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Senior Development Coordinator


Job Location:

Seattle, OR - USA

Hourly Salary: USD 24 - 34
Posted: 29 September 2026 (14 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 27 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Bring people together and create meaningful experiences that support The Museum of Flights mission! The Senior Development Coordinator plays a key role in creating impactful fundraising and donor experiences at The Museum of Flight. This position leads event planning and execution while managing budgets donor stewardship reporting communications and logistics to ensure successful mission-driven events. If youre organized collaborative and thrive on making events happen this could be the opportunity for you.

Summary

The Senior Development Coordinator leads the planning coordination and execution of Development events. This position works closely with the Development team senior leadership and external partners to ensure department events are mission-driven and strategically executed. The coordinator should be detail-oriented highly organized and should provide excellent customer service and experience to donors sponsors volunteers and vendors. Additionally this role oversees event budgets donor reporting (including endowment stewardship) event collateral and event supplies.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job. Other duties may be performed both major and minor which are not mentioned below. Specific activities may change from time to time. To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.

  1. Administration & Data Management
    • Responsible for logistical task coordination and administrative support for daily department operations events programs and projects.
    • Schedule meetings prepare agendas and distribute meeting materials to ensure effective coordination
    • Maintain accurate event and donor data in the CRM/database.
    • Generate reports and track metrics to support fundraising donor stewardship and event evaluation.
    • Support and coordinate interns and/or staff assisting with development activities.
  2. Event Planning & Execution
    • Lead end-to-end planning logistics vendor management and execution of fundraising stewardship and cultivation events in alignment with organizational goals and brand.
    • Monitor budgets timelines contracts and event outcomes including RSVPs ticket sales and seating.
    • Provide on-site volunteer coordination and leadership during events.
  3. Budget & Financial Management
    • Collaborate with leadership in ensuring accurate budgeting and forecasts for events in alignment with fundraising goals including monitoring and post event reporting on revenue/expenses processing payments and identifying cost-saving opportunitieswhile maintaining event quality.
  4. Fundraising Donor Engagement & Reporting
    • Partner with stakeholders to drive event fundraising through sponsorships donor cultivation and recognition including auctions raffles and in-kind contributions.
    • Prepare and distribute endowment reports to donors ensuring accurate timely and personalized stewardship
  5. Collateral & Communications
    • Develop and manage event-related collateral including sponsorship packets invitations programs signage and digital assets.
    • Coordinate with communications/marketing teams to ensure applicable brand consistency and alignment.
    • Draft event content for email social media and donor communications.
    • Ensure all collateral and communications support fundraising and stewardship goals.
  6. Supplies & Logistics Management
    • Maintain inventory of development and event supplies (signage décor collateral auction materials name tags etc.).
    • Track supply usage and costs aligning with event budgets.
    • Organize and maintain storage areas to ensure easy access and efficiency.
  7. Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Education & Experience

  • Associate degree in nonprofit management communications marketing or related field (or equivalent experience).
  • Minimum of 3 years of experience in fundraising event management or development preferably in a nonprofit setting.
  • Proven track record of planning and executing successful fundraising events.
  • Demonstrated experience managing budgets and financial reporting.
  • Experience preparing donor and endowment reports with accuracy and attention to detail.
  • Experience in developing and managing event collateral and donor communications.
  • Experience in volunteer recruitment training and management.
  • Experience maintaining and managing supplies and inventory for events or development functions.

Knowledge

  • Strong project management and organizational skills with ability to manage multiple priorities.
  • Knowledge of donor databases/CRM (e.g. Raisers Edge Salesforce or similar).

Skills

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills; strong attention to detail.

Abilities

  • Ability to work occasional evenings and weekends for events.

License & Certification

  • None

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

  • Schedule is set by the supervisor with flexibility for evening and variable hours based on Museum need.
  • Able and willing to work a flexible and/or extended work week which may include some evening and/or weekend work.
  • Onsite attendance is essential to perform the duties of this position.
  • Little to no travel is expected for this position.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

  • Must be able to lift up to 30 pounds with assistance.
  • Normal office conditions apply including repetitive wrist and arm movement and long periods of sitting or standing
  • The ability to focus bend carry reach to the side front and overhead push pull walk stand twist and squat are occasional requirements in a normal office setting.
  • This position requires one to be able to travel which may subject one to inclement weather flight delays or other travel related inconveniences.

Benefits

The Museum of Flight offers full-time employees a generous and comprehensive benefits package which includes medical dental vision flexible spending accounts a 403(b) retirement plan with a 5% match after 1 year of service Employee Assistance Program as well as company paid life insurance Accidental Death and Dismemberment and long-term disability.

Paid-Time Off

Our paid time-off plans include 2 weeks of accrued sick leave and 2 weeks of vacation (80 hours each) per year 10 paid holidays and 2 floating holidays.

Compensation

The pay range for this position is $24.80to$34.70depending on experience.

If you receive an offer your starting salary will fall within the posted range. Compensation is determined by a variety of factors including the scope of the position years of relevant experience specialized skills internal equity market conditions and the candidates qualifications and ability to successfully perform the role.

Important Information

The Museum of Flight is committed to reflecting the diverse community around us. We continue to listen learn and implement change so that we can become a more inclusive organization that addresses bias and inequity and better serves our communities. We highly encourage persons of color members of marginalized communities women non-binary and LGBTQIA individuals to apply.

Prior to hire and only after a conditional offer of employment has been made a background check including criminal history may be conducted consistent with applicable law including the Washington State Fair Chance Act. Information obtained from the background check will be considered only as permitted by law and will not automatically disqualify an applicant from employment. A copy of the Washington State Fair Chance Act information sheet is available here: Washington Fair Chance Act

The Museum of Flight is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race color age sex religion national origin disability veterans status sexual orientation or gender identity/expression.

This organization participates in E-Verify.

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Senior IC


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The Museum of Flight holds one of the largest air and space collections in the US and aims to become the foremost educational air and space museum in the world!

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