Outreach Coordinator

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Outreach Coordinators typically work for various establishments, including hospitals, non-profits, educational institutions or corporations, to perform community outreach responsibilities on behalf of their company. They work closely with upper management and marketing professionals to strategize different ways to spread awareness about their company while also helping their community. Their job is to maintain relationships with local business owners and local officials to coordinate fundraisers or community programs. They may also be responsible for maintaining a budget and overseeing the creation of marketing materials.

What does a Outreach Coordinator do?

An Outreach Coordinator, or Community Outreach Coordinator, is responsible for connecting an organization with the surrounding community. Their duties include brainstorming potential partnerships or methods for engagement with the local community, maintaining a calendar for outreach events and working closely with community partners to plan and execute various outreach events.

Responsibilities

A Outreach Coordinator should be able to fulfill various duties and responsibilities. The following are some duties and responsibilities a Outreach Coordinator should be able to execute:

Public relations: An Outreach Coordinator often will be in charge of fundraising and creating strategic relationships with donors. Public relations is a way that an Outreach Coordinator will communicate with donors and the media to represent the organization. Press releases, brochures, social media, email campaigns and attending community events are ways an Outreach Coordinator uses public relations.
Research: An Outreach Coordinator collects data and information to focus on the donors, events and venues that may be useful to the organization.
Administrative duties: Project management and event coordination are some administrative duties an Outreach Coordinator may do in addition to supervising staff and office work that benefits the organization.

Required Skills

A competitive Outreach Coordinator will have certain skills and qualifications, including:

Communication skills: Both verbal and in writing to inform and persuade donors, the media and people in the community of the organization’s purpose. An Outreach Coordinator’s communication skills are necessary to communicate goals to coworkers.
Project management skills: It is essential for an Outreach Coordinator to have skills in time management, scheduling other people and coordinating locations for events as well as vendors for events.
Administrative skills: Office skills are essential for an Outreach Coordinator because there are many issues and paperwork in coordinating events, budgets and people.
Ability to multitask with several project details at once: This ability is critical because events, people and members of the media need to be contacted and managed for effective publicity for the organization.

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