Philanthropy Program Manager, Venture Council

Responsibilities

• Drive strategic program decisions amongst multiple stakeholders
• Lead end-to-end program management, ensuring excellence in recruitment, onboarding, and engagement experiences such as quarterly calls, working groups, and in-person events
• Organized and professional oversight of all elements of program administration
• Develop and execute a two-way engagement journey that provides highest quality, executive level offerings and leverages the skills, industry experiences, and networks of sophisticated investors
• Establishing and managing the program budget
• Establish and maintain strategic relationships with senior leaders to ensure consistent program quality, including effective collaboration with the Executive Office
• Foster cross-departmental collaboration to ensure high-quality engagements and deliverables
• Collaborate with fundraisers on recruitment and engagement to create a pipeline and a community that attracts sophisticated philanthropists, well-connected investors, and hospitable and generous community-builders
• Proactively incorporate revenue growth strategies into Venture Council strategies
• Partner with and inform stakeholders such as fundraisers and senior leaders on the purposes, goals, and strategies for each Venture Council engagement
• Guide the preparation of communications to the Venture Council, including drafting communications on behalf of senior leaders
• Engage in direct relationships with Venture Council members with consistently warm, professional, and elevated communication and approach
• Facilitate project team meetings, including communication of decisions, action items and ensuring follow-up
• Manage internal communications to appropriate audiences
• Prepare & facilitate stakeholder briefings, including speaker and leadership briefings
• Ensure key program activities and information is visible to all stakeholders through the management of the Venture Council website, internal SharePoint and other team-oriented tools, Campaign reporting mechanisms, and other reporting channels
• Inputting and management of Venture Council information in Salesforce
• Management of Venture Council and Campaign Cabinet KPIs across internal systems
• Participation in IJM’s community of spiritual formation

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in major donor fundraising, donor engagement strategies, program management or qualifying internal knowledge and experience
• Proven ability to work with executive level leaders and investors
• Proven excellence in facilitating bespoke experiences and strategic donor communication
• Superb written and communication skills
• Microsoft Suite of tools, especially Outlook, Forms, PowerPoint, Excel, and Word
• Expertly using Zoom, WhatsApp, Teams, and other global communication platforms
• Basic product management competencies
• Force.com and SharePoint proficiency preferred
• Mature orthodox Christian faith as defined by the Apostles’ Creed

Critical Qualities

• Eager commitment to IJM's Core Values: Christian, Professional and Bridge-Building
• Self-starter with strong initiative
• Disciplined with priorities
• Strong interpersonal skills and self-awareness
• Exceptional verbal and written communication
• Flexible, collaborative and eager to support others
• Effective team player who fosters collaborative environment
• Adept at creative problem solving
• Cross cultural awareness and sensitivity
• Strong relational skills, a strategic collaborator who can build leadership trust and rapport, and an ability to nimbly support executive level leadership and vision
• Exceptional collaborator with a natural inclination towards proactivity
• Ability to oscillate between big-picture goals/strategy and project details
• Highly adaptive and able to reprioritize
• Self-accountable and able to meet deadlines with little supervision