National Sales Manager
VITAL WorkLife
Executive Director
Blue Star Families
full-time
Posted on:
Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • District of Columbia, Washington
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💰 $106,000 - $146,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Overall strategic and operational responsibility for the National Capital Region chapter’s staff, volunteers, programs, and budget
- Manage local board, VIP engagement, fundraising, storytelling, stewardship, CRM, budgeting, volunteer management, partner development, membership engagement, marketing, and communications
- Collaborate across Blue Star Families enterprise (operations, development, marketing, strategy, technology, finance)
- Develop chapter sustainability plan and expand local revenue-generating and fundraising activities
- Secure six-figure gifts from philanthropies, foundations, corporate partners, and high-net-worth donors
- Partner with Development Team and Host Committee to source, cultivate, and steward funders; responsible for meeting annual fundraising goals
- Develop and implement national programs locally (Welcome Week, Campaign for Inclusion, Military Family Lifestyle Survey) and evaluate program components
- Build and steward a strong, diverse, engaged advisory board and energize board members, committees, and partners
- Lead, coach, develop, and retain volunteers and manage program manager
- Develop local partnerships to connect military families with community resources and educate leaders using Blue Star Families research
- Must reside in the designated chapter community and have lived there for a minimum of the past three years
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or 7+ years experience in community relations and development
- 5-10+ years of management experience
- Track record of effective fund-raising strategies that have taken an organization to the next stage of growth
- Unwavering commitment to Blue Star Families’ mission, quality programs, and data-driven program evaluation
- Excellence in organizational management; ability to coach staff/volunteers, manage and develop high-performance teams, set and achieve strategic objectives, and manage to budget
- Past success working with an Advisory Board and ability to cultivate board relationships
- Strong marketing, public relations, and fundraising experience; ability to engage diverse stakeholders and cultures
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; persuasive and passionate communicator with excellent interpersonal and multidisciplinary project skills
- Entrepreneurial spirit eager to engage potential partners to build community-based solutions
- Action-oriented, adaptable, and innovative approach to business planning
- Ability to work effectively in collaboration with diverse groups of people
- Passion, idealism, integrity, positive attitude, mission-driven, and self-directed
- Limited out-of-town/overnight travel required (less than 25% overnight travel)
- May be required to work nights, weekends, and holidays as necessary
- Experience with Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems; familiarity with Salesforce a plus
- Knowledge of Blue Star Families and the military family experience
