Associate Director of Development

About the role

The Associate Director of Development manages and executes KBCS's year-round individual giving program and strategy. Key responsibilities include overseeing fundraising campaigns, managing direct mail and email campaigns, coordinating donor events, and reporting to the Bellevue College Foundation Senior Director of Development.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with KBCS General Manager to set fundraising goals and develop integrated calendar of fundraising appeals across all channels.
• Oversees the distribution of, and creates copy for, all individual donor communications, including solicitations, acknowledgements, stewardship pieces, and the KBCS newsletter, through direct mail, on-air messaging, the KBCS website, email, social media, the KBCS app and more.
• Plans, leads and implements a minimum of three on-air fundraising campaigns annually, including participation in on-air pitching, volunteer coordination, staff and volunteer training, goal setting, and scripting.
• Analyzes effectiveness of campaigns and identifies and implements areas for improvement.
• Identifies potential acquisition populations and implements cultivation strategies to develop deeper relationships.
• Pursues opportunities to collaborate with other organizations that are aligned with station mission to grow station awareness and audience, i.e. event sponsorship, media trades.
• Captures and updates donor account information and troubleshoots inconsistencies in Raiser's Edge database.
• Reports and tracks giving trends and progress towards revenue goals for the KBCS General Manager.
• Reports regularly to the Foundation Senior Director of Development to ensure adherence to new Foundation guidelines and collaborate on station's development plan.
• Serves as station liaison to the Bellevue College Foundation and attends weekly Foundation meetings, meetings of the Foundation Board of Directors, and the Foundation Development Committee.
• Learns and leads the work of staff, work-study students, and volunteers.
• Trains and supervises work study students and administrative volunteers to support with answering phones during fund drive, in-house mailing production, tabling at KBCS events, and more.
• Leads portion of Bellevue College Foundation Development Coordinator's work, as related to KBCS.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• Relevant work experience may be substituted for the education requirement on a year-for-year basis.
• Demonstrated experience in a fundraising or development office.
• Demonstrated experience in planning and implementing effective fundraising campaign efforts.
• Effective oral and written communication skills and experience working directly with customers/donors/volunteers from diverse backgrounds.
• Intermediate computer skills, including experience working with Raiser’s Edge or another constituent management system or CRM and MS Office.
• Experience creating strategic plans for direct mail, email, and social media campaigns.
• Demonstrated knowledge of community-based public radio's mission, audience, and programming approaches.
• Demonstrated organizational skills.

Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience in planning and implementing effective fundraising campaign efforts at a public media organization.
• Familiarity with PCI and NACHA compliance.
• Graduate degree in Fundraising or Communication.
• Certified Fund Raising Executive Certification.
• Demonstrated ability to delegate tasks and oversee performance quality.
• Worked knowledge of Internal Revenue Service Charitable Giving Laws and Rules.
• Demonstrated experience improving public radio's financial well-being, image and visibility throughout broadcast regions and online.