Director of Development and Partnerships

3 weeks ago

Chicago, Illinois, United States American Diabetes Association Full time
About the Role

The American Diabetes Association is seeking a highly skilled and experienced professional to lead our event campaigns and develop and steward corporate relationships. As a key member of our development team, you will be responsible for creating and executing fundraising strategies to reach position-specific annual fundraising goals from corporations.

Key Responsibilities
  • Provides strategic leadership and direction for event campaigns, including corporate partnership development, volunteer leadership development, participant recruitment and fundraising, marketing and communications.
  • Develops an annual business plan to meet financial targets and serves as a key member of the development team, influencing and driving strategy, relationships, and best practices to accomplish market and region financial goals.
  • Responsible for developing and stewarding a portfolio of relationships from the corporate community to provide funding for our mission, including sponsorship, retail campaigns, event teams, grants, donations, and other partnerships.
  • Develops revenue projections and provides financial analysis, oversees stewardship activities, and ensures a high-touch response to partners and donors.
  • Explores appropriate licensing activities and special promotions with corporate partners, recruits and leads high-level volunteers to provide local leadership, resources, and partnerships, and drives donor-centric partnerships to support financial goals of market events, programs, and prioritized initiatives.
  • Delivers a high level of customer service to all constituents, manages, hires, evaluates, develops, and mentors a team of talented fundraising professionals, and ensures compliance with Association policies, including employment, risk management, event, and cash handling, and financial controls.
Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree and 5 years of nonprofit, fundraising, and/or sales experience preferred.
  • Demonstrated success in fundraising and nonprofit leadership, with 3-5 years of peer-to-peer fundraising or social events experience.
  • Proven record of success in account management and developing corporate partnerships that result in exceeding revenue targets.
  • Knowledge of product marketing/sales concepts, outcome-driven with the ability to respond to changing circumstances and priorities, and ability to manage and motivate groups and individuals.
  • Excellent oral and written communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, strong market, community, and constituent perspective, and proficiency in computer-based information systems.
  • Ability to work some nights and weekends and must live within 100 miles of Chicago.
About the American Diabetes Association

The American Diabetes Association is a leader in the fight to end diabetes. Our mission is to prevent and cure diabetes and improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes. We provide lifesaving education and resources backed by trusted experts to help people learn how to make life with diabetes easier until the day diabetes is gone for good.

Through research, we search relentlessly for a cure and support the professionals who provide direct care. Our team is on the ground fighting for those with diabetes who suffer discrimination, health inequity, high healthcare costs, and so much more.

Employees of the ADA embrace this mission and vision and keep people living with diabetes at the center of everything we do.

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