Corporate Partner Coordinator

Caritas of Austin • Austin, TX

23h • $22 - $26 • Remote

About The Position

The Corporate Partner Coordinator is responsible for generating $430,000+ in annual revenue through three key fundraising campaigns. This dynamic, organized, and creative professional fundraiser builds and maintains relationships with local businesses, national and international corporations, and community organizations such as churches, civic groups, and schools. Highly visible within the organization, this position plays an integral role on the Development team and collaborates closely with all staff members to achieve shared fundraising goals. The ideal candidate is a self-starter with exceptional time management, strong written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Non-Profit Management, Business, Marketing, Communications, Social Work, or related field.
• Ability to ask for monetary donations, to manage multiple tasks and priorities simultaneously in a fast-paced environment, and to strategically prioritize projects and responsibilities.
• Collaborates well with internal and external stakeholders.
• Very strong social skills, ability to engage successful business leaders in the problems and solutions of homelessness in Austin.
• Ability to pique interest from corporate employees and feed their desire to “give back” in meaningful ways.
• Excellent organizational/project management skills with a particular focus on managing details and meeting deadlines.
• Demonstrates initiative and follow through on assignments; self-motivated and goal oriented.
• Professional written and verbal communication skills, outstanding customer service skills.
• Ability to work independently on projects with minimal supervision.
• Very strong attention to detail.
• Strong interpersonal skills and confidence speaking with diverse populations and representing agency in the community.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality of all internal donor and client information.
• Ability to respond with sensitivity and awareness to those with diverse cultural, ethnic, social backgrounds, values, attitudes and languages.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook)
• Valid Driver’s License and reliable transportation required.
• Normal work hours and days assigned based on a work week of 40 hours.
• This role requires flexibility to work occasional evenings, weekends and holidays in support of agency events.
• All staff participate in event activities as part of our team commitment.
• The annual Thundercloud Subs Turkey Trot is on Thanksgiving Day, and this position will be required to work this day.

Nice To Haves

• Minimum two years’ experience working in the nonprofit field or in sales.

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary contact for a portfolio of corporate, business, faith and community donors across various Caritas of Austin events and giving platforms.
• Achieve annual giving goals by building relationships with donors and prospects to strengthen their relationship with Caritas and manage their progression through the moves management cycle.
• Develop an annual Corporate Partners strategy and stewardship plan to reach budget goals including creating individual strategies for each corporate partner and prospect to cultivate and solicit donations/ partnerships.
• Coordinate opportunities for Corporate Partners to support Caritas through cause-related fundraising initiatives, employee engagement, and other efforts.
• Collaborate with the Employment and Volunteer departments to identify corporations with already established Caritas relationships who could become Corporate Partners.
• Through research and networking, prospect and approach prospects at the local and national level to become long-term partners for Caritas, particularly in the areas of high tech, real estate, and venture capital.
• Research and keep abreast of new corporations moving into Austin and proactively approach them to be community partners with Caritas.
• Create and implement an annual plan for approaching new prospects.
• Design a Benefits Plan for all Corporate Partners to include employment engagement opportunities, program support, brand recognition, event sponsorship, and volunteer leadership.
• Proactively seek new community engagement and fundraising opportunities in the greater Austin area that relate to donor and volunteer cultivation.
• Attend and present to prospective community partners around the Greater Austin area.
• Screen all potential events to ensure they align with Caritas’ mission and values.
• Create and implement a cultivation and engagement strategy for all community partners.
• Develop strong personal relationships with new and long-time community partners.
• Formulate stewardship strategies for each partner that are creative, timely, and that energize partners.
• Work with Caritas volunteer programs to incorporate many volunteers in order to expose, educate and build loyalty to Caritas for the long-term.
• Ensure key individuals within community partners consistently receive newsletters, collateral, annual reports, event invitations, etc.
• Identify leaders to serve on committees, CAB and help identify possible Board level volunteers.
• Create and maintain excellent records in Raiser’sEdge of all interactions with corporations, including key leaders and employees current and past, giving amounts, past strategies and effectiveness of those strategies, all participants in corporate volunteer activities, general health of the corporation or business.
• Document and maintain lists of workplaces giving programs in the community that give to Caritas.
• Establish contacts at current and perspective businesses/corporations for workplace giving for that company.
• Do regular follow-up with all workplace giving contacts to achieve Cartas’ workplace giving budget goals for the year.
• Other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Employer paid health, dental, vision, life, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance for employees.
• 14 Paid Holidays per year.
• 20 days of accrued PTO in year one with increases up to 31 days per year.
• Retirement plan with employer match.
• Discounted Rates on Gold’s Gym and Legal Shield memberships.
• Mileage Reimbursement.
• Monthly Phone Stipend.
• Monthly Paid Parking for employees who office from Downtown Location.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level