South Deputy Finance Director at Democratic National Committee

Position Overview

The South Deputy Finance Director assists the South Finance Director in overseeing major donor fundraising efforts across a twelve-state region: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. This full-time, exempt, on-site position is based in Washington, DC, reports to the South Finance Director, and is in the bargaining unit represented by SEIU Local-500.

The Deputy Director works closely with their Finance Director to create and implement a region-specific finance plan and is responsible for identifying, cultivating, and maintaining relationships with the top donors in their region.

Responsibilities/Duties

• Identifying hosts and executing events with principals and surrogates in their region.
• Providing support for the execution of travel in the region including scheduling donor meetings and creating briefing memos.
• Assisting in the execution of fundraising events in the region.
• Assisting the Regional Finance Director in maintaining donor relationships.
• Performing research to identify prospective new major donors and raisers and working to re-engage lapsed donors.
• Creating and managing a tracking system for all donors.
• Creating and managing a finance email program to keep major donors informed and engaged.
• Providing support to the Regional Finance Director as needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field.
• 2-3 years of related work experience.
• Detail oriented and proficient in Excel.
• Working knowledge of NGP database preferred.
• Experience working on campaign or political committee fundraising teams for 1-2 cycles preferred.
• Required travel (up to 1-15% of the time) and availability to work occasional evenings and weekends.

Preferred Skills

• Detail-oriented.
• Strong written and verbal communication and organizational skills.
• Some political campaign experience.
• Strong and engaging interpersonal skills.

Benefits & Culture

The DNC is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity among its staff. The organization offers a generous benefit package, including:

• Generous paid time off, including federal holidays and open leave.
• Health and dental insurance for employee and dependents; 90% paid by the DNC.
• Supplementary vision plans available for purchase.
• Up to a 5% employer match DNC 401(k) plan.
• Pre-tax flexible spending account benefits.