Senior Account Executive, Digital

Our Working Locations:

This is a full-time position working from one of the states in which we operate including California Maryland Massachusetts Minnesota North Carolina New Jersey New York Pennsylvania South Carolina Virginia Washington DC and Washington state.

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Online Senior Account Executive is responsible for all senior-level strategic leadership for digital marketing fundraising programs with our nonprofit and political organization clients. The Senior Account Executive will act as the lead relationship manager for a portfolio of several clients working within a team to deliver direct marketing fundraising programs.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead day-to-day management and implementation of client digital direct marketing fundraising programs
• Create and review strategies and annual plans with clients
• Develop online fundraising/advocacy/promotion plans with specific benchmarks and deliverables including email newsletters and solicitations fundraising appeals social media advocacy and advertising campaigns website promotion and more
• Develop and nurture relationships with client including frequent communication of progress via phone email written progress reports and on-site meetings
• Coordinate creative services including writing/editing online fundraising copy promotional copy and email newsletters and solicitations and supervising production of design work
• Develop up-sell/cross-sell strategies
• Understand and present internal and industry benchmarking reports to clients
• Work with staff to manage various aspects of client work
• Demonstrate working knowledge of each area of agencys resources
• Develop agencys public presence by attending events publishing white papers speaking at workshops and getting to know leadership vendors and industry organizations.
• Keep up to date on online fundraising and advocacy technology nonprofit development and commercial technology and techniques that can be applied to nonprofit development
• Participate in new business proposals and presentations
• Use and manage team within workflow tool to manage projects and communicate with the team

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

While performing the duties of this job the employee regularly operates a computer and other office equipment and remains in a stationary position often sitting (or standing if at a standing desk) for prolonged periods; communication is via email chat phone video and/or in-person with others inside and outside the agency in order to exchange information; repetitive motions may include the wrists hands and/or fingers in order to operate computer equipment copy machines and printers.

ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS:

To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION EXPERIENCE & KNOWLEDGE:

• A minimum of 7 years experience in one of the following areas of work: Advocacy fundraising digital project management online marketing direct response
• Demonstrated experience in managing a multi-faceted fundraising advocacy social media or direct response program
• Experience with nonprofit fundraising and/or advocacy
• Technology-oriented with the ability and desire to understand how online fundraising marketing and advocacy technology works
• Experience with Luminate Every Action Classy Salsa Salesforce Marketing Cloud Engaging Networks or similar
• Basic HTML and other web tools experience
• Knowledge of Microsoft products (Word Excel PowerPoint)

SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• Communication. Facilitates effective and lively discussion presenting compelling arguments to large and cross-functional teams
• Writing/Editing Skills. Translates a wide variety of information into developed clear and structured messaging (e.g. strategies memos proposals instructions external-facing documents etc.)
• Attention to Detail. Creates refines and enforces high level of standards promoting team adherence and ensuring consistency
• Leadership & Accountability. Demonstrated management and supervisorial skills fostering accountability aligning goals setting expectations and encouraging top performance of individuals and/or small teams
• Collaboration. Leads high-performing teams by setting clear expectations inspiring others motivating towards shared outcomes and ensuring alignment of vision and successful results
• Relationship Building. Navigates complex dynamics to cultivate strong internal and external partnerships deepening engagement with key stakeholders to advance shared goals
• Adaptability & Change Leadership. Comfortably experiments with new approaches to improve results and identify better outcomes
• Agency Products & Services. Proactively identifies opportunities improvements and/or innovations and leads the cross-selling/up-selling to relevant stakeholders
• Agency Mission Vision & Values. Understands and communicates the agencys vision and direction clearly articulating organizational goals and values and ensuring work aligns with the broader mission
• Agency Work Environment. Successfully functions in a high-paced environment across multiple work priorities projects clients and client issue areas
• Client-Success Focused. Offers sound counsel and guides team to implement principles procedures and best practices in the industry
• Project Management & Effective Work Product. Develops innovative strategies that align with set forth goals and ideas
• Critical Thinking & Strategic Decision-Making. Proactively seeks opportunities to solve problems improve and otherwise and make decisions that affect team workflows and success

PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS:

• Interest in working as a member of a larger team and across multiple projects clients and social issues
• Comfort building long-term relationships with both internal and external stakeholders
• An inclination to work among colleagues dedicated to approaching work with a lens of social justice anti-racism and anti-oppression
• Interest in progressive issues including environmental protection and conservation international aid and development social justice anti-racism and anti-oppression womens rights LGBTQIA issues electoral politics etc.
• Willingness to travel

TOTAL REWARDS AT MWD:

MWD is an employee-owned Benefit corporation. We seek to champion a rewarding work environment where all employee-owners can thrive in part through the equitable distribution of compensation and benefits including:

