Manager, Corporate Engagement 2023-232-Cs

Employment Type
Full-Time, Non-Bargaining Unit
Work Hours
35 hours/week
Work Setting
Onsite
Application Deadline
March 30th by 11:59 pm
Program Overview – The WoodGreen Foundation, Central Services
The WoodGreen Foundation is the fundraising arm of WoodGreen Community Services. The Foundation is focused on raising awareness & funds to support WoodGreen’s role as a sector leader in providing sustainable solutions to some of our City’s most complex social needs.
What You Will Do

• Represent WoodGreen to external audiences, sharing information on programs and priorities.
• Participate in all aspects of the gift cycle: identification, qualification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship.
• Adhere to the highest ethical standards, demonstrate empathetic disposition, reflect an optimistic and positive attitude, and be sensitive to the needs of donors, staff, and clients.
• Manage relationships with 100+ individuals, corporate groups or foundations, and other prospective donors.
• Ensure all notes, calls, emails, gifts, meetings, and events are entered into Raiser’s Edge in a timely and accurate fashion.
• Collaborate with Manager Development & Stewardship to ensure campaign and annual support programs and activities are integrated.
• Create meaningful employee volunteer experiences to engage employees and improve opportunities for WoodGreen clients.
• Build a culture of professional philanthropy by ensuring that team members and volunteers are properly briefed and prepared in advance of any contacts to support their cultivation or solicitation activities and provide support with their calls or face to face meetings.
• Present publicly WoodGreen as an organization and on specific programs as appropriate. Lead group tours of WoodGreen facilities and programs, orient volunteers, and kitting groups to WoodGreen, facilitate corporate gifts-in-kind, and build awareness of WoodGreen’s high-quality, critical services, within corporate Canada.
• Support WoodGreen’s Corporate Engagement Strategy by honing strategic and tactical plans for partnership engagement designed to gain/enhance the interest and involvement of the corporate prospects.
• Prepare effective proposals and grant submissions for corporations, corporate foundations, and occasionally individuals, that are compelling, accurate, and professionally written including case statements, tailored proposals, sponsorship packages, and progress reports.

What You Bring to the Team

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field.
• 3+ years of successful experience in fundraising or partnership management.
• Certificate in Fundraising Management or CRRE Professional designation an asset.

What Will Set You Apart

• Experience in pipeline development, prospect review and qualification, proposal development, report writing, successful cultivation, and solicitation.
• Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills including effective networking, relationship building, and active listening.
• Strong written and oral communication skills and ability to convey an authentic vision.
• Ability to align corporate/donor interests with approved funding priorities/case for support to inspire giving and long-term engagement.
• Demonstrated fundraising experience including successfully closing gifts at the $50,000+ level.
• A team player with the ability to work independently.
• Driver’s License and regular access to a vehicle considered an asset.
• Understanding of sector trends in corporate social responsibility/community investment and sponsorship.
• Excellent project management skills, including planning and critical evaluation of an initiative and designing metrics to monitor performance.
• Entrepreneurial, creative, strategic minded, and energetic.
• Proficiency in standard office software and Raiser’s Edge or other fundraising software, information resources and publications, including fundraising databases and on-line services.
• Demonstrated tact, diplomacy, and ability to liaise with and inspire senior management, staff, corporate contacts and donors.
• A “self-starter” and goal driven with an ability to identify business development opportunities.
• Highly organized, problem solve, and able to meet deadlines and work collaboratively in a multi-tasked environment.

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