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# Development Manager (Los Angeles, CA)

- **Company:** American Diabetes Association
- **Location:** Los Angeles, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Salary:** $50,000.0 - $150,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Mining, Peer-To-Peer (P2P)
- **Published:** November 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=a54c02edbfa570a4

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree
 * 1+ years of professional experience empowering individuals through peer-to-peer fundraising, events, and volunteerism.
 * Ability to present ADA's mission and how to get involved with groups of all sizes
 * Ability to recruit and lead a group of volunteers to support event day execution.
 * Demonstrated experience recruiting individuals to support an organization
 * Demonstrated ability to mobilize and motivate individuals to achieve goals
 * Demonstrated ability to identify opportunities for growth in relationships
 * Ability to organize time effectively and manage multiple tasks simultaneously
 * Initiative and independence, combined with the ability to work well as part of a team
 * Strong interpersonal skills and ability to interact professionally with a variety of constituencies
 * Excellent verbal and written skills, creativity, independent judgment, attention to detail, accuracy, strong editing skills, and follow-through.
 * Knowledge of software including Microsoft, DonorDrive (or other P2P platforms), and CRM.
 * Ability to travel as needed for meetings and events required
 * Must be able to work occasional nights and weekends as needed to support events.
 * Reliable transportation for travel
 * Ability to occasionally lift and/or move up to fifteen pounds
 * Must live within 50 miles of Los Angeles, CA

## Description

A successful candidate will manage and steward a portfolio of small corporate teams, friends and family teams, individual participants, and lead a volunteer committee supporting the execution of event day. The ideal candidate must have a proven record of success in peer-to-peer fundraising, volunteer management, and relationship development., Fundraising and Relationship Building

 * Ability to manage and review daily campaign data through reports, dashboards, and revenue analysis identifying opportunities to capitalize on drive campaign revenue.
 * Manages a peer-to-peer fundraising portfolio generating $50,000 - $150,000 annually.
 * Regularly monitor the performance of a fundraising portfolio to ensure timely responsiveness to new registrants, accurate forecasting, recognize fundraising and recruitment milestones, and maximize retention & revenue.
 * Data mining resulting in the identification and acquisition of participants, team captains, corporate partners, sponsors, and community leaders.
 * Maintain accurate and complete records of donor interactions within systems and trackers. Ensure that contacts, next steps, and tasks are consistently and accurately captured in donor records and central files.
 * Comfortable with managing $5k+ corporate and friends & family teams.
 * Supports other fundraising events, activities, and programs as assigned.

Volunteer Engagement

 * Staff lead for Event Day volunteer committee tasked with event day participant experience responsible for key event day execution including, VIP experience, participation living with diabetes, event day volunteers, in-kind support, and other local event day opportunities. ADA has full-service event production support.
 * Supports the development of the market's local pipeline of constituents and event leaders, to drive market activity.

Mission Integration

 * Identify and implement marketing opportunities, partnerships, influencer relationships, and other opportunities to increase ADA's presence and awareness within assigned market territory that drive business goals.
 * Supports and maintains the vision, mission, priorities, and guiding principles of ADA.