Development Coordinator

Company Description
- Join one of _**_Canada’s leading environmental justice organizations _**_and become an agent of change._

**About the David Suzuki Foundation**

The David Suzuki Foundation empowers people to take-action in their communities on the environmental crisis we face, through research, policy, advocacy and education.

The founders of the DSF started the organisation with the belief that diversity and difference was crucial to finding solutions to environmental challenges and for survival. They also recognized that everything is interconnected and interdependent, and that environment and climate cannot be separated from social injustice and inequity. 30 years later, in the midst of a global pandemic we realize that these founding principles are even more relevant than ever.

At DSF, we are committed to anti-racism and Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). We recognize that decolonizing and EDI are an essential part of progressive leadership and fundamental to the environmental and climate crisis we face. Furthermore, as a Canadian settler organisation focused on lands and waters, we must work in solidarity and partnership with Indigenous people. This commitment is reflected in the transforming journey we have started to embed diversity, equity and inclusion, to decolonize and be an anti-racist organization.

We share this to invite those that want to join us on this journey, as we transform ourselves in order to transform our world, to protect nature’s diversity and the well-being of all life now and for the future. Are you interested in working towards a socially and environmentally just world? Do you believe that the issues and solutions are interconnected, and that diversity of identities, lived experiences and worldviews are key to our creativity and survival?

**Job Description**:
**Title**: Development Coordinator, Community Giving

**Details**: One-year term with the possibility of extension (34 hours / 4-day work week)

**Location**: Based at our Vancouver office, this role requires in-office work 2 days per week with flexibility for remote work the rest of the time

**Reporting to**: Development Manager, Community Giving

**Salary**: $45,000 to 48,000 dependent on experience

**About the Role**

As the Development Coordinator, you provide key administrative support to our Development team. Your strengths allow you to complete administrative tasks quickly and accurately, so that we can better serve our donors and team. You love providing great customer service and convey our values effortlessly to donors and other stakeholders. You have a keen eye for details and excel at detail-oriented work. You are self-motivated and passionate about environmental issues.

**Core Administrative Duties**:

- Maintaining up-to-date and accurate donor records (including data entry, merging, and clean up)
- Committing changes in the donor database (monthly donor switches, upgrades and renewals by mail, Newsletter and House Mail batches, etc.)
- Alerting Director of Development of all incoming major gifts
- Preparing, printing and mailing acknowledgement letters
- Mail collection/sorting/processing, liaising with staff about mail received, attending to undeliverable / “return to sender” mail
- Following all procedures outlined for receiving donations and addressing any issues with incoming donations
- Updating the phone log for calls made/received
- Coordinate translation of French donor mail with the Montreal team
- Cheque batching, tallying, and scanning
- Coding and submitting invoices
- Shredding of sensitive and confidential donor information
- Printing and filing non-cheque data entry batches
- Providing administrative support to Associate Director, Manager, and Director of Development as needed
- Providing data entry support to leadership and legacy giving teams

**Support **to Community Giving team members as needed, 3 days per week**:

- Processing one-time gift (OTG) credit card batches
- Preparing data entry courier packages and handover to the courier
- Preparing documents for Finance and other teams as required
- Printing documents for filing, barcode testing, or mailing
- Preparation of any physical forms needed (i.e. phone/batch slips) for in-office work

**Support to Leadership Giving team members, 1 day per week**:

- Data entry, updating donor database records and files
- Entering actions and files into Raiser’s Edge
- Conversion of donor records into Estate Records
- Preparing and processing Legacy Giving documents as required
- Prospect research
- Booking donor meetings

**Please note this role requires in-office work over the winter holiday season (December to January), as this is a peak period for the Development team.**

**Qualifications**:
**Skills, Experience and Knowledge Required**
- One-year donor or customer service work experience.
- One-year data entry experience.
- Experience with Raiser’s Edge or another donor/customer relationship management system.
- Engagi