Senior Development Consultant

Overview

As we celebrate our Centennial year, we invite you to join us in shaping the next century of impact. Be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives as we remain devoted to a future of health and hope for everyone, everywhere. At the American Heart Association, your contribution matters, and so does your career.

 

We are hiring a Region Senior Development Consultant in our SouthWest region. This individual will have a passion for building strategic partnerships with corporate volunteer leaders, ensuring positive and mutually rewarding relations. The Sr. Consultant will lead the design and implementation of corporate volunteer strategies, crafting recruiting, stewarding, and mapping opportunities for our top volunteer relationships and to encourage future volunteers. This individual will work closely with internal and external constituents across the region to ensure a consistent and proactive approach to corporate volunteer engagement.

 

This is a remote position with the preference that the candidate live within one of the six states of the SouthWest region – Arkansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Wyoming. Travel within the SW region is expected 50% of the time.

 

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 team revenue targets. 

 

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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The job application window is expected to close March 21, 2025.

Responsibilities

Some of the responsibilities will include:

• Demonstrate the ability to build a network of meaningful corporate volunteer and staff partnerships.
• Manage regional councils by developing a recruitment pipeline and strategies to get results and achieve the mission and strategic objectives of the Association.
• Manage key region-wide leadership projects and initiatives, working in partnership with volunteer and staff committees and task forces.
• Create initiatives that will result in building a stronger, future-focused culture for the members of the region board and beyond.
• Build career pathing to engage top-level prospects that are adaptable to current external and internal needs.
• Assess current external communications and develop a comprehensive plan for applying communication outlets to drive engagement.
• Ensure that the systems of support for the region’s external relationships are embedded throughout the region and used to their fullest capacity.
• Support the offices of the EVP on board development, alongside the SVP of Development.
• Research and develop pipelines for top-level volunteers moving into the region.
• Work alongside the SVP of Development on all Gold Standard Board initiatives.
• Other duties as assigned by supervisor.

 

Here are a few characteristics we’re looking for:

• Ability to communicate, build relationships, gain trust with a diverse range of people of all ages and backgrounds.

• Ability to communicate strategic direction and provide consultation to volunteer committees and board members.
• Ability to effectively assess and leverage volunteer skills and interests, in turn developing and using volunteer roles in meaningful ways.
• Ability to measure and increase engagement and motivation in strategic volunteer relationships.
• Ability to encourage and instill a feeling of belonging.
• Proactively research and develop pipelines for potential future high-level volunteer engagement across the region.
• Demonstrated critical thinking skills in assessing the local market environment and available resources to successfully implement new and existing programs.

 

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree is preferred.
• 5 years of experience of similar focus and capacity.
• Experience working with and managing high-level volunteers preferred.
• Must have at least basic knowledge and skill/proficiency with Microsoft Office. Experience with Dynamics CRM and SharePoint preferred.
• Experience in fundraising and donor stewardship is a plus.
• Ability to travel daily and overnight approximately