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Director, Leadership Giving and LINC

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Des Moines, IA, USA
Full-time

United Way of Central Iowa is seeking a Director of Leadership Giving and LINC (Lead Impact Network Change) to support and advance United Way’s mission of improving lives by identifying, developing and maintaining high quality relationships with individuals and organizations to attract and sustain resources for UWCI’s community impact agenda. The Director focuses on both Leadership Giving donors who contribute $500 + annually and the LINC program, which cultivates and engages young professionals with specialized volunteer opportunities and social events. The Director is responsible for building the stewardship of our donors by exposing them to the work United Way is doing in central Iowa while creating pathways for them to deepen their engagement.

The ideal candidate will be creative, team-oriented, self-motivated, and have a strong commitment to the organization’s mission; proven relationship building skills and demonstrated success in fundraising, sales or marketing.  The availability to coordinate volunteer and social events with some early evening activities will be required.

Areas of Responsibility: 
  • Support UWCI’s community impact agenda by developing and implementing creative, customized growth strategies to attract and sustain resources for Leadership Giving and LINC with effort to consistently keep and exceed pace with general campaign growth.
  • Conduct market segment research to develop a quantifiable understanding of interests and demographics of prospective and current donors. Then, create donor pathways for increased donations and deeper engagement.
  • As assigned, manages company relationship, including year-round engagement with key leaders and company influencers, assisting contacts in planning and executing employee campaign and managing accounts through tracking, updating, analyzing and evaluating data.   
  • Identify prospective leadership donors and LINC members both inside and outside traditional campaign settings and market segments by working closely with UWCI Campaign staff and company executives.
  • Track investments and manage acknowledgement and recognition for Leadership Giving and LINC.
  • Customize a year-round action plan for building relationships with current and prospective leadership donors and LINC members to ensure that United Way is positioned as the ideal partner for making a measurable difference in the community; including defining and executing a defined schedule of events that supports donor and prospects’ interests.
  • Collaborate with UWCI marketing staff to develop and implement a comprehensive communication plan that strengthens prospective and current donor’s knowledge of and connection with UWCI.
  • Strengthen the value of the UWCI brand experience by identifying and developing leadership and LINC volunteer opportunities in collaboration with Volunteer Engagement staff.
  • Collaborate with the Community Impact and partners to understand and effectively articulate how LINC dollars support UWCI’s Essential Needs Committee. Through the partnership, LINC members will serve on the Essential Needs Committee and LINC will support moving essential needs work forward.
  • Identify and assist in securing lead volunteers and executive champions.  Support all lead volunteer needs to ensure a positive experience with UWCI.
  • Aligns work behavior and work based on the UWCI Code of Ethics and Organizational Values.
Educational Background: 
Bachelor’s Degree in marketing, public relations or related field.
Skills/Experience: 
  • Three to five years of progressive experience in sales, marketing, public relations or fundraising
  • Computer literate with competencies in Word, Excel, and database management.
  • Driver’s license and ability to drive own vehicle for regular local travel between buildings in the Central Iowa area.  Overnight and air travel occurs potentially twice year with stays of two to three days.

COMPETENCIES

  • Relationship Building – Ability to establish and maintain a good rapport and cooperative relationship with customers and coworkers. Demonstrated success in executive relationship management.
  • Customer Oriented – Desire to serve clients by focusing on meeting their needs, understanding their concerns and seeking to build trust.
  • Project Management – Ability to plan, organize, staff, direct and control work tasks to meet a specific goal.
  • Presentation Skills – Ability to effectively present information in front of a group.
  • Communication, Oral – Ability to send verbal messages, and listens to others responses in order to convey information.
  • Communication – Written – Ability to write concise, clear letters, reports, articles, or emails including proofing and editing.
  • Creative – Ability to think in new ways that produce something new or lead to novel ideas.
  • Problem solving – Ability recognize courses of action that can be taken to handle problems, and apply contingency plans to solve those problems.
  • Self-motivated – Ability to reach a goal or perform a task with little supervision or direction.
  • Analytical Skills – Ability to develop information and raw material into meaningful conclusions.
Compensation/Benefits: 

Salary: $61,000 to $70,000 per year

Organization Info

United Way Worldwide

Overview
Headquarters: 
Alexandria, VA, United States
Annual Budget : 
$100-500M
Founded: 
1934
About Us
Mission: 

United Way improves lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities around the world to advance the common good.

United Way fights for the health, education and financial stability of every person in every community. We win by living United. By forging unlikely partnerships. By finding new solutions to old problems. By mobilizing the best resources. And by inspiring individuals to join the fight against their community's most daunting social crises.

Listing Stats

Post Date: 
Jun 23 2019
Active Until: 
Jul 23 2019
Hiring Organization: 
United Way Worldwide
industry: 
Nonprofit