Director of Events
Company: Braintumor
Location: Wilmington
Posted on: October 4, 2024
Job Description:
The Director of Events for the Philadelphia/Delaware region is
responsible for raising funds through large-scale community
walk-a-thon and racing events in the Philadelphia/Delaware region.
The Director of Events is ideal for an experienced development
professional with strong special events, fundraising, corporate
partnership/marketing experience and excellent organizational and
leadership skills. The Director of Events will maximize the
fundraising potential of each event by growing those that are
sustainable and significantly increasing revenue. This position
reports directly to the Director of Development - Events.The
Director of Events will have proven success managing large-scale
community walk-a-thons and racing events in a non-profit
fundraising environment and will enjoy cultivating relationships
through interaction with corporations, high-level volunteers,
individual major donors, and other organizations. The Director of
Events will primarily focus on developing and building strong event
committees, securing sponsorships and in-kind donations,
fundraising through the teambuilding structure, and increasing
brain tumor awareness through each community event and event online
presence.Primary Responsibilities:
- Creates and implements fundraising strategies for walk-a-thon
and racing events - includes overall logistics, volunteer committee
leadership, and development of supports systems to dramatically
increase revenue of events.
- Evaluates, develops recommendations, and implements processes
to continually improve each event.
- Provides customer service support to event participants and
Team Captains by responding to telephone and email communications
about events (non-money related inquiries).
- Contacts prior year Team Captains to proactively encourage
participation and fundraising.
- Builds strong, dynamic committees for each event.
- Focuses on corporate Team recruitment in an effort to achieve
aggressive growth in corporate Team participation and fundraising
revenue.
- Maximizes family/friend and community Team recruitment efforts
and fundraising activities.
- Works one-on-one with Team Captains to build a fundraising
plan, ensures plan implementation and adds value to both Team and
Walker efforts.
- Educates and supports committee chairs and event committees to
increase participation and revenue.
- Trains and supports committees to target and solicit local
sponsors and in-kind donations, and solicit key target sponsors as
required.
- Organizes all Internal Event support gatherings (kick-off
meetings, orientations, receptions, debriefing meetings, committee
recruitment events, etc).
- Identifies major gift prospects and teams/participants with
significant growth potential.
- Monitors companies contracted for event logistics - includes
registration and volunteer training, delivery of sponsor benefits,
securing sites, finalizing routes, and staging.
- Develops and monitors event budgets and finances in accordance
with approved procedures.
- Becomes familiar with event procedures, and develops programs
and materials that empower committees to serve as points of contact
for general event inquiries.
- Recruits and supervises internal and external event
volunteers.
- Increases professional expertise through professional
development activities.
- Other duties as assigned by the Director of Development -
EventsOur ideal candidate will be/have:
- An experienced fundraising and development professional who has
4+ years experience in successfully implementing special event
'pledge-a-thon' fundraising programs.
- A proven track record of planning and implementing fundraising
and sponsorship strategies for events, and meeting and exceeding
revenue goals.
- Available and willing to travel approximately 10%+ of the time
and work nights and weekends, as needed.
- A results driven self-starter who works well both independently
and as part of a team.
- An ability to juggle multiple projects and priorities, meet
deadlines and work well under pressure.
- Incredibly detail oriented and highly organized, while
maintaining perspective and understanding the big picture.
- Accountable to themselves, their colleagues and the
relationships under their management.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, able to connect
with, articulate the National Brain Tumor Society mission to and
work with constituents at all levels and from various
backgrounds.
- Creative and willing to think out of the box.
- Adept at leveraging and building networks for outreach and
fundraising initiatives.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, including Word,
Excel, Power Point.
- Experience working with Luminate, TeamRaiser and Salesforce
Common Ground or a related donor database.
- Bachelor's degree preferred, or equivalent combination of
education and expertise.
- Previous experience with a grassroots walk/race fundraising
program is preferred.
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Keywords: Braintumor, Rockville , Director of Events, Executive , Wilmington, Maryland
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