How many people can answer the question, "What do you do for a living?" with the answer, "I help find cures for cancer." At Blood Cancer United, employees take our mission seriously. Whether you work in one of our regions, are an accountant at the national office or a specialist in our Information Resource Center, you work each day on making our bold goal a reality: to enable patients with blood cancer to gain more than one million years of life by 2040. Join us and give new meaning to the word, "job."
Summary: Blood Cancer United is a mission centric, locally delivered and nationally powered organization, relentlessly pursuing cancer cures. To help achieve this mission, this role is responsible for building relationships with fundraising volunteers while implementing innovative peer-to-peer fundraising products to exceed revenue goals for Blood Cancer United's mission within a designated market area.
Core Responsibilities/ Primary Duties
Fundraising & Relationship Building
Drive high-impact peer to peer fundraising to achieve overall revenue annual budget.
Implement organizational campaign standards across event portfolio to ensure annual budget is achieved.
Maintain consistent and clear view of key performance indicators (KPI) that serve as precursors to overall revenue performance. Use KPI data to drive, advance and adjust activity to stay on target and on timeline.
Partner with Campaign Development Director and Director of Campaign Excellence to build strategic plans, track progress, and make periodically revisions to ensure event portfolios achieve budget.
Build and manage a sponsorship pipeline by prospecting qualified corporate partners, securing discovery and pitch meetings, customizing standard pitch decks to meet prospects’ needs, and closing revenue-generating partnership agreements
Collaborate with local region team and national shared service partners throughout Blood Cancer United.
Mission Integration
Partner with Education, Services and Health Research department to effectively communicate the Blood Cancer United overall mission, programs, resources, and priorities.
Responsible for organizing mission centered, local donor cultivation events and prospecting high-impact donors for national stewardship activities
Volunteer and Network Management
Responsible for the recruitment and cultivation of high-level volunteer committees
Develop recruitment plans and actively secure new partners through independent research, prospecting and volunteer relationship building.
Consistently research, network and prospect for high level volunteers and corporate partners to continuously build the pipeline for revenue and mission activities.
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Minimum Requirements
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
4 - 6 years’ experience in a directly relatable role
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
This role is the third step in our CDM professional career ladder. Incumbents are expected to demonstrate a solid understanding of campaign success requirements and execution, including KPIs and accurate forecasting.
Work is typically focused on complex or large campaigns. Pipeline development reflects good market, community and constituent perspectives.
Demonstrates excellent relationship building, volunteer recruitment, and sales skills.
Consistently plans the approach and manages campaign resources with high independence. At this level, may help develop colleagues’ understanding of campaign success requirements and may coach and the work of lower-level team members.
Successfully demonstrate the following:
Knowledge of MS Office Suite
Knowledge of multiple sales channels including digital and social media
Strong collaboration skills with Mission Teams and other organizational partners
Strong written and verbal communications skills
Ability to supervise and lead a group of volunteers
Ability to manage multiple priorities and timelines effectively
Ability to influence and persuade others
Work Environment & Physical Demands
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