Associate Director, Philanthropic Partnerships

WHO WE ARE

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OVERVIEW

As a nonprofit and social enterprise, CR depends on philanthropic partners to help advance our mission. The Associate Director, Philanthropic Partnerships, will expand our community of philanthropic partners working with Consumer Reports to create a fairer, safer, and healthier marketplace.

Reporting to the Senior Director, Philanthropic Partnerships, you will build and manage a growing pipeline of institutional and individual donors, moving opportunities from identification and cultivation through solicitation and close. You will have significant ownership of the work while partnering with colleagues across CR to connect donors with some of the most important challenges facing consumers today. You will also help foster a strategic, collaborative, and donor-centric culture, and represent Philanthropic Partnerships in conversations with CR leadership and external partners.

If you want to help a legacy brand carry its 90-year tradition of advocating for consumers into its next chapter, we want to hear from you. Please include a cover letter explaining why you are the right person to help us reach our fundraising goals.

This is a remote position with travel up to 25% of the time. This position is not eligible for relocation assistance.

How You’ll Make An Impact:

Philanthropic support gives CR the resources to take on important issues: raising public awareness of harms, influencing corporate behavior, and changing policy. Your work will help build partnerships that drive change, promote innovation, and empower consumers to protect themselves.

In this role, you will:

- Own a portfolio of 125–150 institutional and individual donors and prospects, identifying, qualifying, cultivating, and soliciting them to meet annual revenue goals.

- Manage grants and restricted gifts, maintaining an efficient grants management system, overseeing grant agreements in partnership with donors, and working with internal stakeholders to deliver on every commitment.

- Shape department strategy, working with the Senior Director, Director, and CR leadership to set goals and objectives and to guide execution.

- Develop and carry out a cy pres award strategy, building relationships with associations and attorneys to raise CR's profile in the legal community.

- Run team operations, including workflows, reporting, and coordination across the department

ABOUT YOU

You’ll Be Highly Rated If:

- You have the required education and experience. We’re looking for someone with a Bachelor’s Degree and at least 5-years professional experience working in non-profit fundraising systems with increasing responsibilities.

- You have a track record of personally securing gifts of $100K or more and owning and managing a portfolio of 125-150 donors.

- You’re a problem solver. You can identify and solve problems while managing multiple priorities and efforts of other team members.

- You can summarize the essence of issues and the means to address them by tapping into your strong written and verbal communication skills.

- You are deadline-driven and able to develop and move projects forward with independence and autonomy.

- You have high detail orientation. You check and double check your work, especially around the accuracy and quality of numbers and data.

- You have a team-first, institution-wide perspective: you build strong working relationships and help the team succeed while protecting the organization's integrity .

You'll Be One of Our Top Picks If:

- You are familiar with CR’s work and have knowledge of our specific issue areas.

- You have existing relationships with CR donors or prospects.

- You have worked with both institutional AND individual donors.

FAIR PAY AND A JUST WORKPLACE

At Consumer Reports, we are committed to fair, transparent pay and we strive to provide competitive, market-informed compensation. The salary range for this position is based on the candidate’s work location. It is anticipated that most qualified candidates will fall near the middle of the applicable range. Compensation for the successful candidate will be informed by their particular combination of knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience.

Consumer Reports has three locations: Yonkers, NY, Washington, DC and Colchester, CT. We are registered to do business in and can only hire from the following states and federal district: Arizona, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Vermont, Virginia and Washington, DC.

- New York/California, Chicago: $145,400-$150K

- DMV/Massachusetts: $139,100-$144K

- Colchester, CT and additional approved CR locations: $122K-$127K

Consumer Reports is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions or lactation), gender identity and expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service or veteran status, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, disability, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. Consumer Reports will provide you with any reasonable assistance or accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process.