[Hiring] Digital Fundraising & Advocacy Account Executive @M+R

Role Description

We’re looking for an Account Executive to join our Digital Fundraising & Advocacy Area. Here’s what you’ll be doing in this role:

• Work in a team to create and implement effective digital fundraising campaigns for clients.
• Maintain the client relationship by staying in close contact with clients throughout the day via email and phone, leading weekly check-in calls, and presenting at big strategy meetings.
• Serve as the overall project manager for our work with the client, making sure all deliverables are on time and managing up and down as necessary to get the work done.
• Oversee the many details involved in launching email campaigns using Luminate, EveryAction, or whichever CRM your client uses.
• Distill email, web, advertising, and social campaign results into the important lessons that could change how a campaign performs.
• Help draft email, social, and web copy for fundraising, advocacy, and engagement campaigns.
• Review and/or create agendas, notes, calendars, and data reports for clients.
• Spearhead strategy documents such as campaign plans and wrap-up reports.
• Assign and review junior staff deliverables -- providing feedback, coaching, and guidance at every step.
• Do your part to help us run smoothly, including carefully tracking all of your hours.

Qualifications

• 2-4 years of digital fundraising experience, including managing a small-dollar email fundraising program for at least one year.
• Experience supporting the professional development of more junior staff or interns.
• Demonstrated ability to run meetings to identify project goals and ensure successful outcomes.
• Capability to crunch numbers in Excel and ability to interpret online fundraising metrics and translate them into key takeaways.
• Experience using eCRMs.
• Understanding of digital email writing best practices.

Requirements

• Demonstrated commitment to anti-racism, equity, and inclusion.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively to gain trust and give respect to others through honesty, integrity, kindness, empathy, and authenticity.
• Acute attention to detail and demonstrated ability to prioritize time to meet deadlines for multiple projects.
• Proven track record to successfully pick up new skills, including learning new technologies.
• Drive to seek what can be improved and offer ways to fix any potential roadblocks.
• Comfort admitting what you don’t know and recognizing that feedback is part of the learning process.
• Able to work within equitable and inclusive decision making models in moving decisions and initiatives forward.

Benefits

• This is an exempt, unionized position, represented by the Washington-Baltimore News Guild. The salary for this position is $80,000.
• A 36-hour workweek with half-day Fridays and scheduling flexibility.
• Three weeks of vacation and 17 paid sick days.
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits with premiums fully paid for by M+R for individual employees.
• 401(k) plan.
• Discretionary profit-sharing contributions.
• Annual $1,250 professional development stipend for qualified educational expenses.
• Flexible Spending Accounts for medical, dependent care, and transit.
• 11 holidays and a Mid-summer break the week of July 4.
• Exceptional paid Parental, Personal Medical & Family Caregiving leave policies.