Coordinator, Development & Program Operations

Role Overview

The mission of Harvard Hillel is to be a Jewish home, both physical and virtual, on the Harvard University campus. Harvard Hillel welcomes all students to experience the variety of Jewish identity, tradition, practice, values, culture, and community and to inspire and enable connections on campus and beyond. Harvard Hillel (HH) students find meaningful connections and friendship while engaging in unique opportunities to make Jewish thought and culture integral in the life of the University.

The Coordinator, Development & Program Operations (the Coordinator) serves as a hub of information, pro-active project management, and administrative expertise for Harvard Hillel’s fundraising and student-facing program teams. The Coordinator works closely with Central Services to plan and implement activities shared between Development, Program, and Operations.

The Coordinator’s primary responsibilities are to plan, coordinate, and communicate upcoming activities of the Development and Program departments, and to coordinate and communicate upcoming shared projects effectively across departments. The Coordinator engages across the organization to play an active role leading and supporting high-impact projects.

As the organization’s needs evolve, and the Coordinator develops their experience and skills, it is anticipated that the Coordinator will be mentored and trained into a donor-facing Development role.

What You’ll Do

Development Operations

• Support fundraising success and learn about fundraising strategy.
• Maintain the fundraising management database and related online systems, as the key tools of development operations, to ensure effective stewardship of existing constituents.
• Actively manage the fundraising management system (Donor Perfect), ensuring clean records, data, outreach lists.
• Actively manage the communication tools (Constant Contact and HH website), ensuring effective engagement of audience segments.
• Work closely with colleagues across departments, including Operations, central services, and finance, to record and track information and materials for pledges, gifts, donations, grants and contracts routinely scanning, tracking, communicating, and acknowledging as needed between departments.
• Project manage a donor records project, establishing an implementation timeline and metrics of success, to verify the accuracy, completeness, and confidentiality of donor records.
• Maintain relationships with donors, customers, and vendors to bring forward payments, billing, contracting, and trouble-shoot inquiries as needed.

Development Engagement

Program Operations

What You’ve Accomplished

What You’ll Receive

About Harvard Hillel

Harvard Hillel offers staff a unique opportunity to serve, work, and grow with a remarkable community of young adults, lay leaders, and colleagues. Harvard Hillel is an equal opportunity employers. We are committed to creating an accepting and inclusive environment for all.

Harvard Hillel is affiliated with Hillel International. Hillel International enriches the lives of Jewish students so they may enrich the Jewish people and the world and envisions a world where every student is inspired to make an enduring commitment to Jewish life, learning and Israel.

About Hillel International

In 1923, Rabbi Benjamin Frankel started Hillel with humble means, a noble mission and a breathtaking vision : to convey Jewish civilization to a new generation. Today, Hillel International continues to enrich the lives of Jewish students and is the largest Jewish campus organization in the world at nearly 1,000 colleges and universities across North America and around the world. As Hillel evolves as an organization, the mission remains steadfast : to create lasting connections with every Jewish student that foster an enduring commitment to Jewish life, learning, and Israel and train them to become the next Jewish leaders.

Hillel is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an accepting and inclusive environment for all.