Special Events Manager & Regional Senior Philanthropy Officer

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** Join us—Where your Career is a Force for Good!
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* Job Description:

** Joining The American Red Cross is like nothing else – it’s as much something you feel as something you do. You become a vital part of the world’s largest humanitarian network. Joining a team of welcoming individuals who are exceptional, yet unassuming. Diverse, yet uncompromising in unity. You grow your career within a movement that matters, where success is measured in people helped, communities made whole, and individuals equipped to never stop changing lives and situations for the better.

When you choose to be a force for good, you’ll have mentors who empower your growth along a purposeful career path. You align your life’s work with an ongoing mission that’s bigger than all of us. As you care for others, you’re cared for with competitive compensation and benefits. You join a community that respects who you are away from work as much as what you do while at work.
** Where Your Career is a Force for Good!
***** What you need to know:
*** In this role you will report to the Director of Development (Events, Board & Foundation giving) to manage four major fundraising events, cultivate donors and lead volunteer and committee member meetings. This is a hybrid work position where you will meet with donors and planning committees frequently, work approximately once a week in our office at 2200 W Harrison Street and remote at other times.

In office times will become more frequent around events.
*** Where your career is a force for good:
***** Event Management Responsibilities
*** Responsible for the execution of four major fundraising events across the Region raising $2M+ in revenue.
* Collaborate with senior paid and volunteer leadership to secure event sponsor ships by supporting the development of prospect lists, proposals, stewardship reports and preparatory meeting and solicitation materials.
* Ensure the distribution of relevant special events information by providing support and counsel to departmental staff and volunteer leadership including serving as staff advisor for all fundraising events related committees.
* Day-to-day supervision of two special events staff who will provide programming, logistical, and administrative support to special events.  Additionally, provide project-based management to other departments to ensure effective execution of special events.
* Responsible for the management of all fundraising events from conception to execution, including but not limited to: managing event timelines, developing and maintaining event budgets, managing event committees, ensuring that event fundraising goals are met, developing sponsorship packages, ensuring sponsor benefits are fulfilled, coordinating event collateral, managing event logistics, set-up and day of execution.
** Donor Account Management Responsibilities
*** Develop and execute ongoing regional strategy for qualifying donors to ensure retention, growth of donor contributions as well as recapture from previous donors.
* Manage assigned portfolio of donors and prospects with intent to form deep relationships.  Responsible for minimum annual fundraising goal, including both renewable gifts and new incremental revenue.  Develop donor management plans for entire portfolio resulting in strategic, knowledgeable and complex asks.
* Implement a program/activity to identify, cultivate, solicit and steward donors at the $5,000 level or higher, with an emphasis on maximizing revenue for the American Red Cross. Update donor records in Salesforce following donor contacts.
* Carry out any additional assignments required to fulfill the mission of the American Red Cross.
*** Compensation:
**** T*he salary range for this position is:  $86,000 – 100,000.  You will be eligible to participate in an incentive plan based on annual individual and organization performance.  Note that American Red Cross salaries are aligned to the specific geographic location in which the work is primarily performed. Other factors that may be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills, how many years…