Coordinator, Development (Chicago/Hybrid)

Feeding America; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

30-day work anywhere program

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Feeding America, a national nonprofit, seeks a Development Coordinator to act as an operational partner to the Chief Development Officer. You will manage the CDO’s calendar, coordinate cross-functional initiatives, and support donor engagement across departments.

Hybrid role based in Chicago, with in-office and remote work options and a clear path for merit-based salary progression. Join a mission-driven team committed to ending hunger nationwide.

Qualifications

• Three years of experience supporting senior leaders in a complex stakeholder environment requiring executive scheduling, prioritization, project coordination, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities and highly complex schedules with exceptional organizational skills, attention to detail, sound judgment, and discretion.
• Strong written communication skills, including the ability to research, synthesize information, and prepare concise briefings, presentations, meeting materials, and executive communications.

Responsibilities

• Maintains and manages an executive calendar, aligning time with priorities, travel, donor engagements, commitments, and leadership activities.
• Tracks strategic priorities, decisions, and commitments, and alerts the CDO to risks, delays, or opportunities needing attention.
• Coordinates planning and execution of cross-functional initiatives with work plans, milestones, and stakeholder communication.
• Provides briefing materials, presentations, and meeting plans to support executive decision-making and donor engagement.
• Supports donor engagement planning through research coordination, meeting tracking, CRM documentation, and follow-up activities.

Skills

Executive support

Project coordination

Donor engagement

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Work. Serve. Thrive.

Imagine a place where your talent can make a meaningful difference in peoples' lives. Working at Feeding America is a uniquely rewarding experience in which our employees work together as vital parts of a much larger mission. We are innovative, mission-focused, diverse, collaborative, values-driven and focused on results.

Feeding America is the nation’s largest charity and the leading domestic hunger-relief charity in the United States. Our mission is to feed America's hungry through a nationwide network of member food banks and engage our country in the fight to end hunger.

This is a hybrid position based out of Feeding America's Chicago office location. At Feeding America, we believe in offering a flexible work environment. Employees can be in the office an average of 2 days a week (when not travelling for work) and work from home on other days. Employees also have access to a 30-day "work anywhere" program during the course of each calendar year that can be combined with PTO and/or holidays.

Learn more about Feeding America here.

The Opportunity

The Development Coordinator serves as a strategic coordinator and operational partner to the Chief Development Officer (CDO), helping maximize the impact of the CDO's time, attention, and leadership across Feeding America's Development function. Working closely with the CDO, Development Leadership Team, and partners across the organization, this role combines executive support, project management, donor engagement coordination, and cross-functional collaboration to advance departmental and enterprise priorities. The Coordinator ensures effective prioritization, execution, communication, and follow-through on key initiatives while supporting donor engagement activities, leadership team operations, and critical department planning and business processes.

Compensation

Here at Feeding America national organization, equality is central to our mission and is an integral part of our compensation policies and structures. As such, we maintain transparent salary ranges and clearly defined practices for how our team, including new hire salary offers, moves through these ranges. You can expect us to offer the best salary up front based on these clearly defined pay practices with little room for negotiation. We make exceptions for highly experienced (multiple years of at-level experience) new hires in accordance with our pay practices. Once hired, employees have the opportunity to progress through salary ranges via regular merit increases and step promotions.

Salary Range: $74,909 - 79,909 Based On Experience.

Benefits: A comprehensive list of benefits available to full-time employees can be found here.

