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The American Heart Association has an excellent opportunity for a Region Vice President, Consulting & Training within the Western States Region.

This remote role is open to candidates located within the Western States region (Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington), with a preference for individuals who have convenient access to a major airport and can travel efficiently across the territory. The position requires regular travel within the region, as well as occasional travel outside the territory for events, trainings, meetings, and conferences, which may include overnight stays and weekend commitments.

Reporting to the Associate EVP, this position is responsible for working closely with Western States and National Development leaders and staff to develop and manage the region’s event revenue execution plan for core fundraising campaigns including Heart Challenge, Heart Ball and Go Red For Women, providing the field with consultation, training and business intelligence. This includes analyzing campaign data and trends, recommending and facilitating strategies and tactics with the Executive Directors and developing, facilitating and evaluating functional training and education for Development and Field Operations staff. The Vice President manages the Development Consulting team as well as directly consults with identified markets on campaigns, planning and evaluations, market visits and ongoing revenue driving strategies based on best practices and organizational business plans. The overall responsibility is to directly drive and support the region’s overall fundraising capacity with aggressive growth across revenue streams and achieving overall region and association-wide goals.

The Association offers many resources to help you maintain work-life harmonization through your changing needs and life situations. To help you be successful, you will have access to Heart U, our award-winning corporate university, as well as additional training and support, locally.

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Campaign Strategy

• Works closely with the AEVP, SVPs, Field Operations and Development, and national staff to develop strategies and implementation plans for existing and emerging campaigns to ensure maximum revenue, considering return on investment, staff and volunteer capacity, and operational requirements.
• Develops and supports implementation of strategies to grow the base of support through the acquisition, cultivation/renewal of company teams, event participants and individual donors. Continually assesses the effectiveness of plans, determining and communicating course corrections as needed, and ensuring that tools, resources, and training align with the successful execution of agreed-upon plans.

Field Consultation and Management

• Oversees field consulting for Field Operations and Development and directly consults to identified markets.
• Orchestrates consulting plan for campaigns with a focus on top revenue and benchmark performance. Drives specific actions and plans that have the best potential to move them toward the goal. 
• As a player/coach, develops/innovates, adopts, implements, facilitates, and evaluates effective methods to improve the competencies and capabilities of Development staff in achieving donor engagement, volunteer leadership, and revenue goals.
• Oversees and directly implements regular strategy meetings to ensure that best practices are effectively leveraged, timelines are understood and met, and gaps, potential issues and contingency plans are identified and acted upon.
• Ensures close, regular communication with SVPs and Executive Directors so that action plans are understood and agreed upon.

Region-Wide Development Project Management

• Support the region’s ability to innovate new solutions and optimize existing practices by project managing concepts from ideation to execution and evaluation. Includes synthesizing ideas from brainstorming discussions, defining them into actionable plans and implementing them through effective collaboration and communication.

Business Intelligence

• Regularly analyzes campaign reports and indicators to identify flags at the region, market and campaign level. Raises flags and provides recommendations for the senior management team to determine appropriate actions. Prepares campaign/revenue reports and materials for Board and Management presentations and meetings. Ensures the integrity and security of donor information and adheres to established policies and procedures.

Core Training

• Oversees and directly implements orientation and training to most effectively meet learning objectives within budget.

Internal Alignment

• Ensure collaboration and alignment with national and regional departments and serve as the lead liaison with national consultants and the Western States team. Determine, recommend and implement communication plans, strategy sharing and consistent messaging to field staff.

• 5 years minimum of prior experience and 5 years of supervisory experience.
• Demonstrated track record in setting and achieving aggressive fundraising goals on a sustained basis.
• Experience recruiting, engaging and activating executive level corporate and medical volunteers
• Ability to influence others to action through creating a shared vision and sense of ownership and personal accountability.
• Proven ability to think strategically, analyze market data, identify key trends and have participated in the strategy development and execution of initiatives to achieve fundraising and operational goals.
• Ability to credibly establish and execute a strategic plan across functional areas and disciplines in a complex and highly dynamic environment, effectively translating strategies to measurable goals and plans.
• Highly skilled in organizational communication, change management, process management, team building, conflict resolution, and organizational agility.
• University/College degree or equivalent experience

Here are some of the preferred experience and skills we are seeking:

• Supervisory experience preferred.

Expected pay range will be $120,600 to $160,800 annually. Pay is commensurate with experience; geographic differentials to the pay range may apply. The American Heart Association reserves the right to pay more or less than the posted range.

The American Heart Association invests in its people. Here are the main components of our total rewards package. Visit Rewards & Benefits to see more details.

• Compensation – Our goal is to ensure you have a competitive base salary. That’s why we regularly review the market value of jobs and make adjustments, as needed.
  
  
• Performance and Recognition – You are rewarded for achieving success through annual salary planning and incentive programs; this position is incentive eligible based on achieving certain targets.
  
  
• Benefits – We offer a wide array of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance, along with a robust retirement program that includes an employer match and automatic contribution. As a mark of our commitment to employee well-being, we also offer an employee assistance program, employee wellness program and telemedicine, and medical consultation.
  
  
• Professional Development – You can join one of our many Employee Resource Groups (ERG) or be a mentor/mentee in our professional mentoring program. Heart U is the Association’s national online university, with more than 100,000 resources designed to meet your needs and busy schedule.
  
  
• Work-Life Harmonization – The Association offers Paid Time Off (PTO) at a minimum of 16 days per year for new employees. The number of days will increase based on seniority level. You will also have a total of 12 paid holidays off each year, which includes several days off at the end of the year.
  
  
• Tuition Assistance - We support the career development of all employees. This program provides financial assistance to employees who wish to further their education and career in relation to their current duties and responsibilities, or for potential future positions in the organization.

The American Heart Association’s 2028 Goal: Building on over 100 years of trusted leadership in cardiovascular and brain health, by 2028 the Association will drive breakthroughs and implement proven solutions in science, policy, and care for healthier people and communities. The greatest discoveries in health must reach everyone where they are.

At American Heart Association | American Stroke Association, our mission is to be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, age, language, sexual orientation, national origin and physical or cognitive abilities.

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