Metro Vice President, Cleveland

American Heart Association

Executive Director/VP Development - Cleveland Metro

Our life-saving mission of building healthier lives free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke needs you!

This senior role in the Cleveland Market is responsible for raising $3.5M+ to fund the mission. Campaign primarily focuses on special event fundraising through corporations, teams and individuals. Special events include Heart Walk, Heart Ball and Go Red for Women. Additional revenue generation opportunities exist in Major Gifts, Workplace Giving, and Corporate Relations. VP is responsible for generating business, managing accounts, creating proposals, soliciting donations and overseeing event logistics.

This executive is responsible for providing partnership and leadership to metro board of directors and a staff team of 12 ensuring strong collaboration and synergy between development and other departments to optimize customer experience.

The ideal candidate is a goal-oriented visionary leader with demonstrated success in team-building and achievement of aggressive goals; holds a BS/BA and minimum five years of fundraising/sales experience preferably soliciting individual or corporate gifts of $50k+ each, collective gifts in excess of $2M; minimum three years experience supervising a team; volunteer board management experience; communication, presentation, negotiation, relationship-building, networking and organizational skills with the capacity to manage details and attend meetings throughout the metro area with occasional overnight travel out of state.

Attracting talented, committed employees means offering a competitive benefits package, ongoing professional development and training, in a diverse and inclusive smoke-free environment in which to learn and grow. And we do.

Qualified candidates must utilize our careers site to apply at .

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The American Heart Association is an Equal Opportunity Employer valuing diversity. AA/M/F/V/D