Role Description Are you interested in leveraging your expertise in direct response fundraising to help environmental, social justice and cultural arts organizations connect with people who care about meaningful causes? Would you like to collaborate with an award-winning, expert team of dedicated, fun, and passionate fundraising professionals? As a Senior Program Manager with Avalon Consulting Group, you’ll help a large non-profit organization achieve their financial goals by managing their complex direct mail fundraising campaigns from initial concept development and strategy through production to final campaign analytics and performing the following responsibilities: - Managing program strategy, budgets, costs, creative direction, and overall campaign development for a large, complex direct mail program. - Coordinating production process by working hands-on with printers, mail shops, and USPS. - Serving as day-to-day point of contact for your clients. - Analyzing response data and writing final campaign reports. - Drafting client reports and presentations. This is an opportunity to lead meaningful work, mentor talented colleagues, and help shape the success of mission-driven organizations. Qualifications - At least five (5) years of direct response fundraising experience. - Proficient in Microsoft Office programs including Teams, Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint. - Prior experience using collaboration tools like Monday.com and Teams is a plus. - Proven ability to organize and expertly manage multiple projects and deadlines. Requirements - Exceptional ability to work in teams and collaborate – both remotely and in person - with clients, partners, and peers. - Outstanding communication including active listening, persuasion, and remote meeting management. - Kindness, consideration, and the ability to foster positive, inclusive relationships with your colleagues. - Creativity and intellectual curiosity. - Ability to thrive in a fast-paced agency environment and keep cool under pressure. - Comfortable being “behind the scenes” in driving donor support. - Critical thinking and troubleshooting. - Consideration of strategic objectives alongside details and immediate concerns. Benefits - Comprehensive benefits package, including employer-paid health, dental, and vision insurance. - Generous paid leave. - Remote work reimbursements. - Employer-paid life and disability insurance. - Safe harbor 401(k) plan. - Budgeted salary range for this position is $65,000 to $75,000 annually, commensurate with experience. Company Description Avalon Consulting is committed to making the world a better place by helping our clients raise millions of dollars needed to fulfill their inspiring missions. We are proud to be a fully remote workplace, hiring the best fundraisers and marketers in the business, no matter where they live in the U.S. We value opportunities to come together for team and client meetings when needed. We are strategic, analytical, innovative, collaborative, and most of all, passionate about our work. Avalon is proud of our supportive and collaborative team environment that encourages professional development while recognizing the importance of flexibility and work-life balance. We are committed to fostering a culture that embraces differences every day and where each of our staff is supported and inspired to reach their full potential.

• Provide technical program management support to the Department of Commerce (DOC), International Trade Administration (ITA) • Oversee all aspects of field and/or task-level project performance (i.e., technical, contractual, administrative, financial) • Work on multiple projects simultaneously and supervise personnel involved in all aspects of project activity • Organize and assign responsibilities to subordinates • Ensure adherence to quality standards and review project deliverables • Manage integration of tasks and track project deliverables • Recommend actions to direct analysis and solutions of problems and exercise a high level of analytical skill in solving non-routine technical, administrative, and managerial problems. • Facilitate Agile ceremonies, gather and refine business requirements, and ensure cross-team alignment while managing risks, dependencies, and timelines.

• Build a working knowledge of the FDS team's data, tools, and AI capabilities, and become the trusted interface to it for Finance & Accounting stakeholders. • Partner with Finance & Accounting teams across strategic finance, corporate finance, revenue, accounting, and SOX to identify high-impact opportunities for the FDS team to build against. • Partner with the Finance Transformation team to assist with process redesign and solution implementation, with emphasis on AI native outcomes. • Deeply map workflows: data sources, current process, requirements, SOX controls, and constraints. Translate business requirements into clear functional and data requirements the FDS team can execute against. • Own delivery from scope through close: plan, coordinate, partner with the FDS team on execution, manage risk, and ship. • Own stakeholder relationships and communication from kickoff through rollout, including with VP-level partners. • Lead enablement: run training sessions, build internal docs, hold office hours, and provide rollout support so the tools we ship actually get used. • Continuously hunt for automation and AI opportunities across Finance & Accounting beyond the known backlog. • Coach Finance & Accounting partners on effective use of LLM tooling, agents, data, and automation patterns in their own work. Lead the uplift in AI, data, and automation fluency across the Finance org. • Partner with Finance leadership on planning, stakeholder engagement, and program execution.

• Develop program scope and objectives, collaborate with all relevant stakeholders, ensure technical feasibility and drive projects end-to-end • Aligning on staffing, priorities and technical dependencies within Guest & Host Tech and cross-functional teams like Payments, Trust Eng, Design and Product. • Manage Technical Design diligence process for large programs aligning design backlog w/ project plan, scheduling reviews and pre-reviews, engaging the right stakeholders across teams, and managing meeting quality and efficiency. • Manage effective communications to leadership and across teams on key decisions, status, and risks to ensure accountability and timeline management. • Understand best practices, drive for process improvements, and find new ways of operating, with a focus on simplification and productivity. • Provide visibility into key performance indicators so leaders are aware of risks and opportunities. • In this role, you will be expected to work independently with stakeholders and cross-functional leadership with little supervision from management.