Hybrid VP, Special Events & Volunteer Engagement chez Arthritis Foundation

Job Title 

Vice President, Special Events & Volunteer Engagement

Department

Home Office | Development – Special Events 

Classification

Grade 10 SS A | Salary from $120,000.00

FLSA Status 

Full Time | Exempt 

Supervisor (title)

SVP, Field Management

The Vice President (VP), Special Events & Volunteer Engagement provides critical leadership, direct support, training, strategy development and program administration for the Arthritis Foundation’s Field Management Department. The VP has the following core areas of responsibility: developing and driving strategy to grow special events including peer-to-peer events, social events and others, developing and driving strategy for volunteer recruitment and engagement, providing supplemental onboarding training for newly hired Executive Directors, providing performance improvement training and skills building for select field staff, supervising fundraising staff for special event(s), and facilitating select cohort learning collaboratives for field staff.

1. Achieve organizational community event goals by working with community-based staff and key volunteers.
2. Oversee the creation and deployment of strategies, tools and technology for volunteer recruitment and onboarding to ensure a positive volunteer experience with a focus on event revenue leaders, such as corporate chairs and medical honorees. 
3. Lead a team of Directors and Managers in ensuring that tools, resources, trainings and strategies are shared with the field team to ensure goals are achieved.
4. Provide supplemental onboarding training for newly hired Executive Directors, including prepping for key meetings, attending key meetings, and providing real time coaching to accelerate role mastery.
5. Provide performance improvement training and skills building for select field staff, such as rebuilding of local leadership boards or overhauling under-performing special events and leading event support during key field vacancies.
6. Maintain strong communication and collaboration among field staff, Region Vice Presidents, AF department stakeholders, volunteers, donors, and supporters.
7. Execute and support a feedback loop from the field to improve all revenue, mission and volunteer strategies in support of organizational priorities.
8. Support annual revenue planning and budgeting for special events  

1. Bachelor’s degree in related discipline and/or minimum of 8 (eight) years of non-profit experience supervising a staff team and partnering with volunteer boards.
2. Proven track record in building and implementing Community Events strategy at a national or regional level as well as in Volunteer development. 
3. Ability to lead and manage projects that are national in scope and to lead through influence.
4. Experience in data analysis and reporting, using platforms such as Salesforce, Donor Drive and OneCause 
5. Distinguished track record of donor and volunteer stewardship, formulation of high-impact corporate partnerships and consistency in exceeding established goals.
6. Proficiency in applying sales technique to a non-profit setting.
7. Ability to relate and leverage the Arthritis Foundation’s mission into effective, sustained relationships and successful fundraising projects.
8. Experience providing strategic direction, training, and practical oversight to a full range of special event fundraising activities.

Desired Competencies

1. Awareness, understanding and accountability for financial performance including planning, budgeting, and forecasting.
2. Mission-driven and empathetic.
3. Balance and calm amidst complexity, competing demands and expectations.
4. Tactfulness with the ability to anticipate reactions and respond well to challenges.
5. Prompt decision-making, including managing performance and addressing difficult situations.
6. Able and willing to influence powerful personalities, and professionally and candidly communicate points of view to authority.
7. Models and build coalitions through collaboration, diversity, and teamwork.
8. Skilled communicator, effectively sharing and receiving key messages and content through multiple mediums as befits a remote colleague and leader.
9. Comfort operating within a matrixed environment and with being “part of the whole”.

Staff Management, Development and Training

50%

Volunteer Development

20%

Donor and Partner Development

10%

Operational Oversight

20%

Total

100%