Digital Fundraising & Advocacy Account Executive

We’re looking for an Account Executive to join our Digital Fundraising & Advocacy Area.

• 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.

We run digital fundraising, membership, and advocacy programs for our clients, which include lots of politically progressive groups like Planned Parenthood, League of Conservation Voters, and PETA, as well as cultural organizations we love, like the American Museum of Natural History. And our clients also include organizations 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.

• Work in a team to create and implement effective digital fundraising campaigns for clients.
• 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.
• Serve as the overall project manager for our work with the client, making sure all deliverables are on time and managing up and down as necessary to get the work done.
• Oversee the many details involved in launching email campaigns using Luminate, EveryAction, or whichever CRM your client uses.
• Distill email, web, advertising, and social campaign results into the important lessons that could change how a campaign performs.
• Help draft email, social, and web copy for fundraising, advocacy, and engagement campaigns.
• Review and/or create agendas, notes, calendars, and data reports for clients.
• Spearhead strategy documents such as campaign plans and wrap-up reports.
• Assign and review junior staff deliverables -- providing feedback, coaching, and guidance at every step.
• Do your part to help us run smoothly, including carefully tracking all of your hours.

• 2-4 years of digital fundraising experience, including managing a small-dollar email fundraising program for at least one year.
• Experience supporting the professional development of more junior staff or interns.
• Demonstrated ability to run meetings to identify project goals and ensure successful outcomes.
• Capability to crunch numbers in Excel and ability to interpret online fundraising metrics and translate them into key takeaways.
• Experience using eCRMs.
• Understanding of digital email writing best practices.

• 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.
• Able to work within equitable and inclusive decision making models in moving decisions and initiatives forward.

• Demonstrated ability to draft compelling, creative digital direct response copy.
• Have worked in an agency setting or at another consulting firm.
• Deep knowledge of best practices for digital organizing, digital advertising, direct mail, telemarketing, social media, and/or media relations.

This is an exempt, unionized position, represented by the Washington-Baltimore News Guild. The salary for this position is $80,000. 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.

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 accommodations@mrss.com or call 202-681-8743.