April 2024 | US-Hybrid, preference for hub city (Minneapolis, NYC) for flexible in-person collaboration, typically 2 days/week. Fully remote possible for right candidate. | Full time

An organization that refuses to settle for anything less than delivering human-worthy services.

You’re on a team ambitiously advancing the work of Alight by actively engaging donors, supporters, and partners in a way that is meaningful to them and promotes Alight’s work worldwide.

The Marketing and Engagement Team (MET) is led by Alight’s Chief Marketing & Engagement Officer (CMEO) and is comprised of several teams: Annual Fund, Global Connections/Major Gifts, Donor Services, Marketing & Communications, MET Operations, and Partnerships & Government Affairs (PGA). As a collective, this team is responsible for leading the next chapter of our brand evolution, raising the visibility of Alight, increasing private giving, building strategic partnerships, and setting Alight apart in the market.

The Annual Fund team communicates with and appeals to donors and potential donors through multiple channels and various giving and engagement opportunities primarily In order to raise unrestricted revenue to support Alight’s worldwide programs, improve the quality of our work, and promote the overall strategy to increase co-creation and improve the quality of programs

The Role

Portfolio Management (55%):

• Works with the Annual Fund Director to implement a successful annual giving strategy, with an eye toward the long-term and consistent success of all fundraising needs of the organization
• Manage a portfolio of: very engaged middle donors; less engaged middle donors; and a select group of $1k-$5k donors exhibiting an inclination for increased giving/engagement. Your primary responsibility is with donors and prospects (approx.. $5k-25k), cultivating, soliciting and stewarding through frequent contact. You’ll also work to develop and maintain a system of communication and conversation with less engaged middle donors. And you’ll make space for developing relationships with a smaller group of middle donors prospects and new donors.Identify donors’ passions and interests, build relationships, and leverage those relationships into meaningful support opportunities.
  
• Execute gift solicitation efforts, with a particular focus on current donors, past donors and prospects; create proposals for general operating and restricted programs, including blended asks; manage toward a target annual revenue goal for your portfolio and relevant middle donor segments
• Use research, screening data, giving history, knowledge, and other information to inform appeal segmentation and customized solicitation amounts
• Implement stewardship and recognition for annual gifts
• Work with the Director and CMEO to further all fundraising goals, meeting individual goals while helping the team reach group revenue goals

Work with the Annual Fund and Global Connections teams to create virtual and in-person engagement events, leveraging Alight’s global changemakers and innovative programming;

• Work with the annual fund team to create printed collateral in service to the middle donor group.

Additional Leadership of Donor Stewardship (10%):

• Work with Annual Fund team to design an approach for matching gifts; manage matching gifts outreach to maximize support and engagement with corporate employee donors, including utilizing the Match360 Pro platform
• Work with Annual Fund Director to develop and implement the first steps in a long-range plan to promote and solicit bequests, trusts, and other planned/deferred gifts, coordinated with and complementary to other activities of the overall Marketing and Engagement Team
• Communicate the impact of Alight while representing the organization and the issue of forced displacement to our community

Data and Contact Record Management & Other Responsibilities (10%)

• Analyze data/results and report on fundraising trends and results to the relevant teams
• Collaborate with the Director and the database/production coordinator to ensure accurate and consistent data record keeping and gift acknowledgment, including working in Raisers Edge alongside the team.
• Perform record entry for all personal fundraising activity to ensure proper management moves and tracking of solicitation and cultivation progress
• Other tasks and responsibilities as assigned in service of the success of all fundraising needs of the organization

Qualifications

Open heart and open mind. You start by listening. You believe another person’s truth and it changes you. It unlocks your way of thinking in that moment, it opens your world.

Curiosity. You are always learning. You ask why and why again. You know that change (big and small) is constant, which means your curiosity to learn is matched with adaptability to evolve.

Trust. You believe that people do their best, are disciplined, and care about this as much as you do. You take responsibility for your part and know how to step back and give others the space to shine.

Benefits & Compensation

Salary starts at $77k annually

Borderless Team of 2,500 staff worldwide that sees possibility, celebrates moments of abundance, shares new ideas, and strives to do a better thing every day.

Alight

Alight is an Equal Opportunity Employer offering employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, citizenship, physical or mental disability, or protected veteran status. Alight complies with all applicable laws governing nondiscrimination in employment.