Job description
Staff whose work requires or potentially could require any in-person interaction with Save the Children colleagues, partners, or beneficiaries must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 unless otherwise required by law. Save the Children complies with federal, state, and local laws with regard to accommodations related to this policy.
Summary
The Officer, Gift-in-Kind (GIK) will contribute significantly to the Corporate Partnerships team’s growing product donation revenue goals by managing a portfolio of existing accounts and driving new business development. Reporting to the Sr. Officer, Gift in Kind, you will work collaboratively across the Corporate Partnership department to conduct GIK donor research, develop and deliver pitch materials, and provide high-quality stewardship for accounts. Additionally, you will support in managing the influx of GIK offers during emergencies and will take on special projects across the team as needed to help advance strategy, improve operational efficiencies, and achieve team goals.
Build New Business Partnerships – 40%
- Establish relationships with current prospect accounts and steward GIK growth and facilitate partnership growth through additional giving opportunities.
- Research and open doors with new strategically aligned prospects, developing account strategies that can build partnerships from the ground up.
- Work across the team to create compelling marketing and pitch materials.
- Lead pitching GIK to prospect corporations.
- Manage GIK operations for new business including tracking all opportunities, coordinating transportation, stewarding partners, and reporting.
- Lead management of assigned existing accounts; becoming the in-house expert on those partnerships.
- Host strategic partner planning meetings annually and establish regular check-ins.
- Provide timely partner stewardship, ensuring giving reports and updates are delivered on schedule and inviting partners to donor webinars and calls.
- Help plan, create and deliver storytelling assets that communicate the value of GIK partnerships to programs.
- Assist Senior Officer with managing GIK during emergency responses.
- Manage a GIK tracker of all program needs, donor offers and acceptances.
- Track and share donors’ GIK transportation and delivery information with program and logistics staff.
- Attend all internal response informational calls and report on GIK updates as needed.
- Prepare reports for and responses to GIK questions for the response team.
- Take on special projects for the GIK team or for the broader Corporate Partnerships team as needed to help advance team strategy, improve operational efficiencies, and meet fundraising goals.
- Minimum of a Bachelor Degree or equivalent experience, plus at least 5 years of relevant experience
- Project management experience with proven ability to work across a large, multi-faceted team
- Demonstrated ability to develop and steward strong partnerships with significant client-facing experience
- Demonstrated organization skills with keen attention to detail; proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Adaptive to change
- Self-starter with problem solving mentality
- Professional proficiency in MS Office suite, Zoom and Teams
- Professional proficiency in spoken and written English
- Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with individuals and teams at all levels, both internally and externally
- Demonstrated commitment to fostering and maintaining an environment of diversity, inclusion, and belonging.
- Experience working with corporations and/or in a non-profit fundraising role
- Experience managing product donations and knowledge of key players and industry trends
- Demonstrated ability to write and communicate persuasively, clearly, and concisely, to synthesize information from multiple sources into a single, effective fundraising document
- Experience using Blackbaud CRM and/or Salesforce
- Knowledge of poverty issues within the United States and globally
Compensation
Save the Children is offering the following salary ranges for this position, dependent on candidate location:
Geo 1 - NY Metro, DC, and other locations with labor costs significantly above national average: Target Salary for this position is $84,150 – $94,050 base salary
Geo 2 - Locations around the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $76,500 – $85,500 base salary
Geo 3 - Locations significantly below the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $68,850 – $76,950 base salary
Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location.
Why you should join the Save the Children Team…
Save the Children US offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, pet insurance, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, 403(b), generous vacation, personal sick leave, family leave, parental/adoption leave, commuter benefits, dress for your day, and much more.
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About Save the Children
No matter your role when you join Save the Children, each and every day you will challenge yourself to devote your skills, talent and expertise to changing the world for kids. It’s an ambitious goal, and a meaningful one no matter how you see yourself professionally: an accountant, a writer, a data analyst, a teacher, a driver, a designer, or any one of the hundreds of dozens of roles we’re looking to fill every day.
You see, Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share.
Our work for children and their families requires that we commit—at every opportunity—to work together to identify and dismantle persistent systemic and structural racism, inequality, and any other forms of discrimination in this country and beyond. As an anti-racist organization, Save the Children will not tolerate discrimination in any form—in our employment practices, amongst our staff, in our leadership or toward the people we serve. We stand in solidarity with all people to fight for equal rights, justice, inclusion, and belonging.
We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, age, handicap, disability, marital status, or status as a veteran. Save the Children complies with all applicable laws.
Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom we are in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse. In addition, it is Save the Children’s policy to create and proactively maintain an environment that aims to prevent and deter any actions and omissions, whether deliberate or inadvertent, that place children at the risk of any kind of child abuse. All our representatives are expected to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with this commitment and obligation.
Save the Children is committed to minimizing safety and security risks for our valued employees, ensuring all are given training, support and information to reduce their risk exposure while maximizing the impact of our programs for children and families. Our shared duty, both agency and individual, is to seek and maintain safe working conditions for all.
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The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
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