Responsibilities

• Maintains and manages a highly complex executive calendar, ensuring the CDO's time, travel, donor engagements, external commitments, and strategic relationships align with departmental and enterprise priorities. Develops a strong understanding of departmental priorities, key stakeholders, and fundraising objectives to support executive prioritization and decision-making. Proactively identifies opportunities, anticipates conflicts, recommends solutions, and optimizes the highest-value use of executive time and attention, ensuring appropriate capacity for strategic planning, donor engagement, relationship management, travel, and other leadership activities.
• Tracks strategic priorities, decisions, and commitments made by the CDO, Development Leadership Team, and cross-functional working groups. Maintains action logs, monitors progress, identifies obstacles, follows up with stakeholders, and alerts the CDO to emerging risks, delays, or opportunities requiring attention.
• Coordinates planning and execution of cross-functional initiatives by developing work plans, tracking milestones, facilitating communication among stakeholders, monitoring risks, and supporting accountability for deliverables and outcomes.
• Conducts research, assembles background information, synthesizes stakeholder input, and develops concise briefing materials, presentations, and meeting plans to support executive decision-making, donor cultivation and stewardship, Board interactions, strategic planning discussions, and external stakeholder engagement.
• Supports donor and prospect engagement planning through research coordination, briefing preparation, meeting tracking, CRM documentation, and management of key engagement records and follow-up activities. Ensures donor interactions, next steps, and engagement plans are accurately documented and maintained to support effective cultivation, solicitation, stewardship, and portfolio management.
• Provides coordination and project management support to the Development Leadership Team and other people leaders for critical enterprise processes, including planning, budgeting, talent management, and organizational initiatives. Serves as a liaison with HR, Finance, and other internal partners to support successful completion of department deliverables and organizational requirements.
• Supports the planning and execution of leadership meetings, retreats, and planning sessions by coordinating agendas, logistics, materials, decision tracking, and follow-up actions.
• Coordinates executive and departmental administrative operations, including travel arrangements, meeting logistics, offsite planning, expense reporting, vendor coordination, and other activities that support effective department operations. Develops and improves processes, tools, and systems that enhance executive effectiveness, streamline coordination, and support efficient department operations.
• Supports department-wide meetings and communications through scheduling, agenda development, note-taking, meeting logistics, action-item tracking, and follow-up communications. Identifies cross-functional implications, recommends next steps, and helps ensure commitments are completed.
• Communicates on behalf of the CDO and Development leaders with professionalism, discretion, and confidentiality when interacting with network partners, donors, vendors, Board members, staff, and internal departments. Serves as a primary point of contact for internal and external stakeholders on matters related to the Office of the Chief Development Officer and builds effective working relationships with executive assistants, donor representatives, Board liaisons, and other key stakeholders.
• Other duties as assigned.

RequiredCompetencies, Experience and Certifications:

• Three years of experience supporting senior leaders in a complex stakeholder environment requiring executive scheduling, prioritization, project coordination, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities and highly complex schedules with exceptional organizational skills, attention to detail, sound judgment, and discretion.
• Strong written communication skills, including the ability to research, synthesize information, and prepare concise briefings, presentations, meeting materials, and executive communications.
• Project coordination experience, including the ability to translate strategic priorities into actionable work plans, track progress, and coordinate stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes
• Demonstrated professionalism, trustworthiness, and ability to handle confidential information while working independently, managing multiple priorities, and adapting to changing circumstances and deadlines.

Preferred Competencies, Experience and Certifications:

• Experience supporting a senior executive or executive leadership team.
• Experience in a nonprofit, fundraising, philanthropy, or other mission-driven environment.
• Experience using AI-enabled tools to support research, content development, meeting preparation, and workflow management.

Required Leadership Competencies:

• Fosters an Enterprise Mindset
• Fosters an Open and Supportive Environment
• Leads with Accountability
• Collaborates Internally and Externally
• Focuses on People and Teams
• Manages Organization and Business Complexity
• Communicates with Impact and Influence

Feeding America's goal is to attract, develop, retain, and promote a talented diverse workforce where all employees feel a sense of belonging and contribute to a culture that values differences, ideas, and experiences. We intentionally seek out diverse perspectives and skills on our teams, knowing that it makes us stronger as an organization and better equipped to serve our neighbors in need. We encourage all individuals, including those from historically under-represented communities and individuals with lived experience of hunger, to apply.

Feeding America participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.