Development Manager; Tampa, FL

The American Diabetes Association (ADA) is seeking an experienced fundraising professional who will support all aspects of a peer-to-peer event-based portfolio, including oversight of event fundraiser development and engagement. This self-starting individual will assist with driving fundraising success for the Step Out Walks and State of Diabetes events in the Florida market.
The Development Manager must live within 50 miles of Tampa, FL
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. Primary duties of the Development Manager will include the management of existing and new teams, individual fundraisers, and volunteers.

A successful candidate will manage and steward a portfolio of small corporate teams, friends and family teams, individual participants, and lead a volunteer committee supporting the execution of event day.

The ideal candidate must have a proven record of success in peer-to-peer fundraising, volunteer 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.
• Regularly monitor the performance of a fundraising portfolio to ensure timely responsiveness to new registrants, accurate forecasting, recognize fundraising and recruitment milestones, and maximize retention & revenue.
• Data mining resulting in the identification and acquisition of participants, team captains, corporate partners, sponsors, and community leaders.
• 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.
• Comfortable with managing $5k+ corporate and friends & family teams.
• Supports other fundraising events, activities, and programs as assigned.
• Staff lead for Event Day volunteer committee tasked with event day participant experience responsible for key event day execution including, VIP experience, participation living with diabetes, event day volunteers, in-kind support, and other local event day opportunities. ADA has full-service event production support for most events.
• Supports the development of the market’s local pipeline of constituents and event leaders, to drive market activity.

• 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.

• 1+ years of professional experience empowering individuals through peer-to-peer fundraising, events, and volunteerism.
• Ability to present ADA’s mission and how to get involved with groups of all sizes.
• Ability to recruit and lead a group of volunteers to support event day execution.
• 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 multiple 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.
• Reliable transportation for travel.
• Ability to travel as needed for meetings and events required.
• 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 Tampa, FL.

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