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 training and support locally and through our National Center.

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• Achieving assigned revenue goals by developing and maintaining relationships with corporate and community partners.
• Driving new business development by soliciting sponsorships and generating participant income through developing year-round business and cultivation plans.
• Driving peer-to-peer fundraising by supporting corporate partners and team leaders effectively.
• Recruiting, orienting, and managing C-suite volunteer leadership based on nationally established methodologies.
• Maintaining an ongoing pipeline of potential sponsors, donors, and volunteer leadership.
• Instrumental in building volunteer leadership committees.
• Monitoring participant fundraising trends and implementing proven strategies to improve income.
• Planning, developing, implementing, and evaluating assigned fundraising initiatives according to standard methodologies and campaign timeline.
• Confirming detailed, timely and accurate data entry of relevant information.
• Collaborating with other staff and volunteers as needed to promote and support local initiatives and to optimize event market strategy, and drive community impact.

• 2 years of relevant experience preferred; college graduates are welcome and encouraged to apply.
• Knowledge and skills in fundraising principles, practices, and techniques, notably peer-to-peer fundraising preferred.
• Ability and experience recruiting, training, and cultivating top-level donors and volunteers preferred.
• Excellent listening skills, including verbal and non-verbal communication, active listening, negotiating, problem-solving and decision-making.
• Highly effective organizational skills, time management, responsibility, leadership, and motivation.
• Ability to work outside of standard hours which may involve some evenings and/or weekends.
• Ability and willingness to travel extensively throughout assigned geographical territory.

The American Heart Association invests in its people. Here are the main components of our total rewards package. Visit Rewards & Benefits to see more details.

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  Compensation – Our goal is to ensure you have a competitive base salary. That’s why we regularly review the market value of jobs and make adjustments, as needed.
• Performance and Recognition – You are rewarded for achieving success by merit increases and incentive programs, based on the type of position.
• Benefits – We offer a wide array of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance, along with a robust retirement program that includes an employer match and automatic contribution. As a mark of our commitment to employee well-being, we also offer an employee assistance program, employee wellness program and telemedicine, and medical consultation.
• Professional Development – You can join one of our many Employee Resource Groups (ERG) or be a mentor/mentee in our professional mentoring program. HeartU is the Association’s national online university, with more than 100,000 resources designed to meet your needs and busy schedule.
• Work-Life Harmonization – The Association offers Paid Time Off (PTO) at a minimum of 16 days per year for new employees. The number of days will increase based on seniority level. You will also have a total of 12 paid holidays off each year, which includes several days off at the end of the year.