Job Openings

Title: Marketing Specialist

Date Listed: March 19, 2024

Hours: 40 hours/week

Hourly Rate: $17.50/Hour

Work Location: Missoula, MT

Report to: Executive Director

Summary:

The Marketing Specialist is a highly motivated individual with experience and passion for elevating AniMeals' mission using a multi-channel marketing strategy. This person is responsible for social campaigns, establishing solid content strategy, creating effective promotional plans, website maintenance, maximizing digital donations, and some outreach.

Essential Job Tasks:

Recognize organization’s audience and market to them appropriately.
Work with executive director to create and follow through on marketing strategies.
Create, curate, and manage all published content (images, video, and written) that is on brand. Embrace a story-telling marketing strategy.
Design, create, and manage promotions and social ad campaigns.
Monitor, listen, and respond to the public via social media and through the website with accuracy and in a respectful tone. Must clearly represent the organization’s practices, policies, and principles.
Identify, develop, and expand community outreach efforts.
Analyze campaigns and recommend revisions.
Update organization’s website.
Monitor effective practices in marketing to maximize results.
Highlight adoptable cats by taking high-quality photos and creating accurate biographical write-ups of each feline using positive language and tone.
Manage the “Sponsor an Animal” and “Sponsor a Kennel” programs.
Manage the donation jar program.
Create content to leverage major giving days, including Giving Tuesday and Missoula Gives.
Ability to learn and accurately use PetPoint, DonorPerfect, Constant Contact, Canva, and Wix.

Education and Experience:

Demonstrated experience in social and digital media.
Minimum associate degree in applied science or equivalent experience.

Additional Duties and Responsibilities:

Treat all animals humanely, with compassion and concern, both on and off the job and promote these values to others.
Assist and/or plan tours, fundraising activities, and special events as needed.
Answer telephone calls from the public in a professional manner, has the ability to direct calls to the proper person or department and initiates follow-ups.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Extensive knowledge in how to write effectively in multiple styles for different websites, Facebook, Instagram, etc.
Possesses in-depth knowledge and understanding of social media platforms and how each platform can be effectively deployed in different scenarios.
Adaptability in communication style based on organization’s mission within varying platforms.
High level of organization.
Knowledge and pertinent representation of organization’s mission.
Demonstrates creativity.
Displays ability to effectively communicate information and ideas.
Ability to monitor trends in social media tools, applications, channels, design, and strategies.
Clean driving record within the past year.

Physical Requirements:

Must be in good health. Any allergies that would be aggravated from exposure or through contact with animals or chemicals used to sanitize facilities may be a disqualification.
Must stand, walk, bend, and stoop frequently to perform duties. Must also have the ability to perform prolonged strenuous physical activity, including lifting and carrying objects weighing up to 50 pounds.

Working Conditions:

May be exposed to hostile or abusive members of the public. Must be able to deal with an often times emotion-charged public and carry a fast-paced and changing work load which at times can be stressful.
By nature of the job, there is occasional exposure to injured, sick, or dangerous animals in addition to exposure to parasites and infectious diseases.
Must be available and willing to work occasional weekends, overtime, and attend mandatory training and meetings as the employer determines are necessary or desirable to meet its needs.

Benefits:

Two paid sick days usable at the beginning of employment
Eligible for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program
Flexible work schedule as long as it meets the needs of the organization
Two weeks paid vacation after 1 year of employment

To Apply: Please send a cover letter & resume as one PDF to director@animeals.com. Please address correspondence to Ashley Lipscomb (she/her), Executive Director of AniMeals

Hiring Timeline: Applications will be accepted through April 9, 2024, or until the position is filled. Interviews will be held on a rolling basis until a suitable applicant is identified.

*The statements herein are indeed to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees, but are not a complete list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of AniMeals. Management has the right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

Title: Development Officer (Capital Campaign)

AniMeals No Kill Adoption Center and Animal Food Bank is looking to hire a dynamic self-starter with the skills and passion for the position of Fundraising Development. This position is a staff position in Missoula, MT.

Responsibilities will include funding and development strategy, implementation of strategies and grant writing; retaining and motivating existing donors while identifying, researching, cultivating, and soliciting new prospects, including, but not limited to, individuals, foundations, and corporations.

Demonstrated public relations and interpersonal skills with the ability to positively and respectfully communicate with people at all levels are a must. Must be able to plan, design, and deliver development programs, be proficient at problem-solving, team-building, have excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to speak publicly on behalf of AniMeals.

General Responsibilities:

Develop, implement, execute, and evaluate campaign fundraising, overall cultivation and solicitation strategies and moves management for campaign prospects.
Help develop, oversee, and coordinate overall fundraising efforts for AniMeals Capital Campaign, and support prospect development in alignment with the mission and cohesive campaign activities.
Prepare high quality donor correspondence including cultivation materials, direct mail, solicitation letters, grant proposals and reports, project budgets, and acknowledgement letters.
Oversee the implementation of the organization’s overall fund development growth, guided by the fundraising plan, campaign goals, and culture of philanthropy. Position has overall responsibility for the execution of the Capital Campaign, including prospecting for and cultivating lead gifts and major campaign gifts, managing donor relationships, providing support for the Executive Director’s campaign activities, and other campaign responsibilities as assigned. This position ensures the successful implementation of the campaign goals through the active management of a prospect portfolio of campaign donors.
The Development Officer is a key member of the Campaign Committee and serves as staff to this committee.
The position helps ensure a robust and diversified income stream that includes campaign contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations. This is a highly visible position and will be supervised and evaluated on overall performance and production.

Requirements

Excellent written and verbal communications.
Articulate what AniMeals does, project a positive image, and help generate community support for all aspects of the organization.
Work cooperatively and communicate effectively with staff, community partners, donors, and in public.
Maintain confidentiality with concern for donor and customer information.
Ensure that all development efforts follow AniMeals priorities and policies by coordinating efforts with the Executive Director and Board of Directors.
Prepare reports for campaign, major gifts, grants, and other fundraising efforts and present them to the Campaign Committee & Board of Directors.
Ensure appropriate recognition of contributors.
Manage a comprehensive, sustainable, long-term fund development program.

Minimum Qualifications:

Computer proficiency with donor databases and Windows-based software (Word, Excel, Email, and Internet)
3-5 years progressive experience in non-profit development positions with demonstrated success in fundraising and securing five- and six-figure gifts.
Broad knowledge of solicitation and prospecting strategies
Demonstrated ability to take initiative to get things done, drive to deliver excellent work and to help others succeed.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Donor Perfect or similar donor databases.
Experience with grant management software.

Pay, Hours: 40hrs/week. Salary range: DOE

Reports to: Executive Director/Board of Directors

Please send cover letter & resume as one PDF to director@animeals.com

Address all communications to Ashley Lipscomb, Executive Director