Associate Director, Development; Louisville, KY

Description

The American Diabetes Association (ADA) is seeking an experienced fundraising professional who will manage all aspects of an event-based portfolio, including oversight of event revenue and donor & fundraiser development and engagement. This self-starting individual will be responsible for driving fundraising success for Camps, Project Power, and Safe at School fundingin the Heartland Market.

Associate Director must live within 50 miles of one of these cities:
Nashville, TN;
Louisville, KY;
Cincinnati, OH; or Indianapolis, IN.

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This 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.

• 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 & 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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