Sponsorship Coordinator

Summary

The Python Software Foundation is a US nonprofit organization that promotes, protects, and advances the Python programming language and supports its global community. The Sponsorship Coordinator manages sponsorship systems, processes, renewals, agreements, benefits, prospecting, outreach, and relationship stewardship, while also supporting individual donors, grants, and PyCon US activities.

Responsibilities

• Tracking sponsorship renewals, status, deadlines, and benefits
• Managing sponsorship agreement process & maintaining agreement files
• Fulfilling sponsor benefits
• Sponsor “customer support”
• Managing and improving sponsorship-related processes, systems, and documentation
• Researching prospective sponsors
• Contacting prospects & existing sponsors re. renewal
• Collecting & integrating sponsor feedback
• Sponsor relationship stewardship
• Updating prospectus
• Creating guides and reference materials for sponsors
• Maintaining sponsor-facing resources on the python.org and us.pycon.org websites
• Regular outreach to significant/recurring individual donors
• Supporting year-end fundraiser & other drives
• Occasional support on research related to grant opportunities and grant proposals
• Miscellaneous PyCon US support (~5%)

Skills

• Location: Remote, US-based only. Authorization to work in the US is required
• Preferred travel: One domestic trip per year to PyCon US
• Excellent attention to process/recordkeeping detail
• Excellent information & process organization skills
• Strong ability to improve and design systems
• Strong communication skills, particularly “customer service” type skills such as communicating with groups of stakeholders like volunteers, clients, funders, etc
• Strong internal motivation/independent worker
• Flexibility and eagerness to jump in and support a scrappy team and receive that support in return
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Professional verbal and written English skills
• US-based & authorized to work in the US
• 4+ years professional experience total
• 3+ years experience in a role with significant responsibilities related to organization of tasks, information/data, or people (examples for illustration purposes only; many types of experience may meet this requirement: grant management, donor management, volunteer organizing, bookkeeping, inventory management, HR administration, etc., etc.)
• 1+ years experience in a role requiring frequent and professional communication with a significant number of stakeholders (e.g. customers, internal clients, volunteers, community members, etc.)
• 1+ years successful experience working fully remote
• Fundraising experience not required (but a plus)
• Nonprofit experience not required (but a plus)
• Open source/Python/tech experience not required (but a plus)

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Location: Remote, US-based only. Authorization to work in the US is required
• Preferred travel: One domestic trip per year to PyCon US
• Excellent attention to process/recordkeeping detail
• Excellent information & process organization skills
• Strong ability to improve and design systems
• Strong communication skills, particularly “customer service” type skills such as communicating with groups of stakeholders like volunteers, clients, funders, etc
• Strong internal motivation/independent worker
• Flexibility and eagerness to jump in and support a scrappy team and receive that support in return
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Professional verbal and written English skills
• US-based & authorized to work in the US
• 4+ years professional experience total
• 3+ years experience in a role with significant responsibilities related to organization of tasks, information/data, or people (examples for illustration purposes only; many types of experience may meet this requirement: grant management, donor management, volunteer organizing, bookkeeping, inventory management, HR administration, etc., etc.)
• 1+ years experience in a role requiring frequent and professional communication with a significant number of stakeholders (e.g. customers, internal clients, volunteers, community members, etc.)
• 1+ years successful experience working fully remote

Nice to Haves

• Fundraising experience not required (but a plus)
• Nonprofit experience not required (but a plus)
• Open source/Python/tech experience not required (but a plus)

Benefits

• A generous healthcare plan
• A 401(k) plan
• PTO
• Summer half-day Fridays
• Holidays
• Fully remote work