Title: Donor Engagement Manager
Start date: August 2015
Position type: This is a part-time, 32 hours/week, exempt position
Salary: Compensation will depend on experience and skills. The salary range for this position has been pro-rated for 0.8 FTE to $42,000-52,000 a year.
Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 4 weeks Paid Time Off each year, 11 paid holidays, mileage/transit reimbursement, and professional development budget.
Culture: Employees benefit from quarterly staff retreats, two hours of paid time off each month for self-care and an organizational culture that fosters gratitude, fun, flexibility and a healthy life/work balance.
Leadership: Position reports to Jane Hinton, Executive Director
Powerful Voices is an Equal Opportunity Employer. People of color, people of all gender identities, and people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer are strongly encouraged to apply.
ABOUT THE DONOR ENGAGEMENT MANAGER
Powerful Voices, located in Seattle, Washington, is offering an opportunity for a highly motivated fund development professional to connect donors with our life-changing efforts to ensure that strong girls become strong women.
At Powerful Voices, we describe our work as a “Girlvolution” – a social justice movement where girls and their allies work together to create a more just world. The Donor Engagement Manager builds relationships and systems to ensure donors are welcomed and engaged as essential and enthusiastic allies in the Girlvolution.
In close collaboration with the Executive Director, staff Leadership Team, and Board of Directors, the Donor Engagement Manager will coordinate all aspects of cultivation for a portfolio of top donors, including information, involvement, recognition, solicitation, and appreciation.
The successful candidate will be an entrepreneurial, result driven, development professional with success in building relationships that result in major gifts. Equally essential is a leader with emotional intelligence and desire to build a more just world.
ABOUT POWERFUL VOICES
Mission: Powerful Voices invites girls to realize their dreams, engage their communities and shape a more just world.
Powerful Voices helps girls:
· Feel proud of who they are
· Make safe and healthy choices
· Build safe and healthy relationships
· Succeed in school and life
· Become leaders and change makers
We achieve this impact through the delivery of our four core programs:
· Powerful Choices groups
· Youth Employment Program
· Case Management
· Community Engagement
Each year, Powerful Voices serves 350+ girls ages 12-18 who are most impacted by institutional oppression and violence. As a result, 96% of our participants are girls of color and 88% live with a low income.
Powerful Voices also engages 250 allies (adults and young men) and 40+ partners in our programs each year. 140+ volunteers are engaged to give over 4,300 hours of service annually.
Powerful Voices is sustained by the generosity of 400+ individual donors, as well as the City of Seattle, United Way of King County, foundations, corporations. Our 2015 budget is $617,000.
A team of 8 employees, and 2 AmeriCorps members deliver our mission.
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
SHARED LEADERSHIP
– Continually build knowledge of program model, practices and impacts – in order to effectively act as an ambassador
– Partner effectively with colleagues to ensure that every major donor has their optimal level of interaction with Powerful Voices’ programs, volunteers, leadership and program staff.
– Create and manage special donor activities, including site visits and small events, with support of volunteers and other staff.
– Serve as a member of the staff Leadership Team. This team meets monthly to ensure alignment to Powerful Voices’ values, mission and strategic plan, provide feedback & decision making around procedures and policies, and coordinate community engagement efforts like Girlvolution Conference.
MANAGE PORTFOLIO OF TOP DONORS
– Manage and grow a portfolio of major donors capable of making 4- and 5-figure gifts. Develop, implement and adhere to an annual plan that includes quantifiable goals and objectives including distinct cultivation, solicitation and stewardship phases.
– Oversee all relationships with top donors, taking on the management of a portfolio of 25 existing relationships from Executive Director.
– Responsible for donor cultivation/stewardship, including information, involvement, recognition, and appreciation.
– Create and implement personalized cultivation/stewardship plans and gift requests for each donor within portfolio, based on their philanthropic focus and maximizing their giving to Powerful Voices.
– Support Board of Directors in actively connecting with top donors. Each Director stewards 1-2 donors’ relationship with Powerful Voices. Includes staffing the Board Donor Engagement Committee to implement this strategy.
– Oversee relationship building to identify and qualify additional top donors for major gifts. Clear metrics will be set for growing the portfolio of major gifts each year.
IDEAL EXPERIENCE, COMPETENCIES AND QUALITIES
– Passion for the mission and vision of Powerful Voices.
– Professional with a minimum of 3 years of experience in non-profit fund development. Prefer experience cultivating and closing 4- or 5-figure major gifts, and partnering with Board of Directors in joyful fundraising.
– Demonstrated cultural responsiveness and a strong social, racial, gender and economic justice framework.
– Willingness to build solidarity among women, girls and male allies.
– A self-starting and energetic person with the ability to gracefully manage deadlines, priorities, and multiple projects and work independently.
– Strong written and oral communication skills, including openness to feedback, and ability to present information concisely and effectively, both verbally and in writing.
– Critical problem-solving skills and a love for tackling challenges and creating systems
– High levels of integrity, trustworthiness, flexibility, compassion, humor, edginess, creativity, and persistence necessary to address the practicalities of a growing nonprofit.
How to apply
Please submit materials by Wednesday, July 8th at 5pm.
1. A résumé that summarizes your relevant professional, academic and volunteer experiences.
2. A one-page cover letter that shares your professional interests and passions, and answers the question, “why are you ready to put your fundraising skills to work for the girlvolution?”
Email your application as a single PDF (cover letter and resume combined in one document). Title the PDF with your full name and application materials (i.e. Simone Jones application materials). Email PDF as an attachment to our Administrative Coordinator, Layla Taylor, at layla@powerfulvoices.org. In the subject line of the email please use your full name and the position you are applying to (i.e. Simone Jones-Donor Engagement Manager).