Lifecycle Marketing Fundraising Manager

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$70K/yr – $80K/yrManager4+ years expFull time

Posted 6 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the donor lifecycle engine with multi‑channel email led campaigns, automated workflows, and donor segmentation that move people from welcome to sustained giving.

  • Lifecycle ownership: drive journeys, retention, and reactivation across email, SMS, and direct mail.
  • Channel orchestration: build automation and segmentation that move donors through the funnel and optimize open, click, conversion, and retention metrics.
  • Cross‑team content and campaigns: align with MarComms and Development to deliver mission‑aligned, donor‑centric messaging and content strategy.

Job Description

Responsibilities

- Develop and execute lifecycle marketing strategies that support donor retention, reactivation, and increased giving. - Launch and grow our sustainer program in partnership with BCRF’s Development team and our integrated agency. - Lead the signature event email program in partnership with BCRF’s internal Development team and agency partners, QA, segmentation, deployment, and reporting. - Own and optimize BCRF’s holistic email marketing program, inclusive of welcome series, stewardship journeys, impact updates, appeals, and re-engagement campaigns. - Build and maintain automated marketing workflows to move supporters through the donor funnel. - Partner with MarComms, Development, and Agency Partner teams to support multi-channel fundraising campaigns, integrating email, direct mail, paid social media, and SMS where appropriate. - Conduct regular A/B testing and performance analysis to improve campaign effectiveness and donor retention. - Collaborate with internal BCRF team and agency partner on content strategy, ensuring all messaging is mission-aligned, donor-centric, and compelling across segments. - Work with internal Data and CRM teams to create dynamic segments based on donor behavior, giving history, engagement, and demographics. - Set and track KPIs, including open and click-through rates, conversion, retention, churn, and donor lifetime value. - Stay informed on nonprofit fundraising trends and best practices in email marketing and supporter engagement.

Benefits

- Medical, dental and vision coverage from the first day of employment; with the election of certain medical plans, BCRF helps significantly defray the cost of out-of-pocket expenses with contributions to a health reimbursement account or heath savings account. - The opportunity to enroll in pre-tax Commuter Transit, Flexible Spending Account or Health Savings Account and Dependent Care Account from the first day of employment. - 401K, with up to a 5% match each pay period; employee contributions and any match are immediately fully vested. - Paid parental leave offering 18 weeks of 100% paid leave for a birthing parent and 12 weeks 100% paid leave for non-birthing parent. - Paid Time Off including: 15 days of annual vacation time, increasing with length of service; 7 days of annual paid sick time; Paid holidays along with BCRF wide half days and summer Fridays.

Preferred

- Preferably experience in nonprofit or fundraising-focused roles. - Raiser’s Edge/NXT experience preferred.
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Founded in 1993
New York, New York, USA
117 employees (19 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
144.3K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$26.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
52.6%
Direct
35.1%
Referral
7.9%
Social
3.5%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~117

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
19 (16% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

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