Summary and Objective

As the Development Coordinator, you will play a key role in helping to cultivate and manage relationships with our partners, ensuring tasks are completed efficiently and thoroughly. You will also track contributions and ensure that partner engagement remains seamless and well-organized, driving the success of our development goals.

This position is ideal if you find joy in helping others and take pride in ensuring projects move forward to completion.

Essential Functions

• Assist in building and maintaining relationships with our partners (donors), providing key administrative and project support to foster engagement.
• Coordinate and track donor communications using a customer relations management system (e.g., Salesforce and SharePoint).
• Collaborate with the Development team to ensure partners remain involved in our programs and initiatives and perform necessary action items related to partner engagement in the programs.
• Research and identify new potential donors, including individuals, foundations, and corporations aligned with AFA's mission.
• Contribute to developing and executing proposals and communication plans to engage new partners and ensure accurate tracking is reflected in Salesforce and SharePoint.
• Assist in tracking and reporting development metrics, including outreach activities and progress, ensuring alignment with annual fundraising goals.
• Provide logistical and administrative support for fundraising events and campaigns, ensuring smooth execution from planning through completion.
• Assist in coordinating year-end impact reports and updates for partners and donors.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date data regarding donations, financial contributions, and partner engagement.
• Complete yearly updates to application information for grant funders and partners.

Competencies

• Enablement and Tenacity: Driven to assist others and ensure tasks are completed fully and accurately.
• Relationship-Building: Ability to develop meaningful connections with partners, donors, and internal teams.
• Organization: Strong project management skills, capable of juggling multiple responsibilities while meeting deadlines.
• Communication: Excellent written and oral communication skills, particularly in engaging with external stakeholders.
• Adaptability: Comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, supporting various facets of AFA’s development activities.

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in non-profit, business, communications or related field.
• 2+ years of experience in development, fundraising, or customer relationship management.
• Experience with data management software (e.g. Salesforce or similar).
  
  

Preferred Education and Experience

• Familiarity with non-profit organizations or youth programs, particularly in agriculture.
• Experience organizing or supporting fundraising events.
  
  

Work Environment

You will operate primarily in a professional office environment. If remote, you will work primarily from home office.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time role, requiring standard business hours (Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.). You will be expected to work some evenings and weekends as needed.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, and subject to request for reasonable accommodation, the employee is required to constantly operate a computer, and other office equipment as needed. The employee in this position must also be able to remain in a stationary position most of the day and to exchange information with internal and external constituents regularly. Occasionally, the employee may be required to move or position equipment weighing 5-10 pounds. Because travel is frequent and this role represents the organization at other conferences, ability to transport personal belongings and organizational promotional materials for travel, with reasonable accommodation, is necessary.

Travel

Some out-of-area and overnight travel is expected throughout the year.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Agriculture Future of America (AFA) provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, AFA complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. AFA expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of AFA’s employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge.