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Franklin, Tn, Us

North America

Pioneer strategy development and implementation to scale regular monthly donor portfolio through new event partnerships, including conferences, artist tours and speakers. Leverage industry relationships to identify and secure new opportunities to grow Partner Programs mass giving portfolio by 30% within two fiscal years. Provide mentorship and strategy guidance to support offices outside North America to launch and/or scale existing mass fundraising opportunities in their respective markets.

Innovated speaker strategy to develop portfolio, drive content and pursue earned engagements across North America, ensuring the most strategic messages are being developed to maximize impact and deployed across all speaking opportunities in the region. Worked with organizational leaders across North America to develop a set of key internal messages, vetted engagements of both internal and external speakers, including IJM’s Founder and Global CEO and regional Presidents, to yield mass awareness, donor acquisition and maximize revenue across the region.

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Concurrently oversaw long-term strategic planning while managing a team of five direct reports, while ensuring the timely and cost-conscious completion of key deliverables across diverse business units. Spearheaded the creation of impactful videos and delivered executive producer oversight, highlighting the impact of donor contributions to the artists’ fanbases, cultivating an emotional connection to the audience to generate philanthropic donations, sponsoring children globally. Led the sales team to meet annual acquisition goals while effectively managing multi-million-dollar budget.

Melbourne, Australia

Due to successful growth in the United States market, recruited to start program from the ground up across Australia, developing and executing strategic business plans and organizational structure. Interviewed, hired, trained, coached, and mentored a team of five direct reports, with cross-functional accountability of teams across diverse business units. Directed the creation and execution to expand the Influencers program, cultivating and growing relationships with Celebrity Ambassadors and Vision Artists to increase the Australian artist partnership roster, resulting in outperforming against financial and non-financial targets, including return on investment and long-term donor value metrics.

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Concurrently oversaw long-term strategic planning while managing a team of five direct reports, while ensuring the timely and cost-conscious completion of key deliverables across diverse business units. Spearheaded the creation of impactful videos and delivered executive producer oversight, highlighting the impact of donor contributions to the artists’ audiences, cultivating an emotional connection to the audience to generate philanthropic donations, sponsoring children globally. Led the team to meet annual acquisition goals while effectively managing multi-million-dollar budget.

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Developed and launched sales and marketing strategies, promotional activities, and point-of-sale for assigned artist roster. Established long-term artist development plans for client portfolio, in collaboration with Artists & Repertoire (A&R) representatives, artists, and artist management. Accountable for the strategic planning and tactical implementation of marketing efforts, with oversight of photo and video shoots, retail, radio activity, media, and artist websites.