Do you have a passion for connecting with corporate funding partners? Are you a results-driven professional who enjoys working in a fast-paced, diverse, and evolving environment? If you answer yes, then we want you to join our team and be a part of something amazing.

CAREERS: The Next Generation Foundation (CAREERS) is a unique, charitable foundation raising youth awareness of career options and helping students earn while they learn through internship. We partner with government, educators, communities, industry, parents, and students to introduce youth to rewarding careers and develop the skilled workers of the future.

Position Summary

The Corporate Fund Development Coordinator will be an active member of the Provincial Partnerships team working to achieve annual fund development goals, resulting in increased and sustainable revenue growth for CAREERS. Results will be achieved by the activation, prospecting, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship for corporate industry donors.

This hybrid position will work out of the Edmonton Provincial office and report to the Partnerships Manager.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Contribute to revenue generation through donor cultivating, soliciting, and attracting a network of relationships.
• Nurture current and past donor relationships to facilitate renewals and increase retention.
• Provide support to funding presentations, proposals and applications.
• Support donor communications.
• Generate various reports communicating outcomes and impacts related to funding and stewardship.
• Creating, maintaining, and updating donor and sponsorship activity in a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system and SharePoint files.
• Ensure donor fulfillment of partnership benefits.
• Conduct donor leads search, prospect research, and cultivate donors and partnerships following established prospect clearance and management program procedures.
• Maintain and enhance excellent working relationships with team members and leaders.
• Contribute to the coordination and execution of corporate fund development strategies and campaigns.
• Emulate CAREERS' standard of customer service delivery whereby requests from internal and external stakeholders are responded to with a degree of urgency, relevancy, and accuracy.
• Facilitate and support friend raising events such as lunch and learns, breakfasts or evening receptions.
• Assist at events as needed.
• Provide support to the Partnership team as required.

Skills and Competencies

• Demonstrated ability to connect and engage with donors and effectively communicate donor value proposition.
• Strong interpersonal skills to work with a wide variety of stakeholders including industry partners, business leaders and internship employers.
• Confident public speaking and ability to express ideas verbally and in writing.
• Self-driven and motivated to take initiative and follow through on actions.
• Demonstrated dedication to details alongside creativity and innovative thinking.
• Excellent time management skills to prioritize numerous activities/projects to meet and exceed targets, goals, and objectives.
• Strong organizational, analytical and solution development skills.
• Outgoing, personable, focused, results oriented and ethical are key traits required to be successful in the role.

Qualifications

• Post-secondary education in an area such as fund development, business administration, marketing/public relations, education or a combination of experience and professional development.
• 5+ years of related experience.
• Knowledge and skills in prospect identification and cultivation necessary to engage prospective corporate donors.
• Previous experience working with/in industry is a definite asset.
• Knowledge of software applications specifically Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems and databases
• Valid driver's license and access to a vehicle
• Successful completion of criminal background checks.

Applications accepted until a suitable candidate is found. Please apply on our website at careersnextgen.ca. We thank all applicants for their interest in this position, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.