Senior Growth Strategies Manager

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary owner and project manager for annual and semiannual events, overseeing strategy, sponsorships, planning, execution, and post-event evaluation.
• Drive measurable growth in event revenue by expanding sponsorships, increasing donor participation, and optimizing event fundraising strategies.
• Ensure event planning is conducted with a high level of attention to financial and time constraints; work with various timelines and projects which happen simultaneously successfully.
• Actively build and maintain relationships with sponsors, donors, and community partners through in-person engagement, meetings, and event presence.
• Develop and deliver compelling messaging and storytelling across email campaigns, events, community engagement opportunities, social media, and live speaking opportunities to increase awareness and engagement around the mission.
• Represent Shared Hope at events and in the community as a confident and engaging public speaker.
• Mentor and support members of the Growth Strategies team, helping to prioritize projects, maintain accountability, and strengthen overall team performance.
• Regularly identify new funding opportunities, develop review summaries, and actionable strategies to present to the Deputy to the President.
• Maintain detailed calendars to track deadlines and monitor progress on Growth Strategies functions to ensure seamless execution across multiple concurrent initiatives; provide regular updates to the Growth Strategies team on these efforts.
• In collaboration with the Deputy to the President, conceptualize and implement strategies with the purpose of generating new name acquisition, new donors and enhance donor cultivation.
• Measure and monitor result metrics for Growth Strategies and adjust strategies to get the desired result.
• Take a “lead” or support role as needed on other Growth Strategies team efforts.

Qualifications

• Minimum education of a bachelor’s degree preferred, but personal attributes and experience count for more.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills; ability to influence and engage a wide range of individuals.
• Strong computer skills, especially in aesthetic graphic design, including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Outlook, Canva and similar sorts of software.
• Strong organizational skills, detail-orientation, and ability to multi-task.
• Flexible and adaptable style; a leader who can positively impact both strategic and tactical fundraising.
• Self-motivated and capable of working independently and meeting deadlines.
• On occasion, a willingness and ability to put in long hours, evenings, and weekends as needed to accomplish the organizational mission.
• A sensitivity and concern for women and children in crisis and for the eradication of sexual slavery (previous knowledge of human trafficking helpful but not required; subject matter training will be part of onboarding).