Development & Donor Relations Coordinator

Development & Donor Relations Coordinator

[ALSO Youth](https://jobs.flnonprofits.org/company/2376/also-youth/)

Compensation: $53,000 annually ($25.48/hour), plus benefits

Location: Sarasota/Bradenton, FL | Hybrid

Reports To: Executive Director

About ALSO Youth
ALSO Youth provides Advocacy, Leadership, Support, and Outreach for LGBTQIA+ youth and their families throughout Sarasota and Manatee Counties on Florida's west coast. For more than 30 years, ALSO Youth has worked to create affirming communities where LGBTQIA+ youth feel safe, supported, celebrated, and empowered to thrive.

The Opportunity
The Development & Donor Relations Coordinator is a key member of ALSO Youth's fundraising and development efforts, helping turn our mission, relationships, data, and stories into sustainable philanthropic support. Working closely with the Executive Director and Board Development & Marketing Committee, this position helps execute ALSO Youth's Development Plan; manages donor stewardship and development systems; analyzes fundraising and donor data; coordinates appeals and campaigns; supports fundraising events; and helps keep donors and supporters meaningfully connected to our work throughout the year.

What You'll Do
Build & Steward Donor Relationships

• Help implement thoughtful donor cultivation, stewardship, retention, recognition, and re-engagement strategies.
• Maintain and execute donor stewardship plans across donor segments and giving levels.
• Coordinate donor acknowledgments, thank-you communications, impact updates, recognition, and other stewardship activities.
• Help identify opportunities to deepen relationships with current, recurring, lapsed, and prospective donors.
• Support the Executive Director and Board with donor cultivation, research, preparation, and follow-up.
• Maintain accurate records of donor interactions, giving history, interests, and next steps.

Manage Development Data & Systems

• Serve as the primary day-to-day administrator of ALSO Youth's donor CRM, currently Bloomerang.
• Maintain accurate donor, gift, campaign, interaction, and constituent data.
• Create queries, filters, donor segments, lists, reports, and campaign records.
• Pull, clean, organize, manipulate, and analyze donor and fundraising data.
• Build and maintain reports, dashboards, spreadsheets, and trackers.
• Analyze donor retention, giving trends, recurring giving, lapsed donors, campaign performance, and other development metrics.
• Translate data into useful insights that help leadership answer not only “What happened?” but “What should we do next?”
• Coordinate with finance/bookkeeping to reconcile gifts and resolve discrepancies.
• Help improve development workflows, data quality, reporting, and use of technology.

Execute Fundraising Campaigns & the Development Plan

• Help execute ALSO Youth's annual Development Plan.
• Maintain development calendars, deadlines, campaign milestones, and follow-up.
• Coordinate annual giving, direct mail, digital appeals, donor campaigns, and other fundraising initiatives.
• Maintain donor and prospect pipelines and help ensure cultivation opportunities continue moving forward.
• Track fundraising performance and help identify opportunities for growth.
• Support prospect research and donor segmentation.
• Support grant administration and reporting as needed, including maintaining grant calendars and records, gathering program and donor data, tracking deadlines and deliverables, and assisting with reporting requirements.

Tell ALSO Youth's Story
Communications are an important part of how we cultivate and steward our community. In this role, you'll:

• Manage regular donor and constituent email communications.
• Develop fundraising appeals, stewardship communications, newsletters, campaign messaging, and impact stories.
• Maintain website content related to our mission, programs, events, fundraising, and opportunities to get involved.
• Coordinate and schedule social media content supporting organizational storytelling, community engagement, events, and fundraising.
• Work with program staff to identify stories, outcomes, photos, and information that demonstrate ALSO Youth's impact.