Strategy Director, Fundraising (Evergreen)

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What to know

Help progressive causes achieve lasting change through high-performing programs and sustainable growth. We’re looking for a Strategy Director with a record of success in developing the strategy that underpins supporter engagement, and supporting execution teams to drive results and adapt to learnings. This includes generating and synthesizing audience insights, fundraising and mobilization program and user journey development, KPI setting, informing testing plans and priorities, data and tech consulting, creating budget and staffing recommendations, and more. 

In this role, you might find yourself devising a supporter-first strategy to help a charity efficiently scale and grow sustainably. Or, you may be challenged with uncovering rich audience insights that lead to new opportunities for an organization’s expansion plan. You’ll be a part of a team of multi-disciplinary colleagues including creative directors, communications strategists, analysts, tech directors, and account directors.

We’re looking for an analytical individual who can inspire and mentor people across disciplines.

The company

Blue State is a purpose-driven agency. We partner with leading causes, brands, and campaigns and create real change. From Google and UNICEF to Amnesty International and Oxfam, we transform how brands and causes raise money, influence policy, build platforms, and grow communities of supporters. Led by the most creative and analytical minds from the political, nonprofit, and brand worlds, Blue State is an independent agency with 150+ employees in the US and London.

A day in the life

• Surface the audience insights and business intelligence that drive breakthrough campaigns and experiences; ensuring creative execution maps back to the strategy & recommending pivots and enhancements as needed. 
• Establish strategic direction for campaigns, organizations, branding projects, or products by defining objectives, audiences, budgets and KPIs. We’re looking for a person able to create order from chaos, alignment where there are many different expectations, and buy-in even with the most senior C-suite clients.
• Translate research and performance data findings into actionable tools and formats like audience and budget prioritizations, user journeys, and strategic plans. Primary research (interviews, surveys, focus groups, creative testing) as well as secondary (desk research, landscape and trend analysis, using audience intelligence tools, social listening) skills desirable.
• Lead client and internal brainstorms, planning meetings and presentations, and program development workshops. 
• Use frameworks like SWOTs, gap analyses, positioning matrix, cost/benefit analysis, audience persona mapping, landscape research, creative briefs, strategy maps, theories of change, cases for support, etc. to guide our strategies, clients and teams, creating clear and compelling end-to-end deliverables. 
• Experience of direct response fundraising performance and/or e-commerce experience working to drive digital results is essential. You will be expected to articulate email, social media, paid media, content strategy, and UX recommendations and best practices, as well as have an understanding of how propositions and creative lives on a range of integrated channels, supporting online and offline performance. 
• Grow and manage client portfolios through regular account planning activities, and create client roadmaps over months and years where appropriate.
• Craft and pitch new business as well as represent Blue State via event participation and other thought leadership 
• Strengthen and evolve our fundraising and mobilization capabilities
• Mentor and upskill team members

The team

Good strategy is about taking the best possible journey to your ultimate destination and our Strategy Team is focused on plotting that course for our clients. Our team spans across many offices, but works closely with local cross-disciplinary teams to tackle big problems for a variety of clients.

For us, this isn’t just work. Everything we do is connected to something we care about and we’re seeking an individual willing to work tirelessly to create positive change in the world.