Alzheimer's Association-Central & Western Kansas Chapter

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Wichita, KS 67213

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Juliette Bradley

Kansas State Director of Communications

Missy Zimmer

Program Specialist

Fe Vorderlandwehr

Executive Director

Mark Bretches

Western Kansas Walk Manager

Fundraising Manager, Walk to End Alzheimer's

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font-weight: 700;"Position Summary:nbsp;/spannbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;/p p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"Utilizing your proven networking and relationship building skills to cultivate key community connections, you will drive success and achieve revenue goals by strategically identifying and engaging community and corporate leaders and building and empowering sustainable volunteer committees.nbsp;/p p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"As a successful fundraising leader who will manage multiple peer to peer fundraising events annually you will generate excitement and enthusiasm in the community for Walk to End Alzheimerrsquo;s, coach and inspire your volunteers to implement and build on proven strategies and best practices that result in event growth year over year.nbsp;/p p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"This position may be based in any of the following areas:nbsp; Great Bend, Dodge City, Hays, or Garden City./span/p p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"br style="box-sizing: border-box;" / span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"This role is right for you if:/span/p ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10.5px; margin-top: 0px;" li style="box-sizing: border-box;"You have proven success at building sustainable corporate and community relationships that contribute to achieving event revenue goals, greater community participation and heightened brand awareness/li li style="box-sizing: border-box;"You have successfully recruited, managed, and coached volunteers to effectively implement best and proven practices to achieve fundraising goals OR you are able to effectively assimilate our custom training on peer to peer fundraising and leverage your sales/relationship development background to recruit, manage and coach volunteers to implement best and proven practices to achieve fundraising goals/li li style="box-sizing: border-box;"You have managed or are capable of managing multiple volunteer-led mass-market events simultaneously that have resulted in revenue growth year over year/li li style="box-sizing: border-box;"You are known as a convener and have successfully built a positive, healthy, and inclusive team environment that has resulted in long term community relationships/li li style="box-sizing: border-box;"You love a challenge and have achieved or surpassed designated revenue and participant goals through team and individual fundraising, corporate solicitation, and community partnerships/li li style="box-sizing: border-box;"You have demonstrated success at prospecting, cultivating and stewarding event teams, sponsors and participants/li li style="box-sizing: border-box;"You have excellent communication and organization skills and are comfortable with managing event budgets, training volunteers, working to set timelines and milestones and using data to affect positive outcomes/li /ul p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"What you Bring:/span/p ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10.5px; margin-top: 0px;" li style="box-sizing: border-box;"Bachelorrsquo;s degree or equivalent experience/li li style="box-sizing: border-box;"3-5 years of proven experience in recruiting and mobilizing volunteers to achieve goals OR 3 - 5 years successful experience of meeting sales targets/li li style="box-sizing: border-box;"Confident, goal-oriented, positive self-starter, able to work independently with limited supervision and collaboratively with internal and external partners/li li style="box-sizing: border-box;"Demonstrated ability to develop and nurture corporate relationships and partnerships/li li style="box-sizing: border-box;"Ability to manage large numbers of volunteers at different levels of expertise with diplomacy/li li style="box-sizing: border-box;"Ability to work with diverse communities and demonstrate inclusion, coupled with the ability to work in a highly matrixed organization/li li style="box-sizing: border-box;"Excellent interpersonal skills including verbal and written communication and follow through/li li style="box-sizing: border-box;"Ability and willingness to travel up to 60% within the assigned territory by car.nbsp; Travel in this case, is considered time spent away from the office, in the community, to fulfill the job goals. While most such travel is same day, occasional overnight travel or air travel may be required Must have valid driverrsquo;s license, access to reliable vehicle, good driving record and proof of automobile insurance/li li style="box-sizing: border-box;"Ability and willingness to work some evenings and weekends as required for committee meetings, Walk and wraparound events/li li style="box-sizing: border-box;"Ability to bend, stoop, lift and transport up to 25 lbs. of materials/li li style="box-sizing: border-box;"Strong computer skills, proficient with Microsoft Office products and social media; experience with, or ability to rapidly learn Luminate/Convio software/li /ul p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"nbsp;/p p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"Job Title:/spannbsp;Manager, Walk to End Alzheimerrsquo;s/p p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"Location:/spannbsp;Central amp; Western Kansas/p p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"Full Time:/spannbsp;37.5 hours work week/p p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"Reports To:/spannbsp;Executive Directornbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;/p p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"Grade:nbsp;/span105/p p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"nbsp;/p p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"What the Alzheimerrsquo;s Association offers:/span/p p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"The Alzheimerrsquo;s Association has been ranked as one of the Best Nonprofits to Work For by The