Join Our Team as a Program Coordinator
Location: Washington DC (Onsite 3x a week)
Salary: 50K/yr

Are you passionate about literacy, education, and making a real difference?

The Program Coordinator supports Reading Is Fundamental’s (RIF) nationwide network of literacy advocates to ensure effective and impactful program delivery. Serving as a key liaison between RIF and its local partners, the Programs Coordinator provides responsive customer service, maintains accurate program data, manages inquiries, and supports day-to-day operations. This role is essential to ensuring RIF’s literacy programs are implemented smoothly, efficiently, and with measurable impact in communities across the country.

What You’ll Do:

• Serve as the main point of contact for program inquiries, coordinating with internal teams to ensure timely follow-up and resolution.
• Research and recruit local literacy advocates such as schools, childcare centers, and youth-serving nonprofits to implement RIF Programs and support RIF’s mission.
• Support local literacy advocates who are implementing RIF programs; including the use of the RIF Bookstore by ensuring they have access, placing book orders within project timelines, and promptly report any issues for resolution.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date records in Salesforce, including contact and account information, by logging all interactions and updates in a timely manner.
• Upload and track administrative forms, grant documents, mission moments, and activity reports.
• Serve as RIF’s in-house book inventory coordinator, supporting library inventory management through quarterly counts, updates, and refreshes.
• Oversee the receipt of donated books sent to the office and coordinate their distribution to local communities.
• Travel as needed, to support RIF events in communities across the country

What You'll Need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Education, Nonprofit Management, Communications, Public Administration, or a related field preferred.
• Functional knowledge of Microsoft Office.
• Must be detail oriented and a quick learner. Strong organizational skills required.
• The chance to be part of a passionate team dedicated to transforming lives through literacy.

Who We Are

Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) is the nation’s leading children’s literacy nonprofit. We focus on disrupting the U.S. literacy crisis by bringing the joy of reading to children to create skilled readers. By bringing books and reading resources to kids, we inspire the joy of reading, sparking imaginations and possibilities that put children on a path to reading proficiency.

Visit us at www.rif.org