• Candidates hired into this role typically start between $85000$94000 depending on experience skills and internal pay equity guidelines with the full range extending beyond this band allowing for annual and long-term growth within the addition to base salary total compensation includes fully paid core benefits profit sharing automatic retirement contributions and employee ownership each explained in greater detail below. We also walk candidates through total rewards during the interview process.
• Participation in our Employee Stock Ownership Program (ESOP) which allows every employee-owner to share in the growth and prosperity of the company
• Employer-sponsored and paid core benefits: Health (multiple carrier options) Dental Life Insurance Short and Long-Term Disability Employee Assistance Program (EAP) employer-matching FSA dollars
• 35% employer share of cost for dependent health insurance
• Additional optional benefits with employee share of cost: Vision Medical & Dependent Care FSA Commuter benefits Pet Care Plan
• 401(k) with automatic employer-sponsored contributions equal to 3% (automatic means there is no matchMWD contributes regardless of employees deferrals and there is no vesting period)
• Equalized profit sharing
• Paid Time Off including:
  • 13 company holidays
  • Early release every Friday and on days preceding company holidays
  • Vacation time starting at 15 days per year (increases over tenure)
  • Sick Leave 1 day per month
  • Personal time 3 days per year
  • Paid Parental Leave 8 weeks
  • Volunteer Leave 3 days per year
• Philanthropic Fund with corporate match for employee charitable contributions and other opportunities for staff-directed corporate donations
• Access to industry conferences & professional development opportunities
• A remote-first work environment with access to offices for local staff (Berkeley DC)

ABOUT MWD:

Our Agency:

In 1979 our founder Mal Warwick embarked on a mission to work with nonprofit causes progressive candidates and political committees who shared our commitment to social justice and environmental action. Over the past 40 years in partnership with our clients weve worked to combat the climate crisis and sought to protect the natural environment; weve advanced the rights of women the LGBTQ community and other communities who have been marginalized; weve fought racial injustice and discrimination; weve worked to improve healthcare and food security fought the AIDS pandemic advanced animal rights promoted international development elected progressive political leaders to office and the list goes on.

Weve also remained equally committed to changing the way the world does business as a Certified Green Business a California Benefit Corporation and a Certified Employee-Owned Agency.

Our Team:

MWD is a team of passionate do-gooders collectively driven by a mission to help progressive organizations build the base for a better world. We activate our clients ambitious philanthropic visions through innovative fundraising strategies. And we are an agency of change-makers personally committed to environmental action giving back within our communities identifying and disrupting systems of racism and oppression and maintaining a just and equitable workplace for our employee-owners.

Our Working Locations:

This is a full-time position working from one of the states in which we operate including California Georgia Illinois Maryland Massachusetts Minnesota North Carolina New Jersey New York Pennsylvania South Carolina Virginia Washington DC and Washington state.

Our Commitment to Anti-Racism & Anti-Oppression:

Beyond being an equal opportunity employer MWD is committed to being an anti-racist and anti-oppression organization and we have a zero-tolerance policy for racism discrimination harassment retaliation and oppression of any kind. We are dedicated to the fulfillment of this commitment through our Diversity Equity & Inclusion initiatives that connect to every phase of the employee-owner lifecycle starting with recruitment. We encourage candidates of all identities and backgrounds to apply for positions you believe align with your skill set and current and future interests. And we review applications based on agency need position requirements and candidate qualifications without elimination based on race color religion or belief sex sexual orientation gender identity marital or family status national origin veteran status disability or any other protected status.

Read our full statement here.

ABOUT THE HIRING PROCESS:

To Apply:

1. Click the Apply button below to submit an application and resume.
2. Let us know why youd like to work at MWD and provide any additional information you want us to know about you and why youre well qualified for the position.
3. Please include a writing sample.

Why do we collect anonymous demographic information when you apply We believe diversity is key in the success of our missioncross-culturally competent teams bring a variety of perspectives and strengthen our services. And we take responsibility for attracting and retaining a diverse pool of talent. But we cant impact what we cannot measure and we encourage you to self-identify when applying. While youll maintain personal anonymity when sharing demographic information the aggregate data collected helps us better understand who were reaching now and where we can improve.

Candidates can expect the following process:

1. First-round screen via Zoom or telephone.
2. Completion of a brief practical giving us an opportunity to see you in action and for you to experience a sampling of the day-to-day work of this role.
3. Second-round panel-style interview via Zoom.
4. Check-in call with H/R team member on salary & benefits and to answer any questions you may have.
5. Third-round interview via Zoom.

While we are not able to respond to general status inquiries if we can offer reasonable accommodations in the application or interview processor if you have feedback on ways we can improve the accessibility of our recruitment processyou are encouraged to contact and let us know how we can be of assistance.