Development Manager (New York City, NY)

The American Diabetes Association (ADA) is seeking a highly organized and motivated fundraising professional to provide donor, fundraising, and operational support to the local development team. This role involves managing a portfolio of individual giving donors and providing event and administrative support to ensure fundraising success across the Greater New York territory.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for fundraising through foundation/grant proposals, individual giving, and third-party/DIY/community fundraisers
• Manage and review daily campaign data through reports, dashboards, and revenue analysis to identify opportunities to drive campaign revenue
• Regularly monitor fundraising portfolio performance to ensure accurate forecasting, recognition of fundraising and recruitment milestones, and maximized retention and revenue
• Conduct data mining to identify and acquire corporate partners, foundations, sponsors, and community leaders
• Support development team fundraising goals through high-touch phone calls, written correspondence, follow-up, stewardship strategies, and strong customer service
• Provide excellent donor and event support by responding to inquires in a timely, solutions-oriented manner
• Attend local tabling and outreach opportunities to generate community support and drive participation in local fundraising events
• Assist with writing, editing, and packaging funding proposals and sponsorship materials
• Manage grant, foundation, and corporate partner online application submissions
• Maintain accurate and complete prospect, donor, and constituent records in CRM systems and trackers, ensuring contacts, next steps, and tasks are consistently documented
• Manage and execute donor mailings, acknowledgements, and related communications
• Support national initiatives and implement local social media strategies to promote fundraising, event participation, and community engagement
• Provide general administrative support, including serving as a liaison to the service center, processing payables and receivables, assisting with budget entry, and supporting Executive Director constituent and donor interactions
• Ensure compliance with ADA policies, including risk management, event protocols, cash handling, and financial controls
• Support additional fundraising events, activities, and programs as assigned
• Provide event operations for market events including State of Diabetes, Evening to End Diabetes, and Step Out Walk (pre-event planning, event-day execution, and post-event follow-up as needed)
• Staff lead for event volunteers tasked with event day execution and experience, including auction, VIP experience, participants living with diabetes, and other local event day opportunities
• Supports the development of the market’s local pipeline of constituents and event leaders, to drive market activity, leading all prospect research and data entry management
• Identify and implement marketing opportunities, partnerships, influencer relationships, and other opportunities to increase ADA’s presence and awareness within assigned market territory that drive business goals
• Supports and maintains the vision, mission, priorities, and guiding principles of ADA

Skills

• Bachelor's degree
• 1+ years of professional experience in fundraising, events, and volunteerism
• Ability to present ADA's mission and how to get involved with groups of all sizes
• Ability to recruit and lead a group of volunteers to support event day execution
• Demonstrated experience recruiting individuals to support an organization
• Demonstrated ability to mobilize and motivate individuals to achieve goals
• Demonstrated ability to identify opportunities for growth in relationships
• Ability to organize time effectively and manage multiple tasks simultaneously
• Initiative and independence, combined with the ability to work well as part of a team
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to interact professionally with a variety of constituencies
• Excellent verbal and written skills, creativity, independent judgment, attention to detail, accuracy, strong editing skills, and follow-through
• Knowledge of software including Microsoft, DonorDrive (or other P2P platforms), and CRM
• Reliable transportation for travel
• Ability to travel as needed for meetings and events required
• Must be able to work occasional nights and weekends as needed to support events
• Authorization to work in the US required
• Ability to occasionally lift and/or move up to fifteen pounds
• Must live within 50 miles of New York City, NY

Benefits

• Industry competitive base pay of $66,300 annually.
• This position is eligible to participate in the Development Incentive Program.
• A culture of recognition including new hire welcome announcements, service anniversary awards, referral bonuses, monthly All Employee Assembly, appreciation awards
• Generous Paid Time Off, including holidays, vacation days, personal days and sick days
• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), disability & life insurance, pet insurance, and retirement savings
• Guided by our mission, we provide top tier diabetes supply coverage through our medical benefits program
• A company focus on offering mental health programs and work/life balance with most of our employees working remote

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