What are the responsibilities and job description for the Investor Relations and Development position at No Labels?
Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate is someone with a strong project management, scheduling, and coordinating background. They thrive in circumstances where they manage many moving pieces to bring them together in a well-orchestrated project deployment. Organized, self-driven, and accountable are three words people describe them as, since they stop at nothing to ensure success is made from start to finish. They are entrepreneurs at heart and have a strong understanding of how political organizations operate. The ideal candidate embodies a resourceful and proactive work ethic, demonstrates strong oral and written communication skills, and has a keen eye for detail. The right candidate has a strong awareness of U.S. politics and understanding of the political system, with a background in political fundraising or advance teams. This person lives to build and nurture relationships through trust and collaborative communication.
Duties & Responsibilities
· As a key point of contact for the organization, ensure relevant teams and colleagues are kept informed about investor sentiment on political developments, topical themes, and feedback on materials.
· Work with the wider team to maintain the organization’s CRM system, building data which is useful and provides relevant information to analyze trends and identify gaps as well as ensuring best practice, contact management and lead tracking.
· Work closely with development team to better articulate the full benefits of membership and ensure that communications to members are delivered in an effective way that responds to members’ needs.
· Contribute to online and in person and event organization, identify relevant guests from target organizations and tracking member registration and attendance as a measure of participation and engagement.
· Contribute to team meetings, for example with respect to investor member recruitment and coverage.
· Responsible for project timelines and delivery
· Removes all roadblocks preventing projects from meeting their target completion dates
· Coordinates and schedules project check-ins
· Delivers project updates on daily and weekly executive team meetings
· Works alongside Schedular and Executive Team to ensure CEO is involved in projects accordingly
· Schedules and coordinates events related to projects
· Keeps projects updated in Project Tracker
· Identifies and remediates areas of project implementation inefficiencies
· Manages large emails and mailings
· Manage contacts, data entry, and database functions; keeping meticulous records on prospects and donors
· Prepare briefings for No Labels leaders and surrogates including members of Congress
· Work with event hosts to create, promote, and manage virtual and in-person recruitment events of all sizes.
Qualifications
· Bachelor’s degree
· 8 years of project or operations management experience
· 8 years of scheduling or coordinating
· Able to manage multiples projects and teams at once
· Strongly motivated by the mission of No Labels
· Demonstrated strong attention to detail and multi-tasking skills
· Ability to meet competing deadlines while managing multiple projects
· Successful track record of business development or relationship management, preferably within the U.S. political system or other service-based or financial industries.
· Exceptional written and oral communication skills; an empathetic listener and a confident speaker with excellent persuasion and influencing skills.
· Comfortable building relationships with people at all levels of seniority.
· Professional, personable, and customer focused.
· Highly effective organizational skills and a strong work ethic, with the ability to manage and prioritize a varied workload, working independently and alongside others.
· Highly analytical with the ability to develop pipelines through strategic and targeted planning.
· Experience with database/Customer Relationship Management systems and Microsoft Office Suite.
This is a full-time salaried position in Washington, DC. Compensation commensurate with experience.