Fundraising Manager, Walk to End Alzheimer's

About This Role

Manage the Walk to End Alzheimer's, the world's largest fundraiser for Alzheimer's care, support, and research. Drive success and achieve revenue goals by cultivating key community connections and empowering volunteer committees.

Responsibilities

• Cultivate key community connections utilizing proven networking and relationship building skills
• Drive success and achieve revenue goals by strategically identifying and engaging community and corporate leaders
• Build and empower sustainable volunteer committees
• Generate excitement and enthusiasm in the community for Walk to End Alzheimer's
• Coach and inspire volunteers to implement and build on proven strategies and best practices
• Manage multiple volunteer-led mass-market events simultaneously
• Prospect, cultivate and steward event teams, sponsors and participants
• Manage event budgets, train volunteers, work to set timelines and milestones and use data to affect positive outcomes

Requirements

• Proven success at building sustainable corporate and community relationships that contribute to achieving event revenue goals, greater community participation and heightened brand awareness
• Successfully recruited, managed, and coached volunteers to effectively implement best and proven practices to achieve fundraising goals OR able to effectively assimilate custom training on peer to peer fundraising and leverage sales/relationship development background to recruit, manage and coach volunteers
• Managed or capable of managing multiple volunteer-led mass-market events simultaneously that have resulted in revenue growth year over year
• Demonstrated ability to develop and nurture corporate relationships and partnerships
• Ability to manage large numbers of volunteers at different levels of expertise with diplomacy
• Ability to work with diverse communities and demonstrate inclusion
• Excellent interpersonal skills including verbal and written communication and follow through
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 60% within the assigned territory by car
• Access to reliable vehicle, good driving record and proof of automobile insurance
• Ability and willingness to work some evenings and weekends as required for committee meetings, Walk and wraparound events
• Ability to bend, stoop, lift and transport up to 25 lbs. of materials
• Strong computer skills, proficient with Microsoft Office products and social media
• Experience with, or ability to rapidly learn Luminate/Convio software

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 3-5 years of proven experience in recruiting and mobilizing volunteers to achieve goals OR 3 - 5 years successful experience of meeting sales targets

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits