Development Coordinator

Who We Are

American Farmland Trust (AFT) is the only national organization that takes a holistic approach to agriculture, focusing on the land itself, the agricultural practices used on that land, and the farmers and ranchers who do the work. AFT launched the conservation agriculture movement and continues to raise public awareness through our No Farms, No Food message. Since our founding in 1980, AFT has helped permanently protect nearly 8 million acres of agricultural lands, advanced environmentally sound farming practices on millions of additional acres and supported thousands of farm families. Long a pioneering leader, AFT continues to evolve to meet the needs of farmers and ranchers nationwide, adapting its approach to ensure the continued strength and resilience of agriculture and rural communities nationwide.

Position Summary

The Development Coordinator plays a critical role in supporting AFT’s fundraising infrastructure by providing support to the Development team, ensuring accurate data management, helping in advancing fundraising efforts by assisting with gift processing and reporting, strengthening business processes that enhance strategic fundraising and donor engagement across the department, and providing timely, detail-oriented support to gift officers and development leadership. Reporting to the Director of Development Operations, the Coordinator will maintain precise financial coding and data entry standards and help with maintaining the integrity of AFT’s donor database.

Responsibilities

• Provide support in revenue tracking, gift processing, acknowledgements, reconciliation, and reporting.
• Maintain absolute accuracy in the processing and keying of new gifts and ensure proper financial coding in data entry. 
• Work with the Director of Development Operations and AFT’s Finance team to reconcile revenue between Raiser’s Edge and Intacct every month.
• Assist with processing, reviewing, submitting, and recording state charitable registrations on a regular and ongoing basis to meet deadlines.
• Maintain accurate donor records and ensure consistency and quality of information in the database.
• Ensure AFT’s various donor management and fundraising systems that include Raiser’s Edge NXT, Salsa CRM and CardPointe are coordinated to achieve development goals. 
• Assist with onboarding of new Development staff as it relates to systems, tools, and departmental procedures.
• Support cross-team projects including campaigns, mailings, events, and online giving initiatives.
• Help to implement and monitor development business processes that support strategic fundraising and donor stewardship.
• Assist with developing SOPs for data entry, list pulls, reporting and other development processes to ensure efficiency and uniformity across the team.
• Work on projects as assigned by the Director of Development Operations and support the Individual Giving team.

This is not necessarily an all-inclusive list of job-related responsibilities. Management reserves the right to revise the job or to request other or different duties be performed as assigned.