About M+R We’re looking for a <position> to join our <area> Area. When you come work with us, here’s what you’ll find: Work that is meaningful. We are a fast-paced, deadline-driven consulting firm that only works with nonprofit clients who are essential to advancing the cause of justice, alleviating suffering, and solving the greatest challenges we face. Commitment to Anti-Racism, Equity, and Inclusion (AEI). We envision an anti-oppressive workplace that ensures an inclusive employee experience, promotes equitable outcomes for staff, and supports clients to center accessibility and anti-racism in their programs. Colleagues you can count on. Kind, dedicated, passionate people who work collaboratively to get things done and help you do your best. An organization that embraces change. We strive to improve and adapt and always seek new ways that we can contribute to a just, inclusive, and sustainable world. We are also continually working on making M+R a better place for our staff. So that’s us. Now about the work: • We run digital fundraising, membership, and advocacy programs for our clients. Lots of politically progressive groups like Planned Parenthood, League of Conservation Voters, and PETA. Cultural organizations we love, like the American Museum of Natural History. And many causes that are working in the most dire situations in the world such as the International Rescue Committee. • Day-to-day, we’re figuring out how to find, recruit, and retain supporters in order to raise revenue, win campaigns, and build brand recognition and loyalty for our clients. Here’s what you’ll be doing in this role: • Work with clients and colleagues to help conceive successful digital fundraising, advocacy, and engagement strategies. • Maintain the client relationship by staying in close contact with clients throughout the day via email and phone, leading weekly check-in calls, and presenting at big strategy meetings. • Be accountable for our overall work with the client, making sure deliverables are moving the client to achieve their goals, and jumping in to project manage as needed, managing up and down as necessary to get the work done. • Develop compelling content by drafting and editing email fundraising appeals, action alerts, website content, social media and ad copy, and other digital creative. • Oversee the many details involved in launching campaigns using your client’s email and/or SMS tools, including pitching in with quality assurance when things are busy. • Devise testing plans and distill email, web, advertising, and social campaign data into the important lessons that could change how a campaign performs. • Assign and review the work of junior staff on each client team, providing feedback, coaching, and guidance at every step. • Devise new systems for our team to share knowledge, innovate strategies, and grow as fundraisers. • Drive conversations and processes that help build inclusive spaces within your teams and across M+R. • Do your part to help us run smoothly - including carefully tracking all of your client hours. Skills and experiences required for this role: • 5-7 years work experience, including 5+ years in digital fundraising. • Experience managing a small-dollar online fundraising program for a non-profit or an electoral campaign, or consulted on them at an agency. • Demonstrated ability to develop and implement cross-channel digital strategies (email, advertising, organic social, SMS). • Extensive experience drafting and editing fundraising creative, with a particular emphasis on email and landing page copy. • Experience integrating digital fundraising with offline direct response fundraising (direct mail and telemarketing). • Demonstrated ability to run meetings to identify project goals and ensure successful outcomes. • Experience supporting the professional development of more junior staff or interns. • Ability to communicate persuasively in a way that articulates your ideas and conveys your expertise, whether on the phone, in-person, or in writing. Skills and experiences we expect of all M+R employees: • Demonstrated commitment to anti-racism, equity, and inclusion. • Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively to gain trust and give respect to others through honesty, integrity, kindness, empathy, and authenticity. • Acute attention to detail and demonstrated ability to prioritize time to meet deadlines for multiple projects. • Proven track record to successfully pick up new skills, including learning new technologies. • Drive to seek what can be improved and offer ways to fix any potential roadblocks. • Comfort admitting what you don’t know and recognizing that feedback is part of the learning process. • Strong ability to relay your ideas clearly verbally and in writing. • Able to work within equitable and inclusive decision making models in moving decisions and initiatives forward. Skills and experiences that are preferred, but not required: • Experience developing effective ad creative for direct response. • Experience running integrated fundraising campaigns that leverage paid strategies such as programmatic display and video, paid social, and/or paid search. • Have worked in an agency setting or at another consulting firm. Salary and benefits: This is an exempt, unionized position, represented by the Washington-Baltimore News Guild. The salary for this position is $111,925. As part of M+R’s commitment to compensation equity and transparency, we have a no-negotiation policy. Salary negotiations can introduce bias and perpetuate wage inequality. Staff at M+R who successfully meet their performance expectations have regular opportunities for promotion with accompanying increases in compensation. We also offer a generous benefits package: • A 36-hour workweek with half-day Fridays and scheduling flexibility; • Three weeks of vacation and 17 paid sick days; • Medical, dental, and vision benefits with premiums fully paid for by M+R for individual employees; • 401(k) plan; • Discretionary profit-sharing contributions; • Annual $1,250 professional development stipend for qualified educational expenses; • Flexible Spending Accounts for medical, dependent care, and transit; • 11 holidays and a Mid-summer break the week of July 4; • Exceptional paid Parental, Personal Medical & Family Caregiving leave policies. The fine print: M+R is currently able to hire candidates who reside in the following states: AK, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, ID, IL, KS, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MO, MT, NE, NV, NH, NJ, NY, NC, OH, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, VT, VA, DC, WA, WI, WY. If you do not live in a state where we are currently registered, we may not be able to hire you for a currently open position. However, we welcome you to apply and if we are able to hire in your state we will contact you. Staff working from an M+R office must be vaccinated against COVID-19, and all staff will be asked to provide their vaccine status. To apply, use the button on this page. No calls, please. Our Hiring Process: We aim to be transparent and efficient in our hiring process. Each question you will be asked throughout our hiring process ties directly back to one of the skills and experiences listed above. In each interview, you will be asked to provide examples of these skills and experiences or how you would draw on your experience to handle a scenario commonly found at M+R. Our typical hiring process includes: 1) Phone Interview 2) Written Skills Assessment 3) Video Interview(s) 4) Reference Check Depending on logistics and scheduling, our hiring process generally takes about 6 weeks from phone interview to a job offer. There is no application deadline; we review applications on a rolling basis. M+R has developed an application stage informational document that some candidates may find helpful. We let candidates know after each step in the process, once we’ve made a decision, whether they are moving forward to the next stage or not, so candidates know the status of their application. If you need accommodations for this application process or any of the hiring process steps listed above, please email [email protected] or call 202-681-8743.