Development Communications Consultant

Newark, NJ (Unknown)

Salary Not AvailableEntry LevelPart time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own donor communications across emails, mail appeals, stewardship, and social content for a Covenant House audience, shaping audience and channel choices and turning briefs into clear, resonant donor pieces.

  • Content Ownership: Shape messaging for donor audiences across emails, mail, stewardship, and social content.
  • Drafting and Adaptation: Produce donor emails, appeals, stewardship pieces, and foundation communications with audience-specific tailoring.
  • Collaboration and Process: Gather program inputs, review briefs, and coordinate with the CHNJ team to stay aligned with priorities and donor strategy.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Contribute thoughtful input on messaging, audience, and channel as the development team shapes communications priorities and plans
  • Draft donor emails for the full donor file and for segmented donor audiences
  • Draft postal mail appeals, including year-end appeals and other donor-facing mailings
  • Draft stewardship-oriented donor communications for print and digital use
  • Draft social media copy that supports development and donor engagement goals
  • Shape and adapt content for different audiences and purposes, including broad-file donor communications, segmented donor outreach, stewardship messages, foundation-facing materials, and business-partner communications
  • Identify opportunities to improve clarity, sequencing, and donor resonance when reviewing briefs, prior materials, or draft messaging
  • When needed, gather information from program or development staff to support accurate and compelling content
  • Collaborate closely with the CHNJ development team; this role requires participation in department-level meetings to stay current on priorities, programs, and donor strategy

Requirements

  • Strong experience drafting donor-focused nonprofit communications
  • Excellent writing and editing skills
  • Experience with appeals, donor emails, and stewardship content
  • Ability to tailor donor communications to the audience, purpose, and fundraising goal
  • Ability to strengthen rough ideas or incomplete briefs and turn them into clear, effective donor communications
  • Ability to work effectively from past materials and staff guidance
  • Strong reliability, responsiveness, and revision skills
  • This position is part time 10-15 hours a week
  • Part-time hours constraint: 10-15 hours per week

Preferred

  • Experience in a human services or other mission-driven nonprofit environment
  • Experience writing for both individual and institutional donor audiences
  • Familiarity with donor communications across email, print, and social media
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Covenant House International

No youth should ever be without a home — period. This urgent belief and over 50 years of experience have placed Covenant House at the forefront of the fight against youth homelessness. Founded in 1972, Covenant House is the largest primarily privately-funded agency in the North and Central America offering free 24/7 crisis care, housing, and supportive services for youth, young families, and survivors of human trafficking. Located in 34 cities across 5 countries (the United States, Canada, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico) Covenant House provides shelter, food, medical and mental health care, crisis intervention, educational and vocational services, and an array of supportive services to youth facing homelessness regardless of their race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression. The Covenant House mission is centered and built on community, where youth, staff, volunteers, and partners love one another unconditionally, respect each other absolutely, and dedicate ourselves to a covenant of compassion and hope.

Founded in 1972
New York, New York, USA
539 employees (24 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
116.2K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$62.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
41%
Direct
50.5%
Referral
5.8%
Social
1.8%
Paid
0.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~539

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
24 (4% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Funding

Total Funding
$20K
Last Raise
$10K
Grant, 3 months ago

Funding History

  • Dec 2025
    Grant
  • May 2025
    Grant
  • Jan 2025
    Grant • $10K

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