Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior strategic lead and primary client contact for major nonprofit fundraising accounts, building strong relationships and ensuring high-quality campaign execution.
• Lead strategy and oversight for direct response programs, including planning, budgets, creative direction, segmentation, production, reporting, and optimization.
• Direct integrated fundraising campaigns across direct mail, digital, texting/telemarketing, and other channels, ensuring each effort is strategically aligned and performance-driven.
• Collaborate with internal teams, vendors, and partners to develop compelling, effective campaigns grounded in strong creative and data-informed decision-making.
• Lead client presentations, campaign reviews, annual planning discussions, and performance updates with clarity and confidence.
• Mentor, supervise, and develop program management team members, providing guidance, feedback, and support.
• Contribute to client cultivation, business development, and other efforts that support Avalon’s continued growth and client success.

Requirements

• We’re looking for someone with at least eight years of progressive experience in direct response fundraising, including significant direct mail experience, client leadership, and staff supervision.
• Candidates must have experience managing omnichannel fundraising programs in an agency environment from strategy through execution, budgeting, reporting, and optimization.
• Strong understanding of integrated fundraising channels, including direct mail, digital fundraising, texting, and telemarketing.
• Experience supervising, mentoring, and developing direct reports or project teams.
• Strong client management skills and the ability to build trusted, long-term relationships with clients, partners, vendors, and internal teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present strategy, results, and recommendations to clients and senior leaders.
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, details, and stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.
• A strategic mindset with the ability to balance big-picture thinking and executional detail.
• A collaborative, inclusive, solutions-oriented approach to challenges, change, and team leadership.
• Curiosity and a desire to stay current on industry trends, emerging channels, and evolving fundraising best practices.

Benefits

• employer-paid health, dental, and vision insurance
• generous paid leave
• employer-paid life and disability insurance
• a safe harbor 401(k) plan