Director, Development (Portland, OR)

Responsibilities

• Formulate, implement, and lead strategies and tactics for fundraising and development activities to sustain continued growth, maximum penetration of core market areas, and opportunities for expansion for assigned peer-to-peer portfolio.
• Regularly monitor the performance of a fundraising portfolio to ensure timely responsiveness to new registrants, recognize fundraising and recruitment milestones, and maximize retention.
• Develops and executes plans for retention, upgrade, and acquisition (pipeline development) of applicable areas of business focus.
• Data mining resulting in the identification and acquisition of participants, team captains, corporate partners, sponsors, event leadership, and community leaders.
• Identifies and develops new business with both existing donors & constituents as well as new prospects and provides excellent relationship management.
• Maintain accurate and complete records of donor interactions within systems and trackers. Ensure that contacts, next steps, and tasks are consistently and accurately captured in donor records and central files.
• Track and report on progress, tactics, trends, financials, and other KPIs to analyze and determine success.
• Provides frequent financial input including budget management, forecasts, and revenue reports.
• Collaborate with an outstanding team of Field staff as well as the larger organization to ensure the campaign’s growth and success, discuss best practices, and share new ideas.
• Supports other fundraising events, activities, and programs as assigned.
• Builds and implements strategy to develop a pipeline of leaders, including the recruitment, management, and development of donors, volunteers, and committees.
• Provides leadership in building and implementing annual plans around volunteer leadership within fundraising programs and events.
• Supports and maintains the vision, mission, priorities, and guiding principles of ADA.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 5+ years of professional experience in empowering individuals through peer-to-peer fundraising, events, leadership, volunteerism, and corporate partnerships
• Excellent public speaking skills with the ability to present ADA’s mission and how to get involved with groups of all sizes
• Demonstrated experience recruiting individuals to support an organization
• Demonstrated ability to mobilize and motivate individuals to achieve goals
• Demonstrated ability to identify opportunities for growth in relationships
• Initiative and independence, combined with the ability to work well as part of a team
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to interact professionally with a variety of constituencies
• Excellent verbal and written skills, creativity, independent judgment, attention to detail, accuracy, strong editing skills, and follow-through
• Knowledge of software including Microsoft, DonorDrive (or other P2P platforms), and CRM
• Able to travel as needed for meetings and events required
• Must be able to work occasional nights and weekends as needed to support events
• Reliable transportation to travel
• Must be able to occasionally lift and/or move up to fifteen pounds
• Must live within 50 miles of Portland, OR