ADRC - Grant and Development Coordinator (LTE - Benefit Eligible)

Job Summary

WHY YOU’LL LOVE WORKING HERE // Each day is an opportunity to help others and make a difference in your community.   You’ll be a part of a mission driven, team-based organization that is committed to:
 

• Empowering growth through training, enrichment, and leadership opportunities
• Working together to elevate each other
• Fostering partnerships through meaningful interactions
• Disrupting the status quo to envision and create our future
• Being a catalyst for change
• Cultivating joy and celebrating one another

YOUR IMPACT // This position offers a unique opportunity to help fill gaps in the Brown County Community that help lift the ADRC initiatives and other partner’s work.
 
YOUR EXPERIENCE // We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, because we believe it makes our agency stronger. The ADRC values a diverse workforce, applicants that are multilingual and/or multicultural are encouraged to apply.

JOB SUMMARY:
The Grant & Development Coordinator provides organized, thoughtful vision for effective annual giving strategies. Able to execute tactics that capture the attention of annual donors and communicate the ADRC’s brand impactfully; an effective and persuasive writer familiar with strategies to reach customers and donors to inspire philanthropy with words and images. A relationship builder, grant writer, and communicator with innovative approaches to fund development. 

Essential Duties

MAJOR RESPONSIBITIES:
 
Grant Writing
Identify and write grants that help fill gaps in the Brown County Community that help lift the ADRC initiatives and other partner’s work. 
 
Analyze grant impact, track reporting requirements, assure funds are spent appropriately, and reports are constructed to meet requirements. 
 
Seek opportunities with local/state/national foundations, funds, businesses, and organizations that help meet the ADRC mission.
 
Donor And Community Engagement
Lead efforts to identify, steward, cultivate and solicit appropriate donors and prospects. Establish a comprehensive development plan to include:
 

• Major gifts: develop a cultivation, identification, stewardship, and solicitation plan for existing and prospective donors, including conducting prospect reviews.
• Corporate philanthropy: establish meaningful relationships with corporate leaders to seek their financial support through donations, sponsorships, and in-kind contributions.
• Planned Giving: promote and execute planned giving/legacy program, including memorial gifts.

Tracks donors and maintains systems that provide data analytics for ongoing impact of activities. 
 
Works closely with the Marketing and Communication team to assure messaging, materials, and newsletters support donor engagement. 
 
Works collaboratively with special task forces, internal and external (community) committees to network, promote and coordinate ADRC opportunities in the community.
 
Provides promotional activities in the form of booths and/or public speaking engagements to educate about and promote aging and disability services in the community to potential donors and targeted audiences.  
 
Works collaboratively with ADRC marketing and finance/quality teams to plan and implement a comprehensive communication and resource development plan. 
 
 
Fund Development
 Plan, coordinate, and execute agency fundraising events that achieve annual financial goals – manage budgets, logistics, volunteers, marketing, and promotional efforts, and fund development activities.
 
Cultivate and steward partnerships and sponsorships for agency events and collaborative projects/grants
 
Create opportunities to cultivate and develop meaningful relationships for the organization via event participants, donors, local businesses, and community members.
 
Navigates the ADRC non-profit status as it interfaces with government restrictions to fundraising activities. 
 
Assist with advocacy with legislative platforms that help increase the ADRC programs and allocations. 
 
Create and implement a legacy donor program that creates long term sustainable funding. 
 
General
Completes and maintains appropriate and timely documentation.
Attends and participates in staff development programs, including in-service training and staff meetings. 
Complies with applicable federal and state laws, administrative rules, established agency procedures and accepted professional standards. 
Participates in the work setting as a team player
Advocates for issues that impact seniors and/or adults with disabilities; represents their concerns within the community; informs consumers of programs and legislative issues that affect them.
Has a “Duty to Report” during a community emergency/disaster according to the ADRC Emergency Preparedness Plan.
Adheres to privacy and confidentiality policies regarding consumer and/or personnel information.
Performs other job-related responsibilities as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications Required

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:
 
Education and Experience:
Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university in communications, public administration, nonprofit fund development, or related field; or, a combination or education and experience that includes not less than two years working in grant writing, fund development or any equivalent combination of training and experience which provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.
 
Licenses and Certifications:
Valid State of Wisconsin driver’s license and a satisfactory motor vehicle record.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES
Knowledge of and demonstrated compliance with professional ethics and boundaries, standards, and codes of conduct.
Knowledge donor engagement and fund development principles and strategies.
Knowledge of grant opportunities, processes, and effective outcomes. 
Knowledge of planning, organizing and problem-solving strategies.
Knowledge communication and marketing strategies that impact messaging for donor engagement. 
Knowledge of public service agencies, laws and regulations governing or affecting ADRC programs and services.
Knowledge of HIIPPA, privacy, and confidentiality standards of practice. 
Ability to engage older people and people with disabilities and assess the gaps in service systems
Ability to deal tactfully with difficult situations, political processes, and advocacy opportunities.
Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing including the ability to communicate effectively to a variety of types of persons, both individually and in groups.
Ability to proficiently use a computer and related office equipment, demonstrating familiarity with required software and database programs.
Ability to establish priorities for service intervention.
Ability to be decisive and to make sound decisions under the pressure of crisis or emergency situations.
Ability to participate in a work setting as a team player.
Ability to work inclusively and respectfully within a diverse campus community and practice civility in the workplace
Ability to demonstrate strong oral, written, interpersonal, and organizational skills, demonstrated integrity and strong leadership, and the willingness to work independently and as part of a collaborative team.