Corporate Relations Officer
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About Treehouse:

At Treehouse, we work to create opportunities for young people in foster care to thrive. We believe that every young person impacted by foster care determines their own future and can build the life of their dreams. Treehouse seeks to hire passionate individuals who understand the power of young people, celebrate diverse voices and challenge themselves to do better. We are committed to providing opportunities for staff to learn and grow with the organization during an exciting time as we expand our services and reach statewide.

Benefit Summary:

Treehouse values work-life balance and prioritizes the health of our staff. Benefits include medical, dental, vision and life insurance plans with 100% employer-paid premiums; a retirement plan with 3% employer match; and paid leave that includes 9 holidays, generous PTO and two weeks of staff appreciation days off.

The salary for this position is set at $38.76 per hour or $80,621 per year. The salary range for this position is $78,265 - $109,570.

• Generous PTO of 4 weeks
• Healthcare Benefit plan options include 100% covered preventive care
• 2 Weeks off (separate from PTO) for Staff Appreciation Weeks
• 403B Retirement Plan Matching
• The company covers 100% of payroll taxes for state family medical leave
• Free convenient parking
• Dog Friendly Office Space

Position Summary:

The Corporate Relations Officer plays a key role within a highly effective fundraising team, implementing Treehouse's fundraising strategy with corporate partners to realize revenue from partnerships, sponsorship, and matching gifts. The CRO is responsible for building and maintaining existing corporate partner relationships, responding to all new partner inquiries, and proactively seeking new partnerships; this includes prospecting, stewarding, and soliciting gifts to meet the revenue objectives. While the CRO may serve as the primary contact for corporate partners, they will work cross-departmentally with others that support corporate engagement to ensure the best outcome for the partner and Treehouse. In partnership with reporting lines, the CRO helps define and plan next steps for Treehouse's corporate partnership strategy.

Essential Functions:

• Build and maintain a portfolio of 100 - 150 diverse corporate partners and prospects capable of making $10k+ gifts, cultivate and maintain close relationships with those that play key roles in corporate giving, philanthropic investments, and employee engagement with regular communication, stewardship, and meetings. This includes completing at least 10 contacts per week (either phone or face-to-face) producing informative, concise contact reports for each contact.
• Manage a segment of corporate prospects and funders expected to give below $10K, with a regular 1 to many communications approaches. This includes connecting with this segment monthly via a personal email with an engagement opportunity, a solicitation, and/or a report on their investment impact.
• Responsible for driving event sponsor strategy including solicitations, ensuring recognition, and stewardship in partnership with the internal event leadership, event chairs, board members and internal team members.
• Collaborate closely with colleagues to engage corporate partners, employee resource groups, and community champions through volunteering, donation drives, workplace giving, and other engagement opportunities.
• Contribute to planning, drafting communication, and building tools and documents to support corporate engagement, including corporate sponsorship and partnership proposals.
• Support and collaborate with Treehouse executive leadership, board and other staff members who interact with portfolio of corporate partners to ensure they are implementing agreed-upon strategy. Provide them needed communication tools, documentation, engagement ideas, recognition, reporting, and funding proposals.
• Engage the grants team on all corporate grant funding opportunities including pre-submission phone calls; providing the details needed to draft and submit successful funding proposals to corporate partners on time. This is NOT a grant writing role.
• Meticulously document all corporate partner interactions, contact information, and all relevant information related to corporate giving and engagement priorities in our constituent management database, including information about opportunities that contribute to forecasting. Track and share information related to corporate engagement and giving with internal team members.
• Ensure that donors are promptly thanked for giving, and that they receive reporting on the impact of their giving either through standard Treehouse program reports or any additional requirements established in funding agreements or grant contracts.
• Represent Treehouse at public events and present about Treehouse to corporate partners and their employees. Must maintain knowledge of Treehouse programs, data, youth stories, legislative priorities, program budgets, projects, and other information that may be helpful when communicating with corporate partners.
• This role requires a minimum of two days a week in the office. In addition, it requires attendance of in-person meetings, events, and activities throughout the Puget Sound region. Occasional evening and weekend work will be required.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• 3+ years' experience in corporate fundraising, major gifts, sales, business development, or relationship development roles with a high degree of complexity and communication.
• Demonstrated ability to cultivate and sustain relationships on behalf of an organization, with the highest level of customer service and integrity.
• Demonstrated ability to meet a revenue objective of $2M or a revenue objective with year over year increases.
• Strong written and oral communication skills; experience with public speaking in front of large audiences; demonstrated ability to tailor persuasive messaging for different audiences.
• Experience successfully leading initiatives in a highly collaborative team, ensuring buy-in, alignment, and effective communication among team members, even when the resulting revenue may be credited to another team.
• Strong work ethic with a proven track record of creative problem solving, taking initiative, and the ability to plan, test ideas, learn, and adapt.
• Willingness to engage in and support racial equity and healing efforts of the organization, with interest in and ability to engage in candid conversations about diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice.
• Ability and aptitude with Microsoft 365 Suite, project management tools, Salesforce (or transferable knowledge from other donor databases), and other technology necessary for successful day-to-day functioning in a business environment.
• Reliable transportation and current driver's license and minimum WA State driver insurance coverage required. The driving record must be approved by the Treehouse insurance provider.
• Demonstrated ability to build working relationships with individuals of various ages, cultures, socioeconomic backgrounds and abilities.
• Must clear nationwide criminal background check and driving record background check.

Physical and Mental Requirements:

• Mental Requirements – Attention to detail; interacting with others in person and via email, phone calls, and web conferencing; using critical thinking skills to research, synthesize information, and evaluate funding and partnership opportunities; emotional intelligence, especially when working with staff who may experience secondary trauma through their work at Treehouse.
• Physical Requirements – long periods of stationary work, working on a computer, moving between various work areas, talking on the phone, working with office/computer equipment, and sitting at a desk or table while listening, talking and taking notes.

Application information:

Instead of a traditional cover letter, we invite you to showcase your corporate relations officer skills by submitting an email that does the following:

• Requests a meeting to discuss sponsorship opportunities for an upcoming fundraising gala. Sponsorship packages range from $5,000 to $25,000.
• Acknowledges that the recipient has been referred by one of our board members and has donated to our organization, though not in recent years.

The email should demonstrate your ability to engage potential sponsors and tailor your message to re-establish a connection. Your approach will be considered an important part of the application process. If selected for an interview, you will be asked to present a pitch for the sponsorship opportunity to the same prospective sponsor.

DISCLAIMER:

The information presented indicates the general nature and level of work expected of employees in this classification. It is not designed to contain, or to be interpreted as, a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, qualifications and objectives required of employees assigned to this job. As an adaptive organization, responsibilities can and will change in alignment with greater efficiencies and mission metrics.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY AND NON-DISCRIMINATION:

Treehouse is committed to equal opportunity for all employees and applicants. Treehouse does not discriminate with regards to hiring, assignment, promotion or other conditions of staff employment because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other status protected under local, state or federal law. In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, upon request, reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of our positions.