Specialist, Digital Fundraising / Spécialiste des campagnes de collecte de fonds numériques

ABOUT US

The David Suzuki Foundation is a Canadian environmental non-profit organization, founded in 1990. We operate in English and French, with offices in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. We are a Canadian settler organization striving to protect climate, nature and communities, respecting the rights and title of Indigenous Nations. We believe that Indigenous leadership is key to our collective future. We aim to work with many different peoples across Canada, including First Nations communities, all levels of governments and citizens who care for environmental justice, to find solutions to create a sustainable Canada. We use research, traditional ecological knowledge, innovative policy and legal environmental solutions, communications and public engagement.

The vision we work toward at DSF is that we all act every day on the understanding that we are interdependent with nature, and with each other. To address the intersections of the climate and biodiversity crises with social justice and equity, the Foundation is committed to promoting equity, diversity and inclusion. As an organization, we are on a transformative journey to embed these values, decolonize our practices and become an anti-racist organization. Join us in creating a socially and environmentally just world, where diverse identities, lived experiences and world views are valued as essential to our collective future.

THE ROLE

As an integral part of the Development team (Community Giving), the Specialist, Digital Fundraising is responsible for leading and implementing digital fundraising initiatives, playing a key role in DSFs engagement, fundraising and stewardship efforts.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Develop and lead digital fundraising strategy to grow audiences and funding by building on ongoing campaign and trend analysis, keeping up-to-date on industry best practices and aligning campaigns with organizational engagement strategy.
2. Manage campaigns, including producing and sending emails, developing and maintaining donation forms and implementing A/B testing. Oversee content creation, working with internal editors and graphic design staff to produce compelling fundraising content.
3. Collaborate with digital team on building segmented email lists, campaign reporting, and fundraising-related social media and web page properties.
4. Work with digital team and vendors to ensure online fundraising platforms are up-to-date, providing information needed for vendor support and testing fixes when provided.
5. Contribute to wider DSF engagement strategy to grow online community through passive and active acquisition and retention tactics. Work closely with engagement team to ensure fundraising campaigns fit within wider organizational context and benefit from other DSF initiatives and external events. Bring fundraising expertise to wider DSF engagement campaigns.
6. Collaborate with other development staff on integrated, multi-channel campaigns.
7. Support donor relations team with online donation processing platform issues and donor inquiries such as missing acknowledgments, fields not working, etc. Act as liaison with platform vendors as needed.

QUALIFICATIONS

1. Minimum three years’ digital fundraising/revenue-generating experience, including campaign strategy, planning, donation/sales forms, email and social media production.
2. Experience using fundraising platforms, CRMs and email management tools, particularly Engaging Networks and Marketo. Experience with Raiser’s Edge NXT and Salesforce an asset.
3. Experience with social media marketing tools, including Facebook.
4. Proficiency in Word and Excel. Experience with Outlook, Office 365, SharePoint and Teams an asset.
5. Experience using digital analytics to measure outcomes (e.g., Google Analytics).
6. Comfort checking and editing issues with existing HTML, CSS and JavaScript/jQuery in a text/code editor.
7. Basic experience with Photoshop and other design tools (resizing images, text-overlay and optimization for web and mobile) an asset.
8. Spoken and written English required. French an asset.

WHAT YOU BRING TO THE ROLE

1. Enthusiasm for digital fundraising and donor stewardship.
2. A collaborative, team-oriented approach. Proven ability working with others to move projects forward.
3. Organization and project management skills with demonstrated capability managing multiple, simultaneous campaigns, while meeting deadlines. Attention to detail with proven ability to check your own work.
4. Passion for our vision, values and strategic priorities. Committed to working collaboratively toward an equitable, anti-racist culture.

WHAT WE OFFER

1. Four-day workweek
2. Competitive salary and generous benefits package
3. Hybrid work opportunities
4. Supportive work culture
5. Chance to make a difference and help improve the health of our planet and all life on it

HOW TO APPLY

Please submit your resume and cover letter to https://davidsuzuki.org/careers/

The David Suzuki Foundation is strongly committed to equity and diversity and to creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace. We especially encourage applications from equity-deserving groups; specifically Indigenous and racialized people, members of the LGBTQIA2S+, trans and gender-diverse communities, women and people with disability, chronic illness and/or neurodiversity.