Job Summary
The Coordinator, Development Communications, will help the USA Swimming Foundation (the “Foundation”) by main its storytelling, model voice, and creation of high-quality written and artistic supplies to help fundraising. The Coordinator, Development Communications, will report back to the Senior Director, Communications, and help the Communications crew in further wants. This function will primarily help donor-facing and alumni-facing digital communications, together with social media execution for the Foundation, and supply overflow communications help throughout peak fundraising and organizational moments.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Support the articulation of the Foundation’s core story to obviously talk worth, influence, and donor relevance.
- Support donor-focused and alumni-focused storytelling throughout digital, social, and fundraising platforms.
- Manage and execute Foundation social media content material in alignment with USA Swimming model voice.
- Draft and refine written fundraising and stewardship content material in coordination with the Senior Director, Communications and Senior Manager, Development.
- Assist within the inventive course for print, digital, and video collateral supporting fundraising priorities.
- Ensure constant voice, tone, and messaging throughout all donor-facing platforms and campaigns.
- Translate packages, outcomes, and aggressive moments into compelling donor-centered narratives.
- Partner carefully with the Foundation employees to align messaging with annual, management, main present, and marketing campaign methods.
- Partner with Senior Manager, Development to develop and set up a cadence of annual marketing campaign communications.
- Serve as speedy response writing and artistic help.
- Provide overflow communications help to the broader Communications crew as wanted.
Other Duties:
- Support further communications and content material initiatives as assigned, together with overflow protection throughout main campaigns, occasions, or organizational priorities.
- Adapt duties as wanted to help evolving Foundation and Communications crew targets.
- Assist Senior Director, Communications with securing and scheduling media alternatives to advertise the mission of the Foundation.
Required Skills & Abilities:
- In-depth information and apply of trade customary public relations, media relations and communications finest practices.
- Effective verbal and written communication abilities throughout a number of channels and for a mess of audiences to make sure correct and desired messaging is achieved and maintained.
- Exceptional interpersonal abilities. Execute and ship messaging whereas sustaining an expert and respectful demeanor.
- Ability to operate and adapt properly in a fast-paced surroundings. Ability to work properly with others in a collaborative surroundings.
- Organizational abilities and meticulous consideration to element.
- Time administration and the power to constantly meet deadlines.
- Ability to prioritize duties and produce applicable responses to inner and exterior requests, delegating when applicable.
- Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Office Suite, Zoom, web site publishing, social media execution, and information evaluation and challenge administration platforms.
Education & Experience:
- Bachelor’s diploma in communications, public relations, advertising, journalism or associated area required.
- Minimum of three years’ expertise in communications, content material growth, or digital media, ideally inside a nonprofit, sports activities, or mission-driven group.
- Demonstrated expertise growing written and digital content material for exterior audiences, together with social media and campaign-based communications.
- Experience collaborating throughout groups to help fundraising, advertising, or organizational initiatives most well-liked.
- Familiarity with model voice administration and audience-focused storytelling throughout a number of platforms.
Physical Requirements:
- Must be capable of journey, each domestically and internationally, as much as 10% of the 12 months.
- Must be capable of elevate as much as ten kilos.
- This place works in an workplace setting within the USA Swimming headquarters workplace in Colorado Springs, CO; should be keen to relocate to Colorado Springs, CO, or the encompassing space.
Salary & Benefits:
- Salary vary for this place is $24.00 to $29.00 per hour.
- Bonus Eligibility: Based on firm efficiency, this place could also be eligible for an annual goal bonus of 5%.
- Benefits obtainable embrace:
- Medical, dental, and imaginative and prescient
- Company paid short-term and long-term incapacity
- Company paid group time period life and AD&D insurance coverage
- Paid Parental go away
- Relocation Assistance
- Paid Family Medical Leave
- 401 (ok) protected harbor match after 1 12 months of service
- Profit sharing contribution after 2 years of service
- EAP
- PTO
- 15+ paid holidays
We are an equal alternative employer and all certified candidates will obtain consideration for employment with out regard to race, colour, faith, nationwide origin, intercourse, sexual orientation, age, incapacity, gender identification, marital or veteran standing, or another protected class.
**This job posting comprises a pay vary, which represents the vary of salaries that USA Swimming believes, in good religion, on the time of this posting, that it could be keen to pay for the posted place. USA Swimming expects to rent for this place close to the center of the vary. Only in actually uncommon and distinctive circumstances, the place an exterior candidate has expertise, credentials or experience that far exceed these required or anticipated for the place, would USA Swimming think about paying a wage or price close to the upper finish of the vary.
Anticipated Application Deadline: February 27, 2026