Position Summary
Our donor and alumni community are critical to VOBS. Their gifts enable us to make our programs accessible, increase our capacity, and care for our facilities. We have ambitious goals for raising annual, endowment, and capital funds so that we can more than double our impact by 2025.
The Development Engagement Manager role is a new, vital role for the VOBS Development team, is supported by, and reports to the Director of Development. The primary responsibility of this role is to support VOBS opportunity to grow our donor base by stewarding and cultivating donors and alumni through events, communications, invitationals and, and service opportunities. This role should help strategically build our donor base and identify prospects for increased giving.
This role will be responsible for creating, planning, recruiting for donor and alumni events to engage members in our community. In addition, this role will be responsible for communications such as annual appeals, event marketing, donor calls, blog posts, and other efforts to support growing our donor and alumni community. Their success will be measured by the number of donors who attend our events and identifying a specific number of prospects for increased giving.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
DONOR AND ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT AND EVENT PLANNING (50%)
COMMUNICATIONS and MARKETING (30%)
CULTIVATE NEW AND INDIVIDUAL DONORS (15%)
VOBS AND OB COMMUNITY (5%)
Compensation & Benefits
Voyageur Outward Bound School is committed to supporting diversity in all of its forms. Applicants representing diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply.
COVID-19 - Because of COVID, VOBS examines the current health data and makes organizational decisions about programs and work based on many factors. A large number of our staff are currently working remotely, or working at the office as they see a need. Time required to support quarantine or family needs can be flexible.
How to Apply
Submit resume, cover letter and 3 professional references online
Closing Date: March 4, 2021
Ideal Starting Date: Early-Mid April, 2021
PREFERRED:
3-5 years education, or equivalent experience in development, sales, event planning, or communications, with:
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