Communications / Development Manager for Nonprofit Serving Older Adults

Life Story Club is seeking a highly motivated individual to help
support all aspects of our small organization’s strategic
fundraising and communications efforts, designing and implementing
a set of activities aimed at increasing contributed income and
raising visibility for the organization.

We are looking for someone with fundraising experience and a
track record of crafting and implementing development and
communication strategies to help drive impact across multiple
platforms for donor audiences and more broadly.

Must be highly organized, hands-on, and mission-oriented. You
are excited about the potential to use storytelling and technology
to drive impact and foster social connection.

Responsibilities include:

• Designing and implementing multi-channel individual donor
  campaigns based on the annual fundraising plan and segmented donor
  lists.
• Working with the Executive Director and leadership team to
  support board committees, prospecting, major gift cultivation, and
  fundraising campaigns.
• Organizing small donor events
• Producing content /Implementing content strategy enabling us to
  better reach and serve older adults, healthcare partners,
  caregivers, and donors. Content will include: annual reports,
  monthly newsletters, blog posts, social posts, and promo
  videos.
• Setting social engagement goals that map to the organizations’
  goals, and tracking audience engagement across platforms.
• Administering social accounts, and developing a consistent
  presence and voice across platforms.

Administrative duties may include but are not limited
to:

• Maintaining a donor database
• Managing grant application and reporting process
• Processing donations and issuing donation acknowledgments
• Generating monthly fundraising reports to evaluate fundraising
  metrics against specific goals
• Maintaining eligibility on city, state, and federal grant
  platforms
• Managing Guidestar, Google for Nonprofits, and Facebook for
  Nonprofits accounts
• Creating and maintaining an archive of photos, testimonials,
  videos, and other assets for communications and fundraising
  campaigns.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Bachelor’s degree and minimum of 4+ years of work
  experience
• Project Management
• Critical thinking skills with the ability to take a concept
  from ideation and strategy to execution autonomously
• Commitment to equity and inclusion
• Excellent communication skills, writing ability, and digital
  savviness
• Communications planning, press releases, marketing strategy,
  marketing copy, content development & strategy, content
  creation for social
• Experience using digital publishing, messaging, and fundraising
  tools such as Mailchimp, Substack, Instagram, Slack, Give
  Lively
• Experience with Salesforce and CRMs, comfortable using
  platforms and databases for donor stewardship and fundraising
• Solid knowledge of social media optimization, utilizing paid
  promotion, consumer insights, hashtags, SEO, and other digital
  tools to increase performance.
• Understanding of current fundraising best practices with
  analytical skills and a data-driven mindset
• Comfortable with budgets and fiscal management
• Comfortable with digital campaign data analysis
• Experience working as a content creator and/or social media
  manager
• Experience working with third-party vendor management and
  independent contractors
• Bonus if you bring graphic design and video production
  experience

Personal Qualities

You are creative and curious. You have a problem-solving mindset
and are a collaborative team player. You bring experience working
with all levels of management and have the ability to manage
projects autonomously, meet deadlines, and ask for help when
needed. You care about (or are interested in learning more about)
the mission of improving the lives of older adults and combating
the growing impacts of the loneliness epidemic.

Where you’ll be working

This is a hybrid role with a minimum of 1-2 days in the office
in Brooklyn.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging
Statement

It is the mission of Life Story Club to foster healthy aging by
creating spaces for older adults to come together through
storytelling, helping to overcome the effects of loneliness and
social isolation experienced by an older population. Making sure
that all of our stakeholders feel seen and heard, and fostering a
sense of belonging is at the core of who we are and what we do. We
do not exclude anyone regardless of their race, gender identity,
religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical
abilities, sexual orientation, veteran status, or criminal
history.

Life Story Club celebrates all of our stakeholders’ differences.
We believe that diversity makes us stronger. We are committed to
creating a collaborative, inclusive environment— one that
encourages authenticity and fosters a sense of belonging. We strive
for everyone to feel valued, connected, and empowered to reach
their potential and contribute their best. We believe that when
people feel respected and included they can be more creative,
innovative, and successful. Our commitment to these values is
unwavering across all of our work and all of our Life Story
Clubs.

If you are interested in one of our job openings, please
submit a resume and cover letter (or video) to
jobs@lifestoryclub.org.