Part-Time Endurance Fundraising Coordinator

Position summary

Title

Endurance Fundraising Coordinator

Status

Part-time, 5 to 10 hours per week

Reports to

Director of Advancement

Location

Hybrid, with on-site work at events

Pay

contingent on experience

About the role

The Endurance Fundraising Coordinator recruits, supports and retains the athletes who raise money for Dignity Beyond Borders. These participants take on marathons, half marathons, triathlons, and similar events, and ask their friends and family to sponsor them.

The role has two priorities. The first is to run the Dignity Beyond Borders Boston Marathon charity team through race day and beyond. The second is to bring the organization into other peer-to-peer endurance fundraising events, building a year-round calendar beyond Boston.

The coordinator is each participant's main point of contact from registration through the finish line. Success in the role means more participants reaching their fundraising minimums, a strong team experience on event day, and athletes who come back the following season.

Key responsibilities

Program growth beyond Boston

• Research endurance events with charity partner programs, such as other marathons, half marathons, triathlons and cycling events, and recommend other events
• Prepare and submit charity partner applications and manage the resulting entry allocations.
• Set up and manage the GivenGain platform for the Boston Marathon team
• Keep an annual events calendar with a participant and revenue goal for each event.

Boston Marathon team (five runners)

• Promote the application, help select runners and collect fundraising commitment agreements.
• Help each runner set up a GivenGain fundraising page and share fundraising tips, sample appeals and matching-gift guidance.
• Check in with each runner about monthly, and more often with anyone behind on their fundraising minimum.
• Serve as the liaison to Boston Marathon charity program contacts on entries, requirements and deadlines.
• Order team singlets and handle race-weekend communications and one team get-together.

Records and stewardship

• Keep runner and donor records accurate in GivenGain and the donor database.
• Send a short monthly update on dollars raised against goal.
• Thank runners personally and confirm their donors receive acknowledgments.
• Gather runner feedback after each event to improve the next one.

Qualifications

Required

• One to two years of experience in fundraising, event coordination, customer service, volunteer management or a related field.
• Clear, friendly written and verbal communication, and comfort motivating people one on one.
• Strong organization and follow-through across many participants and deadlines at once.
• Working knowledge of spreadsheets, email marketing tools and social media.
• Availability for occasional early mornings, evenings and weekends around events.

Preferred

• Hands-on experience with GivenGain is a big plus. Experience with other peer-to-peer fundraising platforms and a donor database or CRM is also valued.
• Personal experience as an endurance athlete or charity team participant, is a plus especially with a Boston Marathon charity team.
• Familiarity with the other running, cycling or triathlon communities is a plus.
• Connection to the mission of Dignity Beyond Borders.

Schedule, compensation and how to apply

Schedule. About 5 to 10 hours per week on a flexible schedule, rising during peak season from January through the Boston Marathon in April. Some weekend and early-morning work is required on event days, with advance notice.

Compensation is a dependent on experience

Dignity Beyond Borders is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applicants of all backgrounds to apply.

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