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Hope Media Group is a multi-brand ministry. Every story we share, every event we host, and every song we play is done to engage people to love Jesus, serve others, and spread Hope.

Hope Media Group the home of KSBJ, WayFM, Worship 24/7, Vida Unida, NGEN radio. Way Loud, Way New, Way Back, Gospel 24/7, God Listens Prayer App and Hope Events. 

We invite you to apply and become a part of our growing ministry to Love Jesus, Serve Others, and Spread Hope. Our team describes our environment as fun, encouraging, collaborative, engaging, caring, family-oriented, and friendly. We would love for you to join us and be part of what God is doing in our ministry! 

Summary: 

The Vice President, Donor Engagement provides leadership for Hope Media Group's entire donor engagement and fundraising strategy, ensuring an integrated donor journey from acquisition through transformational giving. The VP leads the strategy and performance of donor care, donor communications, mid-level giving, major and catalyst donor engagement, and other donor-facing initiatives, with accountability for donor retention, revenue growth, stewardship, and long-term donor value. As a senior leader within Donor Engagement, this role develops leaders, drives cross-functional alignment, uses data and analytics to inform investment and strategy, and partners with the Chief of Donor Engagement and organizational leadership to advance HMG's ministry and revenue objectives.  

Essential Functions

Strategic Direction: 

• Develop and lead HMG's comprehensive donor engagement strategy, establishing the vision, priorities, goals, and measures of success for donor acquisition, cultivation, retention, stewardship, and growth across the donor lifecycle. 
• Use data and analytics to evaluate donor behavior, fundraising performance, and engagement trends, informing strategies across the donor lifecycle and identifying opportunities for growth, retention, and increased donor value. 
• Establish and maintain clear donor pathways that move individuals from initial engagement through mid-level, major, and catalyst giving. 
• Provide strategic leadership and input into fundraising campaigns and initiatives that generate resources to expand ministry impact. 
• Collaborate with ministry and organizational leaders to ensure a cohesive, integrated donor journey across HMG brands and platforms. 
• Establish key performance indicators and regularly evaluate progress toward donor engagement, retention, and revenue objectives. 

Organizational & Executive Leadership: 

• Serve as a strategic partner to the Chief of Donor Engagement in establishing fundraising priorities, revenue strategies, and long-term donor engagement goals.
  • Translate organizational strategy into clear priorities and measurable objectives across Donor Engagement teams.
  • Partner with senior leaders across HMG to align donor strategy with programming, marketing, digital, finance, data, and ministry initiatives.
  • Provide executive-level insight into donor trends, fundraising performance, opportunities, and risks.
  • Represent Donor Engagement in organizational planning and cross-functional initiatives.
  • Build, lead, coach, and develop a high-performing leadership team, equipping directors and managers to effectively lead their functions and teams. 
• Ensure alignment, accountability, and effective decision-making across Donor Engagement functions while empowering leaders to execute within their areas of responsibility. 

Donor Engagement & Program Oversight 

• Provide strategic oversight of HMG's donor engagement programs, ensuring alignment and effectiveness across donor care, communications, mid-level, major, catalyst, events, and other donor-facing initiatives. 
• Oversee the mid-level donor advisor program, ensuring effective portfolio strategy, donor cultivation, stewardship, and pathways to major giving. 
• Lead Donor Communications strategy, including collaboration with fundraising consultants, ensuring cohesive multi-channel stewardship and solicitation across print, digital, on-air, and other donor touchpoints. 
• Provide strategic oversight to Donor Care, ensuring donors receive responsive, compassionate, and effective support. 
• Guide strategies that strengthen donor acquisition, retention, engagement, stewardship, and long-term donor value. 
• Ensure alignment between fundraising leadership and HMG's overall donor engagement strategy. 

