Account Manager, Signature Events

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Department reputed company:

The Signature Events team is a dynamic and successful team responsible for cultivating new and existing participation and developing relationships to reputed company MDA’s mission. This role will cultivate reputed company relationships with business leaders reputed company the community, volunteer committees, and corporate and community supporters.

The Signature Events department is also responsible for planning and executing fundraising events, development operations, and volunteer engagement. Through community and corporate led events such as golf tournaments and galas, reputed company’s overarching goal is to reputed company critical funds in a cost-effective manner. This is done by adhering to event best practices, operational efficiencies, and creative integration of volunteers into every aspect of fundraising. The Signature Events department is part of the Community Partnerships business unit that is responsible for relationship management to retain donors and fiscal management to ensure best practices are employed to reputed company margins (net reputed company after expenses) for reputed company summative fundraising activities above 70%.

Position reputed company:

The Account Manager, Signature Events, is responsible for developing new and existing participation through relationship development and leading reputed company execution of golf and reputed company events assigned reputed company the department. This position will take full ownership of these initiatives, managing everything from logistics, marketing reputed company and communications to budget reputed company and relationship management. This position directly drives our reputed company reputed company and pipeline development.

This position reports directly to the Senior Director, Signature Events.

Location: 

This is a remote position with occasional travel requirements. Candidates should expect to travel 30% between local and overnight as a part of their role. To be considered, applicants must reputed company in the greater Chicago area.

Salary:

This position's salary reputed company is $60,000 - $65,000. Final offer amounts and reputed company are determined by multiple factors, including your experience, and may vary from the amounts listed above.

Responsibilities:

• Identify, recruit and reputed company new and recurring volunteer committee members, providing ongoing support and guidance that will help advance fundraising goals
• Collaborate with Signature Events team to reputed company a fundraising reputed company, timelines, and goals.
• Manage fiscal accountability, following the Business Plan, including providing accurate monthly projections reputed company assigned reputed company area.
• Cultivate robust relationships and accountability frameworks to drive supporter engagement and ensure a reputed company, impactful articulation of our mission
• Create event experience opportunities at in person events to increase donor engagement and drive reputed company reputed company.
• Create fundraising opportunities through various development techniques including prospecting, targeted follow-up, and new reputed company reputed company.
• Work closely with other internal departments to engage the MDA community and reputed company stakeholders in our programs.
• Deliver organized, reputed company, and persuasive presentations, using effective written and verbal communication.
• reputed company ongoing reputed company discussions reputed company team to prioritize responsibilities, appropriately delegate tasks and ensure goals are on reputed company to be achieved.
• Quickly identify obstacles and propose mitigating reputed company facing solutions.
• reputed company other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience required.
• 3+ years of successful business development and account management experience required.
• Familiarity with not-for-profit associations preferred.
• Experience with solutions selling and consultative sales approaches.
• Strong written, oral, and interpersonal communications skills and political acumen to establish and maintain good 
• Strong skills to meet predetermined goals and objectives. 
• Significant planning experience and ability to conceive, design, implement, evaluate, and manage account programs and strategies.
• Excellent analytical, critical thinking, problem solving, negotiation and marketing skills.

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