Relationship Manager

Job Description

Position Summary/Objective
The Relationship Manager promotes a culture of safety, hospitality, service, honor, and respect among our homeless guests, our staff, and volunteers, for the purpose of furthering the vision and mission of the St. Vincent de Paul Society.

The Relationship Manager establishes relationships with financial donors and prospective financial donors to financially sustain the organization. S/he will expand and diversify the organization's donor base using interpersonal skills and known fundraising strategies. The Relationship Manager is a full-time position with demanding goals, that allows for flexible scheduling.

Essential functions
Planning and Development:
• Assist in developing and executing a strategy of donor prospect cultivation for securing current and deferred financial gifts
• Regularly conduct donor visits and solicitations
• Develop and maintain ongoing relationships with major donors and major donor prospects
• Develop donors from identification and cultivation, to solicitation and donation, with an emphasis on establishing annual giving, securing five- and six-figure gifts
• Increase membership of and amount contributed by St. Vincent Partners, Senior Partners, and Legacy giving societies
• Increase annual amount contributed through stock donations
• Actively maintain your work and actions within our customer relationship management (CRM) software.
• Convey sensitivity and communication skills necessary to tailor messages to various audiences and, in turn, be an effective representative of St. Vincent de Paul and its diverse constituencies
• Establish, cultivate and nurture relationships with individual donors
• Develop and maintain expertise in individual charitable estate planning

Capacity and Leadership:
• Build and maintain stakeholder relationships to provide community connection and representation
• Represent SVdP in the external community at meetings, workshops, and events
• Engage in ongoing professional development
• Other duties as assigned

Travel percentage
For the months of March through November Relationship Managers are expected to travel within the Miami Valley visiting donors most days.

About the Employer

Our mission is to, with Christian purpose, accompany those in need one person at a time by focusing on shelter, food, and clothing.

St. Vincent de Paul Society has embraced the Dayton community in a network of charity for over 75 years. Through our Conferences and Special Works, we provide person-to-person emergency assistance and supportive services to those living in Montgomery County and surrounding communities who are on the brink of becoming homeless or who are already homeless. We meet our neighbors with compassion wherever they are on their journeys through our service 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.