Provides community development and community leadership for a large geographic market area of a region centered around a top 50 market, including accountability for multi-million dollar income targets. Responsible for profits and loss management for market areas community development revenue activities, ensuring ROI targets are achieved. Manages a large team of community development staff as well as a market-based volunteer board accountable for providing volunteer leadership for market priorities and goals. Ensures engagement and mobilization of diverse constituents, staff and volunteers for the assigned market area in a prioritized and coordinated way to meet established market and regional objectives.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Develops and leads implementation of the assigned market area strategy for community development including event execution and volunteer engagement to drive revenue growth.
- Manages, coaches and develops a team of community development leaders within the assigned geographic market area. Ensures that responsibilities, authorities and accountability of all direct reports are well defined.
- Accountable for achievement of income performance targets through core event-based revenue such as Relay For Life, Making Strides Against Breast Cancer, distinguished events and other community based fundraising activities.
- Responsible for optimization of current community development activities as well as driving new revenue with entrepreneurial spirit to achieve and surpass revenue targets
- Drives community relevance through customer-centric and innovative strategies
- Maximizes the assets of the market to further the mission of the Society by convening staff across departments to develop and implement an integrated market plan to achieve mission, revenue and advocacy goals for the market
- Leads a market-based volunteer board comprised of highly engaged, community influencers accountable for driving market priorities and goals; recruits, manages relationships and retains highly effective volunteer leaders who can significantly contribute to the success of the Society.
- Ensures effective leadership and engagement of community-based volunteers including appropriate leadership groups outside of the market board
- Responsible for leadership facilitation in operational decision making, communications, and collaboration to create a cohesive culture within the assigned geographic market area
- Monitors financial expenditures and progress against the budgetary plan and takes appropriate measures to meet top line and bottom line goals ensuring a high ROI in meeting revenue targets.
- As the top leader of the market, ensures ACS community presence and relevance; serves as a spokesperson for the organization
- Coordinates account prioritization and ownership for community-based accounts and relationships
- Serves as primary relationship manager for assigned priority accounts and targeted priority relationships in geographic market areas; responsible for leveraging those relationships in a way that supports market-based goals and objectives.
- Ensures ACS visibility by joining and participating in key market based organizations and networking groups as appropriate to generate strategic partnerships for the market and/or region.
- Collaborates with the Cancer Control, Distinguished Partner, Business Planning & Operations, Communications/Marketing and ACS CAN leads to ensure coordinated and interdependent achievement of market goals; leveraging community relationships to achieve income and mission goals.
- Ensures effective stewardship of key volunteer and donor relationships.
- Maximizes the utilization of volunteers to achieve revenue goals; oversees the volunteer engagement efforts to ensure the volunteer talent and capacity is available to execute volunteer-driven activities.
- Supports ACS CAN grass roots efforts, including ACS CAN membership, lobby days and action alerts.
- Maintains a productive and collaborative relationships with the Society’s global headquarters departments and other regions; participates on regional and enterprise projects and committees as appropriate.
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Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Jul 25 2017
Active Until:
Aug 25 2017
Hiring Organization:
American Cancer Society
industry:
Nonprofit