Community Philanthropy Manager - Corporate Relations

$82,590 - $93,200/Yr

Mac's List - Portland, OR

Full-time - Mid Level

Portland, OR

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

As the Community Philanthropy Manager - Corporate & Community Relations, you will contribute to the organization's success through your leadership of Community Philanthropy's Corporate & Community Relations Team - designing and facilitating strategies and tactics to fulfill relationship development and resource mobilization goals and objectives with business, corporate, and community partners. This position reports to the Community Philanthropy Associate Director whose responsibilities include oversight of corporate philanthropy. The Corporate & Community Relations Team is supported by an Assistant Manager, up to three Developers, and up to three Coordinators, all employing a range of activities from relationship management to facilitate direct philanthropy and employee giving campaigns from high-profile corporate partners, to regional fund-drives with media partners and local sports teams/celebrities, to cause-related marketing campaigns with statewide grocery retailers, and more.

Responsibilities

• Provide direction and strategic oversight to the Corporate & Community Relations team in the design and implementation of resource mobilization and relationship development strategies and tactics aligned to Community Philanthropy's strategic priorities, annual goals, and Rooted + Rising objectives.
• Coach, guide, and supervise the Community Philanthropy Assistant Manager - Corporate & Community Relations and other Corporate & Community Relations staff, including oversight and management of external consultants and vendors.
• Ensure CCR's effective cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of ~400 major to leadership gifts ($25,000-$100,000+) business and corporate donors in managed portfolios and an additional 1,300-1,500 business and community supporters giving annually.
• Steward historic and acquire new business and corporate supporters, generating $4-6M in annual giving and increasing engagement in OFB's community organizing, systems-change, and policy advocacy initiatives.
• Monitor account portfolios for team members, including setting goals and assisting in the development of financial as well as equity- and love-centric performance metrics.
• Work cross-departmentally to prioritize and optimize corporate and community engagement opportunities and outcomes.
• Manage major corporate giving and community engagement programs such as organization-wide sponsorship opportunities, cause-related marketing, employee-giving and employee-matching, community outreach events, food and fund drives, and more.
• Innovate and vanguard new traditions in corporate and business stewardship and recognition.
• Partner effectively across Community Philanthropy's Events & Special Projects, Donor Relations, and Database & Systems Teams on segment-specific stewardship initiatives.
• Incorporate equity-driven messaging that centers the client as hero and reinforces systemic oppression as hunger's root causes in all donor communications.
• Manage portfolio of complex, high-impact corporate accounts; responsible for all aspects of account management.
• Strategically engage and retain philanthropic partners to make Oregon Food Bank a political home.
• Design complex partnerships that increase visibility, maximize brand impressions, and generate resources for Oregon Food Bank and the OFB Network.
• Prepare team budget to ensure the effective and accurate management of financial resources.
• Lead the Corporate & Community Relations Team's annual work-planning process and implementation.
• Participate as a member of Oregon Food Bank's Community Philanthropy Leadership Team.
• Actively contribute to cross-departmental efforts and work culture activities.
• Identify, share, engage in, and collaboratively adjust and make necessary changes to this description of duties.

Requirements

• Deep passion for eliminating hunger and its root causes.
• 5 years success in nonprofit fundraising with progressive responsibility and a proven record of securing visits with prospective donors, and soliciting, closing, and stewarding major gifts (of which 3 years includes corporate engagement experience).
• 3 years of experience leading, coaching, training, and inspiring a team of colleagues.
• Ability to ask for financial support, make persuasive presentations and develop reports that may include technical information.
• Ability to lead, manage and organize fundraising activities effectively.
• Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication and presentation skills.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Ability to develop long-term plans, set objectives, and track progress towards achieving objectives.
• Knowledge of and experience with Moves Management, Community-Centric Fundraising principles, and/or other philanthropic development concepts and methodology.
• Proficiency with office technology and information systems (including GSuite, Microsoft Office) and donor databases, preferably Raiser's Edge.

Nice-to-haves

• Multilingual skills at a minimum professional level of proficiency or greater in English and any additional language/s.
• Multicultural skills of adaptation and integration are strongly preferred.
• Commitment to continued professional development to strengthen capacity to work through an equity lens for equity and racial justice.
• Strong capacity to consider multiple perspectives, to pivot to respond to emerging needs and lead through organizational changes.

Benefits

• Hybrid work environment.
• Relocation assistance for out-of-state selected candidates.