The American Heart Association (AHA) has an excellent opportunity for a Heart Walk Director (Sales/Fundraising) in our Great Rivers Affiliate office located in Charleston, WV.
The Heart Walk Director is responsible for the future of AHA’s Healthy For Good Heart Walk campaign focused on embedding AHA deep into our communities for local health impact. Under direction of the Executive Director, the Heart Walk Director will be will be responsible for cultivating and securing corporate sponsorships and managing corporate accounts, executive and community leadership volunteers and community teams to meet the overall fundraising goal in excess of $315,000.
Areas of Responsibility:
This position has responsibility for three events total: the Charleston & Huntington Heart Walks, + Ashland HeartChase event.
- Builds a strong volunteer foundation of top employer CEO’s, civic and community leaders as Healthy For Good Heart Walk executive level volunteers and donors
- Builds relationships with local corporations, with a strong focus on top employers in the market, to secure and grow employees and business contacts as sponsors and participants engaged in our health initiatives
- Leverages and manages relationships to successfully achieve event sponsorship and participant income to achieve and exceed Heart Walk financial goals
- Aligns to AHA fundraising best practice guidelines, which includes daily calls and meetings in the assigned market, developing mutually satisfying relationships with corporations and top-level donors, utilizing a consultative approach to match corporate and donor interests with the AHA mission and priorities
- Drives Heart Walk participant income by recruiting and leading team captains, participants and executive level volunteers, providing effective orientation, training, development, activation and customer service
- Drives sponsorship income through securing, renewing and upgrading sponsors.
- As part of a team, implements large scale Heart Walk events based on nationally established best practices
- Drives organizational change through employers to build a culture of health by adopting AHA workplace health initiatives
- Attends and participates in frequent internal meetings focused on strategies to meet fundraising and mission goals
Educational Background:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
Skills/Experience:
- At least two years of experience with a non-profit organization in a fundraising position and/or two years proven success in corporate sales and new business development
- Demonstrated skills in negotiation and motivation to successfully secure and grow business/sponsors/donors
- Track record of success in meeting and significantly growing business-to-business fundraising/sales goals
- Knowledge and skills in sales/fundraising principles, practices and techniques
- Strong leadership competencies with the ability to recruit, train, counsel, manage and provide customer service to volunteers, including executive level
- Ability to work in a team atmosphere, but also to work independently
- Ability to apply sound judgment and strategic problem-solving skills
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-demand, best practice, goal and mission-driven environment
- Strong organizational agility with ability to prioritize and manage several responsibilities in a deadline driven environment
- Ability to understand and analyze sales/fundraising data and reports
- Applied knowledge and intermediate skills in windows applications such as Word, Excel and Outlook
- Demonstrated skills in professional written and oral communication, including large and small group presentations, group facilitation, training and public speaking
- Ability and willingness to travel and to work evenings and weekends on occasion
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Jun 15 2018
Active Until:
Jul 15 2018
Hiring Organization:
American Heart Association | American Stroke Association
industry:
Nonprofit