Part-time role

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Milwaukee is part of the nation’s largest and most respected youth mentoring organizations. Providing one-to-one mentoring between volunteer adult mentors and at-risk youth, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Milwaukee serves more than 1,400 children in Milwaukee and Waukesha counties. As Vice President of Development, I was responsible for the direction and oversight of all of the agency's fundraising efforts. Reporting directly to the President and CEO, I served as a member of the Senior Leadership Team and worked collaboratively with the Board of Directors in providing strategic direction for the agency’s fund development efforts to meet a $2.6 million annual fundraising goal. -Led the Development team in building and executing a comprehensive fund development plan that included major gifts, annual campaigns, corporate giving, grants (foundation and government), and special events.-Served as a public representative of the agency, including cultivating relationships with key community stakeholders and organizations, donors, and prospects to build awareness of and commitment to Big Brothers Big Sisters’ mentoring program. -Designed and implemented the agency’s strategic donor stewardship plan that includes all donor cultivation and recognition tactics.-Oversaw agency’s marketing/communications efforts, ensuring all collateral reflects Big Brothers Big Sisters of America’s brand standards and aligns with the agency’s fundraising priorities.-Developed and managed revenue/expense budgets for development.-Managed and supervised all development department staff (four direct reports).

-Served as a member of the school’s Leadership Team, working collaboratively with Board of Directors and Board Committees in providing oversight of all development and external relationships for the school.-Promoted from Director of Development and Communications (July 2018) to build and execute a comprehensive fundraising plan that included annual fund, major gifts, corporate/foundation giving, grants, special events and planned giving to meet school’s annual fundraising goals. Senior-level role had increased responsibility in major gift fundraising, working closely with school's President in securing leadership gifts for the organization.-Created a comprehensive major gifts program for the school, securing multi-year, five-figure gifts. Increased major gifts by 60% in fiscal year 2017-18.-Directed relationship building and giving strategies for school’s 4,500+ alumnae base. Increased alumnae giving by 85% within first year in role.-Developed and managed revenue and expense budgets for development department.-Managed and supervised all development staff.-As Director of Development and Communications (March 2015-July 2018), in addition to all fundraising responsibilities, I also oversaw the school’s communications and marketing plan. I established the school’s communications and marketing department creating of a full-time marketing/communications position and establishing a department budget with fundraised dollars to fund department in its first year. I oversaw the school's re-brand as an International Baccalaureate World School that included managing all aspects of the launch of a new website and a multi-channel digital advertising campaign (that included pay-per-click advertising and search engine optimization strategies). I developed and executed the school's media relations plan that secured featured story segments on all major local news networks in addition to key coverage in local print publications and on select radio stations.

-Responsible for planning and strategically executing a comprehensive alumni relationship program that connected, engaged, and sustained alumni relationships with the University’s 34,000+ graduates. This included the annual planning, coordination and implementation of all alumni events and programming on main campus and at regional locations, working directly with each of the four colleges at the University.-Responsible for building a comprehensive annual fund program to raise financial support fromalumni at all graduate and advanced degree levels to meet University Advancement’s $2.65 million fundraising goal. This included overseeing all annual fund solicitations, deciding timing and nature of appeals, writing copy, working with outside vendors to manage all aspects of production; managed all aspects of Phonathon fundraising and donor stewardship programs.-Assisted with major gift prospect identification and worked directly with Vice President on solicitation of President’s Tau Society donors and prospects (gifts of $1,000+). -Served as staff liaison between University and Alumni Association, aligning goals and priorities ofboth organizations, working directly with a 24-member volunteer Alumni Board of Directors.-Served as project manager for all alumni-related marketing and communication efforts, includingyearly magazine with distribution of 30,000 issues, monthly e-Newsletter with 5,000+ recipients and management of University’s website content and social media for alumni/giving pages.-Developed and managed revenue/expense budgets for both Annual Fund and Alumni Relations.

-Promoted from Visitor Services Manager to direct daily operations of Museum with 190,000 visitors annually, including direct supervision of 15 employees and 4 assistant managers (hiring, training, supervision and development of staff).-Managed Museum concessions, retail gift shop and Birthday Party rental program; responsible tor building sales and adding additional revenue streams for Museum.-Managed Museum’s contracted services and worked closely with exhibit floor and building site managers to ensure visitor safety and overall positive user experience.-Interacted regularly with Museum members, volunteers, Board members, major sponsors/donors and built relationships with new vendors.-Developed and managed revenue/expense budgets for Visitor Services, Facility Maintenance,Gift Shop, and Birthday Party rental program.

-Offered paid part-time position based upon demonstrated ability to exceed expectations as Special Events Intern.-Directed Foundation’s Public Relations activities including quarterly newsletter with distribution of 14,000 copies and distribution of Foundation’s Outlook magazine.-Solicited and secured donations for live and silent auction items for fundraising gala.-Handled misc. PR and development needs for the Foundation