WALK MANAGER
LYNCHBURG, VA
Contract to hire
Starting Salary $45k
Our client is offering a $10k signing bonus after hired on perm
Position Summary: As Manager of our client walks you join an exclusive team of leaders responsible for the implementation of their yearly walks which is the world's largest fundraiser for their cause, support and research. They rank as the second-largest peer-to-peer fundraising event in the United States, and continues to set the pace as one of the fastest growing walk events in the country. 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 their fundraising walks, coach and inspire your volunteers to implement and build on proven strategies and best practices that result in event growth year over year.
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 to implement best and proven practices to achieve fundraising goals
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 successful experience of 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. Travel in this case, is considered time spent away from the office, in the community, to fulfill the job goals. While most such travel is same day, occasional overnight travel or air travel may be required Must have valid driver's license, access to 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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