What are the responsibilities and job description for the Community Development Specialist position at External?
- Assists in planning the annual Community Development budget and calendar of activities for local markets. Responsible for monitoring and logging expenditures, donation activity, donor communications, and reporting for both Georgia United and GUCU Foundation.
- Coordinates tracking tools to evaluate and measure internal and external Foundation giving programs (i.e., team member payroll deductions, online giving, Day of Giving, etc.).
- Supports the Georgia United’s Foundation Advisory Committee and Foundation Board of Directors, including communications and fundraising efforts.
- Helps coordinate community programs for the credit union and Foundation, ensuring values / mission are maintained and goals met. Assist in preparing marketing plans for each program, managing the program budget, executing on the timeline and all other aspects of the event. Assists in scheduling leadership for inclusion in photo opportunities (i.e., Scholarships, School Crashers, etc.)
- Supports credit union and foundation sponsorships to ensure that they support Georgia United’s Foundation mission and goals. Answers related correspondence, represents the credit union at sponsor functions and arranges payments to sponsors, as required. Refers sponsorship advertising requests to media specialist, as appropriate.
- Participates in charitable fundraising events and acts as liaison for partners and distributes funds collected from members, volunteers and employees, as necessary/assigned.
- Partners with HR to promote volunteer service opportunities for Junior Achievement and seasonal programming and participation in automatic payroll deductions giving to all Georgia United team members.
- Supports transition from private foundation model to public foundation model, including support to apply for grants where appropriate, and actively looking for ways to increase donations and in-kind contributions from outside Georgia United.
- Resolves requests, questions, and problems courteously and professionally. Ensures that community communications are efficient and effective.
- Ensures that community development, public relations and marketing activities create positive member, prospective members, and community responses.
- Provides community development information for external social media channels and others, as appropriate.
- Supports joint efforts of Marketing and Community Development to ensure program success. Attends meetings as requested.
- Partners with department Director to develop community development guidelines, policies, procedures and answer online sponsorship requests.
- Assists, serves and informs branches and related departments of area activities as required. Answers questions and resolves related issues and concerns.
- Identifies current and new media partners to build relationships and communication channels to be used for promoting, informing and recapping community initiatives.
- Establishes ongoing communication and relationships with communications personnel at employee partner groups.
- Leverages media outlets to increase brand awareness as well as public knowledge about community initiatives.
- Develops knowledge of public and media relations best practices through attending webinars, reading articles, etc., to be used for overall company and media purposes.
- Keeps management informed of area activities and of any significant concerns.
- Completes special projects as assigned.
- Promotes and establishes strong, positive and productive working relationships within the organization through commitment to the company’s purpose, mission and core values.
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