Coordinator, Parent and Family Philanthropy
Bronx, NYJob$67–70K/yrSeen 3 days agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago
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The Coordinator of Parent and Family Philanthropy supports Fordham’s parent and family fundraising through administrative, data, volunteer management, stewardship, and communication work. Reporting to the Senior Director of Development, the role helps develop cultivation and engagement strategies, leads events and communications, and supports annual giving. The position requires some travel and evening or weekend work.
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About Fordham:
Founded in 1841, Fordham is the Jesuit University of New York, offering an exceptional education distinguished by the Jesuit tradition to more than 16,000 students in its nine colleges and schools. It has residential campuses in the Bronx and Manhattan, a campus in West Harrison, N.Y., the Louis Calder Center Biological Field Station in Armonk, N.Y., and the London Centre in the United Kingdom.
The University offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision insurance; flexible spending accounts; retirement plans; life insurance; short and long-term disability; employee assistance program ( EAP ); tuition remission; and generous time off.
Successful candidates should have a knowledge of and commitment to the goals of Jesuit Education.
Department: Dev Investment Fund Initiative
Campus: Lincoln Center (LC) - NYC
Position Summary:
Reporting to the Senior Director of Development for Parent & Family Philanthropy, the Coordinator of Parent & Family Philanthropy is responsible for the team’s administrative, data, volunteer management, stewardship, and communication tasks.
Grounded in care for the whole person (cura personalis), this position works closely with the Senior Director to develop a comprehensive strategy for cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding parent and family philanthropic support.
The Coordinator will execute all aspects of parent and family engagement events and initiatives, creating welcoming environments that invite families of all backgrounds into a shared purpose. By helping enhance fundraising strategies, the Coordinator fosters a healthy, inclusive donor pipeline dedicated to the restless pursuit of excellence (magis).
Some travel and evening/weekend work is required.
Essential Functions:
Responsible for volunteer management and oversight of Fordham’s Parents’ Leadership Council, ensuring all feel a deep sense of belonging and connection to the University, regardless of their background.
Creates strategic and regional programming that elevates parent leadership philanthropy and enhances support of the University’s mission to advance the broader common good.
Leads all parent and family philanthropy event preparation, planning, and execution. Organizes and spearheads event logistics to support the Parent and Family Philanthropy Team’s fundraising strategies, ensuring all gatherings reflect inclusive excellence and make families of diverse traditions feel genuinely welcome.
Develops fundraising communications to support the overall parent engagement and fundraising strategy, translating Jesuit values into universally accessible messages of service and community. Facilitates and coordinates regular communications with parents through the website, regular PLC newsletters, and emails to individual members.
Assists and executes annual giving strategies as directed by partnering with Fordham Fund colleagues to conceptualize, develop, and manage the process for effective multichannel parent and family fundraising and stewardship.
Develops parent donor-centric stewardship strategies and meaningful engagement opportunities, utilizing thoughtful discernment to tailor outreach.
Applies the principle of cura personalis to balance ambitious institutional fundraising goals with genuine care for donors’ holistic relationship to the University.
Provides administrative/budget support. Tracks, analyzes, and monitors expenses for the various activities of the Parent and Family Philanthropy team.
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in business, liberal arts, or related field or a combination of education and experience.
Minimum of 2 years of professional experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
Familiarity with fundraising databases and tools ( CRM Advance, Fundraiser Performance Management, etc.)
Experience working in a fundraising and/or education setting.
Minimum Salary: $67,000
Maximum Salary: $70,000
How this job compares
Set against the 615 open Development jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 1, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$67–70K/yr
- New York median$87–109K/yr43 salary ranges
- US median$95–141K/yr341 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $69K, is 31% below the New York median midpoint ($99K) — in the lowest quarter of Development salary ranges in New York.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 67 open Development jobs in New York and 615 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New York
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Development postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 460 postings).
- Education
- 319 of the 615 open Development jobs (52%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 1, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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