This role is crucial for establishing and maintaining partnerships that support ELNC’s mission. The Coordinator will play a pivotal role in securing funding, fostering relationships, and ensuring the success of the corporate sponsorship program.

• Cultivate Relationships: Build and maintain strong relationships with corporate partners, understanding their needs, goals, and expectations to tailor sponsorship opportunities accordingly.  Build a strong working relationship with ELNC team personnel, volunteers, and community members.
• Develop high-quality, successful event sponsorship models and strategies: Design and execute a comprehensive sponsorship strategy to attract corporate partners who are aligned with ELNC’s mission and values. 
• Event Sponsorship Management: Oversee all aspects of event sponsorship, including coordination, logistics, and ensuring sponsor satisfaction. Ensure that event sponsorship products are consistent with our scheduled events and maximize sponsorship opportunities and community partnerships.
• Identify Prospective Partners: Research and identify potential corporate sponsors based on their industry, values, and alignment with the non-profit’s objectives.
• Cultivate Relationships: Identify prospective partners. Build and maintain long-term solid fundraising relationships with corporate partners, understanding their needs, goals, and expectations to tailor sponsorship opportunities accordingly.
  Create, develop, and execute sponsor contracts specific to each donor, including respective sponsor benefits outlined in sponsorship agreements, ensuring mutually beneficial terms aligned with organizational goals. Manage contract execution and renewal processes.
• Budget Management: Manage the sponsorship budget effectively, optimizing resources to maximize sponsorship revenue and return on investment.
• Collaboration: Work closely with both departments (editorial/ leadership), including marketing, communications, and program teams, to integrate sponsorship initiatives and effectively leverage organizational resources.
• Grant Proposals and Funding Opportunities: Identify and pursue grant opportunities from corporations and foundations that offer sponsorship or partnership opportunities, collaborating with the development team to submit compelling proposals.
• Research and Analysis: Conduct research and analysis to identify trends in corporate philanthropy, emerging sponsorship opportunities, and best practices, sharing insights with the development team to inform strategic decision-making.
• Cross-Functional Projects: Participate in cross-functional projects and initiatives involving the development team, marketing, communications, and other departments to leverage collective expertise and resources to support organizational goals.

• Strong preference for Bilingual (Spanish-English) and Bicultural candidates
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience working in immigrant-serving independent media and/or non-profit and grassroots organizations is a plus 
• Familiarity with North Carolina’s philanthropic ecosystem is a plus 
• Works well in a team
• Great interpersonal communication skills
• Great problem-solving skills
• The ability to take initiative and work independently when needed 
• Open to learning, iterating, and growing with the organization as it evolves 
• A demonstrable record of success in new business development/sales roles.
• Demonstrable experience in maximizing opportunities from researching prospects to generating meetings and securing income.
• Experience working in cross-departmental teams or structures to deliver projects.
• Experience with grant writing or coordinating grant writing endeavors.
• Highly self-motivated individual.
• Excellent influencing and negotiation skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Possess the skill to pay attention to detail and the ability to ensure all outputs are of the highest.
• Demonstrable understanding of the charitable and/or policy sector.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills, including tact and assertiveness, and the ability to communicate at all levels in a complex environment.
• Strong entrepreneurial skills.
• Motivated by the opportunity to support CCAIS goals.
• Able to tackle challenges constructively and find creative ways to excel.

You’re an ideal candidate focusing on specific projects and events throughout the year and securing sustaining funds. All income generation is conducted in line with our Ethical Policy. The sponsorship coordinator must possess strong sales and public relations skills. The coordinator must have excellent oral and written communication skills. This position also requires exceptional organization and follow-through skills. In addition, the Sponsorship Coordinator must maintain confidential information, be politically astute, and demonstrate a strong professional demeanor. The sponsorship coordinator will be responsible for achieving goals set by Enlace Latino NC’s board through various fundraising mediums, including corporate giving, local business donations, and in-kind contributions. 

If you do not meet all of these requirements but are excited about this position and think you are a good fit, we encourage you to apply. We strongly encourage applications from immigrants, Latinxs, Indigenous candidates, people of color, women, people with disabilities, formerly incarcerated people, and LGBTQIA+ individuals.

The Sponsorship Coordinator position is part-time and pays $47,000- $50,000. For the first six months, it is a contract position. Afterward, it will transition to full-time and become part of the Enlace Latino NC staff, with the complete benefits package that ELNC offers to its full-time employees.

We are a diverse team of mostly first-generation immigrants who speak Spanish as a primary language. While we have yet to work on our DEI strategy, diversity has been baked into our organizational values, and we are eager to maintain that. 

As an organization, Enlace Latino NC defends democracy and access to information for immigrants and people of color. We are passionate about serving underrepresented communities and setting a precedent for how local media can better meet their needs. 

Enlace Latino NC is based in Raleigh, North Carolina. The Sponsorship Coordinator position is remote. The candidate should be able to travel to Raleigh at least three times per week and as needed. We invite candidates based in North Carolina (particularly the Triangle Region) to apply.