Non-Profit Times each year since 2010, recognizing our visionary and dynamic leadership, collaborative culture, competitive compensation, generous benefits and mission-driven atmosphere. In addition, we offer a hybrid work environment with some flexibility in schedules, as well as excellent training on peer to peer fundraising techniques./p p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"Employees working 24 hours/week or more are eligible for a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, flex accounts, short and long-term disability, life insurance, long term care insurance, tuition reimbursement, generous Paid Time Off, 12 annual holidays and Paid Family Leave, as well as an annual Cultural amp; Heritage Day and Volunteer Day of their choosing. They are also eligible for our gold standard 401(k) retirement plan./p p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"Full time employees (37.5 hours/week), will enjoy all of the above plus an annual School Visitation Day and an Elder Care Facility Day of their choosing./p p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"Right now, millions of Americans are facing the devastation of Alzheimerrsquo;s. This disease is robbing us of our finances, our families and our futures ndash; but at the Alzheimerrsquo;s Association, we are relentlessly working to change that by addressing the challenges in front of us with speed and without limitations or boundaries. With our network of more than 70 chapters across the country, we are advancing world-class research, ensuring access to gold-standard care and support, and hiring talented, mission-driven people who make it all happen./p p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"It takes a uniquely motivated person to be a part of our team ndash; but we believe that person could be you./p p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice./p p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"Who We Are/span/p p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"The Alzheimerrsquo;s Association is the leading voluntary health organization in Alzheimerrsquo;s care, support and research. Our mission is to lead the way to end Alzheimer#39;s and all other dementia- by accelerating global research, driving risk reduction and early detection, and maximizing quality care and support./p p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"At the Alzheimerrsquo;s Association, our employees are at the core of all we do. Our network of more than 1,900 employees across the United States makes a difference each and every day for those impacted by Alzheimerrsquo;s and those at risk for the disease/p p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"nbsp;Our Vision/spanbr style="box-sizing: border-box;" / A world without Alzheimer#39;s and all other dementia.trade;/p p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"At the Alzheimer#39;s Associationreg;, we believe that diverse perspectives are critical to achieving health equity mdash; meaning that all communities have a fair and just opportunity for early diagnosis and access to risk reduction and quality care. The Association is committed to engaging underrepresented and underserved communities and responding with resources and education to address the disproportionate impact of Alzheimerrsquo;s and dementia./p p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"em style="box-sizing: border-box;"The Alzheimerrsquo;s Association is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace andnbsp;/emem style="box-sizing: border-box;"provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws./em/p p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"em style="box-sizing: border-box;"This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training./em/p pnbsp;/p /div /div div class="row" data-bind="if: $parent.shouldShowEqualOpportunityEmployerDescription" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px; color: rgb(81, 81, 81); font-family: quot;Noto Sansquot;, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, quot;Segoe UIquot;, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, quot;Open Sansquot;, quot;Helvetica Neuequot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" div class="col-md-24" style="box-sizing: border-box; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative;" hr style="box-sizing: initial; height: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(207, 207, 207); margin-bottom: 21px; margin-top: 21px;" / p class="opportunity-equal-opportunity-employer-description" data-automation="job-equal-opportunity-employer-description" data-bind="text: EqualOpportunityEmployerDescription" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/p p class="opportunity-equal-opportunity-employer-description" data-automation="job-pay-transparency-policy-statement" data-bind="visible: $parent.shouldShowPayTransparencyStatemet, text: PayTransparencyPolicyStatement" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractorrsquo;s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)/p /div /div

Western Kansas Walk Manager

span style="color:#050505;"span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;"span style="font-size:11.5pt;"We are hiring a Walk Manager for Western Kansas.nbsp;/span/span/span span style="color:#0A0A0A;"span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;"span style="font-size:12.0pt;"This position supports the Great Bend, Dodge City, Hays, and Garden City regions. The position can be remote and allow you to live in your community.nbsp;/span/span/span span style="color:#050505;"span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;"span style="font-size:11.5pt;"Missy Zimmer, has accepted the Program Specialist position with the Alzheimer#39;s Association, Central and Western Kansas. quot;I am most excited to continue to work remotely with programs in Western Kansas and work closely with the next walk manager as we provide services to all communities we serve.quot;/span/span/spanbr / span style="color:#050505;"span style="font-family:segoe ui historic,sans-serif;"span style="font-size:11.5pt;"Read the full job description and apply online./span/span/spanspan style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;"span style="font-size:11.0pt;"nbsp; a href="https://jobs.alz.org/manager-walk-to-end-alzheimer-s/job/27194434"https://jobs.alz.org/manager-walk-to-end-alzheimer-s/job/2719443/a/span/...