Media relations director job description

Insight is seeking an Investor Relations Director.In this role, you will handle all matters related to the investors that bridge the gap between Insight Executive team and investors including roles related to strategy, business plan, budget, and annual results
What you'll do:

Lead overall Investor Relations function Develop and execute an Investor Relations plan that supports our transformation to leading Solutions Integrator Lead and coordinate all activities associated with our Investor Day presentations Manage quarterly earnings process and earnings conference call including earnings slides, executive scripts, press release, guidance modeling and Q&A Monitor and analyze key peer announcements and earnings results; Summarize for CEO/CFO and key executives Maintain and develop presentations and related scripts for investor conferences, road shows, corporate communications and other activities Regular investor meetings/phone calls, responding to investor inquiries, analyst estimates Ad Hoc presentations for CFO and VP's as needed, including analyst research summaries Proactively monitors analysts estimates and price targets Assists others in the preparation of CFO presentations from Board of Directors, Town Hall meetings, Financial Analyst Conference, Ex-com, and as requested throughout the year Build strong relationships with external stakeholders including rating agencies, investors, and research analysts and provide a feedback loop to internal partners Provide senior management with feedback related to discussions with the investment community, commentary regarding events within the market and industry
What you'll need:

8+ years of IR within the Solutions Integrator or VAR space Bachelor's degree or higher in Finance, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Business, or related field required Public technology company investor relations experience Understanding of financial statements and public company reporting requirements and mechanisms Strong analytical skills Experience interacting with investment bankers, institutional investors, and research analysts Comfortable being both an individual contributor and team player Excellent presentation and writing skills
The position described above provides a summary of some the job duties required and what it would be like to work at Insight. For a comprehensive list of physical demands and work environment for this position, click here.

Today, every business is a technology business. Insight Enterprises, Inc. empowers organizations of all sizes with Insight Intelligent Technology Solutions™ and services to maximize the business value of IT. As a Fortune 500-ranked global provider of digital innovation, cloud/data center transformation, connected workforce, and supply chain optimization solutions and services, we help clients successfully manage their IT today while transforming for tomorrow. From IT strategy and design to implementation and management, our 11,000 teammates help clients innovate and optimize their operations to run smarter. Discover more at insight.com

Founded in 1988 in Tempe, Arizona 11,000+ teammates in 19 countries providing Insight Intelligent Technology Solutions™ for organizations across the globe $8.3 billion in revenue in 2020 Ranked #409 on the Fortune 500, #15 on the CRN Solution Provider 500, 2020 CRN Innovator of the Year Award 2020 Intel Innovation Partner of Year, 2020 Microsoft U.S. Partner of the Year and Worldwide Customer Experience Partner of the Year Ranked #7 on the 2021 Fortune World's Most Admired Companies (Information Technology Services industry), #70 on the Fortune 100 Best Workplaces for Diversity, #296 on Forbes World's Best Employers (#27 within IT), and #5 on the Phoenix Business Journal 2020 list of Best Places to Work Signatory of the United Nations (UN) Global Compact and Affiliate Member of the Responsible Business Alliance
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Insight is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law.

Posting Notes: Tempe || Arizona (US-AZ) || United States (US) || None || None || US - Tempe, AZ ||


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Phoenix

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Financial Analyst, Investment, Manager, Corporate Communications, Supply Chain, Finance, Management, Marketing, Operations

• Training/Certifications
  • Bachelor’s degree
  • 8 or more years of experience in related professional work setting

ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE

• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills; ability to draft succinct messaging for various audiences on a number of subjects, some of which are highly technical
• Ability to execute media messaging and outreach, at times under significant time constraints, that both engage mainstream media and concisely represents the association’s position
• Ability to organize, manage, and direct advocacy and issue-focused media and consumer-facing campaigns and outreach programs
• Experience with online advocacy strategies, including grassroots mobilization a plus
• Ability to present the association’s key messages in interviews while anticipating and appropriately reacting to confrontational, anti-industry perspectives
• Advanced understanding of how to engage in social media and the digital landscape to achieve communications objectives
• Experience with staffing senior executives and writing C-Suite communications materials

ESSENTIAL COMPETENCIES & BEHAVIORS

• Strong management skills and ability to delegate, supervise, provide resources, and oversee goal setting for direct reports
• Exceptional interpersonal skills; ability to negotiate, build relationships, influence others, and work cooperatively with internal and external groups
• Flexibility to address 24-hour media cycle and media inquiries inside and outside of regular working hours
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize work to meet deadlines in fast-paced environment
• Industrious, self-motivated, and able to work well independently as well as with all levels of professionals in pursuit of a final goal
• Strong ability to work collaboratively to elicit cooperation from variety of sources
• Demonstrate a willingness to embrace change and adapt strategies as needed, focusing on action and outcomes
• Demonstrate leadership in addressing issues and challenges proactively and as they arise

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The fast-paced nature of this position for Growth Energy requires a consistent office presence. Employees are generally expected to maintain regular and punctual attendance. Employees may also need to work varied extended hours as projects demand and during organization events which can include nights and weekends, as business needs dictate. Some travel required.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

Sitting/standing/lifting/keyboarding/etc.

Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) seeks a Director of Donor Relations. This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled individual to join the Institutional Advancement (IA) team who is responsible for engaging RISD's alumni, parents, students, and donors in meaningful ways, while cultivating relationships and raising money from a variety of sources to support the priorities of the college.

The Director of Donor Relations is responsible for providing leadership and a strategic vision for strengthening donor relationships through comprehensive engagement, stewardship, and recognition programs. The director manages a team of professionals who execute a robust donor relations program that includes donor acknowledgements, fund reporting, and donor-centric stewardship and recognition opportunities across multiple platforms. The director adheres to industry best practices and incorporates creativity to partner with gift officers and colleagues to develop and execute ongoing donor-centric stewardship and recognition strategies for RISD's most generous donors.

