The Haiti Fund at the Boston Foundation is an expression of the Greater Boston community's concern for the people of Haiti, and their local Boston friends and relatives. After the earthquake of January 2010, this five-year fund was created to provide relief and reconstruction support to communities in Haiti and Haitian-Americans in the Greater Boston area. The Haiti Fund, a field of interest fund, is guided by a 30 plus member Advisory Council and a Grantmaking Committee and includes the active participation and involvement of several major donors. For more information on the Haiti Fund please visit www.bostonhaitifund.org.
The Haiti Fund Coordinator will provide organizational and logistical support for specific named funds, in particular the Haiti Fund, as well as support for other Donor Services activities.
Responsibilities:
• Provide administrative and coordinative support to the Haiti Relief and Reconstruction Fund - a field of interest fund for the reconstruction of Haiti that is to last until 2014
• Schedule and organize meetings, conferences and events, including identifying sites, communicating with participants and making arrangements
• Administer correspondences with Donors and Fund Advisors, including gift acknowledgements as well as fundraising and general correspondences
• Investigate and recommend individual opportunities for grantmaking through fund, donor analysis and non-profit research
• Coordinate the administrative logistics and marketing of internal and external events and meetings
• Maintain donor and fund records and related codes in Foundation Power
• Draft, edit and coordinate Haiti Fund correspondences; organize communications and mailings
• Coordinate communications with donors, including online newsletters
• Elicit information and respond to Haiti Fund inquiries via telephone, correspondence and email
• Compile reports and materials for presentations using PowerPoint
• Take minutes at meetings and prepare interpretive summaries for review
• Train and direct temporary office staff and/or interns, as needed
• Maintain regular attendance
• Other duties as assigned
Required Education, Skills, and Experience:
• Bachelor's degree
• Minimum three to five years related work experience
• Knowledge of Haitian culture and the greater Boston Haitian community a plus
• French and Haitian Creole language skills a plus
• Willingness and ability to travel to remote locations in Haiti
• Microsoft Office software proficiency (Word, Excel, Power Point and Access), including the ability to manipulate information in multiple Microsoft Office products
• Excellent writing and editing skills
• Strong facilitation, organizational, verbal and written skills
• Strong project management and administrative coordination skills
• High-level of customer service orientation
• Knowledge of non-profit administration
• Resourceful and able to work independently
• Mature interpersonal style, ability to interact well with a diverse range of people
• Ability to interact with grace and professionalism
• Ability to work under pressure of tight deadlines
• Ability to handle multiple, simultaneous agendas/projects
• Ability to organize and manage projects with multiple components
• Meticulous attention to detail with the ability to synthesize information
• Reliable and punctual
• Participative work style, ability to receive and act on feedback
Qualified and Interested?
Please select Haiti Fund Coordinator on the Careers @ TBF section of www.tbf.org to submit your resume. Or select:
https://home.eease.adp.com/recruit/?id=1188001
Diversity candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. Equal Opportunity Employer.
About the Boston Foundation
The Boston Foundation, Greater Boston's community foundation, is one of the oldest and largest community foundations in the nation, with net assets of $850 million. In 2011, the Foundation and its donors made almost $78 million in grants to nonprofit organizations and received gifts of $81 million. The Foundation is made up of some 850 separate charitable funds established by donors either for the general benefit of the community or for special purposes. The Boston Foundation also serves as a major civic leader, provider of information, convener and sponsor of special initiatives designed to address the community's and region's most pressing challenges. For more information about the Boston Foundation, visit www.tbf.org.
- Location: Boston, MA
- Compensation: DOE
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