Senior Coordinator, Institutional Advancement

Title: Senior Coordinator, Institutional Advancement

Employment Status: Non-Exempt

Salary: $56,500-60,000 plus bonuses

Supervisor Title: Senior Director, Institutional Advancement

Date Revised: December 2025

Summary of Position:

The Senior Coordinator, Institutional Advancement is a key member of the Institutional Advancement team that supports the giving priorities of Meridian. The position works directly with the Senior Director, Institutional Advancement and senior leaders within the Development team to ensure the smooth operation of business development work and help drive fundraising goals. This position supports the team engaging in frontline fundraising, relationship management, and growth of individual giving programs. 

The position is responsible for driving renewals, upgrades, and new individual gifts through strategic outreach, moves management, and data-informed fundraising strategies. The Senior Coordinator plays a key role in achieving revenue and renewal goals while ensuring an exceptional donor engagement.

This position is located in Washington D.C. and Meridian requires MD, DC, or VA residence for all employees. The position may work partially remotely until further notice. 

Position Responsibilities:

• Serve as primary relationship manager for 100+ individual philanthropic partners and prospects
• Drive the full individual giving membership renewal process, including drafting and sending renewal letters and emails, making follow-up calls, and renewal tracking
• Research and solicit opportunities for individual membership upgrades, focusing on memberships in the $3,500 – $20,000 annual giving ranges
• Act as a forward-facing fundraiser to drive new individual philanthropic partners by actively identifying prospects, adding them to the pipeline, cultivating and soliciting with a minimum of three meaningful touch points with new potential partners per week.
• Welcome      and engage new individual and enterprise philanthropic partners to      identify interests and maintain accurate contact information
• Maintain      regular communication with philanthropic partners by sharing upcoming      event calendars and other relevant organizational updates
• Support      Institutional Advancement fundraising team goals.
• Responsible      for the individual and enterprise giving pipeline in Salesforce and ensuring      accurate and timely data entry; Regularly clean and update individual      giving accounts and records
• Support      year-end appeal efforts, including drafting appeal language, list      segmentation, and gift closing
• Serve as      a Salesforce superuser, supporting strategic and accurate list      segmentation for fundraising campaigns
• Contribute      fundraising data and analysis for Development Committee reports
• Review and provide feedback on event invitation drafts for institutional advancement events
• Provide initial draft, update, and maintain individual and enterprise giving collateral, including brochures and website content
• Staff      all Institutional Advancement events from setup through cleanup
• Responsible      for completing all organizational administrative responsibilities in a      timely manner and meeting all organizational administrative deadlines;      other duties as assigned

Employer's Statement

Meridian is committed to empowering global leaders and amplifying voices of a wide variety of backgrounds to create pathways for greater understanding, shared values, and respect. Connecting people has been our foundation for over 65 years. If you share our values and enthusiasm to promote non-partisan collaboration to address global challenges and opportunities, you can find a home at Meridian. 

As an equal opportunity employer, Meridian promotes equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, personal appearance, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical condition, family responsibilities, marital, veteran or military status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, matriculation, political affiliation, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. Equal employment opportunity will be offered and maintained to all persons at every stage and condition of employment, including recruiting, hiring, training, upgrading, promotion,