What You Bring

• 10+ years of professional experience combined with a proven track record of closing significant philanthropic gifts or partnerships, including major and multi-year commitments.
  
• Honesty, integrity, and community orientation to your work.
  
• Demonstrated ability to build, manage, and advance a fundraising pipeline from prospecting through close.
  
• Strategic thinking paired with a strong bias toward action and results.
  
• High emotional intelligence and strong relationship instincts.
  
• Comfort operating independently in a senior, externally facing role.
  

1. Fundraising

Year One Goal: Develop and begin to beta test a philanthropic round for Spark that encompases a potential 2x direct growth with 10x leverage.

• Drive revenue growth for the organization.
  
• Develop a strategic brief on how Spark hypothesizes it can reach 100 million people over the next decade.
  
• Govern the fundraising team with measurable targets, coaching, and cultivate a supportive environment.
  
• Meet with 10+ partners and 10+ prospective partners to garner input on the strategy with the CEO.
  

2. Communications

Year One Goal: Hire and increase external communications and engagement by 15%.

• Hire and manage a senior communications manager.
  
• Support strategic communications to external partners.
  

3. Brand building

Year One Goal: Build the brand of Spark’s community-driven work based on the data and culture.

• Develop a field building approach to cultivate enthusiasm and understanding of community-driven change.
  
• Identify and cultivate new strategic partners for the organization.
  
• Run cultivation processes and events.