Partnerships & Faith Relations Senior Specialist

Overview:
One of the leading affordable housing nonprofits in the area, Habitat Charlotte Region partners with hundreds of families each year through affordable homeownership, home preservation and financial literacy training. As a Partnerships & Faith Relations Senior Specialist, you’ll play an integral role in our vision of a world where everyone has a safe and affordable place to live.

Why join Habitat?
• Competitive salary and benefits
• Industry-leading healthcare, dental, vision, flexible spending accounts (healthcare and dependent care)
• Work/life balance supported by generous PTO
• Career development and promotion opportunities
• Casual working environment
• Retirement planning – a 403(b) with 3% organizational match

Position purpose:
The Partnerships and Faith Relations Senior Specialist is a frontline fundraising position. The Senior Specialist will be focused primarily on expanding the affiliate’s programmatic success through the strategic growth and stewardship of faith partnerships, with a secondary focus on lower-level corporate partnerships.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential functions:
• Identify, cultivate, solicit and steward a portfolio of faith partners and low-level corporate partners
• New and existing faith partners
• New and existing corporate partners, primarily those donating <$5,000 annually
• Work in cooperation with Partnerships team to meet, and potentially exceed, fundraising goals
• Execute Habitat Charlotte Region’s current partnership process, ensuring organizational donors receive benefits and recognition in a timely manner, actively engaging and stewarding them in order to continue movement through the development cycle
• Serve as the primary liaison for Habitat Charlotte Region’s faith relationships, managing and executing faith and community coalition builds
• Serve as liaison between internal departments (family services, construction) to ensure a positive engagement experience for all partners in portfolio
• Attend build starts and house dedications for each partner in portfolio
• Represent Habitat at community and corporate events as needed in collaboration with the Community & Veteran Outreach Coordinator
• Coordinate Days of Service with Community, Corporate and Faith partners as needed
• Support team members when needed or any other development-related duties as assigned by the Senior Partnerships Manager and/or the Director of Development for Partnerships & Community Engagement