Fundraising Manager, Walk to End Alzheimer's

Manager, Walk to End Alzheimer's

As Manager of Walk to End Alzheimer's, you join an exclusive team of leaders responsible for the implementation of Walk to End Alzheimer's®, the world's largest fundraiser for Alzheimer's care, support and research. Walk to End Alzheimer's® ranks as the second-largest peer-to-peer fundraising event in the United States and continues to set the pace as one of the fastest-growing walk events in the country.

In 2024, Walk to End Alzheimer's® was again recognized as the #2 peer-to-peer fundraising event in the country. On top of that, Walk was acknowledged for achieving the largest dollar growth of any program in the top 30.

As the Manager for the Walk to End Alzheimer's, you will generate excitement and enthusiasm in the community, coach and inspire your volunteers to implement and build on proven strategies and best practices that result in event growth year over year.

Utilizing your proven networking and relationship-building skills to cultivate key community connections, you will drive success and achieve revenue goals by strategically identifying and engaging community and corporate leaders and building and empowering sustainable volunteer committees in Bloomington, Columbus, and Terre Haute. This role is in the community and work from their home office. This position will require travel to our chapter office in Indianapolis on occasion.

This role is right for you if:

• You have proven success at building sustainable corporate and community relationships that contribute to achieving event revenue goals, greater community participation and heightened brand awareness
• You have successfully recruited, managed, and coached volunteers to effectively implement best and proven practices to achieve fundraising goals OR you are able to effectively assimilate our custom training on peer to peer fundraising and leverage your sales/relationship development background to recruit, manage and coach volunteers to implement best and proven practices to achieve fundraising goals
• You have managed or are capable of managing multiple volunteer-led mass-market events simultaneously that have resulted in revenue growth year over year
• You are known as a convener and have successfully built a positive, healthy, and inclusive team environment that has resulted in long-term community relationships
• You love a challenge and have achieved or surpassed designated revenue and participant goals through team and individual fundraising, corporate solicitation, and community partnerships
• You have demonstrated success at prospecting, cultivating and stewarding event teams, sponsors and participants
• You have worked with companies to expand existing initiatives/activities, and are able to secure new corporate sponsorships, teams, participants, Champions, and volunteers along with creating and managing vendor and cause marketing activation campaigns
• You have excellent communication and organization skills and are comfortable with managing event budgets, training volunteers, working to set timelines and milestones and using data to affect positive outcomes
• You can generate a positive return on investment and increased fundraising revenue with the goal of renewing and/or growing larger accounts and multi-year funding

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 3-5 years of proven experience in recruiting and mobilizing volunteers to achieve goals OR 3-5 years successful experience of meeting sales targets

Position Location: Bloomington, Indiana or Columbus, Indiana

Status: Full-time Exempt, based on 37.5 hours per week minimum

Position Grade & Compensation: Grade 205 The Alzheimer's Association's good faith expectation for the salary range for this role is between $55,000-65,000 annual salary. There is a performance-based incentive opportunity of up to $13,000, depending on portfolio size and achievement of quarterly goals.

Reports To: Senior Director, Walk to End Alzheimer's