Associate Director, Donor Community

Summary

Join The Audacious Project as an Associate Director for the Donor Community team and bring best-in-class stakeholder management and communication skills to nurture a growing and vibrant donor community.

Requirements

• 7-10+ years of experience in donor relations and community building
• Proven track record in UHNWI event management; dinners, conferences, high-touch experiences
• Self-starter. Can move full bodies of work forward with minimal oversight and instruction, someone who thrives in a dynamic and fast-paced environment — whilst also aware and understanding of when to bring in leadership for input or elevated decision making
• Strong writer with eye for detail, and a concise and compelling communication style
• Proactive, responsive and thoughtful communicator, with high EQ
• Salesforce or relevant CRM experience a plus
• Nuanced and highly sophisticated understanding of donor privacy and confidentiality

Responsibilities

• Support a growing community of ~50 active donors by managing key communications (e.g. targeted engagement campaigns.)
• Help foster a sense of community among the active donors through strategic in-person and virtual engagement and events - including Audacious’ annual flagship retreat
• Create and deploy a cadence of confidential, bespoke, and precise updates year-round that center donor motivations and preferences
• Ensure donors (and their teams) are regularly updated on the annual Audacious cycle; using extensive stakeholder management expertise, intuition and skills to engage the donors in the fast-pace and dynamism of the cycle
• Handle sensitive and confidential information with utmost discretion and honor privacy and engagement preferences with incredible care and precision
• Leverage tools like the Audacious CRM (powered by Salesforce) to track relationship management details (contacts, key meetings, phone calls, e-mails) to ensure quick and easy accessibility for cross-vertical stakeholders; as well as support an internal donor-facing portal to share impact stories, build community and foster connections

Benefits

• Full health benefits (medical, dental, vision)
• Paid family leave
• Work-life balance is encouraged through our flexible paid time off
• Free OneMedical and SpringHealth membership for you and your dependents to address physical and mental well-being
• 401k with match