Fundraising Director, Development
Position Summary
As Development Director, you will leverage your proven sales and relationship management skills to drive success and achieve revenue goals through positive engagement with staff and community volunteer leaders. You will identify and cultivate relationships with key community leaders and C-Suite corporate partners effectively, and coach and inspire your team to build successful event growth strategies through community and volunteer engagement. Working closely with Chapter and cross-functional leadership, you will develop ambitious, comprehensive development strategies and goals that align with the Association’s strategic plan and deliver measurable results. You will contribute your professional fundraising leadership experience in leading, coaching, and mentoring your team of professional development staff.
Responsibilities
- Utilize your engaging networking skills to build sustainable corporate and community partnerships to achieve organizational revenue goals
- Have a vision for building a comprehensive development strategy that produces aggressive revenue growth
- Drive success and provide positive engagement with staff and volunteers through coaching, recognition, and mutual accountability
- Recruit, manage, and coach fundraising staff and volunteers to effectively implement best and proven practices to achieve fundraising goals with a priority on Walk to End Alzheimer’s
- Be known as a uniter and build a positive, healthy, and inclusive team environment
- Provide inspirational leadership, oversight, and implementation of fundraising programs resulting in meeting or exceeding revenue goals around mass market events/special events, corporate sponsorship and other corporate gifts, pipeline development for major and planned gifts and other areas of development
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree preferred in sales/business or related field. CFRE is a plus but not required
- 7+ years proven leadership experience in peer-to-peer, fundraising, and other diversified fundraising programs
- Experience with mass market events like Walk is required
- Knowledge, Skills And Abilities:
- Ability to effectively analyze and utilize data to increase productivity and enhance results
- Strong track record for networking and cultivating key C-Suite community and corporate leaders
- Proven success in bringing community and corporate leaders to the table to fulfill volunteer leadership roles
- Experience in strategic implementation planning, budget development and management
- Successful experience in supervising, coaching and motivating fundraising staff and volunteers
- Capable of working cross-functionally to build capacity
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
- Attention to detail and solid project management skills
- Proficiency with applications for Microsoft Office (Excel, Word and PowerPoint), Google Suite (Docs, Sheets, Slides), and teleconferencing software, such as Zoom
- Proficiency with Internet and database/fundraising applications, preferably Luminate
- Ability and willingness to work a flexible schedule, including evenings, early morning and occasional weekends
- Willingness and ability to represent the Chapter at meetings and special events
- Able to travel extensively in chapter territory, as well as occasional overnight travel
- Valid driver’s license, proof of vehicle insurance and access to reliable, personal vehicle to meet travel requirements
Title
Development Director
Position Location
Cottonwood Heights, UT
Full time
Position Grade & Compensation
The Alzheimer's Association’s good faith expectation for the salary range for this role is between $80,000-90,000. There is a performance based incentive opportunity up to $13,000, depending on portfolio size and achievement of quarterly goals.
Reports To
Chapter Executive
Who We Are
The Alzheimer’s Association is the leading voluntary health organization in Alzheimer’s care, support and research. Our mission is to lead the way to end Alzheimer's and all other dementia– by accelerating global research, driving risk reduction and early detection, and maximizing quality care and support. The Alzheimer’s Association announced a landmark $100 million investment in research for 2023. This unparalleled commitment is illustrative of the momentum we are building in dementia research — our investments today will lead to breakthroughs tomorrow. At the Alzheimer’s Association, our employees are at the core of all we do. Our network of more than 1,750 employees across the United States makes a difference each and every day for those impacted by Alzheimer’s and those at risk for the disease. We warmly invite qualified applicants to consider this opportunity to make a life-changing impact on the millions living with Alzheimer’s, their caregivers and those that may develop the disease in the future.