Event Manager: Project Management

J. Murphy & Associates; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 85,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

IRA participation

Life Insurance and LTD

Healthcare plan reimbursement

ESST/PTO

Job summary

J. Murphy & Associates in Minneapolis, MN seeks a Project Manager for Events, Communications, & Individual Giving. This in-office role requires 37-40 hours weekly with salary of $85,000–$90,000 annually.

You will manage client relationships, craft fundraising and communications strategies, and support annual campaigns and events. Responsibilities include budget oversight, sponsorship outreach, donor communications, and collaboration with executives to drive fundraising goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience required.
• Development experience with nonprofit organizations and fundraising is preferred.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to manage multiple priorities.

Responsibilities

• Attend meetings, events, and related activities.
• Develop relationships with clients and staff via email, calls, and outreach meetings.
• Collaborate on outreach, project, and budget management; review monthly reports.
• Monitor spend and review monthly reports.

Skills

Bachelor's degree

Development experience

Attention to detail

Organizational skills

Writing & editing

Interpersonal communication

Excel proficiency

Problem solving

Multitasking

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Excel

Job description

Project Manager: Events, Communications, & Individual Giving

Reports to: President or Development Manager

Full time: 37-40 hours a week

$85,000-$90,000

Work hour expectations: work events outside of office hours; reply and correspond outside of office hours to client and management needs via email, Slack, and text.

*This is an in-office position.*

Key Responsibilities: Client and Budget Management

• Attend meetings, events and other related activities
• Develop a relationship with clients and their staff through e-mail, calls, and outreach meetings
• Work with other JMA managers to assist with outreach to clients, project and budget management and to develop and review monthly reports
• Assist with monitoring spend (monthly); review monthly report content

Broadly

• Create and assist with fundraising and communications strategies to support annual appeals, campaigns, top donor prospects, and events; achieve client fundraising goals (as determined)
• Produce prospect lists for individual giving, corporate sponsorship
• Provide marketing, communications and branding analysis, recommendations and advice
• Provide support for events, as needed including -
• Registration (entry/tracking, list management, follow up)
• Write event scripts and develop effective PPT presentations
• Compose, edit and proof event collateral materials, including but not limited to:sponsorship and silent auction solicitation letters, press releases, invitations, programs, PPT and agendas
• Solicit sponsorship through phone, email, and in-person outreach
• Maintain up-to-date, detailed notes of all sponsorship activities in Excel or other format

Events and Community Engagement – Project Management & Follow-through

• Provide strategy and plans for clients’ community engagement opportunities – through programming and/or volunteerism
• Demonstrate knowledge of MN donor communities
• Proven track record in engagement
• Create opportunities that intersect client programming with corporate giving
• Experience managing non profit fundraising events
• Identify potential event sponsors based on org & affinity
• Project management and execution of events, including:
• Strategy and execution; Budget management
• Auction/game solicitation, organization (bundling) and set up at events
• Registration (entry/tracking, list management, follow up)Name tags
• Program and event materials bundling
• Corporate sponsorship – identification, outreach, and follow up
• Follow-up calls
• Write event scripts, develop effective program PPT presentations and event outlines
• Event List project management: queries and mailing lists (from databases and Excel) for invitations, newsletters, communications and fundraising campaigns; mail merges
• Write and create donor solicitation materials for direct mail, email, and social media in partnership with Communications and Development Managers, and external vendors.

Assist with Communications to support client needs

• Support design and digital communications program for clients, incorporating key development strategies and messages
• Assist with direct mail and fundraising campaigns
• Assist to create calendars and coordinate regular donor communications, including but not limited to quarterly donor newsletters, email and digital correspondence, annual reports, and gift acknowledgments.
• Write content as needed
• Assist to suggest organic and paid social media strategies across social channels including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter.
• Encourage creation of engaging social media content including video, photos and written posts
• Assist Comms PM to support day-to-day management of social channels (creating content, posting, monitoring and responding to comments and questions, analyzing and reporting campaign results)

Development and Individual Giving

Implement an annual work plan to achieve individual-giving goals for clients, including:

• New and existing donor engagement strategies to increase funding from current and lapsed donors, with a keen focus on moving donors up the giving ladder.
• Write wealth screens and set up 1:1 top donor meetings; manage meeting schedules and provide updates and outreach
• Build and manage relationships with prospects and donors through personalized cultivation and outreach efforts including in-person meetings, event invitations, and regular communication and acquisition/stewardship efforts.
• Identify and create cultivation strategies for top prospects; implement these strategies in conjunction with the client’s President/Executive Director, Advancement Director, Board of Directors.

Experience/Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
• Development experience working with nonprofit organization(s); private and public sector, grant writing/fundraising experience preferred
• Self-starter with strong attention to detail, problem solving skills, and demonstrated ability to be flexible in work assignments
• Organizational skills including the ability to multi-task, prioritize assignments, maintain data maintenance systems, and meet multiple deadlines
• Excellent writing/editing/drafting skills, research and information compilation skills
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills, demonstrated ability to work independently as well as with teams
• Strong attention to detail
• Excellent data and computer skills: Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel
• Bonuses are awarded to staff based on extraordinary work output, bringing in new clients and a recommendation from a manager. Additionally, awards of more ESST/PTO are/can be given in addition to or instead of a cash bonus.
• Overtime: (over 40 hours per week) paid at a rate of time and a half.
• Employee Safe and Sick Time (ESST) & Paid Time Off (PTO)– ESST/PTO will begin accruing upon hire. All employees will earn ESST/PTO at a rate of 0.0909 per hour worked. This equates to earning 1 hour of ESST/PTO for every 11 hours worked. Employees may choose to use their ESST/PTO award for mental or physical illness, treatment or preventative care; a family member’s mental or physical illness, treatment or preventative care; absence due to domestic abuse, sexual assault or stalking of the employee or a family member; death in an employee’s immediate family; closure of the employee’s workplace due to weather or public emergency or closure of a family member’s school or care facility due to weather or public emergency; when determined by a health authority or health care professional that the employee or a family member is at risk of infecting others with a communicable disease; vacation days; and holidays.
• IRA participation (JMA contributes 3% if employee participates)
• Life Insurance and LTD – at no cost to employee
• Healthcare plan reimbursement is available to employees who are not covered under another(s) healthcare plan and are required to purchase an individual or family plan (being covered on a significant other or parents plan does not qualify). Healthcare reimbursement in the amount of $250.00 per month for an individual plan is available if you are the "primary" on your plan ($250 per month = $3,000.00 per year for insurance). Healthcare in the amount of $500.00 per month for a family plan is available if you are the "primary" on your family plan ($500 per month = $6,000 per year for insurance).