Senior Development Coordinator (School of Government and Policy)

The Johns Hopkins University; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 30,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

The Johns Hopkins University, School of Government & Policy in Washington, DC, seeks a Sr. Development Coordinator to support DAR. The role requires agile, start-up mindset within a large university and emphasizes data quality, reporting, and donor relations across multiple projects.

Responsibilities include triaging inquiries, processing contributions, generating reports, and coordinating events and budget tasks. Monday–Friday, full-time, located in DC.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or graduation equivalent.
• Five years of related experience.
• Additional education may substitute for required experience to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

Responsibilities

• Serve as lead to triage internal and external constituent inquiries.
• Work closely with team members and leadership to promptly resolve constituent issues.
• Ensure the accurate processing of contributions and maintain the donor database (CRM).
• Review and ensure data quality; triage issues to the team and leadership.
• Compile and analyze data; produce ad hoc and regular reports.
• Assist leadership with reporting and analysis of gift and pipeline-related data.
• Ensure successful prospect identification, portfolio management, and other processes for gift officer support.
• Generate and manipulate templated and customized donor, prospect, and faculty reports.
• Research and/or compile briefing materials and presentations.
• Proofread and edit documents and office communications.
• Assist with planning, executing, and evaluating special events; staff events as assigned.
• Coordinate project management: schedule meetings, create timelines, prepare agendas, follow up on actions.
• Represent the team on committees.
• Submit travel reimbursements using Concur.
• Maintain and monitor the operating budget.
• Provide back-up administrative support for team members.

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

CRM

Job description

The Johns Hopkins School of Government and Policy (SGP) is the university's first new academic division since 2007, anchored at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C., designed from the ground up to close the gap between policy design and implementation. SGP is distinctly transpartisan, bringing together policymakers, scholars, and practitioners across disciplines and the ideological spectrum to apply analytic and empirical rigor toward building more effective governing institutions for the 21st century.

We are seeking a Sr. Development Coordinator who will be working in a start-up environment - creating processes and procedures, navigating unexpected obstacles, and adapting to change frequently. An agile mindset and flexible approach to daily responsibilities is needed as we define new ways of working within a well-established university. We are seeking a solution-focused person with a demonstrated ability to create new paths to achieve results.

The Sr. Development Coordinator will provide multi-faceted support to Development and Alumni Relations (DAR) and work collaboratively and in consultation with other staff to ensure development programs, projects, and initiatives are fully supported. The Sr. Development Coordinator will contribute to projects and detailed reporting.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• Serve as lead to triage internal and external constituent inquiries.
• Work closely with team members and leadership to promptly resolve any constituent issues.
• Ensure the accurate processing of contributions and maintain the integrity of the donor database (CRM).
• Review and ensure data quality. Triage issues to the team and leadership.
• Compile and analyze data. Produce ad hoc and regular reports.
• Assist team leadership with reporting and analysis of gift and pipeline-related data
• Ensure successful prospect identification/pipeline building, portfolio management, and other processes for gift officer support.
• Partner with the Director of Development (DOD)/team lead on work plan preparations and submissions.
• Generate and manipulate templated and customized donor, prospect, and faculty reports.
• Research and/or compile briefing materials and presentations.
• Proofread and edit documents and office communications.
• Assist with planning, executing, and evaluating special events. Staff events as assigned.
• Coordinate project management (schedule meetings, create timelines, prepare agendas, and follow up on action items).
• Represent the team on committees.
• Submit travel reimbursements for business-related expenses using Concur.
• Maintain and monitor the operating budget.
• Provide back‑up administrative support for team members.
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• High school diploma or graduation equivalent.
• Five years of related experience.
• Additional education may substitute for required experience to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree.
• Experience using a CRM

Classified Title: Sr. Development Coordinator

Role/Level/Range: ATO 37.5/03/OF

Starting Salary Range: $21.80 - $37.80 HRLY ($61,000 targeted; Commensurate w/exp.)

Employee group: Full Time

Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:30am - 5pm

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

Location: District of Columbia

Department name: Staff

Personnel area: School of Government & Policy