Community Engagement Director
Reports to: President
Full time: 37-40 hours a week
$100,000 - $110,000 per year
Manage events outside of office hours; reply and correspond outside of office hours to client and management needs via email, Slack, and text.
*This is an in-office position.*
Key Responsibilities: Client/Staff
- Manage 4-6 staff
- Provide strategic direction for service pillars
- Attend meetings, events and other related activities
- Develop trusting relationships with clients and their staff
- Work with other JMA managers to assist with outreach to clients, project and budget management, and to develop relationships
- Assist with monitoring spend (monthly)
- Measure client satisfaction
Broadly
- Create and assist with fundraising and engagement strategies to support grant writing/reports, annual appeals, campaigns, top donor prospects, events, and fundraising
- Produce prospect lists for individual giving
- Provide marketing, communications and branding analysis, recommendations and advice
- Provide direction and support for events
- Ensure service excellence
Events and Community Engagement
- Provide strategy and plans for clients’ community engagement opportunities – corporate/business
- Demonstrate knowledge of MN donor communities
- Offer a proven track record in engagement
- Create opportunities that intersect client programming with corporate giving
- Experience managing fundraising events
- Identify and solicit potential sponsors based on org & affinity
- Project management and execution of events, including:
- Strategy and execution; Budget management
- Auction/game solicitation, organization (bundling) and set up at events
- Registration (entry/tracking, list management, follow up)
- Corporate sponsorship – identification, outreach, and follow up
- Venue coordination, vendor relationships, logistics
- Follow-up calls
- Write event scripts, develop effective program PPT presentations and event outlines
- Event List project management: queries and mailing lists (from databases and Excel) for invitations, newsletters, communications and fundraising campaigns; mail merges
- Write and create donor solicitation materials for direct mail, email, and social media in partnership with Communications and Development Managers, and external vendors.
Communications
- Implement streamlined donor centric content for clients, incorporating key development strategies and messages
- Create and manage direct mail and fundraising campaigns
- Write and manage donor content
- Participate in the development of websites created in various web platforms
- Direct day-to-day management of social channels (creating content, posting, monitoring and responding to comments and questions, analyzing and reporting campaign results)
- Stay current on social media trends and platforms, bringing new ideas and recommendations on how to further enhance clients’ social presence
Development and Individual Giving
- Create new and existing donor engagement strategies to increase funding from current and lapsed donors, with a keen focus on moving donors up the giving ladder
- Set up 1:1 top donor meetings; manage meeting schedules and provide updates and outreach
- Build and manage relationships with prospects and donors through personalized cultivation and outreach efforts including in-person meetings, event invitations, and regular communication and acquisition/stewardship efforts
- Identify and create cultivation strategies for top prospects; implement these strategies in conjunction with the client’s needs and staff
Grants
- Assist to grow grant writing pillar
- Review assignments to determine potential fit and argument, paying attention to guidelines and past funded proposals or alignment to donors for outreach and cultivation
- Direct staff to prepare grant proposals for general operating and programmatic support, as assigned
- Compile, write and edit applications, letters and queries exhibiting strong expository writing skills and a high-level command of grammar and spelling
- Initiate contact with funders, program officers and staff as needed to obtain relevant information (ask questions) re.: fit, before submitting and during their review of a submitted grant or request as directed; offer additional supportive materials when asked, directed
- Review budgets and all financials; responsible for attaining the most current and approved budget (and other financial attachments) to be sent with any grant
Experience/Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
- 6-8 years development experience working with organization(s) – private and public sector
- Self-starter with strong attention to detail, problem solving skills, and demonstrated ability to be flexible in work assignments
- Organizational skills including the ability to multi-task, prioritize assignments, maintain data maintenance systems, and meet multiple deadlines
- Excellent writing/editing/drafting skills, research and information compilation skills
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills, demonstrated ability to work independently as well as with teams
- Strong attention to detail
- Excellent data and computer skills: Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel
Benefits
- Bonuses are awarded to staff based on extraordinary work output, bringing in new clients and a recommendation from a manager. Additionally, awards of more ESST/PTO are/can be given in addition to or instead of a cash bonus.
- Overtime: (over 40 hours per week) paid at a rate of time and a half.
- Employee Safe and Sick Time (ESST) & Paid Time Off (PTO) – ESST/PTO will begin accruing upon hire. All employees will earn ESST/PTO at a rate of 0.0909 per hour worked. This equates to earning 1 hour of ESST/PTO for every 11 hours worked. Employees may choose to use their ESST/PTO award for mental or physical illness, treatment or preventative care; a family member’s mental or physical illness, treatment or preventative care; absence due to domestic abuse, sexual assault or stalking of the employee or a family member; death in an employee’s immediate family; closure of the employee’s workplace due to weather or public emergency or closure of a family member’s school or care facility due to weather or public emergency; when determined by a health authority or health care professional that the employee
- or a family member is at risk of infecting others with a communicable disease; vacation days; and holidays.
- IRA participation (JMA contributes 3% if employee participates)
- Life Insurance and LTD – at no cost to employee
- Healthcare plan reimbursement is available to employees who are not covered under another(s) healthcare plan and are required to purchase an individual or family plan (being covered on a significant other or parents plan does not qualify). Healthcare reimbursement in the amount of $250.00 per month for an individual plan is available if you are the “primary” on your plan ($250 per month = $3,000.00 per year for insurance). Healthcare in the amount of $500.00 per month for a family plan is available if you are the “primary” on your family plan ($500 per month = $6,000 per year for insurance).
