As we celebrate our Centennial year, we invite you to join us in shaping the next century of impact. Be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives as we remain devoted to a future of health and hope for everyone, everywhere. At the American Heart Association, your contribution matters, and so does your career.

We have an excellent opportunity for a Sr. Donor Relations Manager in our Mission Advancement department!

This position can be home-based.

The Association offers many resources to help you maintain work-life harmonization through your changing needs and life situations. To help you be successful, you will have access to Heart U, our award-winning corporate university, as well as additional training and support, locally.

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Responsible for leading and driving high-capacity donor and gift stewardship services and growing established relationships with donors and their representatives in collaboration with the primary donor relationship manager.  Serves as a strategic project manager to ensure team’s fulfillment of grant/gift deliverables with donor happiness, recognition and engagement as the primary focus. Responsible for developing, guiding, and executing processes and activities to ensure fulfillment excellence by monitoring projects led by implementation teams, strategically customizing and finalizing donor impact reports provided by the Office of Funded Programs, evaluators, and/or implementation teams, and overseeing and working collaboratively with the Mission Advancement MarCom team and others to ensure accurate recognition throughout the life of a gift/grant.  Works collaboratively and strategically with the relationship manager, implementation team, grants administrator, and others to deliver an outstanding donor experience that is intended to close contingent payments, ensure impact excellence, and lead to continued revenue.

• Serve as the primary point of contact for servicing a portfolio of assigned relationships with active gifts in fulfillment. Provide exceptional support to build and maintain a positive relationship between the American Heart Association and the donor. In close collaboration with the relationship manager, respond to the needs of the donor and/or project, decide which course of action to take, and implement that action with minimal consultation or direction. Monitor donor preferences; identify, evaluate, and recommend additional funding and/or engagement opportunities for donor pathing, and develop donor pathing.
• Lead the gap from gift award to fulfillment, including as a project manager as needed to ensure the project transitions efficiently from award notification to implementation and monitoring. Convene and brief the implementation team and the Office of Funded Programs to ensure clarity and alignment on roles, budget, deliverables, impact reporting, and donor expectations.  Transition the project to the implementation and grant administration teams, ensuring smooth and effective transitions. Liaise, communicate, and drive a sense of urgency with respective team members to start the funded project on time and remain on schedule.  Clear barriers and offer solutions to challenges that may arise at start-up and during the project. 
• Customize and develop high-quality interim and final project reports, leveraging project reports provided by the implementation teams and the Office of Funded Programs to present a compelling representation of the donor’s impact made through their gift.
• Lead and manage donor recognition with the relationship manager, Mission Advancement, and Marketing/Communications teams. Provide vision, ensure quality production/implementation, and ensure donor expectations are exceeded.
• Lead project tasks in Asana project management software, ensuring regular updates to clearly and actively communicate progress. Record relationship activity and results in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) database.
• Experience with Fundraising, Donor Stewardship and/or Marketing.
• Decision-making ability to solve problems, while working under pressure and effectively presenting these solutions to coworkers and customers.

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience.
• Five (5) + years of relevant experience.
• Excellent time management skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated report writing skills.
• Excellent in advanced PowerPoint, Word and Excel, Outlook, and Customer Relationship Management systems.
• Experience in grant writing and grant requirements.
• Experience developing and delivering PowerPoint presentations to both large and small groups.
• Ability to establish, manage, and provide progress updates on project management plans and timelines using software tools.
• Ability to effectively facilitate meetings and lead teams to achieve plan objectives.
• Ability to travel up to 25% local and overnight stay.

Preferred Skills:

• Project Management Certification.

The American Heart Association invests in its people. Here are the main components of our total rewards package.  Visit Rewards & Benefits to see more details.

• Compensation – Our goal is to ensure you have a competitive base salary.  That’s why we regularly review the market value of jobs and make adjustments, as needed.
  
  
• Performance and Recognition – You are rewarded for achieving success by merit increases and incentive programs, based on the type of position.  
  
  
• Benefits – We offer a wide array of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance, along with a robust retirement program that includes an employer match and automatic contribution.  As a mark of our commitment to employee well-being, we also offer an employee assistance program, employee wellness program and telemedicine, and medical consultation.
  
  
• Professional Development – You can join one of our many Employee Resource Groups (ERG) or be a mentor/mentee in our professional mentoring program.  HeartU is the Association’s national online university, with more than 100,000 resources designed to meet your needs and busy schedule.
  
  
• Work-Life Harmonization – The Association offers Paid Time Off (PTO) at a minimum of 16 days per year for new employees.  The number of days will increase based on seniority level.  You will also have a total of 12 paid holidays off each year, which includes several days off at the end of the year.
  
  
• Tuition Assistance - We support the career development of all employees.  This program provides financial assistance to employees who wish to further their education and career in relation to their current duties and responsibilities, or for potential future positions in the organization.

The American Heart Association’s 2028 Goal: Building on over 100 years of trusted leadership in cardiovascular and brain health, by 2028 the AHA will drive breakthroughs and implement proven solutions in science, policy, and care for healthier people and communities. The greatest discoveries in health must reach everyone where they are.

At American Heart Association | American Stroke Association, our mission is to be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, age, language, sexual orientation, national origin and physical or cognitive abilities. We're committed to ensuring our workforce, workplace culture and mission have a shared impact across a diverse set of backgrounds.

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