Region Senior Development Consultant

Overview

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We're hiring a Region Senior Development Consultant in our SouthWest region. The Sr. Consultant is responsible for region-wide consulting to development staff who lead our signature fundraising campaigns including Heart Challenge, Heart Ball, and Go Red for Women.

 

This is a home-office based position with location flexible, preference to the SouthWest region states including Arkansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Wyoming.

 

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 and triggers.

 

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

In this role, you will serve as a liaison and subject matter expert  in communicating and training fundraising strategies and best practices including revenue generation through sponsorship, individual giving, peer to peer, participant income, and volunteer structure and management.

 

In conjunction with the campaign's implementation/management team, this role supports the tracking, reporting and monitoring of campaign revenue, consults on developing strategies, and identifies and responds to training needs around achieving campaign goals. You will also support corporate partners and strategic alliances involved in our fundraising campaigns.

 

• Advise on the planning and execution of development campaigns and market wide goals in assigned markets, according to best practices and region goals, and ensures the success of each event. Provides expertise, coaching, and strategic guidance to ensure aggressive growth of events and focused attention by staff year-round. Includes assisting markets with Evaluation and Planning meetings as needed.
• Conduct strategy meetings with assigned markets to develop strategic plans for execution around revenue goals and ensure best practices are being followed and timelines are being adhered to. Identify gaps and potential issues and develop strategies to increase results.
• Provide regular follow-up to markets based on timeline and market/staff needs.
• Lead and facilitate strategy meetings, keeping staff focused on specific actions and plans.
• Conduct regular touch points with staff and leaders of the markets outside of the strategy meetings to ensure that there is a flow of information and that items from the strategy meeting are being implemented based on the schedule that is set forward. Follow up with market leaders to recap action items, concerns, and focus areas.
• Support and ensure execution of National and SouthWest region policies, procedures, standards, benchmarks, best practices and guidelines.
• Interact with each assigned market and serve as a resource they actively seek out for support and guidance.
• Participate in the sourcing of hard-working staff and volunteers, reflective of the Association priorities and community demographics.
• Influence the utilization of volunteer committee(s) to assist in the planning, development, and implementation of events.
• Identify trends and develop strategies to achieve fundraising goals for the region and Association overall and not limited to the markets in which you work.
• Integrate and strategize issue-based fundraising into every campaign.
• Facilitate collaboration and interdependence across departments.
• Influence maximum collaboration with Mission Advancement, Corporate Relations, and other partners to elevate donor engagement and leverage development campaigns to cultivate and steward prospective and current donors to expand outright giving.
• Partner with Health Strategies staff to ensure effective relationships are maintained with community health organizations and to ensure integration and collaboration with health equity, quality improvement initia