[Hiring] Community Development Advocate @ImpactLife

Role Description

ImpactLife has an exciting opportunity for an energetic and highly motivated individual to join our team as a Community Development Advocate. The ability to provide life-saving blood products to patients in need is not possible without the generosity of our donors. As the Community Development Advocate, you will be responsible for:

• Driving engagement of targeted donor groups by developing and maintaining community relationships.
• Implementation and oversight of Associate Board(s).
• Serving as a community and government liaison to promote ImpactLife’s interests and mission.
• Representing ImpactLife at community events and participating in sponsored events.
• Networking through membership associations.
• Leading the initiative to develop additional Associate Boards of young professionals throughout our community.
• Maintaining and expanding an existing Associate Board.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in community/public relations or sales and marketing.
• Preference given to candidates who have demonstrated results using social media for marketing purposes.
• Previous experience leading a volunteer board.
• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, public relations, communications, business administration, communications, or a related field.
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship building skills.
• Equivalent combination of demonstrated work experience and education may be considered.
• Ability to travel within the service territory up to 50% of the time.

Benefits

• Competitive salary that increases with experience.
• Opportunity to work from home when not travelling within our service territory.
• Comprehensive benefits packages including Medical, Prescription, FSA/HSA, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, PTO, 401k, EAP and more!

Company Description

ImpactLife provides lifesaving blood products to more than 120 hospitals and emergency medical service providers in a four-state region. In 2024, we celebrated 50 Years of Saving Lives. Over the years, we've grown and merged across the Midwest from small, independent, community nonprofits to evolve into ImpactLife. We are still an independent, community nonprofit, only we are not so small. Today, our team is 800+ strong across four states. We are headquartered in Davenport, Iowa and have distribution hubs and donor centers in Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, and Wisconsin. Every year we team up with thousands of blood donors and hundreds of community partners to help save lives through blood drives.