Senior Specialist for Donor Communications

Arlington County, VA (Hybrid)

$74K/yr – $87K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 6 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end donor storytelling and stewardship cadence while building data-informed, audience-specific messaging for deeper donor commitment.

  • Donor Stewardship & Engagement: Lead materials quality, cadence, and donor-facing assets plus tailored impact reports.
  • Multimedia Storytelling: Interview donors, produce video content, and grow SEO-friendly stories for TechnoServe.org.
  • Events & Cross-team Collaboration: Head the monthly webinar series, craft talking points with leadership, and support year-end campaigns.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Donor Stewardship and Reporting (30%) - Assume responsibility for the final quality and accuracy of donor materials to ensure consistent alignment with brand standards and strategic goals.
  • Donor Engagement Strategy (20%) - Evaluate key performance metrics and engagement patterns to uncover stewardship opportunities; design and execute data-informed, audience-specific messaging frameworks that resolve gaps and foster greater donor commitment.
  • Events and Webinars (20%) - Lead production of the monthly "TechnoServe Connection" webinar series, managing the editorial calendar and speaker selection, drafting scripts/questions for the executive host, writing marketing emails, and monitoring attendance data.
  • Multimedia Storytelling (20%) - Identify and interview key donors to create video content that articulates their motivation for giving and recognizes them as key partners.
  • Cross-team Collaboration: (10%) - Contribute to organizational campaigns like year-end fundraising and flagship publications like the annual report.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in communications, marketing, journalism, or a related field with 5 years of experience in non-profit fundraising and donor communications, or a Master’s degree plus 3 years of experience.
  • Proven experience in content creation, curation, and copywriting for donor audiences.
  • Familiarity with fundraising and donor engagement best practices in a nonprofit setting.
  • Proficiency in Google Workspace and content management systems.
  • Fluency in English.

Nice to Have

  • Spanish, French or Portuguese language skills are highly desirable.
  • Knowledge of international development, poverty alleviation, or related fields is a plus.
  • Experience with WordPress, Meltwater, Riverside fm, Hive, The Raiser’s Edge, Adobe and Canva welcome.
  • Experience with photography and video editing is welcome.

Benefits

  • TechnoServe strives to provide a comprehensive, market-leading benefits package competitive within our industry.
  • This includes health, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan, paid holidays, and generous paid time off for vacation, personal, and sick leave.
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TechnoServe

TechnoServe works with enterprising people in the developing world to build competitive farms, businesses, and industries. We are a nonprofit organization that develops business solutions to poverty by linking people to information, capital and markets. Our work is rooted in the idea that hardworking people can generate income, jobs and wealth for their families and communities. With more than five decades of proven results, we believe in the power of private enterprise to transform lives.Our success in creating business solutions to poverty is due in large part to our talented and highly committed team. TechnoServe employs more than 1,500 people, the vast majority of them host-country nationals working in the field. Our staff combine business expertise with local knowledge, relationships, and context to help hardworking men and women generate income, jobs, and wealth for their families and communities. In 2024, TechnoServe's work helped transform the lives of 3.1 million people in throughout Africa, Latin America, Puerto Rico, and Asia by targeting improvements in farms, businesses, and industries. Learn more about our impact at www.technoserve.org/impact

Founded in 1968
Arlington, Virginia, USA
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