Campaign Coordinator

ABOUT KIPP BALTIMORE:

Founded in 2002, KIPP Baltimore operates joyful, academically excellent public charter schools and alumni support programming that prepare students with the skills and confidence necessary to successfully pursue individual pathways to careers of highest aspiration. KIPP Baltimore enrolls approximately 1,500 kindergarten through eighth grade students in two schools on a shared campus in the former Walbrook High School building in West Baltimore: KIPP Harmony Academy (grades K-5) and KIPP Ujima Village Academy (6-8). Including our signature KIPP Forward (formerly KIPP Through College) program, we support more than 3,000 current students and alumni.

KIPP Baltimore is part of the national KIPP Public Schools network. KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) began in 1994 with 47 fifth-graders as a college-preparatory program housed within a public middle school in Houston, Texas; today, we are a network of 280 schools, 15,000 educators, and 175,000 students and alumni. All KIPP public charter schools are locally-run, non-profit organizations; each region is governed by a board of directors.

Job Description

The Campaign Coordinator will work directly with the Director of Development to implement Lighting the Path: A Campaign to Transform KIPP campaign plan and assist the Director and the campaign’s 20+ volunteers working simultaneously to meet fundraising goals. Responsible for executing the administration and logistics of the campaign plan with constituents, including individual, corporate, and foundation philanthropic partners. Roles will include, but are not limited to, assistance with donor and volunteer engagement; acknowledgement; stewardship; and cultivation.

This position is designed to provide critical support for KIPP Baltimore’s during the campaign’s 12-month apex donor stewardship and campaign plan execution phase: September 2023 – September 2024 (with an option to extend for an additional six months). This is a flexible, part-time, potentially hybrid position (20 hours/week). In-person presence would be required for campaign events; Campaign Executive Committee work sessions; and engagement with KIPP Development, schools, and program team members.

Campaign Office Management

● Manage and maintain the campaign staff schedules, appointments, and travel arrangements.

● Assist with coordination of campaign meetings and events and prepare meeting agendas.

● Record, transcribe and distribute minutes of meetings.

● File and retrieve documents and maintain campaign collateral supplies.

● Conduct research, collect and analyze data to prepare reports, documents, and presentations.

● Provide assistance with campaign communications.

● Technical assistance during webinar-style meetings.

Campaign Volunteer and Donor Coordination

● Assist with maintaining the overall campaign pipeline tracking document.

● Assist in prospect research including identification, rating, and production of prospect profiles.

● Prepare materials in advance of campaign donor meetings and committee meetings.

● Assist with reconciliation of the pledge tracking and gift acknowledgement process.

● Prepare information packets for campaign volunteers.

● Observe a high level of confidentiality.

REQUIRED SKILLS

● Mid-level Microsoft Office and Google Drive experience (must be beyond entry level).

● Excellent verbal and written skills.

● Data entry experience.

● Detail orientation and customer service mindset.

● Knowledge of basic office equipment and protocols.

● Basic knowledge of constituent relationship management databases (Salesforce preferred).

KEYS TO SUCCESS

★ 100% follow-through: Stay on top of all specific tasks and follow-up items and general areas of work; consistently meet deadlines. Communicate progress to stakeholders.

★ Attention to detail and brand: All communications (internal/external; narrative or data-driven) are polished: accurate, precise and situationally-appropriate. Communications and content are aligned to the KIPP Baltimore brand, with intentional focus on affirmative and inclusive language.

★ Spirit of advocacy and humility: Be diligent in keeping KIPP Baltimore’s values and strategic plan – ergo KIPP students’ and alumni’s individual personhood, goals, and aspirations – at the forefront of decision-making and relationship-building. Build personal connections with stakeholders to best inform language- and content-building. Give voice to concerns that threaten KIPP’s social and racial equity positions.

★ Customer service orientation: Approach all interactions (internal and external) as a representative of our organization – and, by proxy, our students, alumni, and families. Approach work with a spirit of yes.

Additional information

Rate $30.00/hour

QUESTIONS? Please contact Hilarie Yoffe, Recruitment Manager, at hyoffe@kippbaltimore or 410-564-9241.

Statement of Non-Discrimination: KIPP Baltimore is committed to the ideal of diversity in its student body and in its faculty and staff. KIPP Baltimore does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, disability, age, religion, sexual orientation, nationality, or ethnicity. We are strongly committed to hiring a diverse and multicultural staff and encourage applications from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds.

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