Department Operations & Performance: 

• Ensure Donor Engagement has effective systems, processes, tools, and resources necessary to achieve departmental objectives. 
• Establish expectations for operational excellence, accountability, documentation, reporting, and cross-functional collaboration across Donor Engagement. 
• Identify organizational or departmental barriers to effectiveness and partner with Donor Engagement leaders and cross-functional teams to implement solutions. 
• Provide executive oversight of key departmental projects and initiatives, ensuring appropriate ownership, prioritization, and accountability. 
• Partner with Finance, HR, IT, and other organizational functions to ensure Donor Engagement leaders and teams have the resources and support necessary to achieve fundraising and donor engagement objectives. 

Budget Management:

• Partner with the Chief of Donor Engagement and Finance to develop annual departmental budgets, fundraising revenue goals, and forecasts. 
• Regularly evaluate departmental spending and fundraising performance against budget and forecast, identifying risks, opportunities, and necessary adjustments. 
• Ensure departmental resources are strategically allocated toward initiatives that advance donor engagement and fundraising objectives. 
• Provide FP&A monthly input to accurately forecast costs and revenue. 
• Ensure departmental spending complies with HMG financial, credit card, travel, and purchasing policies. 

 Demonstrated Faith: 

• Committed to a personal relationship with Jesus Christ 
• Grounded spiritually and biblically literate 
• Comfortable praying for co-workers in team meetings, leading spoken prayer, and participating in ministry prayer meetings and Bible studies 
• Live Christian principles defined by the Ministry Statement of Faith 
• Participate in on-air fundraisers and prays for donors as needed 
• Passion for leveraging the platform of radio for evangelism and discipleship 
• Exhibit a strong moral character 
• Active member of a Bible believing local church 

 Non-Essential Functions:

• Perform other duties as requested 

Requirements and Qualifications: 

Education: 

• Bachelor’s degree preferred 

Experience: 

• 7–10 years nonprofit fundraising, donor engagement, or donor communications experience.  
• Demonstrated success in donor program design and execution, including mass, mid, and major stewardship programs.   
• Experience managing and coaching diverse teams.  
• Familiarity with direct mail, digital campaigns, and donor care strategies 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: 

• Heart for Christian ministry.  
• Strong moral character and personal relationship with Jesus Christ.  
• Strategic thinker with ability to use data for decision-making.  
• Skilled communicator with ability to build rapport and inspire trust.  
• Excellent written/verbal communication and interpersonal skills.  
• Ability to lead, coach, and develop high-performing teams.  
• Knowledge of donor databases, fundraising systems, and Microsoft Office Suite. 

Supervisory Responsibilities: :

• Immediate supervision over a unit, section, or department. Recommends candidates for hiring, termination; prepares and conducts performance appraisals and salary reviews and applies company policies. 

Working Conditions and Environment 

Travel: 

• Occasional overnight travel required for donor meetings, events, and organizational gatherings 

Nights/Weekends/Holidays: 

• May be required occasionally for donor events or fundraisers 

Physical Requirements 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  

Physical Activity may include Talking. Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly. Hearing. Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound. Repetitive motion. Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers including pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than the whole hand as in handling.  

Light work. Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects. If the use of arm and/or leg controls requires exertion of forces greater than that for sedentary work and the worker sits most of the time, the job is rated for light work. 

The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading. 

 Full-Time Benefits Offerings:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Health Savings Account w/employer contribution
• Flexible Savings Accounts
• Company Paid Short Term Disability/Long Term Disability
• EAP (Employee Assistance Program)
• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Three (3) Paid Mission Days
• Twelve (12) Company-Paid Holidays
• 403B Retirement with Company Match
• Group Life Insurance
• Legal Shield/Identity Theft Protection
• Access to Marketplace Ministry Chaplains 

Third-Party Recruiter Policy: We are grateful for the interest of those who wish to support our hiring efforts. However, Hope Media Group does not accept unsolicited resumes or candidate referrals from external staffing agencies or search firms. Submissions from third parties will not be considered and may be retained without obligation or payment or fees.