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Stand Together is a dynamic and mission-driven organization committed to driving positive social change and empowering individuals to overcome barriers. Join our team and be part of a collaborative community that values innovation, personal responsibility, and the power of bottom-up solutions. Together, we will create a society that fosters opportunity, dignity, and well-being for all.
Are you excited by the prospect of applying your fundraising expertise to an organization tackling some of the nation's most complex challenges? We are looking for a copywriter to join our innovative fundraising team.
As a copywriter on the Development team, you will be responsible for supporting a highly personalized experience for donor partners through writing tailored emails, stewardship reports, and proposals.
In this role, you'll create new content and leverage existing communications to write compelling proposals, stewardship, and strategic communications that match the motivations of donor partners with Stand Together's philanthropic strategies - inspiring them to go bigger and bolder through their leadership with Stand Together.
To succeed in this role, you've mastered producing clear, concise and credible narratives for executive audiences. You have a unique ability to tell a story through written materials and you have the creative skills to think outside-the-box to inspire action.
Your Responsibilities Include
- Write, and edit proposals and stewardship content for individual donors
- Draft communications to keep donors informed on their impact with Stand Together in a timely manner
- Draft tailored communications for event recruitment, retention, prep, and follow up
- Manage legal review process for all created content
Knowledge and Skills You Bring to the Organization - 5+ years of professional writing experience, preferably supporting fundraising or business development efforts.
- Excellent writing, editing and proofreading skills.
- Demonstrated ability to synthesize complex strategies into a concise and persuasive narrative.
- Ability to adapt voice and style for letters and emails from different signers.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Proven experience in proactively driving multiple concurrent projects to completion through continuous transformation and an entrepreneurial approach.
- High level of humility and integrity.
- Proficient with technology including MS Office suite of products, Adobe, Workfront, etc.
What We Offer - A meaningful career where your work will improve the lives of millions of Americans - especially the least fortunate.
- A vision-driven organization of over 1,000 employees across the country who are dedicated to improving the lives of others.
- Competitive salaries and bonuses. Our salary and bonus strategies are aligned to the value you create, not a standardized bell curve.
- Generous 401K match - 6% match with immediate vesting.
- Competitive health and wellness benefits.
- Our flexible time-off policy allows all employees to take leave as needed.
- Commuter assistance plans to offset the cost of commuting into our headquarters (on-site parking or metro).
- Opportunities for professional development and mentorship that can strengthen your effectiveness through Principle Based Management and other industry specific programs.
Stand Together helps social entrepreneurs supercharge their efforts to help people improve their lives. We connect them with passionate partners and the resources necessary to make a greater difference. Through our philanthropic community, we tackle some of the nation's biggest challenges so that every person has the opportunity to realize their extraordinary potential. Stand Together partners with people from diverse perspectives and backgrounds-including people in education, business, community non-profits, and public policy-to accomplish more together than any of us could on our own.
Our Values Working at Stand Together is different from many other organizations. We have a relentless commitment to a culture based on a business philosophy called Principle Based Management (PBM ). Informed by the principles that allow a free and open society to flourish, PBM prepares individuals to innovate, improve, and transform while fostering a healthy, growing organization that creates long-term value for its clients and supporters and fulfillment for its employees.
We believe that diversity in experiences, perspectives, knowledge and ideas fuels creativity, broadens knowledge, and helps drive success. That's why we're proud to be an equal opportunity employer and strive to treat all employees and applicants with honesty, dignity, respect and sensitivity. We welcome all qualified applicants regardless of color,race, religion, religious creed, sex, gender or gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, ethnicity, ancestry, age, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy (including medical needs which may arise from pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), military and veteran status, genetic information, marital or familial status, political affiliation, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances.