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Donor Relations and Fundraising Manager 🔥


Job Location: Remote

Job Status: Full time 

Start date: As soon as possible 


ABOUT MEDGLOBAL

MedGlobal is a global and health humanitarian organization that builds resilience in fragile states and vulnerable communities through emergency response, health services delivery, and sustainable programming. MedGlobal’s vision is to create a world without healthcare disparity.


JOB PURPOSE

As a small but rapidly growing global health organization, we are looking for a Donor Relations and Fundraising Manager who will play a key role in developing and implementing a 2-3 year fundraising and donor relations strategy in cooperation with management. This person will be responsible for building and organizing MedGlobal fundraising campaigns (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly campaigns). In addition to setting goals and metrics related to donor visits, solicitations, gifts and pledges closed and other critical metrics, the Donor Relations and Fundraising Manager will be responsible for developing an acquisition plan to generate new leads and identify innovative approaches to achieve the annual fundraising targets.


Strategy & Planning

  • Lead the annual fundraising planning process to produce effective strategies to achieve income targets for each program.
  • Develop and implement 2-3 year fundraising and donor relations strategy in cooperation with management.
  • Develop an acquisition plan to generate new leads and identify innovative approaches to achieve the annual fundraising targets.
  • Develop a repeatable model to approach more individuals and drive growth.
  • Work with the communications and development departments to develop an innovative model to grow MedGlobal’s brand presence, establish key relationships, cultivate new donors, and steward existing donors.
  • Follow the latest fundraising trends and tools, provide readouts on trends to the communications and development teams, and adjust strategy as necessary in an ongoing way.

Fundraising Management

  • Develop, nurture, and maintain all donor relationships including corporate, business, faith-based and service/community-based organizations.
  • Respond to donor inquiries. 
  • Set goals and metrics related to donor visits, solicitations, gifts and pledges, and other critical metrics.
  • Ensure compliance with all relevant laws and rules regarding donor privacy data and communications.
  • Develop and maintain a funder database as a research and a relationship management tool.
  • Increase the number of the recurring donors. 
  • Engage influencers to incentivize target individual donor groups.
  • Develop and implement donor strategies focused on moving donors up the giving pyramid.
  • Lead the development and execution of donor-focused events and virtual engagement opportunities.
  • Secure corporate gifts for the annual gala event and as matching gifts for major online fundraising campaigns.
  • Engage Board Members and the Executive Director in the ongoing solicitation and cultivation to solicit funds.

Fundraising Campaigns

  • Design and coordinate development for special campaigns, including but not limited to Giving Tuesday, Ramadan, Thanksgiving, Christmas, End-of-Year and other campaigns.
  • Build and organize MedGlobal ongoing fundraising campaigns (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly campaigns) and work with the communications team to ensure successful implementation.
  • Identify major gifts from individuals or entities to incorporate as matching gifts as a regular aspect of fundraising campaigns.
  • Manage key fundraising platforms and tools, and incorporate strategically into fundraising campaigns, including crowdfunding platforms
  • Work with the accounting team to ensure timely donor acknowledgements are sent.

Donor Stewardship

  • Cultivate, solicit and steward gifts, and program leaders, board members and staff executives in fundraising activities
  • Recommend new programs, publications, communication tools and activities to grow and/or streamline the current portfolio of recognition activities and stewardship programs.
  • Determine development opportunities and to solicit information for stewardship communications

Communications:

  • Create marketing materials, like flyers and brochures, to be used for the promotion of events and other fundraising campaigns as needed.
  • Oversee the development and implementation of mailers to send to our donor mailing list 
  • Provide strategic input into the timing and content of online fundraising, including through social media, Google ads, website content, and email marketing (MailChimp)
  • Attend events as necessary.
  • Develop and manage donor education and engagement activities
  • Develop strategy memoranda and meeting scripts to prepare senior staff to make successful asks.
  • Perform other duties as assigned or requested.

Skills and Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in business, non-profit management, communications or relevant discipline
  • Minimum 5 years professional experience in a fundraising organization with exposure to donor stewardship and recognition best practices
  • Strong experience in social media fundraising 
  • Proficient in managing fundraising reporting analytics
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to develop/write fundraising campaigns contents 
  • Excellent data management and reporting skills
  • Willingness and ability to work outside the regularly scheduled workday as needed
  • Must be independent, proactive and able to work under the pressure of tight deadlines
  • Strong goal orientation with flexibility to adapt to changing priorities and respond to development opportunities as they arise.
  • Willingness and ability to handle confidential information
  • Strong knowledge in fundraising software Kindful, Classy, or Raiser’s Edge
  • Working knowledge of Canva and/ or Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator) an asset
  • Prior experience within a non-profit fundraising is an essential
  • Knowledge of Arabic or Spanish languages is preferred. 

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