Development & Marketing Manager - Chicago, United States - Action for Healthy Kids Inc

Description

Join Us**Do you want to make an impact on the lives of kids, schools, families, and communities? Do you dream of being in a job that enables you to truly collaborate with others to implement change and make a difference? Action for Healthy Kids (AFHK) is looking for an amazing individual to join us as a Development & Marketing Manager.


About Us**Action for Healthy Kids is a national non-profit organization raising the bar on the health of the whole child to extraordinary levels across the country. AFHK mobilizes educators, families, and communities to take actions that lead to healthy eating, physical activity, and healthier schools where kids thrive. We partner with a dedicated network of champions-teachers, students, parents, caregivers, school wellness experts, and more-from within the ranks of our 140,000+ constituency to create healthy school changes. We are committed to impacting holistic changes, focusing on serving students and families from under-resourced communities.

RMC Health believes that healthy young people are more successful in school and in life. That's why we partner with passionate advocates for the whole child to help them improve their practice.

Every day, we provide professional learning and capacity-building that helps wellness champions transform their knowledge and skills into effective school health programs and policies, so students of every background and identity can live their best lives.

Position Title**:

• Development & Marketing Manager

Position Location**:

• Remote

Position Type**:

• Fulltime

Classification:

• Exempt

Reports To**:
Director of Development; dotted line to Associate Director, Marketing

and Communications


Original PD Date**:

• May 2024

Position Summary**:

The Development & Marketing Manager plays a key role in the success of AFHK and RMC Health by managing the execution of key strategic aspects of the recently merged organizations' annual development plan.

This role leverages analytics, creativity, and marketing strategies to drive inbound leads, build individual giving campaigns, and grow revenue from grants and fee-for-service (or earned revenue) opportunities.

The Development & Marketing Manager will serve as an ambassador of the organization and be the primary point of contact for portfolio of external clients and partners, maintaining current relationships and building new strategic professional relationships to secure additional revenue.

The Development & Marketing Manager will collaborate closely with all members of the Growth Team (marketing, communications, and development) to develop and execute strategic and annual plans and work frequently across the organization with programs, operations, and executive teams.

This position will support the development of new fee-for-service growth opportunities and strategic partnerships, with a goal of growing and diversifying revenue in support of our mission.

Essential Functions**:

Marketing (45%)

• Develop and execute unique content and innovative strategies to tell the AFHK story, drive inbound leads for traditional development (corporate, foundation, individual) and business development/feeforservice (state agencies, partner school districts, other nonprofit and community organizations), and amplify our mission, impact, and visibility.
• Ideate, plan, and execute annual marketing and fundraising campaigns, including strategy, theme, promotion, and communication with donors and other stakeholders.
• Facilitate donor communication and engagement, including prospective, current, and past donor
• Lead the development and creation of the annual impact report, including crossdepartmental collaboration on content, delivery, and graphic design.
• Support development and marketing of additional feeforservice and product sales offerings and strategies in collaboration with Growth Team and other relevant staff.

Development (45%)

• Work with the Growth Team (development, marketing, and communications) to ideate, develop, and execute annual plan to support strategic initiatives and programs by building strong partnerships with partners and clients to increase revenue.
• Research, qualify, cultivate, and close a pipeline of clients and partners for AFHK and RMC Health programs and product sales.
• Serve as the relationship manager for a small portfolio of clients and funders, stewarding and maintaining relationships and identifying opportunities for renewal and growth.
• Work crossfunctionally to ideate, create, and submit highquality, innovative concepts and proposals to grow support for AFHK and RMC Health current and future efforts.
• Collaborate with other Growth Department staff to achieve department goals, including ways to increase and diversify revenue streams for national work.

Other (10%)

• Manage and lead contractors to support Growth Department priorities, as
• Represent AFHK and RMC Health in local, state, national conferences and/or co