Description

The Dallas Children's Advocacy Center is seeking an experienced Development Officer for our Advancement Team. The Development Officer at Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center (DCAC) will be responsible for the development and implementation of DCAC’s event-based fundraising efforts and in-kind donations, focused on creating meaningful and impactful engagement opportunities for new and existing donors throughout the year. The Development Officer will execute event fundraising strategies to achieve goals – including signature events, patron events, third party events, in-kind donations and other special projects.

ABOUT DCAC: The mission of the Dallas Children's Advocacy Center is to improve the lives of abused children in Dallas County and to provide national leadership on child abuse issues. DCAC is a non-profit organization and the only agency of its kind in Dallas County, working in agreement with public and private agencies to investigate, prosecute, and provide healing services for child abuse cases in Dallas County.

We reduce the victimization of the child, remove barriers to investigation and treatment, and enhance criminal prosecution with our distinctive multidisciplinary and united approach to these complex and severe cases, all at no cost to our clients. Each year, DCAC serves over 13,000 children and their non-offending family members.

We are a national and international leader in the Children's Advocacy Center movement, recognized for our expertise in the identification, investigation, and prosecution of child abuse cases; cutting-edge clinical services and programs for the victims and their non-offending family members; and our community and professional training programs.

Everyone involved in DCACs work shares a common set of core values:

• The children come first in all that we do.
• We operate as a seamless team.
• Each of us acts with a servants heart.

In 2018, DCAC was named a Best Place to Work by Dallas Business Journal.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Serves as event champion for Aim for Advocacy, Mahjong for a Mission and provides assistance to the Director of Events and Corporate Partnerships on Art for Advocacy, working collaboratively with advancement colleagues to raise critical funds to meet agency fundraising goals.
  • Aim for Advocacy net goal is $325,000
  • Mahjong for a Mission net goal is $50,000
  • Art for Advocacy assistance; helps steward the artist process including helping with preparation for Curatorial Committee meetings, sending submission details and reminders, and tracking event attendance of artists. Art for Advocacy auction goal is $500,000 between live and silent auction items.
• Manages a portfolio of individual, in-kind, and corporate donors who connect to the organization in different ways; works with other team members to steward them.
• Serves as the in-kind donations champion for the Holiday for Hope children’s gift Fundraiser, working collaboratively within the advancement and family advocate teams to ensure we meet agency in-kind donation goals (app. $200k).
• Identifies, engages, and stewards event volunteer leadership, including event chairs and event committees, for all assigned events.
• Determines sponsorship benefits and revenue roadmap for assigned fundraising events and solicits sponsors, donations, and in-kind items and services from potential and recurring donors who are not in existing portfolios.
• Leverages relationships with community partners to join committees and aid not only in fundraising to meet goals but also procurement of in-kind donations.
• Develops agendas for and leads committee planning meetings; assists with action items for committee members and holds volunteer leadership accountable for assigned tasks.
• Collaborates with marketing team members on the design and production of event related communications, collateral materials, and event programs.
• Collaborates with project and events coordinator for assigned events, while project and events coordinator manages vendor relationships while this position manages donor and sponsor execution and asset needs.
• Fulfills all event-related administrative functions, including but not limited to sponsorship tracking, invoicing, and attendee communication.
• Manages third-party and corporate give back events as assigned.
• Drives a strategic and focused process with database administrator to capture event sponsor and attendee information.
• In partnership with advancement colleagues, creates and implements stewardship plan to help identify potential event donors for major gift pipeline.

Other Duties:

• Attends and participates in team meetings with the Director of Events & Corporate Partnerships on a weekly basis.
• Attends agency monthly staff meetings.
• Attends agency special events.
• Attends and participates and assists in the annual Crimes Against Children Conference during the month of August.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Education and Experience: Four-year bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience preferred, but not required. Demonstrated experience in high-level events, managing relationships and soliciting donors for support with at least 2-3 years of fundraising experience or equivalent experience.

Software Experience Required:

• Experience or knowledge of donor database entry and management, specifically Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge, strong preferred
• Advanced level usage of MS Office, including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and SharePoint

Required License(s) or Certifications: Clear and valid Texas Driver’s License

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Knowledge and experience thoroughly planning and outlining a project or activity that details the objectives, deliverables, timeline, budget, and resources required for the project, including a breakdown of tasks, assigning responsibilities and establishing milestones and timelines. 
• Skilled in organizational and time management skills.
• Skilled at being creative, resourceful, detail-oriented, flexible, possessing a positive attitude, tact, good judgment, cultural sensitivity, and working well as a team member with staff, community professionals, and volunteers.
• Ability to communicate clearly and persuasively both orally and in writing; listens to others and communicates effectively. .
• Ability to work under pressure and remain flexible and positive as priorities change.
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with donors to ensure they feel valued, appreciated, and engaged with the organization. 
• Ability to build constructive working relationships characterized by a high level of acceptance, cooperation, and mutual respect; demonstrated ability to work with all levels of employees, board members, partners, and community.
• Ability to establish and maintain professionally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks and a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
• Ability to liaise with other departments to achieve a common goal.
• Goal oriented, with the sense of urgency to complete deadlines and projects.
• Collaborative and collegial work style and seeks a win-win solution and supports a shared purpose for team.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills, both written and verbal
• Strong interpersonal skills, maturity and good judgment and capable of communication with a diverse range of individuals.
• Able to maintain confidentiality; demonstrate sound judgement and discretion.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

Work Location: All work must be performed in the office.

Mental and Physical Abilities: Duties are usually performed seated with occasional periods of standing or walking. Limited physical effort is required associated with lifting and carrying objects (less than 25 lbs.).

Working Conditions: Work may be performed but is not limited to an office environment.

Essential Functions: This job description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive. It is intended to identify the essential functions and requirements of this position. The incumbents may be requested to perform job-related responsibilities and tasks other than those stated in this job description.

Core Values:

Must demonstrate/live our organization’s core values: 1. Put the child first in all we do, 2. Operate as a part of a seamless team, 3. Work with a servant’s heart.

DCAC is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and we believe in an inclusive culture. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

BENEFITS:

• 100% Paid Employee Health Insurance-PPO
• 100% Paid Employee Dental Insurance
• 100% Paid Short Term Disability
• 100% Paid Long Term Disability
• 100% Paid Basic Term Life and AD&D Benefits (one times your annual earnings up to $50,000)
• Vision Insurance through Superior Vision
• Pet Insurance through Nationwide
• Legal Services through Freshbenies
• Flexible Spending Account
• Dependent Spending Account
• Six (6) weeks' of paid Parental Leave
• Employee Assistance Plan (EAP)
• Health Advocate
• WellVia Teladoc Program
• 403b Retirement and Contribution Plan with up to a 4% employer contribution
• Supplemental Insurance: Accident Insurance, Hospital Indemnity Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance
• Bilingual Stipend (English/Spanish) of $2,700 annually
• Cell Phone Stipend
• 10 Paid Holidays
• 2 Floating Holidays
• 14 Wellness Days
• 10 Vacation Days 
• DCAC participates in the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF)