Director, Sports Partnerships

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Director, Sports Partnerships leading ALSAC's fundraising and partnerships strategy with sports leagues and organizations to support St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Posted 6/23/2026full-timeRemote • Tennessee • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Provides leadership and professional development to the team to ensure fundraising, marketing, strategic agility, and creative skills provide the vision and direction of sports initiatives and campaigns.
Works to develop strategic plans to help enhance current initiatives and campaigns, including partnerships with the NFL, NBA, LPGA, PGA, MLB, NCAA, NASCAR, and motorsports and creates an assignment and moves management's strategy for targeting individuals, agencies and influencers associated with those respective leagues for cultivation and support.
Partners with internal leaders and teams to ensure national sports campaigns have an integrated approach on all levels of planning and implementation across ALSAC.
Responsible for the oversight and management of critical enterprise events such as CME Group LPGA Tour Championship and the FedEx St. Jude Championship.
Responsible for drafting, preparing, sending and giving presentations, marketing communications plans, conference reports, and other documents.
Ensures project tasks meet deadlines, and forecasts resource needs based on job growth or trends.
Researches and identifies opportunities on enhancing marketing communications strategies and provides innovative solutions and strategies while actively seeking solutions to address process challenges.
Works with various ALSAC departments and divisions to identify key sports celebrity/influencer opportunities and appearances for campaigns and events.
Actively solicits and arranges tours for VIP executives, athletes, teams, and influencers who want to visit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Creates a long-term strategy for sports foundation cultivation which may include, but is not limited to, foundations formed by leagues, teams, athletes, and other organizations within the industry.
Develops, mentors, and coaches a team of professionals that can provide guidance to employees regarding strategy, administration, procedures/policies, analysis, and communication.
Works in conjunction with Sports Partnerships team to plan and implement the strategic direction and implementation of sports campaigns and initiatives, including annual fiscal goals and budgets. Drafts both annual and long-term plans for respective sports programs, which establish fundraising and awareness metrics and goals.
Assists personnel in the handling of individual questions concerning various aspects of the Sports programs.

Requirements

What you’ll need

A bachelor’s degree
A minimum of eight years of experience in sales, fundraising or marketing with experience leading large teams
Demonstrated experience working with sports and/or athletic organizations or companies and the ability to build relationships across sports platforms
Strong communication and interpersonal skills
Speak and write in a clear and understandable manner for internal/external relations.
Understand extremely complex verbal or written instructions.
Understand data processing applications.
Extensive travel required.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Core Medical Coverage: (low cost low deductible Medical, Dental, and Vison Insurance plans)
401K Retirement Plan with 7% Employer Contribution
Exceptional Paid Time Off
Maternity / Paternity Leave
Infertility Treatment Program
Adoption Assistance
Education Assistance
Enterprise Learning and Development
And more

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Hard Skills & Tools

fundraisingmarketingstrategic planningproject managementdata processing applicationspresentation preparationmarketing communicationsevent managementteam leadershiprelationship building

Soft Skills

communicationinterpersonal skillsmentoringcoachingstrategic agilityproblem-solvinginnovationcollaborationorganizationadaptability

Certifications

bachelor's degree