The American Diabetes Association (ADA) is seeking a highly organized and motivated fundraising professional to provide donor, fundraising, and operational support to the local development team. This role involves managing a portfolio of individual giving donors and providing event and administrative support to ensure fundraising success across the Greater New York territory.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for fundraising through foundation/grant proposals, individual giving, and third-party/DIY/community fundraisers
- Manage and review daily campaign data through reports, dashboards, and revenue analysis to identify opportunities to drive campaign revenue
- Regularly monitor fundraising portfolio performance to ensure accurate forecasting, recognition of fundraising and recruitment milestones, and maximized retention and revenue
- Conduct data mining to identify and acquire corporate partners, foundations, sponsors, and community leaders
- Support development team fundraising goals through high-touch phone calls, written correspondence, follow-up, stewardship strategies, and strong customer service
- Provide excellent donor and event support by responding to inquires in a timely, solutions-oriented manner
- Attend local tabling and outreach opportunities to generate community support and drive participation in local fundraising events
- Assist with writing, editing, and packaging funding proposals and sponsorship materials
- Manage grant, foundation, and corporate partner online application submissions
- Maintain accurate and complete prospect, donor, and constituent records in CRM systems and trackers, ensuring contacts, next steps, and tasks are consistently documented
- Manage and execute donor mailings, acknowledgements, and related communications
- Support national initiatives and implement local social media strategies to promote fundraising, event participation, and community engagement
- Provide general administrative support, including serving as a liaison to the service center, processing payables and receivables, assisting with budget entry, and supporting Executive Director constituent and donor interactions
- Ensure compliance with ADA policies, including risk management, event protocols, cash handling, and financial controls
- Support additional fundraising events, activities, and programs as assigned
- Provide event operations for market events including State of Diabetes, Evening to End Diabetes, and Step Out Walk (pre-event planning, event-day execution, and post-event follow-up as needed)
- Staff lead for event volunteers tasked with event day execution and experience, including auction, VIP experience, participants living with diabetes, and other local event day opportunities
- Supports the development of the market’s local pipeline of constituents and event leaders, to drive market activity, leading all prospect research and data entry management
- Identify and implement marketing opportunities, partnerships, influencer relationships, and other opportunities to increase ADA’s presence and awareness within assigned market territory that drive business goals
- Supports and maintains the vision, mission, priorities, and guiding principles of ADA
Skills
- Bachelor's degree
- 1+ years of professional experience in fundraising, events, and volunteerism
- Ability to present ADA's mission and how to get involved with groups of all sizes
- Ability to recruit and lead a group of volunteers to support event day execution
- Demonstrated experience recruiting individuals to support an organization
- Demonstrated ability to mobilize and motivate individuals to achieve goals
- Demonstrated ability to identify opportunities for growth in relationships
- Ability to organize time effectively and manage multiple tasks simultaneously
- Initiative and independence, combined with the ability to work well as part of a team
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to interact professionally with a variety of constituencies
- Excellent verbal and written skills, creativity, independent judgment, attention to detail, accuracy, strong editing skills, and follow-through
- Knowledge of software including Microsoft, DonorDrive (or other P2P platforms), and CRM
- Reliable transportation for travel
- Ability to travel as needed for meetings and events required
- Must be able to work occasional nights and weekends as needed to support events
- Authorization to work in the US required
- Ability to occasionally lift and/or move up to fifteen pounds
- Must live within 50 miles of New York City, NY
Benefits
- Industry competitive base pay of $66,300 annually.
- This position is eligible to participate in the Development Incentive Program.
- A culture of recognition including new hire welcome announcements, service anniversary awards, referral bonuses, monthly All Employee Assembly, appreciation awards
- Generous Paid Time Off, including holidays, vacation days, personal days and sick days
- Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), disability & life insurance, pet insurance, and retirement savings
- Guided by our mission, we provide top tier diabetes supply coverage through our medical benefits program
- A company focus on offering mental health programs and work/life balance with most of our employees working remote
Company Overview
Diabetes Educators is a Health, Wellness and Fitness company located in 170 N 1100 E, American Fork, Utah, United States. It was founded in 1940, and is headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is http://diabetes.org/.
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