Donation Acquisition Specialist

Essential Functions

Primary Function: Develops relationships in the business community through cold calls, community involvement and membership in civic/community organizations. Primarily responsibility is obtaining commercial business donations and developing employee donation drives in the business community. This position will primarily focus in the assigned territory by the Vice President of Retail Operations. This position will work directly with multiple departments to schedule the pickups and donation drives based through our current home pickup program. Other duties would include working directly with our Marketing and Public Relations department to obtain the necessary marketing materials and communications to delivery maximum result.

• Create and Implement a strategic plan for the acquisition of Public, Community, and Business support.
• Develops territories to achieve the maximum donor per household activity.
• Coordinates with Retail Operations Team, schedules for pickups and deliveries of donations.
• Maintains and Grows Existing Donation Base, achieving quarterly and annual donor goals.
• Maintains communication with other departments on Donor Development Activities.
• Creates Marketing Material to Target Donation Development
• Collects relevant donor information to use in making program decisions.
• Ensures the tracking of all pounds collected from all events and businesses.
• Completes appropriate paperwork in a timely and accurate manner
• Provide leadership, motivation and supervision for all donation activities coordinated through the position.
• Explain to prospective donors the Goodwill mission, its fit with their business needs, benefits, and the steps needed to utilize Goodwill services.
• Conduct presentations for groups in the business & government sector, as well as the community at large for the purpose of education, awareness building, and marketing that are informative, and tuned to that particular group’s values/interests
• Demonstrate positive role modeling for coworkers and participants. Lead by example in support of Goodwill’s rules, policies, and procedures. Ensure coworkers and participants adhere to agency rules, policies, and procedures
• Responsible for knowing, understanding, complying with, and enforcing Goodwill’s safety programs (i.e. handbook, policies, procedures, etc.). Continually support the agency safety program
• Has wide authority in performing most aspects of the job, such as scheduling workload and making day-to-day decisions necessary to perform the position function.
• Provides weekly call tracker of all business contacts weekly and number of times communication has occurred.
• Will assist in other large donation drive activities as needed.
• Meet and exceed quota expectations