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POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Associate Director

ORGANIZATION: DonorsChoose.org

LOCATION:  San Francisco, CA

Organizational Overview:  DonorsChoose.org is a simple way to fulfill needs and foster innovation in public schools.  At this nonprofit website, public school teachers submit their best ideas for materials and experiences that their students need to learn—everything from a classroom library, to basketballs, to a field trip to the zoo.

Any individual can search by areas of interest, learn about classroom needs, and fund the projects they find most compelling.  All donors then hear back from the classrooms they chose to help.

Since its inception, citizen philanthropists from 50 states and 10 countries have funded more than 88,000 classroom projects at DonorsChoose.org, channeling over $35 million of resources to students in low-income communities.  Recognition of DonorsChoose.org includes the Nonprofit Innovation Award given by Stanford Business School and Amazon.com; the Fast Company Social Capitalist Award; a Global Technology Laureate from the TECH Museum of Innovation; and selection by Ashoka.  Major supporters include eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, Yahoo! co-founder David Filo, venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, and Netflix founder Reed Hastings.

Position Overview:  The West Region Associate Director will take an active role in expanding DonorsChoose.org across a 14-state region.  S/he is responsible for cultivating new and existing individual, corporate, and foundation supporters, as well as developing and executing strategies for district outreach and teacher engagement.  Reporting directly to the West Region Vice President, the Associate Director position is a unique opportunity to be a part of an innovative, fun, high-profile, and rapidly growing organization that is changing the face of philanthropy and the lives of students from low income families

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

·          In partnership with the Vice President, develop and implement a regional strategy for engaging corporate and foundation partners through DonorsChoose.org managed giving programs

·          Prospect, cultivate, execute, and evaluate corporate partnerships to score branded marketing campaigns ensuring the highest levels of customer service

·          Identify, cultivate and solicit high net worth individual donors via in-person meetings and/or events

·          Independently structure, analyze and manipulate DonorsChoose.org data for grants, media requests, board meetings, etc.

·          Continuously track all contacts, leads, notes, and funding opportunities in our CRM database,  SalesForce.com

·          Collaborate across regional and national teams to share best practices and inform the systems and
processes that will influence the future of DonorsChoose.org

Qualifications:

·          3 - 6 years of fundraising, marketing, sales and/or management experience with demonstrated success reaching or exceeding aggressive goals; familiarity with the philanthropic landscape in Seattle and San Francisco is strongly preferred

·          Team player with a strong passion for the mission and vision of DonorsChoose.org

·          Comfortable with a wide range of tasks ranging from strategic planning to tactical execution and implementation

·          Excellent written and verbal communication skills and strong customer-service orientation

·          Detail-oriented and organized, with the ability to coordinate multiple projects simultaneously

·          Desire to work in a fast-paced, startup-like environment with aggressive growth plans

·          Some travel (up to 30%) is required

·          Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required; advanced degree preferred

Compensation:

DonorsChoose.org offers a competitive salary with excellent benefits, which include health, dental, and vision coverage; a non-contributing 401K plan; and 5 weeks paid vacation plus national holidays.

To Apply:

Please upload a resume and thoughtful cover letter, outlining how your skills and experience meet the qualifications of the position and stating how you heard about this opportunity, both in Word format and addressed to Carolina Martin at http://jobs.cgcareers.org/application.aspx?id=1453 .  Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

DonorsChoose.org is an equal opportunity employer committed to

identifying and developing the skills and leadership of people from diverse backgrounds.

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Position Overview:  The West Region Director will take an active role in expanding DonorsChoose.org across a 14-state region.  S/he is responsible for cultivating new and existing individual, corporate, and foundation supporters, as well as developing and executing strategies for district outreach and teacher engagement.  Reporting directly to the West Region Vice President, the Director position is a unique opportunity to be a part of an innovative, fun, high-profile, and rapidly growing organization that is changing the face of philanthropy and the lives of students from low income families.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
•    In partnership with the Vice President, develop and implement a regional strategy for engaging corporate and foundation partners through DonorsChoose.org managed giving programs
•    Prospect, cultivate, execute, and evaluate corporate partnerships to score branded marketing campaigns ensuring the highest levels of customer service
•    Identify, cultivate and solicit high net worth individual donors via in-person meetings and/or events
•    Independently structure, analyze and manipulate DonorsChoose.org data for grants, media requests, reports etc.
•    Continuously track all contacts, leads, notes, and funding opportunities in our CRM database,  SalesForce.com
•    Collaborate across regional and national teams to share best practices and inform the systems and processes that will influence the future of DonorsChoose.org

