Director, Best Buddies Challenge: New York

Position Overview

The Director serves as a senior member of the Best Buddies Challenge team, working closely with the VP, Cycling and Best Buddies Challenge senior management team on all regional development, fundraising, sales, and recruitment initiatives. The Director will be responsible for recruiting and managing sponsors, large scale ride teams, assisting and creating opportunities for team growth, converting interested parties into event participants, and be the point person for tracking and benchmarking participant commitments, revenue, maintaining accurate grids, coordination of key sponsor/corporate meetings and team development. The position plays a crucial role in sponsorship development and outreach, and working cross-event to play a supporting role in all aspects of the Best Buddies Challenge: New York.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 5-7 years' experience in development, peer-to-peer fundraising, and recruitment marketing
• Non-profit or endurance event experience strongly preferred
• Proven ability to lead high-impact fundraising and participant engagement initiatives
• Experience building a sales pipeline to work toward a sales target and a proven ability to hit that target
• Excellent relationship management and project management skills, including managing and prioritizing projects with multiple and often competing deadlines, and the ability to work under pressure
• Proven ability to deliver high-touch customer service and work with customer relations management (CRM) database systems (e.g., keep contact logs, conversation notes, etc.)
• Flexible to work evenings, weekends, and attend special events as required
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Outlook and PowerPoint, with exceptional skills in Excel required
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to work independently and productively
• Work well under pressure and establish priorities while reporting to and working with a variety of people
• Must be the lead team player who is willing to pitch-in and help with everything from grassroots marketing to presenting to corporations
• Motivated with a self-starter personality who is deadline conscious
• Experience with cycling or endurance sports a plus

Job Duties

• Fund Development
  • Serves as regional contact for top individual donors, sponsors, and fundraising teams
  • Partners with the VP, Cycling to ensure operational execution aligns with overall strategic objectives for participant growth, sponsor satisfaction, and event success
  • Provides insights from in-market execution to inform future strategies for recruitment, community engagement, and event planning
  • Works alongside national sponsorship team by serving as key "in-market" sponsorship and ride representative for all sponsor needs
  • Implements and oversees all on-the-ground recruitment efforts (i.e. Sponsor/Corporate/Team presentations)
  • Meets weekly and monthly goals for recruitment and lead generation
  • Assists in development of annual plan, timeline and goals for each revenue line item
  • Provides the highest level of customer service to all stakeholders

Pay

$90,000-$100,000

Reports to: VP, Cycling • Location: New York, NY • # of direct reports: 1