Overview

As we celebrate our Centennial year, we invite you to join us in shaping the next century of impact. Be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives as we remain devoted to a future of health and hope for everyone, everywhere. At the American Heart Association, your contribution matters, and so does your career.

We have a Senior Development Director opportunity in the Midlands and Greater Columbia, SC Market! The Senior Director is responsible for coordinating, planning, and implementing strategies and resources necessary to achieve the Greater Midlands campaign goals and objectives, while leading a fundraising team and holding them accountable to their goals.

This will include solicitation of large dollars and multi-year gifts from individuals and corporations as well as executive level volunteer recruitment. As a key member of the Columbia development team, this role drives revenue for our Heart Challenge fundraising campaign. The campaign includes our Midlands Heart Challenge Campaign. This role has one direct report.

We offer a base salary with the potential to earn an incentive up to 25% of your base pay. The potential incentive is based on achieving certain revenue targets.

The Association offers many resources to help you maintain work-life harmonization through your changing needs and life situations. To help you be successful, you will have access to Heart U, our award-winning corporate university, as well as additional training and support, locally.

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Responsibilities

The main accountability of the Senior Development Director is to secure revenue for the life-saving mission of the American Heart Association, being held accountable for an overall fundraising goal and the execution of high-quality campaigns in accordance with the Association standards.

• Develop and implement a plan of revenue growth through key fundraising events, strategic market partnerships and philanthropic donors.

• Generate revenue with corporate sponsors and individual donors through cultivation, stewardship, renewal, and deepening engagement to retain and upgrade their financial commitment.

• Develop relationships with volunteers, sponsors, and key corporate/community leaders to successfully drive participation in Heart Challenge events. Collaborate with internal partners in the market, region, and national center, to forge donor relationships.

• Identify, recruit, and lead executive volunteer leadership, including implementing a year-round cultivation plan.

• Build and maintain an ongoing pipeline of prospective high-level corporate sponsors, individual donors, and volunteer leadership to advance our mission.

• Lead peer-to-peer fundraising in participating Heart Challenge companies to achieve revenue goals.

• Recruit and lead corporate fundraising team participation in the Heart Walk Campaigns, Hard Hats for Heart campaigns, Field Day campaigns and motivate team to fundraise.

• Lead donor engagement experiences and events.

In this role, you will report to the Executive Director, Columbia and will lead 1 fundraising director to meet the overall revenue goal for the Midlands market with specific emphasis on the Midlands Heart Challenge campaign.

Local travel within the market is required to counties including Richland, Lexington, Orangeburg, Fairfield, Kershaw and Newberry.

Qualifications

• Ability to do local, weekly travel and willingness to travel extensively throughout assigned geographical territory; requires access to reliable transportation at all times on an immediate basis.

• Bachelor’s degree preferred.

• At least four years of experience in fundraising or corporate level sales, with at least two of those years supervising staff with a revenue goal.

• Knowledge and skills in fundraising principles, practices, and techniques.

• Ability and experience recruiting, training, and encouraging top-level donors and volunteers.

• Excellent listening skills, including verbal and non-verbal communication, active listening, negotiating, problem-solving and decision-making.

• Highly effective organizational skills, time management, responsibility, leadership, and motivation.

• Ability to work outside of standard hours which may involve some evenings and/or weekends.

Compensation & Benefits

The American Heart Association invests in its people. Here are the main components of our total rewards package. Visit Rewards & Benefits to see more details.

• Compensation – Our goal is to ensure you have a competitive base salary. That’s why we regularly review the market value of jobs and make adjustments, as needed.

• Performance and Recognition – You are rewarded for achieving success by merit increases and incentive programs; this position is incentive eligible based on achieving certain targets.

• Benefits – We offer a wide array of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance, along with a robust retirement program that includes an employer match and automatic contribution. As a mark of our commitment to employee well-being, we also offer an employee assistance program, employee wellness program and telemedicine, and medical consultation.

• Professional Development – You can join one of our many Employee Resource Groups (ERG) or be a mentor/mentee in our professional mentoring program. HeartU is the Association’s national online university, with more than 100,000 resources designed to meet your needs and busy schedule.

• Work-Life Harmonization – The Association offers Paid Time Off (PTO) at a minimum of 16 days per year for new employees. The number of days will increase based on seniority level. You will also have a total of 12 paid holidays off each year, which includes several days off at the end of the year.

• Tuition Assistance - We support the career development of all employees. This program provides financial assistance to employees who wish to further their education and career in relation to their current duties and responsibilities, or for potential future positions in the organization.

The American Heart Association’s 2028 Goal: Building on over 100 years of trusted leadership in cardiovascular and brain health, by 2028 the AHA will drive breakthroughs and implement proven solutions in science, policy, and care for healthier people and communities. The greatest discoveries in health must reach everyone where they are.

At American Heart Association | American Stroke Association, our mission is to be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, age, language, sexual orientation, national origin and physical or cognitive abilities. We're committed to ensuring our workforce, workplace culture and mission have a shared impact across a diverse set of backgrounds.

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Posted Date 2 months ago (7/19/2024 9:56 AM)

Requisition ID 2024-13845

Job Category Field Campaigns

Position Type Full Time