Our students and alumni are diverse, coming from a wide range of geographic, socioeconomic, and cultural backgrounds, representing all forms of diversity. As such, the Director of Donor Relations must be culturally competent in order to thrive in a campus environment that advances principles of social equity and inclusion, equal access to resources and opportunities, and recognizes diversity and inclusion as central to excellence.
Essential Functions
Creates the vision for the Donor Relations Office soliciting feedback from fundraising officers to design and implement an integrated donor relations program, developing a strategic roadmap that emphasizes meaningful interactions with prospective and current donors before, during and after completion of the gift. Provides guidance and oversight in the expansion of the multi-year strategic and comprehensive donor programs plan to identify and deliver coordinated and integrated baseline communications to individual donors.Leads, manages and mentors a team of donor relations professionals who execute a robust program that includes donor acknowledgements, fund reporting and donor-centric stewardship and recognition opportunities, including the 1877 Society, Jesse + Helen Rowe Metcalf Society and the Centennial Society. Directs and oversees the team's stewardship assignments and priorities to help ensure a manageable portfolio of work.Working with senior fundraisers and management, faculty members, curators and administrators to create and facilitate strategic and individualized stewardship plans to ensure that leading donors feel engaged and recognized, understand the impact of their gifts, and feel that they are helping RISD successfully reach its goals. This involves active and ongoing networking across campus and high-level strategic thinking as well as the ongoing evaluation of stewardship processes and the development of best practices for top donor stewardship and recognition.Serves as stewardship officer for RISD's top 100 stewarded donors, which includes facilitating high-touch campus visits, bespoke stewardship reporting, procuring donor gifts and planning presidential dinners and other high-touch events.Provides input to the Director of Advancement Communications to produce written narrative reports, financial fund reports and other bespoke communications for top donors based on their preferences and gift designations. This involves partnerships with faculty leaders, including the provost, deans, department heads and named professors, curators, and members of the cabinet to draft and edit written communications to top donors.Collaborates with the Director of Special Events, is responsible for the execution of annual donor events, including but not limited to, scholarship and professorship dinners and other donor stewardship events. Explore and evaluate additional stewardship and cultivation events for appropriateness at RISD as needed.Works in partnership with the Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations (CFR) to ensure timely stewardship of grants and corporate gifts and to help facilitate site visits from CFR donors.Partners with the Recording Secretary, the Office of Financial Aid and other offices to ensure donor intent is being met in the expenditure of funds and, when needed, works with fundraising staff to gain donor consent for the re-purposing of funds.Creates a comprehensive donor relations campaign plan, seeking input from the Executive Director, Campaign Planning and Strategy and other members of the Senior Management Group as directed.Develops and assesses policies and procedures across the division and RISD that are essential for a comprehensive donor relations program. Evaluates stewardship processes for major gifts and develops best practices for top donor stewardship and recognition.Creates a quantitative and qualitative measurement system to evaluate the effectiveness and success of all stewardship, donor relations and recognition programs in alignment with fundraising managers and the Advancement Communications Office to ensure uniform messaging.

Additional Functions:
Serves as an expert resource to benchmark and institutionalize comprehensive, integrated donor relations and stewardship best practices across campus to support fundraising goals and initiatives.Staff and support key RISD campus events, including but not limited to the annual Celebration of Scholarships dinner, professorships dinner, RISD Weekend, Founders Day and Commencement + Reunion Weekend.May occasionally hire, supervise and acclimate work study students and interns to assist in department activities.Perform other related assignments as requested.

Knowledge/Skills/Experience
Bachelor's degree required; master's degree preferred.Minimum of 10 years of related experience in fundraising, donor relations, communications or a related field. Preference given to candidates with experience in higher education or nonprofit stewardship activities.Ability to work and communicate effectively with a broad spectrum of divisional and institutional colleagues, within an environment that values diversity, equity and inclusion.Experience managing and supervising professional staff, interns or leadership volunteers is preferred.Well-honed writing, editing, research and analytical skills required.Knowledge of, and interest in staying current in, the principles and techniques relevant to donor-centric major gift fundraising.Must possess strong interpersonal skills, high EQ and superb first-in-class customer service and communications skills.Demonstrated expertise in the use of Microsoft Office, Adobe, CRM/database and Google Apps (G Suite) and Asana, or similar project management collaboration tools.Proven success in the planning, organizing and executing projects with multiple internal and external stakeholders.Superlative diplomatic and communication skills, including an ability to work and communicate effectively with a broad spectrum of constituents (individual donors, alumni, business leaders, public figures, college leadership, faculty and staff), within a broad range of cultural environments.Ability to build and manage relationships with a variety of constituents across all levels of institution.Ability to anticipate unexpected issues and needs and to react quickly, calmly and confidently so as to instill trust and confidence.Ability to manage multiple projects, priorities and deadlines. Capability to work independently and collaboratively with moderate supervision.

Union
No

Work Schedule
35 hours/week; 12 months/year

Employment Status
Full-Time; Exempt

Grade
08/AD

Documents Needed to Apply
Resume (required)
Cover Letter (required)

Incomplete applications will not be considered. Please upload all required documents.

The successful candidate will be required to meet our pre-employment background screening requirements.

RISD recognizes diversity and inclusivity as fundamental to its learning community and integral to an art and design education. We welcome candidates whose experience has prepared them to contribute to our commitment to diversity and excellence. RISD is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, or any other protected characteristic as established by law.

For internal use only - Job Family:
Development - Fundraising