Community Engagement Lead – Catholic School Outreach

CatholicJobs.com; Petoskey (MI); On-site; USD 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

St. Michael High School in Petoskey, Michigan, seeks a Community Engagement Coordinator to cultivate donor relationships, coordinate events, and manage communications.

This full-time role reports to the Development Director & Headmaster and collaborates with the Executive Director, Office Manager, and Leadership Team to advance the school's mission. The role emphasizes fundraising, admissions outreach, and marketing while upholding the Catholic identity and culture of the school, with

Qualifications

• Experience in fundraising, development, event planning, admissions, marketing, communications, or related field is preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and relationship-building abilities.
• Exceptional organization and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Assist with cultivating and strengthening relationships with current and prospective donors.
• Support donor communications, stewardship, acknowledgments, and follow-up.
• Help coordinate donor meetings, outreach, and engagement activities.
• Maintain accurate donor and supporter records and assist with development-related administrative tasks.
• Assist with annual giving campaigns, fundraising initiatives, and other development efforts.
• Help identify opportunities to deepen donor involvement and strengthen the school's culture of philanthropy.
• Represent St. Michael High School professionally and warmly in interactions with benefactors, alumni, families, and community supporters.
• Oversee the planning and execution of fundraising, community, admissions, and special events.
• Develop event timelines, checklists, budgets, communications, and logistics.
• Coordinate with faculty, staff, volunteers, vendors, families, and community partners.
• Ensure events are welcoming, professional, mission-aligned, and well organized.
• Assist with post-event follow-up, including donor stewardship and evaluation.
• Assisting with prospective-family communications and follow-up.
• Helping coordinate open houses, information nights, shadow days, campus visits, and other admissions events.
• Supporting timely and welcoming communication with prospective students and their families.
• Helping develop and maintain recruitment materials and outreach initiatives.
• Assisting with tracking prospective-family engagement and enrollment activity.
• Identifying opportunities to increase awareness of St. Michael High School among prospective families, parishes, homeschool communities, and other appropriate audiences.
• Helping ensure that prospective families experience a warm, organized, and mission-focused admissions process.
• Assisting with the development and implementation of the school's marketing and communications strategy.
• Creating and coordinating promotional materials for school programs, events, fundraising initiatives, and admissions.
• Supporting social media, email communications, website content, newsletters, and other communication channels.
• Gathering stories, photographs, testimonials, and other content that highlight the life and mission of the school.
• Ensuring communications consistently reflect the school's Catholic identity, mission, values, and culture.
• Helping promote school events, accomplishments, and opportunities to families, prospective families, donors, alumni, parish communities, and the broader community.
• Collaborating with members of the leadership team to ensure consistent messaging and branding.

Skills

Relationship-building

Fundraising

Event planning

Communications

Donor stewardship

Admissions outreach

Job description

St. Michael High School in Petoskey, Michigan, seeks a Community Engagement Coordinator to cultivate donor relationships, coordinate events, and manage communications.

This full-time role reports to the Development Director & Headmaster and collaborates with the Executive Director, Office Manager, and Leadership Team to advance the school's mission. The role emphasizes fundraising, admissions outreach, and marketing while upholding the Catholic identity and culture of the school, with