Job Posting

Scholarship America | Bloomington, MN
Salary Range: $70,000

Our team members are motivated by our vision to create an America where every student’s educational dreams can come true. Our offices in Bloomington, MN and St. Peter, MN provide employees with a team based, flexible work schedule, which is an employee top rated benefit within our organization due to our commitment to supporting a healthy work/life balance. Our traditional hours from which employees flex around are Monday-Friday from 8:00 am – 4:30 pm. Scholarship America also has a strong learning and development culture that supports professional growth for all employees across foundational and job-specific skills. Scholarship America, a Star Tribune Top Workplace, is looking for individuals to join our team with a commitment to helping students achieve their dreams of higher education.

Scholarship America’s Corporate Giving Officer will work within a robust corporate prospect base to help deepen prospects’ understanding of our organization, find alignment with their interests, and cultivate their partnership and greatest philanthropic support for Scholarship America’s strategic goals.

The Corporate Giving Officer is part of a high-performance fundraising team, and will be responsible for growing revenue to meet or exceed individual and overall goals. This position will have the opportunity to be innovative and enhance the corporate giving program, including event sponsorship, matching gifts, employee giving campaigns, partnerships and cause marketing.

Essential Job Functions:

• Identify, cultivate, solicit and steward current and prospective corporate partnerships with gifts aimed at $25,000 or more.
• Lead the development of integrated strategies to maximize contributed revenue, partnering with colleagues across the organization to build a compelling case for support.
• Promote existing funding opportunities and initiate the development of new opportunities to attract corporate support for Scholarship America’s mission and programs.
• Work cross-departmentally to design and execute custom solicitation strategies targeting organizational objectives and donor interests.
• Ensure that organizational leaders and colleagues know and understand he interests of corporate funding priorities.
• Be a champion for Scholarship America’s mission, goals and programs both internally and externally.
• Oversee and manage sponsorship goal for annual Dreams to Success fundraising event.
• Facilitate corporate network engagement with organizational leadership and stakeholders.
• Assist in developing and executing external employee giving campaigns.
• Ensure that gift records are managed responsibly, protecting donor privacy and tracking updates in a timely manner.
• Maintain up-to-date donor records in CRM database following donor contact.

ACCOUNTABILITIES & PERFORMANCE MEASURES:

• Meet or exceed key metrics for relationship management, with incremental increases in benchmarks after six months, one year, two years and three years of employment.
• Achieve annual revenue goal for assigned portfolio, and provide input to create reliable future revenue growth forecasts.
• Meet annual goals for retention, acquisition and pipeline growth within developed portfolio.
• Demonstrate successful creation of flexible and creative cross-functional programs that meet corporate partner needs and significantly impact Scholarship America’s mission.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree from accredited college or university.
• Five (5) or more years of experience in professional fundraising, corporate relations, or similar field.
• Demonstrated experience in identification, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship of corporate prospects.
• Demonstrated experience in event sponsorship, grants, corporate engagement.
• Effective and persuasive verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to lead and inspire others while maintaining collaborative process.
• Strong analytical skills: able to interpret and compare data to form meaningful insights.
• Results-oriented, motivated to meet or exceed individual and shared goals by carefully monitoring progress and demonstrating accountability.
• Superior interpersonal skills with understanding, empathy & diversity emphasis.
• Willing to embrace change and try new things while taking risks and challenging the status quo.
• Experience with volunteer stakeholder engagement, both in board and committee capacities.
• Occasional opportunities for travel based on availability (approximately five trips annually).
• Commitment to continued personal and professional development.
• Proficient in MS Office Suite with emphasis on Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Preferred Requirements:

• Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) credentials.
• Higher Education industry knowledge.

Scholarship America helps students fulfill their college dreams. Since it was founded in 1958, Scholarship America has distributed $4.5 billion to more than 2.8 million students, making it the nation’s largest private scholarship provider. The organization runs its own national and community-based scholarship programs, and works with partners wishing to establish scholarship and support programs to lower barriers to a college education and give students the support needed to succeed.

Named a 2021 Star Tribune Top Workplace, Scholarship America has offices in St. Peter & Bloomington, MN plus Washington, D.C. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, currently most of our positions are working remotely with virtual training and onboarding provided to new staff. Scholarship America offers employees a robust total rewards package focused on supporting the health and well-being of employees now and in the future. We offer comprehensive choices in areas such as insurance (medical, dental, vision, basic life), disability (short-term & long-term), flexible spending accounts (medical & dependent care), and a 403(b) retirement fund with a 3% company match. Due to our commitment to excellence to support work/life balance, we offer flexible work schedules which vary dependent upon position, paid time away from work (vacation, sick, personal, fifteen designated & floating holidays annually), plus employee & dependent educational reimbursement programs which support our overall mission. We also provide a robust learning and development program for our employees to maintain knowledge of our industry and its practices as well as professional development.

Details on our company values and mission can be found at www.scholarshipamerica.org.

Submit resume and application online: https://workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/default/mdf/recruitment/recruitment.html?cid=4803858b-974e-40a2-8884-98e0a7f94c36&ccId=19000101_000001&jobId=432670&source=CC2&lang=en_US
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