Individual Giving and Communications Manager (TF)

Touch Foundation; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Touch Foundation in New York City seeks an experienced Individual Giving and Communications Manager. You will lead the team in planning and executing strategies for donor giving and communications, including board-facing initiatives and cross-team collaboration.

The role requires building on a track record of fundraising and communications excellence, mentoring staff, and coordinating with program teams to highlight outcomes and impact.

Qualifications

• At least five years of fundraising and communications experience.
• Experience interfacing directly with a Board of Directors.
• Experience with events-based fundraising, appeals, and multi-channel communications.

Responsibilities

• Lead the individual giving and communications team in strategy and execution.
• Plan, implement and manage fundraising and communications initiatives.
• Mentor and supervise a small team, delegating duties and supporting growth.
• Collaborate with program staff and touchpoints to promote Touch Foundation's impact.

Skills

Fundraising

Communications

Board interaction

Project management

Team leadership

Job description

Individual Giving and Communications Manager (TF)

Posted on February 23, 2021

Touch Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded in 2004 to help strengthen healthcare systems in Sub-Saharan Africa. Touch was founded by Lowell Bryan, a former Director (i.e., Senior Partner) with McKinsey & Co. who understood that Tanzania faced a daunting healthcare environment, with declining life expectancy and increasing maternal and infant mortality. After working to address the dearth of health care workers in Tanzania (one of the biggest impediments to access to healthcare) through the successful creation of a large medical school in the Lake Zone of Tanzania, Touch began focusing on other of the most pressing global health challenges.

Touch applies a three-phase strategic approach to bring cost-effective and sustainable solutions to these challenges. In collaboration with funders, local partners and governments, Touch designs programs and implements them at a small scale in the Lake Zone of Tanzania to test their potential impact. Successful solutions are then scaled up to a national level, setting the stage to ultimately adapt and replicate them in other countries facing similar challenges to achieve broader impact.

Touch’s current programmatic priorities include both its program to ensure access to emergency transport and high-quality care for obstetric and neonatal emergencies, leading to a reduction in maternal and infant mortality, and the use of its innovative and data-driven solution to optimize planning and decision-making around production, deployment and retention of scarce health workers. Given the private sector background of its Board members and several members of its staff, Touch is also focused on developing market-based solutions for portions of the private sector in health to complement the role of the public health system in providing broader access to care to their population. To date, Touch has successfully implemented programs in Tanzania, Lesotho, Nigeria, Mozambique and South Africa.

ABOUT THE POSITION

The IGCM will lead Touch’s individual giving and communications tea m in the planning, implementation and management of strategies for driving individual giving. Reporting directly to the Chief Financial Officer, the IGCM will also work closely with the Chairman of Touch’s Board of Directors, who also chairs the Board’s Development Committee. Together with two Senior Development Analysts, the IGCM will confidently and efficiently support the Development Committee in its individual giving initiatives, such as outreach to Touch’s Chairman’s List of donors.The IGCM team will also work, as needed, with Touch’s program team on institutional giving, assisting with their work to raise funds from governments andfoundations. Finally, the IGCM will be integral to the promotion of Touch’s public health accomplishments and learnings through multiple communications channels. The IGCM will be based in New York City with some remote work a possibility.

The IGCM must be an experienced and collaborative project manager able to directly supervise and mentor a team by delegating substantial duties to them and facilitating their career progression. The IGCM will have at least five years of experience in fundraising and communications, with specific experience in interfacing directly with a Board of Directors. This is a challenging role that requires knowledge of and experience with fundraising (events-based and appeals), and print, web, and social media communications project management.

The IGCM will have a passion for the Foundation’s work to save lives and relieve human suffering, and will enjoy working with a focused, driven, diverse, and geographically distributed team.