Community Engagement Manager

Company: Capper Foundation

Position: Community Engagement Manager

Job Classification: Exempt, Full-time

Work Schedule: 40 hours per week, occasional early mornings, evenings or weekends.

Reporting Relationship: Senior Director of Development

This role is responsible for cultivating donor relationships, securing business and organizational partnerships and sponsor ships, representing Capper Foundation (CF) in community engagement activities, and supporting the achievement of defined fundraising and revenue targets aligned with the organization’s development plan. The Community Engagement Manager is responsible for working to secure and cultivate business and organizational partners/sponsors to support the mission of CF while also representing CF in community engagement, events, public awareness presentations, and activities.

This role supports donor cultivation and stewardship efforts and may manage a defined portfolio in collaboration with the Senior Director of Development. This role works alongside the Senior Director of Development and the Development staff to plan and execute CF events and additional developmental fundraising efforts.

• Accountable for meeting defined fundraising and revenue targets by cultivating donor relationships, securing sponsor ships and gifts, expanding community partnerships, supporting grant and event strategies, and consistently tracking and reporting measurable outcomes aligned with CF’s development plan.
• Responsible for identifying, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding corporate sponsorship, business partners, and organizational funders to meet defined annual revenue goals.
• Works with the Senior Director of Development to develop, coordinate and execute annual and special events.
• Collaborates with the Volunteer Coordinator to recruit and coordinate volunteers for special events and community engagement activities, particularly corporate partner volunteers.
• Assists in the development and management of event budgets and timelines, monitors registration, ticket sales, and revenue progress toward established goals.
• Works with marketing on securing and managing ticketing sites for event registrations and raffle sales. Manage data records and reporting for event software. Assists Development and Marketing staff in the use of the event software, word processing software, etc. Provides reports as requested.
• Collaborates with the Marketing Team to develop marketing messages for special events and development of communications related. Works with marketing to create partnership collateral and more.
• Works with the Senior Director of Development and other key individuals to identify, cultivate and solicit prospective business and organizational sponsors and seek people with influence and other key individuals to engage and secure partnerships at levels necessary to meet income objectives.
• Fulfills stewardship responsibilities for all volunteers, sponsors and guests by reporting on the use of funds raised, results achieved and impact on the organization’s constituents. Coordinates with Development Services Specialist preparation of letters to acknowledge donations and sponsor ships of events.
• Serves as a visible ambassador of CF within the business and community landscape. Assists with public presentations in support of enhancing public awareness for businesses and area groups. Represents CF with attendance at local networking opportunities including, but not limited to fairs, expos, business resource events, public awareness events, networking events, presentations, media opportunities, and more. This will require working hours outside of normal business hours.
• Assists Senior Director of Development with donor contact, relations and cultivation.
• Maintain and steward a defined portfolio of corporate and community partners, including tracking opportunities, renewal strategy, touchpoints, and pipeline development.
• Assists with the development of strategic and operational plans to assure progress in achieving goals and objectives. Actively participates in discussions, provides information and input to the Senior Director of Development and supports the…