COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT COORDINATOR

Youth For Christ•Waynesville, NC

13d•$18 - $20

About The Position

The Community Engagement Coordinator (CEC) is a relationship cultivator extraordinaire. S/he is a champion for Youth for Christ Western North Carolina (YFC WNC) to acquire new giving partners while building awareness of YFC's work through effectively using the processes and practices provided through YFC's national development model. Both relationally gifted and motivated by metrics, the CEC is energized by proactive conversations that culminate into seeing a potential giving partner introduced to YFC's work, invited to give, and by seeing enhanced missional commitment towards stated benchmarks and goals. Additionally, s/he is motivated by seeing partners become more generous in their ongoing giving, and by seeing lapsed partners re-engage with our mission. S/he is involved in the entire process of bringing in new prospects and cultivating relationships that connect them to opportunities for involvement and financial giving and ultimately life-long partners of Youth For Christ.

Requirements

MUST enjoy building relationships—and talking on the telephone!
Be comfortable in a public facing role
Be skilled in giving partner recruitment and relationship cultivation
Have the ability to inspire, assemble, and mobilize staff to participate enthusiastically, meeting their “circle of influence” goals
Possess the maturity and ability to interact with all types of people
Enjoy developing relationships with people over time
Be detail-oriented and committed to tracking every conversation in your database
Value and appreciate the power of stories
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Able to follow a prescribed model while working creatively within its parameters
Excited about learning new things
Ability to organize and plan events
Ability to assemble and empower teams
Enjoy networking in your city
Work independently and accomplish required tasks
Must be willing to demonstrate and/or possesses the following:
Ability to humbly serve and honor others even in difficult situations with prayer, consistency, transparency, and resilience. (Enduring Humility).
Demonstrates proper reliance on God, others, and self through generous giving of time and skills, by collaboratively incorporating others' ideas, welcoming candid input, recognizing others' need for grace and extending forgiveness and empathy. (Relentless Trust).
Prioritizes others' needs for a missional outcome, characterized by joy, with active listening and problem-solving skills, while encouraging and empowering fellow believers. (Joyful Camaraderie).Trusts God with new approaches and changes, and communicates needs and limits with emotional intelligence, while seeking confidence and wisdom in Christ. (Courageous Faithfulness)
Seeks and fosters authentic Christ-Centered relationships with people of various backgrounds and an inviting environment and empowers historically marginalized groups and indigenous populations (within the local context), through active listening, inclusion, advocacy of those who are vulnerable and respect of others' experiences. (Kingdom Inspired Diversity).

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree preferred
A passion and drive for fundraising, sales, customer service, or customer experience is a must
Some event planning and management experience. Mist be open to meeting new people and provide a positive interaction for them

Responsibilities

Builds relationships through faithful, personalized touchpoints with current and potential giving partners interested in funding YFC's mission going beyond mass communications.
Graciously and respectfully invites prospects toward financial partnership, and encourages staff and board members to do the same
Effectively follows-up with attendees of all events, and respondents of all communication, entering information into database, cultivating relationships with new partners, guiding them to involvement with YFC WNC's operating funding
Pro-actively reaches out to potential giving partners in an effort to inspire participation with YFC's mission
Promotes relational care of all partners by reporting missional progress, and by expressing gratitude through thank you notes, personal calls, and gifts as appropriate.
Organizes and executes 4-6 See The Story events annually, 1 Be The Story event annually and 1 Appreciation Event annually (virtual or physical)
Organizes and hosts regular “no-ask” donor acquisition tours according to targeted goals
Organizes and hosts “financial ask” events and strategies according to targeted goals
Organizes and hosts appreciation events and strategies according to targeted goals
Adheres to the STS/BTS Playbook for standards and best practices
Executes acquisition-oriented events on social media channels.
Manages invites and RSVP's to all events.
Follows YFC Marketing Plan for promoting each event.
Effectively follows up with attendees of all events, entering information into database, cultivating relationships with new partners, leading them to involvement
Participates in tracking and reporting of data from events, mailing campaigns, etc.
Assembles, empowers, and works with a team of volunteers to execute events.
Utilizes tools and platforms provided by YFC to prepare and send ministry updates to giving partner base in the form of monthly letters, emails, etc.
Collects ministry update content from staff, volunteers and kids (i.e. quotes, stories, images, footage) on an ongoing basis to customize monthly or quarterly communications.
Social Media posts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram once per week
Implements lapsed donor communication strategies and personal follow-up, as advised and equipped by the Development model.
Implements special communication projects, as assigned
Works with interested adults to see them through the YFC Onboarding Process and serves to encourage them in their volunteer role with kids.
Coordinates with the Ministry Director to assign volunteers their ministry roles, volunteer training and conference(s) attendance
Coordinates annual volunteer review and assessment survey
Communicates with volunteers in order to encourage them in their ministry
Trains ministry site leaders in the area of empowering volunteers
Supports ministry site staff in empowering volunteers.
Seek God's guidance and wisdom, through prayer and meditation, for the organization as a whole as well as for specific ministry initiatives. Model empathy, humility and care for all people. This includes promoting equity and inclusion in word and in the practice of faith expression.
All YFC employees are expected to regularly and actively participate in faithful activities that advance the stewardship functions of YFC WNC.
Following YFC's policies and procedures for donor development and fundraising is expected.