Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. International Justice Mission (IJM) is a global organization working to protect vulnerable people from violence. The Philanthropy Program Manager, Venture Council will lead the strategic direction and end-to-end management of IJM’s principal donor engagement program, including recruitment, engagement experiences, communications, stakeholder coordination, budgeting, and revenue growth initiatives supporting the Capital Campaign.
Responsibilities
- Drive strategic program decisions amongst multiple stakeholders
- Lead end-to-end program management, ensuring excellence in recruitment, onboarding, and engagement experiences such as quarterly calls, working groups, and in-person events
- Organized and professional oversight of all elements of program administration
- Develop and execute a two-way engagement journey that provides highest quality, executive level offerings and leverages the skills, industry experiences, and networks of sophisticated investors
- Establishing and managing the program budget
- Establish and maintain strategic relationships with senior leaders to ensure consistent program quality, including effective collaboration with the Executive Office
- Foster cross-departmental collaboration to ensure high-quality engagements and deliverables
- Collaborate with fundraisers on recruitment and engagement to create a pipeline and a community that attracts sophisticated philanthropists, well-connected investors, and hospitable and generous community-builders
- Proactively incorporate revenue growth strategies into Venture Council strategies
- Partner with and inform stakeholders such as fundraisers and senior leaders on the purposes, goals, and strategies for each Venture Council engagement
- Guide the preparation of communications to the Venture Council, including drafting communications on behalf of senior leaders
- Engage in direct relationships with Venture Council members with consistently warm, professional, and elevated communication and approach
- Facilitate project team meetings, including communication of decisions, action items and ensuring follow-up
- Manage internal communications to appropriate audiences
- Prepare & facilitate stakeholder briefings, including speaker and leadership briefings
- Ensure key program activities and information is visible to all stakeholders through the management of the Venture Council website, internal SharePoint and other team-oriented tools, Campaign reporting mechanisms, and other reporting channels
- Inputting and management of Venture Council information in Salesforce
- Management of Venture Council and Campaign Cabinet KPIs across internal systems; and
- Participation in IJM’s community of spiritual formation
Skills
- Minimum of 7 years of experience in major donor fundraising, donor engagement strategies, program management or qualifying internal knowledge and experience
- Proven ability to work with executive level leaders and investors
- Proven excellence in facilitating bespoke experiences and strategic donor communication
- Superb written and communication skills
- Microsoft Suite of tools, especially Outlook, Forms, PowerPoint, Excel, and Word
- Expertly using Zoom, WhatsApp, Teams, and other global communication platforms
- Basic product management competencies
- Mature orthodox Christian faith as defined by the Apostles' Creed
- Eager commitment to IJM's Core Values: Christian, Professional and Bridge-Building
- Self-starter with strong initiative
- Disciplined with priorities
- Strong interpersonal skills and self-awareness
- Exceptional verbal and written communication
- Flexible, collaborative and eager to support others
- Effective team player who fosters collaborative environment
- Adept at creative problem solving
- Cross cultural awareness and sensitivity
- Strong relational skills, a strategic collaborator who can build leadership trust and rapport, and an ability to nimbly support executive level leadership and vision
- Exceptional collaborator with a natural inclination towards proactivity
- Ability to oscillate between big-picture goals/strategy and project details
- Highly adaptive and able to reprioritize
- Self-accountable and able to meet deadlines with little supervision
- This position is hybrid (onsite Tuesdays & Thursdays) if located in the Washington, DC area or remote for non-local candidates
- Only available for candidates with the right to work in the US
- Salesforce and SharePoint proficiency preferred
Benefits
- This position is hybrid (onsite Tuesdays & Thursdays) if located in the Washington, DC area or remote for non-local candidates.
- Comprehensive Medical/Dental/Vision benefits
- Monthly commuter and parking benefits in the DC metro area
- Retirement benefit options
- Paid leave starting at 23 days
- 12 holidays (plus early release the day prior)
- Daily, quarterly, and annual community spiritual formation
- Robust staff care resources
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