Generates and manages multiple high-impact community relationships and effective collaboration with market leadership, major gifts and corporate relations staff. Ensures goal achievement through effective volunteer leadership engagement, empowerment and mobilization. Executes large scale events portfolio with accountability for a significant gross income target of >$ 450K as well as appropriate event-related mission and advocacy activities.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Recruits and connects high net worth individuals with the appropriate volunteer and fundraising activities for events and collaborates with major gift peers to establish appropriate stewardship and cultivation strategies. .
- Recruits and connects with c-suite executives and corporate partners to drive sponsorship and support of distinguished events; collaborates with corporate relations peers to establish appropriate solicitation, stewardship and cultivation strategies.
- Through volunteer management, show a demonstrated ability to understand others perspectives and influence them to action. Accountable for the achievement of income performance targets for a portfolio of distinguished events including galas, golf, and other social events.
- Implements best practices for volunteer leadership development, succession planning, high level constituent experience, and event revenue growth; drives and encourages creativity and innovation.
- Proven ability to independently manage multiple projects and tasks concurrently and effectively prioritize in a fast-paced work environment to meet tight deadlines and consistently achieve income targets > $450K gross.
- Monitors financial expenditures and progress against budgetary plan and takes appropriate measures to meet top line and bottom line goals ensuring a high ROI in meeting revenue targets.
- Ensures stewardship and engagement of high-level volunteers with market and national boards, CEO chapters, and other organizational leadership groups. Demonstrates confidence in relationship building to recruit high level and diverse community volunteer leadership and committees.
- Ability to proactively anticipate and efficiently solve problems. Demonstrated ability to take initiative and a relentless drive toward outcomes and high aim.
- Responsible for planning events including volunteer committee recruitment and management, goal setting, event logistics, and evaluation.
- Manage pipeline development, account planning, forecasting, ROI analysis, engagement of prospects and high level volunteer cultivation. Able to cultivate relationships with targeted systems/organizations, including mobilization of a diverse population of community volunteers and major donors.
- Identifies and executes the utilization of event best practices to maximize fundraising through portfolio and actively works within a nationwide framework to seize opportunities across local and regional boundaries.
- Ensures collaboration with Major Gifts and Corporate Relations staff and volunteers to drive revenue growth through events, and effective stewardship of key volunteer and donor relationships.
- Actively collaborates with Cancer Control, and ACS CAN staff to maximize event success
- Supports Laureate Society efforts when applicable, assisting with the management of recognition events and activities.
- Ensures compliance with ACS policies, including risk management, event and cash handling, and financial controls. Ability to manage budgets, analyzes event data, and understands basic account principals to run events like a small business.
- 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.
- Models and fosters behavior that establishes a culture that values the staff/volunteer partnership, and is consistent with the values, goals, and objectives of the Society to create an atmosphere of trust, cooperation, accountability, empowerment, and dedication to the mission.
Educational Background:
Bachelor’s degree in related field and/or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Skills/Experience:
- One year related experience preferred, working within a multi-million dollar organization a plus.
Demonstrates Community Development Competencies:
- Action oriented - Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
- Attracts top talent - Attracts and selects the best talent to meet current and future business needs.
- Being resilient - Rebounds from setbacks and adversity when facing difficult situations.
- Builds networks - Effectively builds formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside the organization.
- Customer focus - Builds strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
- Drives engagement - Creates a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives.
- Balances stakeholders - Anticipates and balances the needs of multiple stakeholders.
- Ensures accountability - Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments.
Other skills:
- Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
- Able to work successfully in a diverse team environment.
- Ability to recruit, train and motivate community-based volunteers.
- Demonstrated ability in handling multiple priorities, project management and meeting deadlines; strong planning and organizational skills.
- Proven relationship building, persuasion and influence skills.
- Strong customer service orientation, with extensive experience in effectively addressing and resolving issues with constituents.
- Ability to proactively monitor and adjust activities to respond to changing circumstances and priorities to meet goals, proactively address issues as they arise and mitigate risks associated to events.
- Outcome driven; strong project management ability.
- Able to work through others to accomplish goals.
- Strong market, community and constituent perspective.
- Remains composed under stress, handles responses to criticism tactfully and delivers on organizational commitments.
- Broad knowledge of the overall structure, programs, and services of the American Cancer Society including policies and procedures.
- Proficient in computer-based information systems.
- Must have access to car or be able to transport materials to and from meetings and special events/programs. Must be able to staff evening and weekend committee meetings, events and programs. Must be able to lift 30 lbs and perform set up / take down of event equipment.
Compensation/Benefits:
We are committed to providing staff with fulfilling opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact in their local communities. We offer staff a generous paid time off policy; medical, dental and retirement benefits, and professional development programs to enhance staff skills.
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Jun 17 2019
Active Until:
Jul 17 2019
Hiring Organization:
American Cancer Society
industry:
Nonprofit