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PBS Wisconsin seeks a dynamic, mission-driven fundraiser who can inspire corporate and business giving for programs and projects that serve people and communities throughout the state. The Managing Director of Corporate Giving both leads a team and engages in direct fundraising and relationship building, primarily with businesses, companies, and their foundations. The person in this goal-oriented position seeks underwriting, sponsorships, and other funding for broadcast programs, engagement opportunities, educational projects, and other endeavors that support the PBS Wisconsin mission.

In addition to managing their own portfolio of donors and prospects, the Managing Director of Corporate Giving supervises the Corporate Giving team, currently consisting of three gift officers, the team manager, and a content producer. The Managing Director of Corporate Giving collaborates with the other Development unit leaders (Membership, Major Gifts, Legacy Giving, Grants, and Special Events), all of which report to the Chief Development Officer. The Managing Director of Corporate Giving works with the Chief Development Officer to set individual and team goals for fundraising, set and manage performance metrics for the team, and analyze and report on performance, and they are also responsible for ensuring compliance for financial and broadcast reporting. The Managing Director of Corporate Giving may work primarily remotely, though in-person attendance will be required for some meetings, events, and for frequent meetings with donors and prospects across the state.

• 20% Directs strategic planning initiatives for advancement and establishes unit objectives to ensure appropriate use of financial, administrative, and staffing resources and alignment with the strategic plan
• 10% Serves as the unit liaison to internal and external stakeholder groups providing organizational information on business-relations issues, opportunities, and activities and representing the interests of the unit
• 20% Identifies, promotes, and maintains external partnerships
• 10% Delivers directed program messaging to internal and external audiences
• 10% Evaluates advancement strategy effectiveness and provides recommendations for improvement
• 10% Exercises supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees
• 10% Coordinates the goals and efforts of the Corporate team group with other development groups such as Membership, Major Gifts, Planned Giving, Events, and Grants, including similar groups within Wisconsin Public Media
• 10% Ensures that key information from unit - including but not limited to: prospect and donor contacts, KPIs, contract information, underwriting recognition information - is effectively recorded, communicated, and acted upon.

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Preferred
Bachelor's Degree

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
-Experience successfully communicating both in verbal and written formats to a variety of stakeholders and audiences
- Experience envisioning, developing, and communicating project opportunities to match with donor interests and passions
-Experience successfully soliciting financial gifts and corporate underwriting
-Experience with collecting, synthesizing, evaluating, and making judgments and recommendations based on data
-Experience coaching, mentoring, and managing a team to sustain a culture of achieving team fundraising and sales goals
-Computer skills including familiarity and comfort using Word, Excel, Outlook (email and calendar), messaging software, file sharing, and search engines.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
-General understanding of PBS Wisconsin, public media organizations, or non-profit organizations
-Experience using a CRM system
-Experience working in public media and/or corporate development

Full Time: 100%

This position may require some work to be performed in-person, onsite, at a designated campus work location. Some work may be performed remotely, at an offsite, non-campus work location.

Ongoing/Renewable

Minimum $85,000 ANNUAL (12 months)
Depending on Qualifications

This role requires the ability to travel to conduct site visits and meetings with donors and colleagues across the state.

Please note that successful applicants are responsible for ensuring their eligibility to work in the United States (i.e. a citizen or national of the United States, a lawful permanent resident, a foreign national authorized to work in the United States without need of employer sponsorship) on or before the effective date of appointment.

The following must be received for your application to be complete: 1) Resume; 2) A cover letter describing how your experience relates to the listed required and preferred job qualifications. Finalists will be asked to provide a list of at least three professional references with titles, emails, and phone numbers (include at least one supervisory reference). Note that references will not be contacted without your prior knowledge.

Erin Cook
erin.cook@wisc.edu
608-263-0477
Relay Access (WTRS): 7-1-1. See RELAY_SERVICE for further information.

Advancement Director (C)(AV033)

A46-PUBLIC MEDIA/PBS WISCONSIN

Limited

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