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Director of Donor Relations

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Winston-Salem, NC, USA
Full-time

To provide professional staff-leadership in developing, planning, implementing and evaluating accounts of United Way corporate partners and individuals with a focus on identifying growth opportunities as well as identifying new resource opportunities in order to enhance annual and long-term fundraising goals and promote United Way’s strategic mission, with a measured focus on personal donor connections.

Areas of Responsibility: 
  • Prepares and executes year-round relationship plans for company accounts and individual investors with a focus on maximizing potential and growth.
  • Develops and adapts plans for challenging companies.
  • Focus on attracting and developing new partnerships.
  • Heavy focus on individual donor engagement with expectations of meeting ambitious goals around personal contact with donors and prospects.
  • Works closely with volunteers to leverage experience and connections to gain better access to company leadership and build stronger, more effective relationships.
  • Prepares and executes an ongoing engagement plan for assigned individual donors.
  • Cultivates major gift and planned giving prospects through ongoing engagement.
  • Prepares and executes an individual campaign plan for all accounts assigned.
  • Ensures the accuracy of data on all accounts and maintains strict confidentiality of personal account and financial information.
  • Works as part of a team to develop and execute a year-round engagement plan for companies and individual investors.
  • Establishes a rigorous individualized personal and professional development plan.
  • Understands and supports United Way’s strategic direction in the community.
  • Identifies and develops new opportunities for resources. (expansion in existing accounts as well as potential new companies/investors)
  • Performs other duties as assigned.
Educational Background: 
Bachelor’s Degree
Skills/Experience: 
  • Strong entrepreneurial spirit, comfortable working in a changing environment, effective and persuasive communicator, treats others with respect and dignity, collaborative, focus on shared goals, strong attention to detail. Proactive with a high sense of urgency.
  • Persuasive customer oriented sales skills, effective oral and written communications skills; exceptional organizational skills; thorough analytical abilities; good interpersonal skills; strong supervisory and management skills; strategic thinker; strong computer skills in terms of utilizing word processing, spreadsheets and campaign application software.
  • Maintains and builds solid relationships with our focus corporate partners and their employees.  Works closely with volunteers to help build these relationships.
  • Two to five years of experience in fundraising or other relevant business experience.

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 13 2019
Active Until: 
Jul 13 2019
Hiring Organization: 
United Way Worldwide
industry: 
Nonprofit