Fundraising Senior Director, Development

Position Summary

As Sr. Director of Development you will put your proven sales and relationship management skills to work driving success and achieving revenue goals through positive engagement with staff and community volunteer leaders. Utilizing your proven networking skills, you will identify and cultivate relationships with key community leaders and C-Suite corporate partners effectively. As a recognized leader and fundraiser in the peer-to-peer space, you will coach and inspire your team to build successful event growth strategies through community and volunteer engagement.

About the role

This key leadership role involves successful implementation of Walk to End Alzheimer’s®, Do What You Love to End ALZ and Gala to meet or exceed goals through staff training, coaching and mentoring as well as volunteer recruitment and empowerment, team and individual fundraising cultivation, and through the diligent execution of strategies that align with best and proven practices. You will contribute your professional fundraising leadership experience in leading, coaching and mentoring your team of professional development staff.

Responsibilities

• 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 Peer-to-Peer initiatives
• Build sustainable corporate and community relationships that contribute to achieving event revenue goals, greater community participation and heightened brand awareness
• Manage or manage multiple volunteer-led mass-market events simultaneously that have resulted in revenue growth year over year
• Embrace a challenge and achieve or surpass designated revenue and participant goals through team and individual fundraising, corporate solicitation, and community partnerships
• Develop and implement strategies for identifying, recruiting and engaging high-level and C-Suite volunteer leadership
• Work evenings and weekends as required for the job

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 7-10 years of proven experience recruiting and mobilizing volunteers and community leaders to achieve goals, preferably in a peer-to-peer fundraising environment OR successful experience leading a team to meet sales targets
• Demonstrated management skills, including the ability set clear goals, organize projects, establish and manage budgets, and establish accountability processes
• Proven track record at building sustainable corporate and community relationships that contribute to achieving organizational and revenue goals
• Proven track record of developing and implementing strategies for identifying, recruiting and engaging high-level and C-Suite volunteer leadership
• Enthusiastic willingness to work with diverse communities and build an inclusive environment
• Able to supervise and manage Walk to End Alzheimer’s staff, including onboarding, training and development

Qualifications

• Excellent communication and organization skills
• Comfortable with managing event budgets, training volunteers, working to set timelines and milestones and using data to affect positive outcomes

Skills

• Networking skills
• Volunteer recruitment and empowerment
• Team and individual fundraising cultivation
• Strategic planning and execution
• Corporate and community partnership building

Benefits

Inclusive environment, professional development opportunities, competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, flex accounts, short and long-term disability, life insurance, long term care insurance, tuition reimbursement, generous Paid Time Off, 12 annual holidays and Paid Family Leave, as well as an annual Cultural & Heritage Day and Volunteer Day of their choosing.

Pay

The Alzheimer's Association’s good faith expectation for the salary range for this role is between $80,000 – $90,000

Schedule

Based on 37.5 hours per week