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POSITION PURPOSE: This job’s purpose is to recruit and manage new large corporate teams for March for Babies in the South Florida Market. This position will engage high level volunteers including board members, March for Babies Chairs, executive contacts at companies to ask for leads to peers who can start a significant team at their workplace.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Plan and execute fundraising activities. Must possess a “sales” mentality
• Identifying volunteers with appropriate contacts, researching who those contacts might be, holding a meeting with the volunteer, selling the volunteer on the idea of leveraging the contact, providing the tools for the volunteer to reach out and provide appropriate follow up.
• Once recruited, this position will put all elements of a good team in place including working with the senior level leader to leverage his or her resources, setting up a committee structure, developing a timeline, setting goals, developing a communications schedule and work all of these pieces through implementation and completion.
• Manage teams to maximize participation. Follow team development guidelines such as plan for CEO engagement, team captain structure, internal communications.
• Following the event, this position would recognize the new teams efforts, work to transition the relationship to a permanent staff member and debrief permanent staff on any unrealized leads to be follow up on for the future
• Achieve budget of $200,000 in new team development


QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• 3-5 years previous experience in fundraising, volunteer recruitment and development
• Excellent computer skills, especially Microsoft Office
• Experience in fundraising, event planning, corporate sponsorship recruitment, volunteer and staff management. Strong verbal and written communication skills, problem solving, planning, implementation, organization, leadership, teambuilding and computer skills..
• Detail oriented, adaptable, organized and able to successfully manage multiple projects and tasks in a fast paced environment.

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