Job Details
Qualifications
- Associate's degree
- Bachelor's degree
- Fundraising
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Public speaking
- WordPress
Benefits
- Dental insurance
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Professional development assistance
- Work from home
Job Description
Job Description: Donor Relations and Fundraising Associate
Are you ready to catapult your career? Have you worked in the field for fundraising for two or more years? Would you like to be mentored by one of the best fundraisers in the nation? Are you a good writer, speaker, and relationship builder? Do you get a thrill when accomplishing tasks and make other feel value and appreciated? Do you love to learn and grow, and are motivated by job advancement? Would you like to be part of noble cause that offers a fun, flexible, and professional work environment, and makes the lives of marginalized children happy and fulfilling? If you answered “yes” to these questions, read on . . . we just might have the job you’ve been looking for.
Company Overview
Founded in 2002, Storybook Farm is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization whose primary mission is to change childhoods. Through relationships with animals, nature, mentors, and peers, we help children from broken or abusive homes, or have suffered some type of adversity or trauma, many of whom struggle with emotional, behavioral, or developmental challenges, and help them reclaim the wonder, fun, and joy of childhood.
We’re the only organization in a 500-mile region providing this type of multi-approach, high-impact, life-altering programming for children. In fact, without Storybook, many of the children who attend our programs, would experience no other type of childhood than one riddled with pain, fear, and loneliness. Storybook Farm operates year-round hosting six programs for more than 150 children weekly. Annually, we serve more than 3,000 children and their families from eight neighboring counties in Alabama and Georgia. We currently have three full-time staff, four part-time staff, 12 board members, 250 weekly volunteers, over 1,500 donors, thousands of volunteer alumni, and operate with a $850,000 budget.
And yes, we’re growing! Over the last three years, we’ve almost doubled in size and are on track to increase our participants by 20 percent in the coming year. We work hard, have fun, and are driven by humility and gratitude.
This is a tremendous opportunity for an experienced and talented go-getter to join an amazing team of professionals with a passion to make a lasting difference in the lives of children.
Job Summary
This job is good fit for an eager person who wants to catapult their career. The person should know the basics of
nonprofit fundraising and has worked in some fundraising capacity in one or more jobs. The ideal candidate should have a passion to learn fundraising skills and be willing to learn, grow, and be mentored.
This candidate should also have a heart for children and is willing to wear multiple hats, love interacting with people, and take initiative to help build a best-in-class fundraising program. The job includes learning how to design
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and implement fundraising strategies, develop and managing donor relationships, raise money from a variety of funding channels, speak in public to create awareness, plan and host fundraising events, create fundraising analysis reports, as well as other common fundraising responsibilities. If you are ready to propel your career, this is the job for you.
Hours: Full-time, year-round. Occasional evening and weekend work.
Benefits: Health, vacation, holidays, sick days, personal days, occasional work from home.
Title: TBD: Donor Relations and Fundraising Associate (or a title we agree upon).
Reports to: Executive Director.
Supervises: No one.
Reviews: Performance reviews at 30 and 90 days, and every six months thereafter.
Salary: Base pay: $52,000 - $60,000.
Responsibilities
Fundraising
▪ Help build a best-in-class fundraising program.
▪ Help implement strategies and tactics for a variety of funding channels to raise money from donors, corporations, foundations, and local government.
▪ Manage various stages of the donor lifecycle for all types of donors and giving levels, with a focus on thanking and stewarding donors and prospects (donor relations).
▪ Organize and manage various fundraising activities including annual giving, fundraising campaigns, individual and corporate gifts, special events and galas, and special solicitation projects.
▪ Help with grant writing and reporting when needed.
▪ Ensure all donor accounts in CRM are updated and maintained with accurate contact information, activities are tracked, and accounts coded correctly for marketing list management.
▪ Manage donor database and create donor profiles.
▪ Create and send acknowledgment, receipts, and email notifications.
Marketing/Communications
▪ Act as spokesperson for the organization, including promoting the organization through media, public speaking, and event appearances throughout the community and region.
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▪ Work with public relations and marketing personnel to design major solicitation and outreach material targeted to donors.
▪ Collaborate with web designers to ensure collateral and website include donor-focused content.
▪ Create all types of correspondence and fundraising related collateral (print and electronic).
▪ Work with the executive director and design team to create major solicitation and outreach material targeted to donors.
▪ Assist with the creation, strategy, and execution of fundraising related special events.
▪ Create and manage reminder and acknowledgement programs.
Administration
▪ Create office systems and standard operating procedures to support all development projects and operations.
▪ Use donor database software to create and manage donor profiles, track donations and giving patterns, and generate lists to maintain contact with donors and their donations.
▪ Oversee donor and gift recordkeeping in our CRM database.
▪ Coordinate donor-based research activities.
▪ Ensure regulatory compliance.
Key Interfaces
▪ Executive management, board of directors, various fundraising committees.
▪ Staff, staff supervisors, committee chairs.
▪ Executives and decision makers of key partnerships and sponsors.
▪ Donors, business owners, foundation executives, corporate executives, community leaders.
Requirements and Qualifications
▪ Experience working in some fundraising capacity in one or more jobs.
▪ Basic knowledge of the principles, methods, and practices of fundraising.
▪ Working knowledge of marketing principles (desirable, but not required).
▪ Ability to nurture relationships with donors – in person, on the phone, through correspondence.
▪ Confidence to ask people for money. (desirable, but not required).
▪ Working in organization where systems and responsibilities constantly evolve.
▪ Proven ability to work well under pressure and meet deadlines to achieve goals.
▪ Thorough, organized, creative, and detail-oriented approach to work.
▪ Computer skills: Exceptional skills with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint (or equivalent). Experience with some type of donor management software or CRM software (desirable, but not required).
▪ Experience with Adobe suite, WIX, or WordPress (desirable, but not required)
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Addition Requirements and Qualifications
▪ Writing skills. It’s important the candidate be a good writer and be able to easily and quickly write creative thank-you letters to donors.
▪ Speaking skills. The candidate must be a good communicator and be able to hold comfortable conversations with strangers and speak with ease to small and medium size audiences.
▪ Strong interpersonal skills to effectively work and develop relationships with a variety of people (including donors) with all types of personalities and all types of backgrounds.
▪ Ability to plan, prioritize, coordinate, and manage own work; ability to work unsupervised and make decisions and solve problems independently, effectively, and creatively.
▪ Goal-oriented, persistent, and persuasive.
Education/Experience
▪ Bachelor’s or Associate’s degree (Preferred, but not required).
▪ Two or more years of experience in the field of charitable fundraising.
Physical Requirements
▪ Sitting at a computer.
▪ Travel by car (employee’s vehicle) to meet with donors.
To Apply
Send resume and cover letter (two paragraphs only):
Dena Little
Executive Director
Storybook Farm dena@hopeonhorseback.org
Deadline
None. Position open until filled.
Disclaimer
This job description is only a summary of the typical functions of the job, not an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all possible job responsibilities, tasks, and duties. The responsibilities, tasks, and duties of the person filling this role might differ from those outlined in the job description and that other duties, as assigned, might be part of the job.
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Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $52,000.00 - $60,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
Schedule:
- Choose your own hours
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Opelika, AL 36801: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)
Experience:
- Fundraising: 2 years (Required)
Work Location: In person