Fundraising Director, Walk to End Alzheimer's

Responsibilities

• You have proven success at building sustainable corporate and community relationships that contribute to achieving organizational and revenue goals
• You are able to drive success and provide positive engagement with volunteers through coaching, recognition, and accountability
• Your experience in providing inspirational leadership, oversight and implementation of fundraising programs has resulted in meeting or exceeding revenue goals around mass market events/special events and corporate sponsorship
• You have successfully recruited, managed, and coached volunteers to effectively implement best and proven practices to achieve fundraising goals
• You are known as a uniter and have successfully built a positive, healthy, and inclusive team environment that has resulted in long-term community and volunteer relationships
• You have managed volunteer-led mass-market events, preferably a large event, that has resulted in revenue growth year over year
• You have achieved or surpassed designated financial and participant goals through team and individual fundraising, corporate solicitation, and community partnerships
• You have demonstrated success at prospecting, cultivating and stewarding teams, sponsors and participants
• You are comfortable with managing event budgets, training volunteers, utilizing timelines and translating data

Key Educational/Professional Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 5-7 years of proven experience recruiting and mobilizing volunteers and community leaders to achieve goals, preferably in a peer-to-peer fundraising environment
• OR 5-7 years of successful experience meeting sales targets
• 1-3 years experience managing staff and/or volunteers
• Events management experience, preferably large-scale community engagement events

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Demonstrated management skills, including the ability to set clear goals, organize projects, establish and manage budgets, and establish accountability processes
• Proven track record of developing and implementing strategies for identifying, recruiting and engaging high-level and C-Suite volunteer leadership
• Demonstrated volunteer management skills, including the ability to set clear goals, identify priorities, organize projects, establish and manage budgets, establish accountability processes
• Strong ability to build sustainable corporate and community relationships that contribute to achieving organizational and revenue goals
• Must be willing to collaborate and able to work well on a team
• Ability to work with diverse communities and build an inclusive environment
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 50% within the Greenville area territory by car
• Ability and willingness to work evenings and weekends as required for the job
• Ability to bend, stoop, lift, and transport up to 25 lbs of materials
• Strong computer skills, proficient with Google Suite, Microsoft Office products, and social media; experience with, or ability to rapidly learn Luminate/Convio software