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American Diabetes Association · 4 hours ago

Development Manager (New York City, NY)

New York, NY

Full-time

Hybrid

Entry, Mid Level

$66K/yr - $66K/yr

1+ years exp

The American Diabetes Association (ADA) is seeking a highly organized and motivated fundraising professional to provide donor, fundraising, and operational support to the local development team. This role involves managing a portfolio of individual giving donors and providing event and administrative support to ensure fundraising success across the Greater New York territory.

Health Care

Responsibilities

Responsible for fundraising through foundation/grant proposals, individual giving, and third-party/DIY/community fundraisers

Manage and review daily campaign data through reports, dashboards, and revenue analysis to identify opportunities to drive campaign revenue

Regularly monitor fundraising portfolio performance to ensure accurate forecasting, recognition of fundraising and recruitment milestones, and maximized retention and revenue

Conduct data mining to identify and acquire corporate partners, foundations, sponsors, and community leaders

Support development team fundraising goals through high-touch phone calls, written correspondence, follow-up, stewardship strategies, and strong customer service

Provide excellent donor and event support by responding to inquires in a timely, solutions-oriented manner

Attend local tabling and outreach opportunities to generate community support and drive participation in local fundraising events

Assist with writing, editing, and packaging funding proposals and sponsorship materials

Manage grant, foundation, and corporate partner online application submissions

Maintain accurate and complete prospect, donor, and constituent records in CRM systems and trackers, ensuring contacts, next steps, and tasks are consistently documented

Manage and execute donor mailings, acknowledgements, and related communications

Support national initiatives and implement local social media strategies to promote fundraising, event participation, and community engagement

Provide general administrative support, including serving as a liaison to the service center, processing payables and receivables, assisting with budget entry, and supporting Executive Director constituent and donor interactions

Ensure compliance with ADA policies, including risk management, event protocols, cash handling, and financial controls

Support additional fundraising events, activities, and programs as assigned

Provide event operations for market events including State of Diabetes, Evening to End Diabetes, and Step Out Walk (pre-event planning, event-day execution, and post-event follow-up as needed)

Staff lead for event volunteers tasked with event day execution and experience, including auction, VIP experience, participants living with diabetes, and other local event day opportunities

Supports the development of the market’s local pipeline of constituents and event leaders, to drive market activity, leading all prospect research and data entry management

Identify and implement marketing opportunities, partnerships, influencer relationships, and other opportunities to increase ADA’s presence and awareness within assigned market territory that drive business goals

Supports and maintains the vision, mission, priorities, and guiding principles of ADA

Qualification

FundraisingEvent ManagementVolunteer EngagementCRM ManagementData AnalysisMicrosoft SoftwareDonorDriveCommunication SkillsOrganizational SkillsInterpersonal SkillsTeam CollaborationAttention to Detail

Required

Bachelor's degree

1+ years of professional experience in fundraising, events, and volunteerism

Ability to present ADA's mission and how to get involved with groups of all sizes

Ability to recruit and lead a group of volunteers to support event day execution

Demonstrated experience recruiting individuals to support an organization

Demonstrated ability to mobilize and motivate individuals to achieve goals

Demonstrated ability to identify opportunities for growth in relationships

Ability to organize time effectively and manage multiple tasks simultaneously

Initiative and independence, combined with the ability to work well as part of a team

Strong interpersonal skills and ability to interact professionally with a variety of constituencies

Excellent verbal and written skills, creativity, independent judgment, attention to detail, accuracy, strong editing skills, and follow-through

Knowledge of software including Microsoft, DonorDrive (or other P2P platforms), and CRM

Reliable transportation for travel

Ability to travel as needed for meetings and events required

Must be able to work occasional nights and weekends as needed to support events

Authorization to work in the US required

Ability to occasionally lift and/or move up to fifteen pounds

Must live within 50 miles of New York City, NY

Benefits

Industry competitive base pay of $66,300 annually.

This position is eligible to participate in the Development Incentive Program.

A culture of recognition including new hire welcome announcements, service anniversary awards, referral bonuses, monthly All Employee Assembly, appreciation awards

Generous Paid Time Off, including holidays, vacation days, personal days and sick days

Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), disability & life insurance, pet insurance, and retirement savings

Guided by our mission, we provide top tier diabetes supply coverage through our medical benefits program

A company focus on offering mental health programs and work/life balance with most of our employees working remote