated operations, however, women and trans, nonbinary, lesbian, gay, queer, and bisexual people fish and farm. We cannot bring in the voices of the marginalized on the water and land without considering gender. We believe we can only succeed by building a diverse team full of fresh perspectives and original ideas, and we are committed to creating a working environment in which everyone has an equal opportunity to fulfill their potential. Our team includes native and non-native English speakers, self-taught and university-educated, people with all sorts of professional backgrounds. 

If doing the job you just read about would make you excited to come to work every day, if you’re talented, hard-working, and committed to making a difference – we want you to apply.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, age, ancestry, citizenship, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, national origin, political affiliation, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law. 

If you have suggestions for us on how to put these values into practice in our hiring process, we’d value your input. We will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants with disabilities to participate in the application process, so please let us know if you have such a request when you apply.