Associate Director, Development; Cincinnati, OH

Overview

The American Diabetes Association (ADA) is seeking an experienced fundraising professional to manage all aspects of an event-based portfolio, including oversight of event revenue and donor and fundraiser development and engagement. This self-starting individual will drive fundraising success for Camps, Project Power, and Safe at School funding in the Heartland Market. The Associate Director must live within 50 miles of Nashville, TN;
Louisville, KY;
Cincinnati, OH; or Indianapolis, IN. To learn more, search by State through this link: (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below).-events

The individual will identify new opportunities to grow local portfolios across all fundraising channels to increase revenue, including individual fundraisers, corporate partnerships, and team participation. A successful candidate will manage and steward a portfolio of donors. This position is accountable for significant revenue targets. The ideal candidate must have a proven record of success in fundraising, campaign management, and relationship development.

Fundraising and Relationship Building

• Ability to manage and review daily campaign data through reports, dashboards, and revenue analysis identifying opportunities to capitalize on drive campaign revenue
• Manages and executes plans for retention, upgrade, and acquisition (pipeline development) of applicable areas of business focus
• Process, edit, create, and submit grant applications
• Identifies and develops new business with both existing donors and constituents as well as new prospects and provides excellent relationship management
• Maintain accurate and complete records of donor interactions within systems and trackers. Ensure that contacts, next steps, and tasks are consistently and accurately captured in donor records and central files
• Tracks progress, financials, and other KPIs to analyze and determine success
• Experience making $50k+ corporate sponsorship and team asks
• Supports other fundraising events, activities, and programs as assigned

Volunteer Engagement

• Supports the development of the market’s local pipeline of constituents and event leaders, to drive market activity
• Identifies, builds, and stewards relationships with community, philanthropic, and corporate leaders as an integral part of volunteer and donor prospect development

Mission Integration

• Identify and implement marketing opportunities, partnerships, influencer relationships, and other opportunities to increase ADA’s presence and awareness within assigned market territory that drive business goals
• Supports and maintains the vision, mission, priorities, and guiding principles of ADA

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 3+ years of professional experience in empowering individuals through peer-to-peer fundraising, events, leadership, volunteerism, and corporate partnerships
• Excellent public speaking skills with the ability to present ADA’s mission and how to get involved with groups of all sizes
• Demonstrated experience recruiting individuals to support an organization
• Demonstrated ability to mobilize and motivate individuals to achieve goals
• Demonstrated ability to identify opportunities for growth in relationships
• Ability to organize time effectively and manage a large number of tasks simultaneously
• Initiative and independence, combined with the ability to work well as part of a team
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to interact professionally with a variety of constituencies
• Excellent verbal and written skills, creativity, independent judgment, attention to detail, accuracy, strong editing skills, and follow-through
• Knowledge of software including Microsoft, Donor Drive (or other P2P platforms), and CRM
• Ability to travel as needed for meetings and events required
• Reliable transportation to travel
• Must be able to work occasional nights and weekends as needed to support events
• Authorization to work in the US required
• Ability to occasionally lift and/or move up to fifteen pounds
• Must live within 50 miles of one of these cities:
  Nashville, TN;
  Louisville, KY;
  Cincinnati, OH; or Indianapolis, IN

The American Diabetes Association (ADA) offers a rewarding career working for one…