Events and Community Engagement Manager

Position Announcement – Event and Community Engagement Manager

Community Action Partnership of Strafford County (CAPSC) located in Dover, New Hampshire, is hiring an Event and Community Engagement Manger.

The Opportunity

Reporting to the Chief Advancement Officer (CAO), the Event and Community Engagement Manager joins the four-person Advancement team and plays a vital role in the planning and implementation of annual fundraising initiatives. The successful candidate will work directly with existing donors and volunteers, as well as forge new relationships to build CAPSC's visibility, impact, and financial resources. This position will work closely with the CAO in an active fundraising role as well as with other CAPSC staff to support their programs.

 Key Responsibilities:

• Donor Relations
  1. With CAO, implement and manage a comprehensive program that includes direct mail/email appeals, annual and monthly giving programs, foundation giving, corporate support, municipal funding, in-kind donations, and special events
  2. Lead all aspects of planning for our major events, donor cultivation, and stewardship activities.
  3. Strategize methods to motivate event attendees to become individual donors and volunteers.
  4. Research to identify and cultivate individual donors, corporate partners, and foundations and helps to expand the donor base and diversity funding sources.
• In-Kind Donations
  1. Communicate with potential donors regarding items to be donated, as well as planned delivery of said items
  2. Exercise discretion regarding acceptance (or rejection) of donated goods
  3. Maintain donation paperwork and policies and procedures for accepting donations and trains agency staff on the policies and procedures.
  4. Meet regularly with program managers to review and assess in-kind needs.
  5. Act as liaison between the agency and the community for in-kind needs.
• Volunteer Management
  1. Complete the recruiting, screening, and placement of new volunteers.
  2. Develop and conducts orientation for volunteers on an ongoing basis.
  3. Oversee and manage volunteer tracking procedures and train agency staff/program managers to ensure compliance.
  4. Meet regularly with program managers to review and assess volunteer needs.
  5. Partner with HR to ensure appropriate background checks are conducted, as dictated by programs.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Three-plus years of progressive development experience in a nonprofit organization; demonstrated success in growing philanthropic revenue year over year
• Demonstrated ability to develop relationships with donors, fundraising volunteers, corporations, and foundations
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral; ability to influence and engage a wide range of donors and build long-term relationships
• Goal and action-oriented and able to take the initiative without close supervision
• Comfortable being a team player who will productively engage with others at varying levels of seniority within and outside CAPSC
• High energy and passion for CAPSC's mission is essential
• Ability to construct, articulate, and implement annual plans for direct appeals, events, and annual grant writing
• Strong organizational and time management skills with exceptional attention to detail
• Customer focus

 Salary and Benefits

CAPSC is an EEO employer. We offer a Verizon cell phone plan, 403(b) retirement plan, medical, vision and dental coverage, earned time-off, flexible spending and childcare reimbursement accounts, Work/Life resources, employee and dependent life insurance, disability insurance and 12 paid holidays. The range for this position is $62,000 to $65,000 annually.

About Community Action Partnership of Strafford County

Community Action Partnership of Strafford County is a 501(c)(3) private non-profit organization established in 1965 under the provisions of the Equal Opportunity Act of 1964. We work with community, state, and federal partners to assist children, families, low-income, and elderly residents with their efforts to become or remain financially and socially independent through a variety of coordinated programs. Without the services provided by our agency, many residents would be without a means to provide for their basic needs, including food, education, childcare, utilities assistance, transportation, shelter, and access to other services.