Vice President, Advancement

Vice President, Advancement

Location: Addison, Texas

Position Description

The Vice President, Advancement is a warm, lively, people-oriented person who will play a pivotal role in elevating the organization’s fundraising efforts and deepening relationships with high-level donors, foundations, and community stakeholders. Under the direction of the Executive Director, the Vice President, Advancement will design and execute a comprehensive advancement strategy to drive significant revenue through a diversified fundraising portfolio while enhancing the organization’s visibility and impact.

Major Areas of Responsibility

Passionately engage, oversee, and cultivate major donor/foundation relationships.

• Carry and manage a portfolio of existing top donors and implement personalized strategies.
• Maintain regular communication and provide personalized acknowledgments.
• Grow and enthusiastically engage major donors through the identification, cultivation, and solicitation of major gifts.
• Regularly make specific, personalized, meaningful financial requests to major donors.

Lead, inspire, and motivate the development/fundraising team, crafting specific and measurable goals for the following categories:

• Marketing, communications, appeals, campaigns
• Grant writing and grant reporting
• Fundraising events
• Financial support from individuals, corporations, churches
• Acquisition of new donors and stakeholders
• Volunteers and community awareness events
• Donor stewardship

Act as an ambassador for Traffick911 through public speaking events as an expert on the issue, and other public appearances/engagements.

Build trust-based relationships with the programs team in order to authentically communicate about Traffick911’s impact.

Participate in quarterly board meetings, reporting on revenue and engaging the board in fundraising opportunities.

In partnership with the grant writer, oversee all grant writing initiatives and manage all secured grants including grant reporting.

Collaborate closely with the program data team on the front and back ends of grants to ensure alignment.

Oversee the execution of the donor stewardship communication plan.

Oversee the development of the annual fundraising budget (revenue and expenses), reviewing and reporting monthly.

Regularly analyze fundraising data and maintain data integrity across organization systems alongside the Vice President, Finance & Administration.

In partnership with event planner, oversee all external events for the organization including fundraising and community events.

Stay up to date with the latest sex trafficking news, events, and best practices in the field as it relates to ethically communicating on the topic of sex trafficking and act as a subject matter expert in this area.

Serve on the executive leadership team, providing wide-lens feedback, insight, and recommendations for the organization.

Required Skills

Embrace and be relentlessly passionate about the mission of Traffick911

Authentic concern for people and community, demonstrate presence, self-confidence, and exceptional empathetic listening ability

Ease and comfortability in meeting new people and starting conversations

Ability to impactfully articulate organizational mission, values, and stories

Demonstrate servant leadership and exemplifies a collaborative, decisive, motivating, and engaging communication style

Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills

Excellent and creative written, interpersonal, and verbal communication skills

Extreme tact, discretion, and self-awareness

Ability to balance multiple priorities in a complex environment

Self-starter and goal-oriented

Working knowledge of development best practices, trends in development, fundraising tools, and technology, including donor databases, e-mail and online campaigns, and donor research

Possess the skills to work with and motivate staff, board members and volunteers

Excellent technology skills, including working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite, Google Drive

Education Experience

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required

Minimum of seven years of fundraising leadership and supervisory experience

Proven track record of fundraising success, particularly by securing major gifts, successfully managing campaigns, engaging a community of motivated supporters

Experience in public speaking

Experience working within donor databases/CRM

Critical Qualities

Adhere to Traffick911’s Core Values and Code of Ethics (traffick911.com/mission-values)

Mature Christian faith

Professional

Humble and resilient

Pursues excellence

Culturally aware and appreciative of differences

Strong work ethic

Innovative problem solver

Ability to build trust and strong partnerships with others

Courageous in pursuing opportunities and challenges

Tenacious in achieving goals

Physical Demands

The job will be performed in Traffick911’s office in Addison, TX, and will require traveling to various counties surrounding Dallas/Fort Worth. It will also require standing for several hours at a time (e.g., speaking engagements). Reasonable accommodation can be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the described essential functions.

Work Environment

The Traffick911 work environment is an open floor plan. Ability to concentrate with ambient conversations is required. There are areas of the office for focused work. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.

Benefits and Salary

Traffick911’s benefits package includes group medical, dental and vision insurance; paid holidays, extended vacation time for ample self-care, and sick leave.

Job Type

Full-time exempt

About Traffick911: Traffick911 exists with the sole purpose of freeing youth from sex trafficking by building trust-based relationships. This is accomplished by a 24/7 crisis response and the Voice & Choice Program Team walking alongside child sex trafficking victims and with Multi-Disciplinary Team partners. Traffick911 was founded in 2009 by a community activist who discovered that child sex trafficking was happening in North Texas. Over its history, the organization’s abolition efforts include training over 82,000 youth and adults face-to-face with prevention and awareness messages, training over 18,000 first responders, and directly serving over 1,000 survivors.

Mission: To free youth from sex trafficking through trust-based relationships.

Vision: Communities free from relational brokenness.

Values: Hope, humility, and humanity.