Published: Nov 25, 2025 - The Membership Professional oversees member acquisition, retention, and engagement by providing exceptional service, maintaining accurate membership records, and ensuring a positive experience throughout the member lifecycle. This role involves promoting membership benefits, handling inquiries and renewals, coordinating onboarding activities, and supporting marketing or outreach initiatives to grow the member base. The individual also collaborates with internal teams to resolve member issues, gathers feedback to improve membership programs, and contributes to operational efficiency and overall organizational success.

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1. Membership Coordinator, Haven Ridge Community Alliance, Briarwood, NC
Job Summary:
- Ensure membership services meet member needs and foster loyalty among those the company serves.
- Recruit, hire, train, supervise, develop, and schedule all membership staff
- Ensure proper implementation of membership procedures.
- Review and update procedures and communicate changes to staff in a clear, concise way.
- Provide, maintain, and submit department statistics and reports.
- Manage and implement the approved department budget and take appropriate action to correct variances.
- Implement membership strategies that support the recruitment of new members and the retention of existing members.
- Support regional strategic marketing and communications initiatives that drive membership, program, and child care enrollment.
- Follow and enforce all YMCA procedures and policies, including personnel guidelines, safety guidelines, facility access procedures, and membership policies.
- Carry out emergency plans.
Skills on Resume:
- Membership Service Delivery (Soft Skills)
- Staff Recruitment (Hard Skills)
- Staff Training (Hard Skills)
- Procedure Implementation (Hard Skills)
- Report Management (Hard Skills)
- Budget Management (Hard Skills)
- Membership Strategy (Hard Skills)
- Policy Enforcement (Hard Skills)
2. Membership Coordinator, Silvergate Member Services Cooperative, Larkhaven, OR
Job Summary:
- Enter and maintain data and generate reports on membership dues and donations.
- Manage a program for member retention and growth, meeting set metrics.
- Respond to membership inquiries.
- Prepare New Member packages.
- Send out membership cards.
- Assist with fundraising campaigns.
- Send dues notices.
- Maintain newsletter distribution lists.
- Track and prepare awards for the annual meeting.
- Set up online registrations for member events (training classes, meetings, etc.).
Skills on Resume:
- Data Entry (Hard Skills)
- Report Generation (Hard Skills)
- Retention Management (Hard Skills)
- Inquiry Handling (Soft Skills)
- Member Onboarding (Hard Skills)
- Fundraising Support (Hard Skills)
- Dues Notices (Hard Skills)
- Event Registration (Hard Skills)
3. Membership Manager, Brookline Chamber & Commerce Circle, Fairford, PA
Job Summary:
- Develop and maintain relationships with existing member businesses and potential new member businesses through day-to-day communications (calls, e-mails, visits, etc.) and attending events.
- Develop a good understanding of member needs and engage members appropriately to utilize membership benefits and maximize value from their BCCC membership.
- Attend various events, including occasional weekday evenings and occasional weekends.
- Liaise with member businesses on membership payments and renewals.
- Identify and recruit new member businesses through business networking, background research, and promotion of BCCC at meetings and events.
- Visit potential members and host online meetings to promote the full range of services that BCCC has to offer.
- Respond to general queries from member businesses and from external businesses.
- Visit members and other businesses, and lead online meetings.
- Administer membership records through the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) database.
- Analyse membership data and present findings and recommendations to BCCC’s management and Executive Committee.
- Recruit and supervise Membership interns.
Skills on Resume:
- Relationship Building (Soft Skills)
- Member Engagement (Soft Skills)
- Event Attendance (Soft Skills)
- Payment Liaison (Hard Skills)
- Member Recruitment (Hard Skills)
- Service Promotion (Soft Skills)
- Query Response (Soft Skills)
- CRM Administration (Hard Skills)
4. Membership Sales Manager, AALU/GAMA Association Services Network, Westbury, KS
Job Summary:
- Identify, contact, and recruit prospective members using both inbound leads and prospecting strategies (leads will be mostly warm, but there could be occasional cold calling as well).
- Establish relationships in nontraditional markets for the purpose of recruiting new members.
- Schedule quality calls with key members, carriers, and producer group contacts through consistent outreach.
- Research potential clients and identify key information to prepare the Vice President of Membership and other association executives for sales appointments.
- Coordinate meeting logistics and prepare meeting prep materials.
- Assist the Vice President of Membership and other association executives throughout the evaluation process to ensure prospective members receive the highest quality service and have an optimal experience.
- Assist in member retention.
- Provide insight into the views of prospects and new members for purposes of product and service development, analysis, and planning.
- Meet or exceed monthly, quarterly, and annual revenue targets.
Skills on Resume:
- Prospect Recruitment (Hard Skills)
- Market Expansion (Hard Skills)
- Relationship Outreach (Soft Skills)
- Client Research (Hard Skills)
- Meeting Coordination (Hard Skills)
- Sales Support (Soft Skills)
- Member Retention (Soft Skills)
- Revenue Achievement (Hard Skills)