Fundraising Manager, Walk to End Alzheimer's
$65,000–$70,000 year
On-siteMarlton, New Jersey, United States or Northfield Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States
Job Summary
Drive success and achieve revenue goals by strategically identifying and engaging community and corporate leaders while building and empowering sustainable volunteer committees. Manage multiple peer-to-peer fundraising events annually, generating community excitement and coaching volunteers to implement proven strategies that result in year-over-event growth. Cultivate key community connections, prospect, and steward event teams, sponsors, and participants to maximize participation and brand awareness. Manage event budgets, set timelines, and utilize data to affect positive outcomes while working evenings and weekends as required for committee meetings and wraparound events. Travel up to 60% within the assigned territory by car to fulfill job goals.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- 3-5 years of proven experience in recruiting and mobilizing volunteers to achieve goals
- 3 - 5 years successful experience of meeting sales targets
- Confident, goal-oriented, positive self-starter, able to work independently with limited supervision and collaboratively with internal and external partners
- Demonstrated ability to develop and nurture corporate relationships and partnerships
- Ability to manage large numbers of volunteers at different levels of expertise with diplomacy
- Ability to work with diverse communities and demonstrate inclusion, coupled with the ability to work in a highly matrixed organization
- Excellent interpersonal skills including verbal and written communication and follow through
- Must have valid driver's license
- Access to reliable vehicle
- Good driving record
- Proof of automobile insurance
- Ability and willingness to work some evenings and weekends as required for committee meetings, Walk and wraparound events
- Ability to bend, stoop, lift and transport up to 25 lbs. of materials
- Strong computer skills, proficient with Microsoft Office products and social media
- Experience with, or ability to rapidly learn Luminate/Convio software
Desired Qualifications
- Candidates residing in Burlington, Atlantic, Camden, Gloucester, Salem, Cumberland or Cape May County
- You have proven success at building sustainable corporate and community relationships that contribute to achieving event revenue goals, greater community participation and heightened brand awareness
- You have successfully recruited, managed, and coached volunteers to effectively implement best and proven practices to achieve fundraising goals
- You are able to effectively assimilate our custom training on peer to peer fundraising and leverage your sales/relationship development background to recruit, manage and coach volunteers to implement best and proven practices to achieve fundraising goals
- You have managed or are capable of managing multiple volunteer-led mass-market events simultaneously that have resulted in revenue growth year over year
- You are known as a convener and have successfully built a positive, healthy, and inclusive team environment that has resulted in long term community relationships
- You love a challenge and have achieved or surpassed designated revenue and participant goals through team and individual fundraising, corporate solicitation, and community partnerships
- You have demonstrated success at prospecting, cultivating and stewarding event teams, sponsors and participants
- You have excellent communication and organization skills and are comfortable with managing event budgets, training volunteers, working to set timelines and milestones and using data to affect positive outcomes
- Qualified candidates throughout New Jersey, Delaware and the greater Philadelphia area
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