Job Title: Manager, Walk to End Alzheimer’s - Delaware Valley Chapter
Location: Wilmington, DE
Full Time: 37.5 hours work week
Reports To: VP Development
Grade: 205 Exempt
Who We Are:
The Alzheimer’s Association is the leading voluntary health organization in Alzheimer’s care, support, and research. Our mission is to lead the way to end Alzheimer's and all other dementia - by accelerating global research, driving risk reduction and early detection, and maximizing quality care and support.
At the Alzheimer’s Association, our employees are at the core of all we do. Our network of more than 1,700 employees across the United States makes a difference each and every day for those impacted by Alzheimer’s and those at risk for the disease.
We warmly invite qualified applicants to consider this opportunity to make a life-changing impact on the millions living with Alzheimer’s, their caregivers, and those that may be diagnosed with the disease in the future. Read on to learn more about the role.
Position Summary:
As Manager, Walk to End Alzheimer’s, you join an exclusive team of leaders responsible for the implementation of Walk to End Alzheimer’s, the world’s largest fundraiser for Alzheimer’s care, support, and research. Responsible for Walk to End Alzheimer’s revenue of $275,000 (Wilmington) and $200,000 (Rehoboth), helping to drive overall revenue of $2.5M.
Utilizing your proven networking and relationship-building skills to cultivate key community connections, you will drive success and achieve revenue goals by strategically identifying and engaging community and corporate leaders and building and empowering sustainable volunteer committees.
This role is right for you if:
- You have proven success at building sustainable corporate and community relationships that contribute to achieving event revenue goals, greater community participation, and heightened brand awareness.
- You have successfully recruited, managed, and coached volunteers to effectively implement best and proven practices to achieve fundraising goals OR you are able to effectively assimilate our custom training on peer-to-peer fundraising and leverage your sales/relationship development background to recruit, manage, and coach volunteers to implement best and proven practices to achieve fundraising goals.
- You have managed or are capable of managing multiple volunteer-led mass-market events simultaneously that have resulted in revenue growth year over year.
- You are known as a convener and have successfully built a positive, healthy, and inclusive team environment that has resulted in long-term community relationships.
- You love a challenge and have achieved or surpassed designated revenue and participant goals through team and individual fundraising, corporate solicitation, and community partnerships.
- You have demonstrated success at prospecting, cultivating, and stewarding event teams, sponsors, and participants.
- You have excellent communication and organization skills and are comfortable with managing event budgets, training volunteers, working to set timelines and milestones, and using data to affect positive outcomes.
What you Bring:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
- 3-5 years of proven experience in recruiting and mobilizing volunteers to achieve goals OR 3-5 years of successful experience of meeting sales targets.
- Confident, goal-oriented, positive self-starter, able to work independently with limited supervision and collaboratively with internal and external partners.
- 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, coupled with the ability to work in a highly matrixed organization.
- 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.
- 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.
What the Alzheimer’s Association offers:
The Alzheimer’s Association has been ranked as one of the Best Nonprofits to Work For by The Non-Profit Times each year since 2010, recognizing our visionary and dynamic leadership, collaborative culture, competitive compensation, generous benefits, and mission-driven atmosphere.
Employees working 24 hours/week or more are eligible for a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, flex accounts, short and long-term disability, life insurance, long-term care insurance, tuition reimbursement, generous Paid Time Off, 12 annual holidays, and Paid Family Leave, as well as an annual Cultural & Heritage Day and Volunteer Day of their choosing. They are also eligible for our gold standard 401(k) retirement plan.
Right now, millions of Americans are facing the devastation of Alzheimer’s. This disease is robbing us of our finances, our families, and our futures - but at the Alzheimer’s Association, we are relentlessly working to change that by addressing the challenges in front of us with speed and without limitations or boundaries.
Please note: this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
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