Program Manager, Corporate Giving

Job Type

Full-time

Description

WHO WE ARE

Rooted in community for more than 40 years, Communities In Schools (CIS) strives to bring community resources inside public schools, where they are accessible, coordinated, and accountable. Founder Bill Milliken said, “It’s relationships, not programs, that change children. A great program simply creates the environment for healthy relationships to form between adults and children. Young people thrive when adults care about them on a one-to-one level, and when they also have a sense of belonging to a caring community.”

CIS programs are conducted annually throughout the United States, serving 3,270 schools; 1.8M students with over 15,000 community volunteers and 114 CIS affiliate organizations across the country. Their programs for students include providing needs assessments, support teams with corresponding plans to address academic and non-academic needs, delivery of multiple tiers of support for both students and families, progress monitoring and evaluation and assessment with parents and student support systems.

MISSION AND VALUES

Communities In Schools (CIS) is “all-in” for kids. It is our passion—it is our mission. At the National Office, CIS collaborates with local affiliate organizations to provide resources and create communities of caring adults who work hand-in-hand with educators to make sure young people have the tools they need to stay in school and achieve in life. We are the nation’s largest dropout prevention organization, and we achieve our mission by hiring bright, creative, and innovative team members who demonstrate a passion for what they do.

CIS also holds the following talent beliefs:

• Every staff member is passionate and committed to the mission.
• In turn, CIS is committed to continuously improving decision making, incentivizing creativity, and building engagement. We do this by building a diverse workforce, fostering a climate of inclusion, and shaping business practices and policies that promote equity.
• As a National Office, CIS employees have a responsibility to live our values and integrate principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion across the organization and lead by example.

About The Role

The Program Manager, Corporate Giving, is an exciting opportunity for a fundraising professional to work alongside a team committed to growing Communities In School’s Corporate Giving portfolio. This role will cultivate new relationships, steward current corporate partners, and secure revenue supporting our organizational mission and newly launched 5-year strategic plan. The program manager is a natural relationship-builder with strong writing and communication skills who has experience in managing philanthropic relationships throughout the fundraising cycle.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Manage all aspects of the pipeline process, including writing and submitting applications, managing budgets, tracking deliverables, and overseeing reporting.
• Identify and cultivate new corporate and foundation funding opportunities in alignment with the CIS mission.
• Foster relationships with key internal stakeholders at CIS.
• Effectively steward a portfolio of corporate partners focusing on cultivating strong and enduring relationships.
• Develop and deliver compelling presentations for prospective corporate partners that connect their social impact and business objectives to CIS’ strategic initiatives.
• Maintain and cultivate a pipeline of qualified prospects through an efficient moves management strategy.
• Complete special projects and other duties as needed.

Requirements

ABOUT YOU

You’re a fundraiser with a successful record of accomplishment in developing proposals for corporate donors that reflect an organization’s needs and funding priorities. You’re passionate, entrepreneurial, and motivated by results.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills and ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required skills & qualifications:

• Capable of working independently and as a team member in a virtual environment.
• Experience utilizing a CRM to maintain prospect records.
• Bachelor’s Degree with 6-8 years of fundraising and/or proposal writing experience.
• Ability to translate organizational priorities into compelling funding proposals.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with diverse staff across departments.
• Organization, efficiency, and timeliness in project management and delivery, meeting preparation, and execution of strategic initiatives.
• Ability to prioritize and multi-task in a fast-paced environment.

TRAVEL

10 - 25% This includes meetings with prospects, donors, CIS national meetings, training and retreats.

About Us

CIS staff continue to work in a virtual environment; however, the national office is open and available for staff to use as appropriate.

To ensure the health and safety of staff and job applicants, all interviews will be conducted by phone and/or video conference.

Benefits & Perks

Work that makes a difference—the opportunity to contribute to an important mission!

Competitive and comprehensive compensation and benefits package, including:

• 9 Paid Holidays
• Five weeks of Paid Time Off
• Summer Work Schedule and Winter Break
• 90% of employee health care premiums paid by the organization
• Employer-paid short-term and long-term income replacement programs, and much, much more!
• Generous 403b Retirement Savings Plan contribution

Communities In Schools is committed to a workforce that is representative of the varied communities we are privileged to serve. We provide a work environment that does not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, mental or physical disability, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable law. CIS prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

For more information on Communities In Schools please visit our website.

Salary Description

$59500 - $70800