Sr Development Manager II

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Buils, sustains, and elevates high-impact relationships with key donors, sponsors, volunteers and community partners to ensure revenue goal achievement and foster long-term engagement. 30%
• Recruits, engages, and mobilizes executives and leadership volunteers to support revenue plans, with a focus on event chairpersons, ambassadors, and event leadership teams. 20%
• Partners with Corporate & Philanthropy team members to create tailored partner and donor experiences to attract and retain high-value supporters, as well as aligning event partners with broader Society cultivation efforts to grow revenue impact beyond events. 10%
• Ensures a best-in-class event experience through oversight of complex planning, logistics, brand positioning, budgets, and vendor relationships. 10%
• Monitors fundraising progress and expenses against budget and benchmarks, proactively adjusting strategies to exceed aggressive financial goals, and optimize return on investment. 10%
• Effectively convenes and coordinates the different contributors to event success - Corporate, Philanthropy, Marketing, coordinator support, Area Lead, event execution, etc. 10%
• Champions community presence and brand elevation, positioning events as premier experiences that deepen public interest and engagement. 10%

EXPERIENCE/QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum Degree Required: Bachelor’s Degree
• Preferred Degree: Bachelor’s
• Certificate(s) or License(s): None
• Years of experience: 4+ years successful experience in fundraising, corporate engagement, volunteer partnership, and relationship development.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITY

• Experience driving revenue through sales excellence – prospecting, identification, cultivation, solicitation, evaluation, stewardship – with a focus on large, multi-year partnerships.
• Skilled at leading high-functioning collaborative event teams, including internal and external stakeholders, to execute event deliverables.
• Creates a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives.
• Demonstrated ability in handling multiple priorities, project and timeline management and planning.
• Able to proactively monitor and adjust activities to respond to changing circumstances and priorities to meet goals, proactively address issues as they arise and mitigate risks associated to events.
• Able to work through others to accomplish goals; builds support for ideas among key stakeholders and decision makers.
• Proven relationship building, persuasion and influence skills.
• Able to recruit, train and motivate executive, C-suite level & high influence leadership volunteers.
• Strong customer service orientation, with extensive experience in effectively addressing and resolving issues.
• Proactively monitors data and adjusts activities to respond to changing circumstances and priorities to meet goals.
• Strong market, community and constituent knowledge & experience.
• Effectively builds formal and informal networks, both inside and outside the organization; leverages knowledge and network to remove barriers and achieve outcomes.

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS

• Limited travel to meetings, training & events.
• Expectation of being external in the market an average of 3 days per week.
• Must be able to attend evening and weekend meetings, events and programs.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Some lifting as part of event set up activities.

PAY

The starting rate is $75,000 - $80,000. The final candidate's relevant experience/skills will be considered before an offer is extended. Actual starting pay will vary based on non-discriminatory factors including, but not limited to, geographic location, experience, skills, specialty, and education.

BENEFITS

ACS provides staff a generous paid time off policy; medical, dental, retirement benefits, wellness programs, and professional development programs to enhance staff skills. Further details on our benefits can be found on our careers site at: jobs.cancer.org/benefits.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are a proud equal opportunity employer. See our commitment to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity to continually ensure equal opportunity to our employees and to our applicants.