Fundraising Manager, Walk to End Alzheimer's

Alzheimer's Association Careers•Bloomington, IN

2d•Remote

About The Position

As Manager of Walk to End Alzheimer’s, you join an exclusive team of leaders responsible for the implementation of Walk to End Alzheimer’s®, the world’s largest fundraiser for Alzheimer’s care, support and research. Walk to End Alzheimer’s® ranks as the second-largest peer-to-peer fundraising event in the United States and continues to set the pace as one of the fastest-growing walk events in the country. In 2024, Walk to End Alzheimer’s® was again recognized as the #2 peer-to-peer fundraising event in the country. On top of that, Walk was acknowledged for achieving the largest dollar growth of any program in the top 30. As the Manager for the Walk to End Alzheimer’s, you will generate excitement and enthusiasm in the community, coach and inspire your volunteers to implement and build on proven strategies and best practices that result in event growth year over year. Utilizing your proven networking and relationship-building skills to cultivate key community connections, you will drive success and achieve revenue goals by strategically identifying and engaging community and corporate leaders and building and empowering sustainable volunteer committees in Bloomington, Columbus, and Terre Haute. This role is in the community and work from their home office. This position will require travel to our chapter office in Indianapolis on occasion.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
3-5 years of proven experience in recruiting and mobilizing volunteers to achieve goals OR 3-5 years successful experience of meeting sales targets
Confident, goal-oriented, positive self-starter, able to work independently with limited supervision and collaboratively with internal and external partners
Demonstrated ability to develop and nurture corporate relationships and partnerships
Ability to manage large numbers of volunteers at different levels of expertise with diplomacy
Ability to work with diverse communities and demonstrate inclusion, coupled with the ability to work in a highly matrixed organization
Excellent interpersonal skills including verbal and written communication and follow-through
Ability and willingness to travel up to 60% within the assigned territory by car.
Must have valid driver’s license, access to reliable vehicle, good driving record and proof of automobile insurance
Ability and willingness to work some evenings and weekends as required for committee meetings, Walk and wraparound events
Ability to bend, stoop, lift and transport up to 25 lbs. of materials
Strong computer skills, proficient with Microsoft Office products and social media; experience with, or ability to rapidly learn Luminate/Convio software

Nice To Haves

Proven success at building sustainable corporate and community relationships that contribute to achieving event revenue goals, greater community participation and heightened brand awareness
Successfully recruited, managed, and coached volunteers to effectively implement best and proven practices to achieve fundraising goals OR able to effectively assimilate custom training on peer to peer fundraising and leverage sales/relationship development background to recruit, manage and coach volunteers to implement best and proven practices to achieve fundraising goals
Known as a convener and have successfully built a positive, healthy, and inclusive team environment that has resulted in long-term community relationships
Demonstrated success at prospecting, cultivating and stewarding event teams, sponsors and participants
Worked with companies to expand existing initiatives/activities, and are able to secure new corporate sponsorships, teams, participants, Champions, and volunteers along with creating and managing vendor and cause marketing activation campaigns
Excellent communication and organization skills and are comfortable with managing event budgets, training volunteers, working to set timelines and milestones and using data to affect positive outcomes

Responsibilities

Generate excitement and enthusiasm in the community.
Coach and inspire volunteers to implement and build on proven strategies and best practices that result in event growth year over year.
Utilize networking and relationship-building skills to cultivate key community connections.
Drive success and achieve revenue goals by strategically identifying and engaging community and corporate leaders.
Build and empower sustainable volunteer committees in Bloomington, Columbus, and Terre Haute.
Manage multiple volunteer-led mass-market events simultaneously that have resulted in revenue growth year over year.
Build a positive, healthy, and inclusive team environment that has resulted in long-term community relationships.
Achieve or surpass designated revenue and participant goals through team and individual fundraising, corporate solicitation, and community partnerships.
Prospect, cultivate and steward event teams, sponsors and participants.
Work with companies to expand existing initiatives/activities, and secure new corporate sponsorships, teams, participants, Champions, and volunteers.
Create and manage vendor and cause marketing activation campaigns.
Manage event budgets, train volunteers, work to set timelines and milestones and use data to affect positive outcomes.
Generate a positive return on investment and increased fundraising revenue with the goal of renewing and/or growing larger accounts and multi-year funding.