Community Engagement Director

Community Engagement Director 

Reports to: President   

Full time: 37-40 hours a week

$100,000 - $110,000 per year

Manage events outside of office hours; reply and correspond outside of office hours to client and management needs via email, Slack, and text.

*This is an in-office position.*

Key Responsibilities: Client/Staff

• Manage 4-6 staff
• Provide strategic direction for service pillars
• Attend meetings, events and other related activities
• Develop trusting relationships with clients and their staff
• Work with other JMA managers to assist with outreach to clients, project and budget management, and to develop relationships  
• Assist with monitoring spend (monthly)
• Measure client satisfaction

Broadly

• Create and assist with fundraising and engagement strategies to support grant writing/reports, annual appeals, campaigns, top donor prospects, events, and fundraising
• Produce prospect lists for individual giving
• Provide marketing, communications and branding analysis, recommendations and advice
• Provide direction and support for events
• Ensure service excellence

Events and Community Engagement

• Provide strategy and plans for clients’ community engagement opportunities – corporate/business
• Demonstrate knowledge of MN donor communities
• Offer a proven track record in engagement
• Create opportunities that intersect client programming with corporate giving
• Experience managing fundraising events
• Identify and solicit potential sponsors based on org & affinity
• Project management and execution of events, including:
• Strategy and execution; Budget management
• Auction/game solicitation, organization (bundling) and set up at events
• Registration (entry/tracking, list management, follow up)
• Corporate sponsorship – identification, outreach, and follow up
• Venue coordination, vendor relationships, logistics
• Follow-up calls
• Write event scripts, develop effective program PPT presentations and event outlines
• Event List project management: queries and mailing lists (from databases and Excel) for invitations, newsletters, communications and fundraising campaigns; mail merges
• Write and create donor solicitation materials for direct mail, email, and social media in partnership with Communications and Development Managers, and external vendors.

Communications

• Implement streamlined donor centric content for clients, incorporating key development strategies and messages
• Create and manage direct mail and fundraising campaigns
• Write and manage donor content
• Participate in the development of websites created in various web platforms
• Direct day-to-day management of social channels (creating content, posting, monitoring and responding to comments and questions, analyzing and reporting campaign results)
• Stay current on social media trends and platforms, bringing new ideas and recommendations on how to further enhance clients’ social presence

Development and Individual Giving

• Create new and existing donor engagement strategies to increase funding from current and lapsed donors, with a keen focus on moving donors up the giving ladder
• Set up 1:1 top donor meetings; manage meeting schedules and provide updates and outreach
• Build and manage relationships with prospects and donors through personalized cultivation and outreach efforts including in-person meetings, event invitations, and regular communication and acquisition/stewardship efforts
• Identify and create cultivation strategies for top prospects; implement these strategies in conjunction with the client’s needs and staff

Grants

• Assist to grow grant writing pillar
• Review assignments to determine potential fit and argument, paying attention to guidelines and past funded proposals or alignment to donors for outreach and cultivation
• Direct staff to prepare grant proposals for general operating and programmatic support, as assigned
• Compile, write and edit applications, letters and queries exhibiting strong expository writing skills and a high-level command of grammar and spelling 
• Initiate contact with funders, program officers and staff as needed to obtain relevant information (ask questions) re.: fit, before submitting and during their review of a submitted grant or request as directed; offer additional supportive materials when asked, directed
• Review budgets and all financials; responsible for attaining the most current and approved budget (and other financial attachments) to be sent with any grant

Experience/Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
• 6-8 years development experience working with organization(s) – private and public sector
• Self-starter with strong attention to detail, problem solving skills, and demonstrated ability to be flexible in work assignments 
• Organizational skills including the ability to multi-task, prioritize assignments, maintain data maintenance systems, and meet multiple deadlines
• Excellent writing/editing/drafting skills, research and information compilation skills
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills, demonstrated ability to work independently as well as with teams
• Strong attention to detail
• Excellent data and computer skills: Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel

Benefits

• Bonuses are awarded to staff based on extraordinary work output, bringing in new clients and a recommendation from a manager. Additionally, awards of more ESST/PTO are/can be given in addition to or instead of a cash bonus.
• Overtime: (over 40 hours per week) paid at a rate of time and a half.
• Employee Safe and Sick Time (ESST) & Paid Time Off (PTO) – ESST/PTO will begin accruing upon hire. All employees will earn ESST/PTO at a rate of 0.0909 per hour worked. This equates to earning 1 hour of ESST/PTO for every 11 hours worked. Employees may choose to use their ESST/PTO award for mental or physical illness, treatment or preventative care; a family member’s mental or physical illness, treatment or preventative care; absence due to domestic abuse, sexual assault or stalking of the employee or a family member; death in an employee’s immediate family; closure of the employee’s workplace due to weather or public emergency or closure of a family member’s school or care facility due to weather or public emergency; when determined by a health authority or health care professional that the employee
• or a family member is at risk of infecting others with a communicable disease; vacation days; and holidays.
• IRA participation (JMA contributes 3% if employee participates)
• Life Insurance and LTD – at no cost to employee
• Healthcare plan reimbursement is available to employees who are not covered under another(s) healthcare plan and are required to purchase an individual or family plan (being covered on a significant other or parents plan does not qualify). Healthcare reimbursement in the amount of $250.00 per month for an individual plan is available if you are the “primary” on your plan ($250 per month = $3,000.00 per year for insurance). Healthcare in the amount of $500.00 per month for a family plan is available if you are the “primary” on your family plan ($500 per month = $6,000 per year for insurance).