Advancement Coordinator

**JOB POSTING: Advancement Coordinator (21 Hrs Per Week, 49 Weeks Per Year)**
**Salary range: 24.82 to 28.48 per hour, plus benefits package including tuition remission.**

**Salary commensurate with experience.**

Waldorf Education is renowned world-wide for its commitment to social change and cultural renewal through a regionally adaptive education that promotes collaborative, inclusive practices, and fosters awareness of the interconnectedness of all living things. The Trillium Waldorf School vision, mission, and guiding principles demonstrate the depth and sincerity of this commitment to our local and global communities.

**_Vision_**
- We envision a community which nurtures, through compassion and love, the healthy unfolding of free-thinking individuals who_
- develop the forces and capacities to courageously and creatively meet their life intentions._

**_Mission_**
- Inspired by the work of Rudolf Steiner, Trillium Waldorf School cultivates social renewal by providing a comprehensive Waldorf_
- education that lays foundations for Imagination, Inspiration, and Intuition, and fosters each child’s potential._

**Position Overview**

The Advancement Officer leads the advancement and outreach activities of the school. This position will build upon and maintain the momentum of the recent Capital Campaign, direct fundraising priorities both in major gifts and campaign activities while building a culture of philanthropy through alumni and parents of the school.

**Reporting Structure & Compensation**

This position reports to the Administrator and works closely with the Development Committee.

**Role Description**

The Advancement Officer will be responsible for building, implementing, and evaluating a fundraising strategy designed to generate robust and sustainable revenue streams that enable the continued advancement of the school’s mission, vision, and goals.

The Advancement Officer will work closely with the Board, Faculty, Administrator, Treasurer, Parents, Development

Committee and Alumni Committee to create, articulate and fulfill a philanthropic vision;
Maintain the focus on Capital Campaign donors and Bond Campaign;
Investors: Continue stewardship of current campaign donors while maintaining pledge details (cc; pledge payments) and fulfillment of gift agreements;
Work towards maintaining and increasing fundraising activities with current donors through developing new fundraising opportunities and building upon existing fundraising activities that grow a variety of revenue streams;
Work with stakeholders to create and fulfill annual fundraising plan to maintain a steady stream of philanthropic gifts on the order of $100k-$200k per year;
Conduct donor research, donor acquisition, cultivation, and stewardship efforts;
Work with stakeholders to create and fulfill an annual “friend-raising including:

- Maintain cultivation and stewardship efforts with alumni students, parents, grandparents, and friends of Trillium

Waldorf School
- Plan and coordinate development outreach at school public events such as the Spring Fair and Cranberry Market
- Maintain the donor database

**Main Areas of Responsibilities**
- Oversee the preparation of high-quality development publications, including Annual Fund letters and brochures, Annual Report, development of campaign publications, and any other materials relating to school fundraising and outreach.
- Coordinate with the Finance Manager to process gifts, complete necessary reports, (Keela database or other), maintain records and related processes to ensure appropriate and timely acknowledgment of donors.
- Work collaboratively with internal and external constituencies of the school, including parents, grandparents, friends, alumni, faculty, staff, the Board of Trustees, and development-related networks beyond the immediate school community.
- Participate on relevant school committees, including Alumni Committee, Development Committee and Enrollment Committee
- Attend and coordinate significant community events where a Waldorf presence is desirable
- Work with administration, faculty, and parent volunteers on promotional events and activities
- Coordinate Open Houses and Alumni events
- Work with designer on ads, flyers, and promotional materials

**Skills**
- Willingness to embrace the Trillium Waldorf School mission and vision and its pedagogical philosophy
- Experience in identifying, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding of individuals for major gifts.
- Proven track record of soliciting and closing major gifts, including three or more years of progressively responsible fundraising experience.
- Familiarity with multi-faceted campaign planning, implementation, and management.
- Ability to represent the school to a wide range of groups and individuals
- Demonstrated experience in coordinating and managing outreach events.
- Experience in effectively serving as a public representative for nonprofit organization
- The Advancement Officer ideally holds an und