Regional Engagement Advisor - Halifax, Canada - World Vision Canada

World Vision Canada

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Halifax, Canada

1 week ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Are you looking for more than a job? At World Vision Canada we offer challenging careers that change the lives of children all over the world and it will change yours too.

Come and be part of a team of 400 Canadians with a vision for the world:
Life in all its fullness for every child.

You will experience Christian faith in action helping to make real and lasting change in the lives of the world's most vulnerable children.

Join the World Vision Canada team and be part of a powerful and effective force for good:

For Children. For Change. For Life.

Position:
Regional Engagement Advisor

Reports to:
Head of Corporate Engagement and Manager of Church Engagement

Position Term:
Full Time Permanent

Workplace Type:
Remote (Must reside in Atlantic Canada)

The Regional Engagement Advisor is externally focused on building mutually beneficial relationships with corporate and church leaders to support World Vision's mission of working with people globally facing poverty and injustice.

This role will build strong relationships and engagement opportunities that enable a two-way value exchange between Canadian corporations, churches, and World Vision; these relationships jointly contribute to the philanthropic and discipleship needs of corporate environments and congregations and directly benefits the children and communities World Vision serves.

As an ambassador for World Vision's vision and mission, the Regional Engagement Advisor will deploy best practice development strategies and a detailed moves management approach to cultivating a network of World Vision advocates.

This role is responsible for executing the overall Philanthropy and Partnerships Engagement strategy, which primarily supports World Vision's fundraising goals and will give input into other World Vision teams' go-to-market strategy based on their audience expertise.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Corporate Engagement:

Helps to execute the Corporate Engagement Strategy to meet annually established fiscal goals and key performance metrics in corporate philanthropy, sponsorship (cash and gifts or services in kind), cause marketing, and other World Vision Canada offerings.
Actively owns and innovatively cultivates a portfolio of corporate customers in the $25K+ range and through various channels as defined but not limited to the corporate customer journey with the goal of growing revenue and engagement.
Grows corporate engagement and contributions by building deep and meaningful relationships and understanding key stakeholder's and the corporation's social impact and marketing interests and priorities, their resource capacity, their business and marketplace context, and aligns these interests and goals with those of World Vision.
Communicates effectively, meaningfully and in an individualized way with key stakeholders
Continually improves, develops and educates oneself and WVC staff and teams involved with corporate engagement to identify and implement best practices in pipeline management, research, qualifying, prospecting, cultivation, acquisition, fulfillment reporting and stewardship.
Proactively works with internal and external teams to research and qualify prospects and develops personalized donor acquisition strategies consistent with due diligence requirements, corporate engagement protocols, and risk management efforts within WVC and its offices around the globe.
Works closely with the Philanthropy Enablement Services to use customer data and insights to build plans for customer engagement and asks, and uses the Customer Relationship Management system to analyze and input data from corporate partners.
Collaborates with Philanthropy Enablement Services to build donor proposals and impact reports; presents the proposals to donors in the most compelling and effective manner.
Proactively identifies, pursues and cultivates prospects within the corporate segment through networking at events, leveraging business networks, and identifying Influencer(s) or coach(s) to help accelerate engagement with target prospects.

Church Engagement:

Develop strong relationships with key influential pastors and church leaders using a relational sales approach tracked in CRM to connect their interests with World Vision's mission and ministry to the most vulnerable.
Utilize an advanced approach that will increase the number of engaged / highly engaged churches leading to increased funds for the field and more Canadians involved in transformational experiences through churches and parachurches.
Using relationshipbuilding techniques and fundraising strategies, build strategic relationships with critical pastors and influential church leaders or congregation members.
Proactively and intentionally execute moves management techniques to meet personal, team and organizational fundraising objectives and key results.
Develop and implement mutually beneficial engagement plans between targeted churches an