Qualifications:
•    A minimum of 3, with 5 or more preferred years of fundraising, marketing, sales and/or management experience with demonstrated success reaching or exceeding aggressive goals; familiarity with the philanthropic landscape in Seattle and San Francisco is strongly preferred
•    Team player with a strong passion for the mission and vision of DonorsChoose.org
•    Comfortable with a wide range of tasks ranging from strategic planning to tactical execution and implementation
•    Entrepreneurial spirit and the ability to work in a self-directed environment required
•    Excellent written and verbal communication skills and strong customer-service orientation
•    Detail-oriented and organized, with the ability to coordinate multiple projects simultaneously
•    Desire to work in a fast-paced, startup-like environment with aggressive growth plans
•    Travel (up to 50%) is required
•    Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required; advanced degree preferred

Compensation:
DonorsChoose.org offers a competitive salary with excellent benefits, which include health, dental, and vision coverage; a non-contributing 401K plan; and 5 weeks paid vacation plus national holidays.

To Apply:
Please email a resume and thoughtful cover letter, outlining how your skills and experience meet the qualifications of the position and stating how you heard about this opportunity, both in Word format.  Address application to Carolina Martin at Carolina@donorschoose.org subject line “West Deputy Director Position”.

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DonorsChoose.org sends an annual survey to its teacher base to learn more about its users and to evaluate the organization’s effect on public school teachers and in classrooms. This year, due to a generous grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, DonorsChoose.org is also looking to assess the impact of Gates’ funding on student learning, college readiness, and teachers’ ability and willingness to innovate. We are seeking a short-term consultant to help us achieve these goals.

Position Responsibilities

DonorsChoose.org seeks a survey consultant to help design a survey to meet the above objectives. Specifically, the consultant will be responsible for the following:

• Evaluate and establish survey goals.
• Review previous year’s survey; provide feedback and suggest potential additional questions.
• Inform survey design and layout, including question order, question type, and option responses.
• Conduct rounds of focus group testing to determine if survey is accomplishing goals; identify areas that need further probing or clarity.
• Analyze and synthesize survey results into a presentable format.
• From survey results, determine key takeaways and potential future questions.

Requirements

• Familiarity with education policy
• Survey research background
• Experience as a focus group moderator
• Knowledge of Salesforce and Clicktools is a plus

Additional Information

• The survey will be built and administered through Clicktools and integrated with Salesforce through AppExchange.
• A member of the DonorsChoose.org team will be responsible for the technical aspects of survey construction and execution.

How to Apply

Please send a resume/organizational profile along with a cover letter that details you/your organization’s general experience, your experience with surveys specifically, and why you or your organization is best suited for the job.  Please also include a proposed budget. Send your proposal to Missy Sherburne at missy (at) donorschoose (dot) org no later than Friday, February 20th.

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We’ve got an open position on our great engineering team. So if you know someone who might be interested, do send them our way! Best way to reach me is oliver (at) donorschoose (dot) org.

I’ve also updated our old “DonorsChoose.org is hiring” blog post accordingly, since it’s a nice starting point for someone who might be interested.

Thanks for helping us spread the word,

Oliver

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The DonorsChoose.org team is looking for a few more top contributors who would enjoy making a big social impact with a small, fast-moving org!

Do you know someone who wants to apply their private-sector skills to make a more direct philanthropic impact? or has been itching to live in New York City? or is passionate about improving K-12 education?

Help us grow our team by spreading the word about this opportunity:

* Operations Associate

Please forward the job description linked above to anyone you know who might be a good fit. Don’t hesitate to put any interested folks in touch with me directly via email: I’m cesar (at) donorschoose (dot) org.

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