Are you looking to make a difference in the world?
Looking to take the next step in your career with an impactful organization helping people?
Join The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration (AFTD), the leading organization dedicated to ending the most common dementia under 60, known asFTD. We help families affected today and drive research to bring hope for the future. Our work to bring about a world without dementia is only missing your passion and your expertise. This is an executive position, requiring an experienced professional who can manage the complexity of the role, with proven strategic experience and vision. The Sr. Director of Advancement will join AFTD at a key moment in the organization’s history, when public recognition of this rare disease has significant momentum, and the organization is midway through an aggressive 3-Year Strategic Plan that calls for a substantial expansion of staff. Join us today to make a difference for families affected by FTD, across the United States and beyond.
Job Description
The Senior Director of Advancement is responsible for AFTD's fundraising, events, marketing, and branding strategies to ensure the sustainability of the organization. The Senior Director of Advancement is a member of AFTD’s Executive Team, and champions engagement within AFTD’s passionate and growing rare disease community. This role focuses on boosting national and global visibility of both the organization and the disease and generating resources to sustain and advance AFTD’s mission. This high-profile position calls for nurturing strategic relationships, cultivating and stewarding donors, and collaborating closely with the CEO and Board of Directors. The Senior Director of Advancement effectively manages and develops Directors and teams across development, events, and marketing and communications to engage current and new supporters, implement a broad and sustainable fundraising program, and deliver a powerful and cohesive marketing, communications, and public relations effort to expand the organization’s reach and impact.
FUNCTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Essential Job Functions
Advancement - Strategy:
In consultation with the CEO and Board of Directors, and in collaboration with staff colleagues:
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Devise a dynamic roadmap for the development of philanthropic as well as non-philanthropic revenue streams that accomplish organizational sustainability
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Provide strategic vision for and lead crafting of a cohesive messaging, branding, and community engagement strategy that is aligned with AFTD's core values and objectives
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Identify resources necessary to ensure the success of the identified strategy and plans
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Regularly assess AFTD’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, and align strategies accordingly.
Advancement - Delivery:
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Oversee and guide the execution of fundraising, marketing, and communication plans, focusing on donor development and retention, brand visibility, and community growth
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Create and reinforce a culture of continuous improvement, ensuring that there are robust systems in place for quality control and quality assurance
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Manage relationships with external vendors who work alongside the Advancement team
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Collaborate with the COO and senior staff to refine CRM, website, and IT systems to ensure effectiveness and efficiencies in pursuit of optimal community engagement
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Implement project management best practices, monitor program performance, and address potential setbacks in coordination with AFTD’s leadership
Relationship Building:
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Foster and steward relationships with key donors, partners, and prospects
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Partner with the Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships and the senior team to understand and strengthen key strategic relationships and collaborations
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Actively seek information and build relationships that ensure understanding of the environment within which AFTD is operating and ensure identification of new influences or trends as they emerge
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Partner with senior team colleagues to ensure work is efficiently integrated across the mission, and to foster high-performing teams, trust, collaboration, and transparency throughout AFTD
Departmental Leadership:
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Provide unwavering leadership to AFTD’s Advancement team, overseeing budgeting, planning, and staff development
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Ensure the team's accountability to timelines, deliverables, and metrics
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Champion a culture of high performance, continuous learning, and collaboration
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Lead with an emphasis on empowerment, coaching and mentoring, and psychological safety within teams
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Serve as a mentor, enhancing team performance and professional growth
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Advocate for process and system improvements, leveraging data-driven insights and digital solutions to heighten efficiency and impact
Other Job Functions
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As a member of AFTD’s leadership team, contribute expert knowledge in support of quality decisions regarding internal planning and AFTD’s overall strategic direction
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Represent AFTD externally, staying informed on national-level (and, in defined instances, global) activities in the dementia space, taking speaking engagements and representing AFTD and FTD on external committees as appropriate; and collaborate with internal teams to ensure AFTD is presenting a coordinated/unified persona, representing our values, and priorities to the external world
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Conscientiously follows company policies and practices and takes care of organizational property
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Travel for organizational meetings and events as needed
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Other duties as assigned
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
- This position has supervisory responsibilities for the following roles:
o Director of Marketing and Communications
o Development Director
o Events Director
