As Sr. Manager of 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. This position will manage the Walk to End Alzheimer’s programs in Rochester, Winona, and Red Wing, MN, and supervise one full-time staff member.
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.
As a successful fundraising leader who will manage multiple peer-to-peer fundraising events annually, you will generate excitement and enthusiasm in the community for Walk to End Alzheimer’s, coaching and inspiring your volunteers to implement and build on proven strategies and best practices that result in event growth year over year.
This position may be eligible for a sign-on bonus!
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.
- 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 in 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, with a valid driver’s license, access to a 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.
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