Position: Marketing & Business Development Coordinator
Salary: Commensurate with experience
Education: Bachelor’s Degree Required
Experience: At least two years of work experience
Location: Chicago, IL
Job Category: Business Development and Marketing
Language(s): English
Type: Full time
Reports to: Chief Operating Officer
Organization Description
Arabella Philanthropic Investment Advisors is a consulting firm dedicated to helping individuals, families, institutions, and corporations make better philanthropic decisions. We believe that philanthropic investments (i.e., contributions to nonprofit organizations) should involve the same strategic analysis and due diligence as financial investments. We offer family, institutional, individual, and corporate clients research and analysis of issues and nonprofit organizations as well as general project management and evaluation to enable them to give with confidence.
Our clients range from the world’s largest philanthropists to small family foundations. Arabella Advisors assists families and high-net-worth individuals by bringing strategic focus to their philanthropy to enhance its impact. Arabella Advisors also services institutional clients including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, The Kresge Foundation and corporate clients such as Microsoft, Novartis, and Hyatt.
Position Description
Arabella Advisors seeks a highly motivated self-starter to support the firm’s marketing and business development activities nationally. This position will assist the firm with managing marketing campaigns, market research, prospect management and follow-up, proposal development, presentation development, and any other marketing or business development support activities requested by Arabella’s Managing Directors. This person will participate in business development meetings and networking events as needed. Additionally, this position will be responsible for coordinating the development, management, and distribution of marketing collateral. This is an excellent opportunity for someone to further develop their marketing and business development skills, while increasing their familiarity with the field of philanthropy and the nonprofit community. This position is based out of our Chicago, IL office, servicing staff nationally.
Responsibilities
Business Development
• Research and develop data for senior management on potential clients and new markets
• Coordinate processes internally for developing proposals and responding to RFPs
• Coordinate marketing communications with prospective clients and oversee the accuracy of updates of prospecting data in Salesforce.com
• Manage follow-up with prospects at the direction of senior management
• Develop, maintain and train staff on presentations/slide decks for meetings with prospects
• Attend business development meetings as necessary and appropriate
Marketing
• Lead the development, distribution and maintenance of marketing collateral (including web content) that highlight the firm’s expertise and abilities
• Develop, manage and execute the firm’s communications programs
• Coordinate special events for the firm
• Coordinate the firm’s participation and representation at industry events, conferences and exhibitions as appropriate
• Manage the firm’s marketing lists
• Manage and coordinate the firm’s e-marketing content, software and schedule
• Develop and maintain the firm’s contact database, including identification of best-available software
Requirements
Education
• Bachelor’s degree required
• Degrees in business, communications or marketing a plus
Experience
• Two plus years of working experience
• Experience in sales or marketing a plus
• Experience drafting proposals and responding to RFPs a plus
• Experience in philanthropy, nonprofit management, business and/or consulting a plus
Skills
• Excellent organization skills and attention to detail
• Strong MS-Office skills, particularly PowerPoint and Excel
• High degree of comfort with current electronic marketing technology, including databases
• High degree of skill with developing electronic presentations
• Ability to draft high quality written materials and correspondence
• Ability to work independently, and to function effectively as part of a team
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to manage and coordinate communications across a team
• Experience handling multiple tasks
• Ability to complete projects in a timely fashion
• Research skills and ability to use the Internet effectively
• Experience using Salesforce.com
Characteristics
• Entrepreneurial spirit
• Desire to work in a small and growing office
• Professional
• Analytical
• Detail-oriented
• Outgoing
• Flexible
• Sense of humor
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