Associate, Donor Engagement | University of Nebraska

A true partnership on every level. That’s what Legends forges with each and every team, stadium, athletic director, and owner we serve to strengthen sales and partnership results as a team effort. As an extension of your team, our sales experts work diligently with your management and staff to create solutions and programs that are always fully custom to your needs and goals. Look to us to delve deep to understand your values, your market and your target audience – help you solve problems and ultimately deliver the right game plan to drive your organization forward. 

As the Associate, Donor Engagement, you will be part of a small but mighty marketing team working to connect donors with causes they care about. Day to day, help design and run fundraising campaigns across email, phone, social, and digital channels — writing content that tells real stories and makes donors feel genuinely appreciated. You'll supervise a team of student marketers, keep an eye on campaign performance, and help figure out what's working so we can keep getting better. You'll report to the Engagement Center Manager and work alongside colleagues across the organization.

• →Plan and run digital fundraising campaigns through email, social, phone, and web — with the goal of reaching more donors and growing giving. Produce and coordinate content deliverables (articles, scripts, graphics, and video edits) through a student marketing team.
• →Supervise your student marketing team as they produce articles, scripts, graphics, and short-form video content. Analyze and audit the web experience to enhance the constituent journey and optimize fundraising revenue through assessing site designs, click paths, buy-flow and more.
• →Track campaign performance — open rates, click-throughs, video views, web traffic, and more — and share what you're learning with the team.
• →Write and shape messaging for different donor audiences, making sure everything we publish is consistent, on-brand, and easy to find online.
• →Help Student Engagement Specialists set up and maintain outreach sequences in VanillaSoft — including managing audience segments, updating call scripts and templates, and keeping result codes current.
• →Manage the content review and approval process, including sending test drafts and coordinating feedback before launch.
• →Keep Student Engagement Specialists equipped with what they need — fund talking points, donor impact stories, and up-to-date campaign stats.
• →Support the Engagement Center Manager with day-to-day operations as needed.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty with energy and enthusiasm. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge,

skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Experience in digital marketing roles.
• Bachelor's degree in marketing, advertising, public relations, communications or a related field.

• Demonstrated breadth of digital marketing knowledge with a strategic view on how impact-related content can influence connection to philanthropy.
• Must illustrate strong interpersonal skills to gain consensus for planned content, negotiate tight deadlines and unite teams with a single vision and voice. 
• Must have excellent written communication skills, exceptional proofreading and editing skills, and a high level of understanding of marketing and storytelling.
• Must have strong digital marketing experience including the use of email and web hosting platforms and tools like Google Analytics.
• Proven experience and creativity with video scripting, creation and editing is a significant plus.
• This talented, creative, and driven marketer can easily manage multiple initiatives at once.
• Strong background in creative and innovating thinking and execution, with demonstrated capability for storytelling, creative content creation, and persuasive messaging.
• Proficient computer skills, including MS Office, Adobe Creative Suite.
• Experience in marketing software like (Google Analytics, Google Adwords etc.)
• Excellent time and project management skills with exceptional attention to detail.
• Demonstrate a high level of ownership and ability to work independently with minimal direction.
• Fast learner with creative problem-solving skills.
• General understanding of higher education fundraising.

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 accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The essential responsibilities of this position are described below the above headings. They may be subject to change at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons. Also, this document in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position.

Legends Global is the premier partner to the world's greatest live events, venues, and brands. We deliver a fully integrated solution of premium services that keeps our partners front and center through our white-label approach. Our network of 450 venues worldwide, hosting 20,000 events and entertaining 165 million guests each year, is powered by our depth of expertise and level of execution across every component feasibility & consulting, owner’s representation, sales, partnerships, hospitality, merchandise, venue management, and content & booking of world-class live events and venues.

The Legends Global culture is one of respect, ambitious thinking, collaboration, and bold action. We are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can be authentic, make an impact, and grow their career. Winning is an everyday thing at Legends Global. We have the best team members who understand every win is earned when we come together as one unified team. Sounds like a winning formula for you. Join us!

Legends Global is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer, and encourages Women, Minorities, Individuals with Disabilities, and protected Veterans to apply. VEVRAA Federal Contractor.