Community Engagement Manager: Events, Communications Individual Giving

Community Engagement Manager:
Events, Communications, & Individual Giving

Reports to:

Development Manager

Full time: 37-40 hours a week

$75,000 - $82,000 per year

Work hour expectations: work 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.*

• Attend meetings, events and other related activities
• Develop a relationship with clients and their staff through e-mail, calls, and outreach meetings
• Work with other JMA managers to assist with outreach to clients, project and budget management and to develop and review monthly reports
• Assist with monitoring spend (monthly); review monthly report content

• Create and assist with fundraising and communications strategies to support annual appeals, campaigns, top donor prospects, and events
• Produce prospect lists for individual giving
• Provide marketing, communications and branding analysis, recommendations and advice
• Provide support for events, as needed including:
  • Registration (entry/tracking, list management, follow up)
  • Write event scripts and develop effective PPT presentations
  • Compose, edit and proof event collateral materials, including but not limited to sponsorship and silent auction solicitation letters, press releases, invitations, programs, PPT and agendas
• Solicit sponsorship through phone, email, and in-person outreach
• Maintain up-to-date, detailed notes of all sponsorship activities in Excel or other format

• Provide strategy and plans for clients’ community engagement opportunities – through programming and/or volunteerism
• Demonstrate knowledge of MN donor communities
• Proven track record in engagement
• Create opportunities that intersect client programming with corporate giving
• Experience managing nonprofit fundraising events
• Identify potential event 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)
  • Name tags
  • Program and event materials bundling
  • Corporate sponsorship – identification, outreach, and follow up
  • 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.

• Design and implement streamlined digital communications program for clients, incorporating key development strategies and messages
• Create and manage direct mail and fundraising campaigns
• Create calendars and coordinate regular donor communications, including but not limited to quarterly donor newsletters, email and digital correspondence, annual reports, and gift acknowledgments.
• Write content
• Participate in the development and maintenance of websites created in various web platforms
• Implement organic and paid social media strategies across social channels including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter.
• Lead the creation of engaging social media content including video, photos and written posts
• Curate and manage social media calendar
• Support day-to-day management of social channels (creating content, posting, monitoring and responding to comments and questions, analyzing and reporting campaign results)
• Implement paid social media campaigns, monitoring results and adjusting budgets and strategies as directed
• Stay current on social media trends and platforms, bringing new ideas and recommendations on how to further enhance clients’ social presence

• 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.
• Write wealth screens and set up 1:1 top donor meetings; manage meeting schedules and provide updates and outreach
• Build and manage…