Associate Director, Development (San Francisco, CA)

Kids for the Future; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Paid time off

Medical benefits

Remote-friendly culture

Job summary

The American Diabetes Association (ADA) is seeking an experienced development professional to manage a peer-to-peer event portfolio in Northern California. The Associate Director will lead teams, fundraisers, and volunteers to drive revenue for ADA events, including Tour de Cure and related programs.

Based near San Francisco, the role requires 3+ years in fundraising, strong public speaking, and proven ability to recruit and steward donors and partners across multiple channels.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience in empowering individuals through peer-to-peer fundraising, events, leadership, volunteerism, and corporate partnerships.
• Excellent public speaking and ability to present ADA’s mission to groups of all sizes.
• Proven track record recruiting individuals to support an organization.

Responsibilities

• Manage all aspects of a peer-to-peer event-based portfolio, including oversight of event revenue.
• Develop and engage donors, fundraisers, and volunteers to grow revenue across channels.
• Identify opportunities to grow the local portfolio through corporate partnerships and team participation.
• Monitor campaign data through reports, dashboards, and revenue analysis to drive revenue growth.
• Retain, upgrade, and acquire participants and volunteers, building a strong pipeline.

Skills

Peer-to-peer fundraising

Event management

Relationship development

Public speaking

Corporate partnerships

Volunteer management

Education

4 Year Degree

Tools

Microsoft

DonorDrive

CRM

Job description

• Base Pay $80,000.00 - $90,000.00 / Year
• Other Compensation Development Incentive Program
• Employee Type Full Time Exempt
• Required Degree 4 Year Degree
• Travel 20%
• Manage Others No

The American Diabetes Association (ADA) is seeking an experienced fundraising professional who will manage all aspects of a peer-to-peer event-based portfolio, including oversight of event revenue and donor & fundraiser development and engagement. This self-starting individual will be responsible for driving fundraising success for the Tour de Cure cycling event, Leaders Forum, and State of Diabetes in the Northern California area. The Associate Director must live within 50 miles of San Francisco, CA. To learn more, search by State through this link: https://diabetes.org/events/calendar-events Primary duties of the Associate Director of Development will include the development and management of existing and new teams, individual fundraisers, and volunteers.

This individual will identify new opportunities to grow the local peer-to-peer portfolio across all fundraising channels to increase revenue, including individual fundraisers, corporate partnerships, and team participation. A successful candidate will manage and steward a portfolio of corporate & friends and family teams, individual participants, and volunteers. This position is accountable for significant revenue targets. The ideal candidate must have a proven record of success in peer-to-peer fundraising, campaign management, and relationship development.

Responsibilities

Fundraising and Relationship Building

• Ability to manage and review daily campaign data through reports, dashboards, and revenue analysis identifying opportunities to capitalize on drive campaign revenue.
• Regularly monitor the performance of a fundraising portfolio to ensure timely responsiveness to new registrants, accurate forecasting, recognize fundraising and recruitment milestones, and maximize retention & revenue.
• Manages and executes plans for retention, upgrade, and acquisition (pipeline development) of applicable areas of business focus.
• Data mining resulting in the identification and acquisition of participants, team captains, corporate partners, sponsors, and community leaders.
• Identifies and develops new business with both existing donors & constituents as well as new prospects and provides excellent relationship management.
• Maintain accurate and complete records of donor interactions within systems and trackers. Ensure that contacts, next steps, and tasks are consistently and accurately captured in donor records and central files.
• Tracks progress, financials, and other KPIs to analyze and determine success.
• Experience making $50k+ corporate sponsorship and team asks.
• Supports other fundraising events, activities, and programs as assigned.
• Supports the development of the market’s local pipeline of constituents and event leaders, to drive market activity.
• Supports the Executive Director & Development Director with the execution of Event Chair, Executive Leadership Team, and Executive Challenge champions, ensuring revenue targets and standards are met.
• Identifies, builds, and stewards relationships with community, philanthropic, and corporate leaders as an integral part of volunteer and donor prospect development.

Mission Integration

• Identify and implement marketing opportunities, partnerships, influencer relationships, and other opportunities to increase ADA’s presence and awareness within assigned market territory that drive business goals.
• Supports and maintains the vision, mission, priorities, and guiding principles of ADA.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience in empowering individuals through peer-to-peer fundraising, events, leadership, volunteerism, and corporate partnerships.
• Excellent public speaking skills with the ability to present ADA’s mission and how to get involved with groups of all sizes.
• Demonstrated experience recruiting individuals to support an organization.
• Demonstrated ability to mobilize and motivate individuals to achieve goals.
• Demonstrated ability to identify opportunities for growth in relationships.
• Ability to organize time effectively and manage a large number of tasks simultaneously.
• Initiative and independence, combined with the ability to work well as part of a team.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to interact professionally with a variety of constituencies.
• Excellent verbal and written skills, creativity, independent judgment, attention to detail, accuracy, strong editing skills, and follow-through.
• Knowledge of software including Microsoft, DonorDrive (or other P2P platforms), and CRM.
• Ability to travel as needed for meetings and events required.
• Must be able to work occasional nights and weekends as needed to support events.
• Reliable transportation to travel.
• Ability to occasionally lift and/or move up to fifteen pounds.
• Must live within 50 miles of San Francisco, CA

Why Work Here

The American Diabetes Association ® (ADA) offers a rewarding career working for one of the premier voluntary health organizations in the world supporting people living with diabetes and/or obesity. Our employees consistently say that our mission, culture, work-life balance, and total rewards package are what they like most about working at the ADA. benefits and our culture:

• Industry competitive base pay. Base offers are determined by several factors including but not limited to your relevant work experience, education, certifications, location, internal pay equity, etc.
• A culture of recognition including new hire welcome announcements, service anniversary awards, referral bonuses, monthly All Employee Assembly, appreciation awards
• Generous Paid Time Off, including holidays, vacation days, personal days and sick days
• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), disability & life insurance, pet insurance, and retirement savings
• Guided by our mission, we provide full diabetes supply coverage through our medical benefits program
• A company focus on offering mental health programs and work/life balance with most of our employees working remote
• Joining our dedicated team affords the gratification of knowing beyond a doubt that you will impact the lives and well-being of millions

About the Organization

The American Diabetes Association ® (ADA) is the nation’s leading voluntary health organization fighting to end diabetes and helping people living with diabetes thrive. Since 1940, we have driven discovery and research to prevent, manage, treat, and ultimately cure diabetes. We advocate for policy changes and improved access to quality care for all people living with diabetes and/or obesity. Through the Obesity Association, a division of the ADA, we are also working to reduce the prevalence of obesity—a leading risk factor for type 2 diabetes.