Managing Director – Grassroots Fundraising

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Managing Director of Grassroots Fundraising at MoveOn.org leading grassroots and midlevel donor fundraising team. Responsible for strategic direction, management, and full journey of donor experience.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead the dynamic, committed, high-impact, low-ego grassroots fundraising team, which must hit ambitious financial goals and is responsible for a substantial amount of MoveOn's budget.
  • Establish short-term, annual, and long-term grassroots and midlevel fundraising goals and strategic priorities.
  • Create and manage the grassroots fundraising budget and raise funds to meet or exceed annual revenue targets.
  • Center and manage the grassroots and mid-level donor experience and cross-channel collaboration.
  • Determine key performance indicators for grassroots fundraising, set goals for each metric, and regularly review performance against internal goals and industry benchmarks.
  • Approve overall individual channel and cross-channel fundraising plans, ensuring that they are aligned with MoveOn’s values and principles and legal requirements.
  • Ensure and sign off on a continuous stream of high-performing communications and merchandise that speak in a MoveOn voice, engage the MoveOn audience, and motivate MoveOn members to donate to support the organization and our campaigns.
  • Manage and build relationships across fundraising channels and organizational departments to synchronize messaging, ideate, and strategize major coordinated fundraising campaigns.
  • Provide expertise to analyze the organization’s financial resources and needs and implement strategies to meet these needs, including designing and implementing strategies to optimize current sources of support and cultivate new sources of support.
  • Manage high-level interactions with major vendors, including negotiating contracts and ensuring that all vendors and contractors are meeting their contractual obligations at a reasonable cost.

Requirements:

  • Significant leadership and management experience leading large and successful grassroots fundraising functions as well as managing a large budget.
  • A track record of managing multiple priorities and developing infrastructure and systems that support grassroots fundraising strategies.
  • Experience centering donor experience in a multi-channel fundraising program.
  • Excellent people management, communication, and team-building skills, including the ability to coach, inspire confidence in, set goals for, delegate to, and ensure the accountability of colleagues.
  • Have experience with and a deep commitment to applying anti-oppression frameworks, especially regarding racial, gender, and economic injustice.
  • Demonstrated success in strategic thinking, planning, implementation, and problem-solving.
  • A high degree of flexibility, dedicated work ethic, and the ability to manage in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where priorities can change when news breaks.
  • Deep understanding of, and a commitment to, diversity, equity and inclusion.
  • Excellent change and project management skills.
  • Think creatively about how to communicate the multi-faceted work of MoveOn to current and prospective funders.
  • Excellent oral and written communications skills.
  • Extensive experience managing communications with varied audiences.

Benefits:

  • strong medical, dental, and vision benefits, which are free to employees and children of employees (spouses or domestic partners can be added at a subsidized rate)
  • employer-paid premiums for life insurance
  • four weeks accrued paid vacation time per year, prorated for the period that you work
  • 18 weeks of paid parental leave (birth, adoption, foster care placement of a child)
  • 10 days accrued paid sick time prorated for the period that you work
  • paid family medical leave
  • 8 staff holidays and 6 floating holidays
  • we contribute 5% to your 401(k) after six months of employment
  • $1000 in professional development budget each year for each staff member