Vice President of Development

Overview

Since our founding in 1924, we've cut cardiovascular disease deaths in half, but there is still so much more to do. To overcome today's biggest health challenges and accelerate this progress, we need passionate individuals like you. Join our movement, be part of the progress, and help ensure a healthier future for all.

We're hiring a Vice President of Development (VP) in Houston, TX. This position is responsible for leading, managing, inspiring, and driving the Houston Division fundraising campaigns (Heart Walk, Cycle Nation, Heart Ball, and Go Red For Women Luncheon). The VP will champion and cultivate a culture around the Houston Division and its vision to increase revenue and mission impact.

This is an office-based position that offers a hybrid schedule in a fast-paced environment with the main responsibility of driving revenue in support of our mission.

Responsibilities

• Work alongside the Executive Director on key donor relationships, including stewarding them, but also strategizing on how to deepen impact in time, talent, and treasure.
• Work alongside the Executive Director on mid-to-large corporate prospecting, sales process, and onboarding.
• Have the principal responsibility of securely positioning the Division for aggressive growth in unrestricted revenue on an increasing and sustainable basis through building a dynamic development staff and volunteer leadership talent and capabilities.
• Coach and lead (4) staff (AVP Heart Walk, AVP Go Red For Women, AVP Heart Ball, and Development Director, Impact Campaigns) who lead approximately nine development and support staff.
• Lead from a position of collaboration across campaigns, with the best interest of the donor as the top priority.
• Will aggressively work with the team on new company growth and development, both in revenue and leadership engagement/recruitment.
• Partner and continually build a network of meaningful volunteer partnerships to advance the mission of the Association.
• Provide staff with leadership direction on setting dream goals and hold each campaign team accountable for their goals and activities.
• Foster a professional work environment that promotes and values collaboration, trust, teamwork, empowerment, and integrity.
• Work with the Executive Director and campaign leads to maintain a minimum of three (3) years of transformational Chairs for each campaign.
• Partner with Southwest Region and National Center resources to provide management expertise, coaching, and monitoring for fundraising events.
• Work with direct reports and Marketing/Communications event staff to ensure campaign expenses are within the approved budget.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree is preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years' relevant experience in a comparable non-profit or sales organization.
• Minimum of 6 years supervising with a sales or fundraising team.
• Demonstrated track record of setting, achieving, and exceeding aggressive goals on a sustainable basis.
• Demonstrated track record of influencing others to action through communicating a shared vision.
• Ability to establish and execute strategic plans in a highly dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Ability to travel locally approximately 75% of the time; requires access to reliable transportation.
• Must have at least basic knowledge and skill/proficiency with Microsoft Office.

Compensation & Benefits

The American Heart Association invests in its people with competitive base salary, performance-based incentive programs, and a wide array of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, robust retirement program with employer match, PTO (minimum 16 days for new employees), 12 paid holidays, tuition assistance, and employee wellness programs.