Corporate Partnerships Solutions Manager

At Feed the Children, we know the value of outstanding people. More importantly we want to find the right individuals to join our team. We pride ourselves on providing our employees with an environment conducive for productive, rewarding, and long-term employment.

As a leading anti-hunger organization, Feed the Children is dedicated to helping struggling families. We are looking for individuals to join with us as we provide hope and resources to those without life's essentials. We believe it takes all of us working together to defeat hunger and create a world where no child goes to bed hungry. We are recognized by GuideStar with its Platinum Seal of Transparency, and accredited by the BBB Wise Giving Alliance.

We are currently in search of a Corporate Partnerships Solutions Manager to join our Corporate Partnerships team! The Corporate Partnerships Solutions Manager is responsible for creating efficiencies and building new processes to support the revenue growth of the Corporate Partnerships team and the Vice President of Strategic Partnerships and Cause Marketing. This position will coordinate cash donations from corporate partners and will work collaboratively with members of the Corporate Partnerships team to manage ongoing corporate partner tracking and processes, as well as executing strategies to establish long-term partnerships with corporations to further Feed the Children's mission.

Starting salary: $22.00/hr

NOTE: This position will work a hybrid schedule based out of our Oklahoma City, OK corporate office.

Job Requirements:

Education

Bachelor's degree with an emphasis in business, communications, or other related field preferred. High school diploma or GED required.

Experience

4+ years of related experience coordinating and managing multiple projects while working within tight deadlines required

Experience in fundraising, sales, or related experience preferred

Excellent verbal and written communication skills required

Intermediate skills using Microsoft Office products such as Word, Excel, Outlook, SharePoint and Teams required

Experience working in environments where goals or metrics were required to be met within specified timeframes preferred

Experience working in a nonprofit organization preferred

Experience working within a donor management system preferred

Any combination of education, training and experience which provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the essential functions of this job may be considered.

Essential Functions:

• Departmental Operations & Donor/Prospect Tracking

• Lead fundraising operations for the corporate partnerships team.

• Serve as an operations manager to the Vice President for fundraising efforts, ensuring the successful revenue growth of the team and ensuring overall support with donor cultivation and prospecting

• Support collaboration with internal departments for stewardship, events, annual report and key projects, includes scheduling meetings, coordinating agendas, sending follow up notes and project managing as needed.

• Work collaboratively with other members of the Corporate Partnerships team to research and identify sources of monetary and fundraising support.

• Support the development of KPI's for the team and build system to ensure partnership financial tracking, KPI reporting and revenue reporting.

• Train and onboard new corporate partnerships staff in processes and protocols

• Serve as the team subject matter expert on CRM processes ensuring that team members appropriately track and manage incoming corporate gifts and donations, as well as create and maintain accurate records in the CRM database.

• Run Qlik reports and ensure the reporting meets the needs of the team.

• Serve as the Accelerist expert, working with team members on follow up and tracking when prospecting new and current donors.

• Establish a due diligence process for the team to move a prospect to a partner, including inbound leads.

• Support the development of a gift acceptance policy and procedures.

• Create and maintain necessary documents via SharePoint, Excel spreadsheets, or other programs to support team fundraising efforts.

• Develop and support the implementation of a year-round stewardship plan for corporate partnerships

• Manage outgoing and incoming mass emails through BBIS (mass emails) system.

• Represent the Corporate Partnerships department by attending monthly resource rally meetings ensuring that resource rally event details and project schedules are communicated in a timely manner and deadlines are met.

• Cross-functional collaboration

• Represent the Corporate Partnerships team with critical internal stakeholders across Communications, Legal, Finance and Program teams to collaborate and resolve issues. Support partner communication processes including CRM database tracking, partner portal, document updates and other items as needed.

• Work across US and international program teams to support collaboration, support subject matter experts on the Corporate Partnerships team and keep the team updated, as needed.

• Serve as the team liaison between the Corporate Partnerships team and the Marketing & Creative team to ensure deadlines are met and cause marketing campaign agreements are fulfilled.

• Maintain responsibility for the creation, preparation, and processing of documents submitted to the Legal & Regulatory department.

• Ensure compliance with all relevant regulations and laws; maintain accountability standards to donors.

• Attend relevant and key Feed the Children campaign and organizational events as necessary.

• Financial Coordination

• Support financial end-to-end processes from budgeting, forecasting and monthly reporting of revenue.

• Lead the development of a tracking process of detailed fund management of all partner commitments.

• Develop partner and frontline fundraiser ROI assessments reports.

• Oversee tracking of team travel budgets.

• Project Management:

• Lead projects from conception through implementation providing both management and hands-on involvement in all phases ensuring project reports and results are provided on schedule, schedules are communicated and deadlines are met.

• Create the weekly team meeting schedule, notes and agenda ensuring action items are communicated effectively and timely.

• Provide support for meeting preparations that could include setting up meetings, agenda, deck preparation and meeting follow-ups.

• Provide support for event coordination/communication when needed with corporate partners and events team. (e.g., coordinating invites, talking points, marketing needs and Corporate Donor Relations coordination when necessary).

Establish an environment of high performance and continuous improvement that values learning, a commitment to quality, welcomes and encourages collaboration, and fosters both intra and inter-departmental dialogue and respect.

Model the type and level of behavior, professionalism and leadership that is in accordance with the values of the organization.

Perform other related duties as required.

Travel: The travel requirements of this position are estimated to be up to 10% of the work time.

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.

Feed the Children is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for positions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, political affiliation, pregnancy, military and/or veterans' status, genetic characteristics, marital status or any other considerations made unlawful by applicable state, federal, or local law. Feed the Children welcomes and encourages applications from persons with physical and mental disabilities and will make every effort to reasonably accommodate the needs of those persons. Additionally, Feed the Children strives to provide an environment free from sexual exploitation and abuse and harassment in all places where relief and development programs are implemented. Feed the Children expects its employees to maintain high ethical standards, protect organizational integrity and reputation, and ensure that Feed the Children work is carried out in honest and fair methods, in alignment with the Feed the Children safeguarding and associated policies.