Job Title: Communications & Fundraising Coordinator

Team: Communications & Fundraising

Reports to: Communications and Brand Manager

FLSA Status: Non-exempt

Hours/Week: Full-time, generally 8/9–5/6 M-F (with flexibility)

Salary: $22.65–$25.05 ($47,111– $52,103)

Benefits: Paid holidays, paid leave, medical/dental, short & long-term disability insurance, AD & D, life insurance

Location: East Portland (currently remote with in-office options; future hybrid)

To Apply: Please submit your resume, cover letter, three examples of your writing that are relevant to this position – including visuals, if possible with your application. We will consider applications through March 17, 2023, and review them on a rolling basis.

Want to help make a difference? Our Just Future (formerly known as Human Solutions) counters the forces that keep people and communities in poverty by building relationships and assets that create opportunity – today and for future generations.

We partner with people and communities impacted by poverty so they can achieve long-term housing and economic security. We invest in affordable housing and community assets that contribute to strong, inclusive neighborhoods. We advocate with our community for policies and investments that expand housing and economic opportunity, eliminate wealth inequality, and end poverty.

East Portland/East Multnomah County, Oregon, is our home and the heart of our investments, advocacy, and programs.

Our Just Future envisions vibrant, healthy neighborhoods where all people can share in the security, hopes, and advantages of a thriving, supportive community.

Our Just Future operates as a nimble, financially strong organization driven by our passion, strategic goals, and guiding principles.

Diversity, inclusion, and equity are fundamental values for Our Just Future, both internally and externally. Our Just Future has an Equity Council, which serves as a sounding board for new internal policies and procedures to make sure that we’re taking into account equity and inclusion. It also helps with diversity-related projects, such as coordinating staff diversity trainings and providing ongoing input into our equity work.

Our Just Future is working to end homelessness and poverty in our community because everyone deserves a safe place to call home.

What Our Just Future Can Offer You: We offer a comprehensive array of benefits in support of your physical, emotional, and financial well-being. A few highlights:

• Employer-paid premiums for employee health insurance.
• Generous paid time off, 13 paid holidays, a floating birthday holiday, and the ability to maintain a great work-life balance.
• Employer-paid premiums for short-term and long-term disability insurance and life insurance.
• Access to an employee assistance program.
• Flexible spending accounts for health and for dependent care.
• Professional development opportunities, including employee-driven committees and monthly optional staff workshops.
• Access to wellness initiatives and resources including things such as walking groups, yoga classes at two office locations, and workshops on stress management, self-care, and healthy living.
• Opportunity to contribute to a 401(k) retirement plan with a 2% employer match after three months of employment.
• A six-week paid sabbatical after every seven years of consecutive employment with Our Just Future.

SUMMARY

The Communications & Fundraising Coordinator is a key member of the Our Just Future’s communications and fundraising team. They are part of a two-person communications team that is responsible for all external and some internal communications and a three-person fundraising team responsible for raising funds from individuals and corporations to support the organization’s work. The position splits time approximately 50/50 between communications and fundraising work, working closely with both managers to set strategy and, mainly, implement their work plans. This position generates both written and visual content, so writing, editing, and design skills are essential, as well as the knack for adhering to visual and written house style guides and brand voice and tone. It is an exciting time at Our Just Future as we launch our new brand and upgrade our messaging and look across all programs.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following:

Essential

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  Equitable and Trauma-Informed Communications: Approaching all work with equity, justice, and trauma in mind is essential. This person will need to write, edit, and evaluate all work (their own and their colleagues’) with consideration for diverse audiences. They should be eager to lift up lived experiences, craft content with accessibility and trauma responses in mind, and ensure the stories we tell mirror the range of identities among participants and in our service area.

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  Brand Update & Ongoing Management. Our Just Future is a new name and part of a full rebrand. This person will be instrumental in helping the communications team complete the rebrand, working with staff to uphold the brand, and updating the website and materials used to promote the organization.
• Web Presence. This person is responsible for maintaining website content (checking links and updating page content, forms, popups, etc.) and adding new content, as needed (blog posts, photos, pages, and some functionality). Our website will be updated in 2023, and this person will play a supporting role in that effort. Our current platform is WordPress. An important component is working with the team to infuse the website with fundraising messages and donation pages that connect to our Raiser’s Edge donor database/online donation system.

