COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR

District of Columbia, USA (On-site)

$26/hr – $28/hrMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 5 months ago

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Job Summary

Coordinate fundraising events and communications for DC Central Kitchen, overseeing events, content creation, media support, and sponsor relationships.

  • Own event coordination and sponsor management across DC Central Kitchen fundraising activities.
  • Must-have: 1–2 years in communications, PR, event planning, or nonprofit fundraising.
  • Standout: multi-site event logistics and donor engagement experience.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Support essential event management tasks for Capital Food Fight, including restaurant outreach and management; silent auction curation and planning, celebrity travel and accommodations, and inventory and supply management. Other roles include tracking and managing committed sponsors, ensuring accurate sponsor recognition, and developing post-event sponsor reports.
  • Support additional fundraising events and community-based fundraising activations through partner and vendor management, promotion planning, and recognition. Examples include in-home fundraisers, retailer round-up donation campaigns, and cause marketing activities benefiting DCCK.
  • Capture and generate written content for use on our website, e-newsletter, and social media channels.
  • Support earned media efforts through monitoring coverage, identifying media opportunities, and managing requests for broll and other pre-existing content.
  • Support departmental project management activities through internal communications, task tracking, and deadline management.
  • Execute DCCK corporate sponsor recognition activities, including social media content, website and email content, and managing check presentations.
  • Participate in tours, tabling opportunities, workplace giving activities, and other community-facing events involving fundraising and donor engagement opportunities for DCCK. These events may be scheduled for nights, weekends, and at locations across the DMV, requiring the Coordinator to manage their schedule, availability, and local travel accordingly.
  • Perform other duties and tasks as required to maintain quality relationships with all our partners and customers and / or duties and tasks needed to drive the vision, mission, and values of DC Central Kitchen.