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1. Tell us about your interest in working at Trevor. Tell us about your interest in the Community Philanthropy Manager, Integrated Campaigns and what skills you think that you bring to the table. 2. Can you provide an example of a time when your ethics felt challenged? What did you do? Would you do anything differently if you could do it again? 3. Trevor is a growing organization, and you may sometimes be building things for the first time or moving something forward with ambiguity. I’d like to hear about a time when you had to work through a project with a great deal of ambiguity. How did you approach it? What was the outcome? Would you do anything differently if you could do it again? 4. The annualized salary range for this role will be between $75-90K. Does this work for you? 5. Tell me about your experience with developing integrated fundraising campaigns and describe to me what success looks like. 6. Tell me about your experience working across departments to develop and manage communications with/about donor stewardship, solicitations, and other communications. 7. This position will manage a vendor who will operationally support the fundraising efforts you lead. Tell me about your approach to managing vendors. If you don’t have previous management experience, tell me about your management style/philosophy. 8. Give us an example of a process you were responsible for autonomously administering in a previous role or current - what was your routine for staying on top of it?
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Community Philanthropy, Integrated Campaigns

Interviewed at The Trevor Project

2.7★
Feb 9, 2023

1. Tell us about your interest in working at Trevor. Tell us about your interest in the Community Philanthropy Manager, Integrated Campaigns and what skills you think that you bring to the table. 2. Can you provide an example of a time when your ethics felt challenged? What did you do? Would you do anything differently if you could do it again? 3. Trevor is a growing organization, and you may sometimes be building things for the first time or moving something forward with ambiguity. I’d like to hear about a time when you had to work through a project with a great deal of ambiguity. How did you approach it? What was the outcome? Would you do anything differently if you could do it again? 4. The annualized salary range for this role will be between $75-90K. Does this work for you? 5. Tell me about your experience with developing integrated fundraising campaigns and describe to me what success looks like. 6. Tell me about your experience working across departments to develop and manage communications with/about donor stewardship, solicitations, and other communications. 7. This position will manage a vendor who will operationally support the fundraising efforts you lead. Tell me about your approach to managing vendors. If you don’t have previous management experience, tell me about your management style/philosophy. 8. Give us an example of a process you were responsible for autonomously administering in a previous role or current - what was your routine for staying on top of it?

They asked honestly about my strengths and weaknesses and examples for each. They challenged me to truly list a weakness, not as a way to disqualify me from the job but as an opportunity to identify my areas of growth and how they could support me.
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Philanthropy Coordinator

Interviewed at Wright Foundation

3.2★
Oct 21, 2021

They asked honestly about my strengths and weaknesses and examples for each. They challenged me to truly list a weakness, not as a way to disqualify me from the job but as an opportunity to identify my areas of growth and how they could support me.

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