Salary Range: $50,000 - $65,000

About the Food Bank of Delaware

The mission of the Food Bank of Delaware is to provide nutritious foods to Delawareans in need and facilitate long-term solutions to the problems of hunger and poverty through community education and advocacy.

The Food Bank’s team is dedicated to building community awareness and creating an efficient food distribution network to eliminate hunger in Delaware. Staff and volunteers are committed to embodying the Food Bank’s values in all activities. Relationships are based upon collaboration and respect and resources are leveraged in a manner that is strategic and cost-effective in order to achieve the Food Bank’s mission and goals.

Over the last 40 years, the Food Bank has expanded its scope of services building on partnerships with hunger-relief organizations while at the same time bringing new programs and services to alleviate hunger and provide education and training. With locations in both Newark and Milford, the Food Bank, a member of Feeding America, will continue to expand and extend its programs and services to communities in its quest to create a community free of hunger.

Position Summary 

The Food Bank of Delaware’s Special Events Manager plans and manages the Food Bank’s internally-focused special events portfolio and executes FBD’s 3rd party (i.e. externally-facing) community events portfolio. As part of a growing development team focused on fundraising throughout Delaware, the Special Events Coordinator is primarily responsible for driving significant revenue growth through careful planning and execution of events. 

The Special Events Manager will be supervised by the Director of Major Gifts and Special Events and work collaboratively with the leadership team, Board of Directors and community partners to fully execute the organization’s portfolio of external and 3rd party events to raise funds and awareness in support of the Food Bank of Delaware’s mission.  

Major Responsibilities and Essential Functions

• Develop and implement an internally-focused special events portfolio including Golf Tournament, Forks on the Farm, Farmer and the Chef, donor/volunteer appreciation events and annual fall fundraising events as created.
• Provide logistics support for Culinary School pop-up and other public facing events across the organization. 
• Identify new opportunities to raise revenue and awareness of the organization’s statewide impact and how the community can best support our fundraising efforts.
• Coordinate and execute all aspects of event management, including volunteer recruitment and development, event logistics, communication and vendor coordination.
• Collaborate with the Communications Director and/or outside vendors in the development of marketing materials for events.
• Develop and implement external third party sponsored special events portfolio including: third party fundraisers, community food drives, external volunteer opportunities, community awareness events and virtual food drives.
• Educate and steward third party fundraisers to maximize potential revenue.
• Develop and manage event budgets to ensure events produce significant net results.
• Cultivate and maintain relationships with community partners to raise funds and awareness.
• Establish and maintain an annual events calendar.

Qualifications and Experience

• Strong computer skills
• Keen attention to detail
• Familiarity with MS Word and Excel is required
• Data entry experience preferred
• Three to five years of events management experience, ideally in a non-profit environment
• Strong experience in fund raising, community engagement and vendor management preferred
• Four-year college degree preferred

Competencies

• Interface with staff members, the leadership team and occasionally the Board of Directors as well as work with community partners
• Superior interpersonal skills
• Organizational skills and the ability to prioritize multiple projects

Physical Requirements

• Working at a computer workstation, generally with a monitor, will be required.
• Occasional exposure to warehouse and commercial kitchen environments.
• Protective equipment must be worn when and where required.
• May require sitting, bending, lifting (up to 20 pounds), squatting and other minimal physical activity.

How to Apply

Please send resumes and cover letters to Joy Hudson, jhudson@fbd.org.