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  Email Communications: Manage email calendar; track and report open rates; plan, draft, and send emails in coordination with the communications and fundraising managers; and track best practices with an eye toward growing the list and its impact. Current system is NXT within Raiser’s Edge.

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  Social Media. Our Just Future shares information about our own work and the issues we care about on our social media channels. This person manages all channels with strategic direction from the communications manager. We are currently active on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter; we have a LinkedIn presence but are not active. This person writes and creates new content, and replies to comments and direct messages as needed.

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  Print Publications: Our Just Future aspires to mail a print newsletter twice annually that this person helps gather content for, draft, and produce in coordination with team members. This person will also work closely with the communications manager to prepare the organization’s Impact Report and other program materials, as needed.

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  Event Communications. Our Just Future hosts several events (two large, two-four small) each year to fundraise and steward donors, engage the community, and raise awareness. This person will provide communications support for the development manager and department director on all department-sponsored events. Communications support includes message development, electronic/online and print content (invites, ticket pages, printed programs, slideshows), etc.

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  Storytelling. Sharing stories about our work, the people we have the honor of working with and the systems they are trying to survive is key to our communications strategy, with a commitment to sharing people’s experiences in a way that challenges mainstream narratives about poverty and homelessness. Bold, creative vision and experience with this kind of narrative is a real plus!

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  Fundraising Appeals and Campaigns: Support the fundraising manager to execute fundraising appeal campaigns several times each year, primarily at year-end, including email, mail, and web (landing pages). Duties include helping to plan the schedule, messaging, and visuals; drafting and editing the content; and coordinating with a print shop or mail house. Help brainstorm and implement one-off campaigns several times annually, as needed.

Secondary

Editing and Copy Editing. Other communications and fundraising staff need a second set of eyes on materials from time to time, especially for grant applications. This person will help as needed to edit and copy edit outgoing materials. Our Just Future follows the Chicago Manual of style and our internal house style guide.

Spanish-Language Skills Increase the reach of our external written communications by writing, editing, and translating copy into Spanish. Bilingual premium pay is available for this skill.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

No staff supervision responsibilities.

QUALIFICATIONS: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• 3+ years of experience in nonprofit communications and/or development or directing fundraising activities, or equivalent combination of education and experience;
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written;
• Project management experience;
• Proven design skills or design “eye,” with experience coordinating with professional designers;
• Proficient with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint & Publisher), Asana, event software such as Give Lively; WordPress; and constituent management systems (ours is Raiser’s Edge NXT, but experience with other systems should translate). Adobe knowledge a plus but not essential;
• Experience managing social media channels for a business or nonprofit;
• Ability to work independently with moderate guidance;
• Demonstrated organizational, project-, and time-management skills to carry out the responsibilities of the position, including managing multiple projects simultaneously;

• Interest in being an active member of a collaborative team culture that recognizes and supports whole lives; gives and receives helpful feedback regularly, supportively, and with kindness and grace; values collaboration; and respects others’ skills and perspectives;

• Able to respond creatively and with good judgment to challenges;
• Can maintain both donor and program participant confidentiality;
• Proactive, “can do” and collaborative team member who is willing to go “all hands on deck” when we host an event or during year-end fundraising season;
• Ability to work well with other people and as part of a team including volunteers, donors, potential donors, and other staff;
• Commitment to and understanding of racial equity and Our Just Future’s intention to become an anti-racist organization.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee may be required to stand; walk; sit; and stoop, kneel, crouch. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision for screens and reading and occasionally distance vision. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The noise level is usually moderate, typical for an office environment with multiple staff. This job is currently 100% virtual or hybrid, but will return to a hybrid or full-time (if chosen) office setting when deemed COVID safe.

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Our Just Future is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion. We strive to build a diverse workforce that reflects the population we serve.

We strongly encourage people of color to apply for this position.