Teams at Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden

The Human Resources Business Partner supports recruitment, onboarding, employee relations, investigations, compliance, performance management, training, HR metrics, HRIS administration, and workforce communications. The role partners with managers and employees to resolve workplace concerns, interpret policies, mitigate risk, improve engagement, and advance people initiatives across compensated and volunteer workforces.

Leads the Dallas Arboretum’s base membership program, overseeing acquisition, revenue growth, renewals, retention, reactivation, member experience, benefits, campaigns, segmentation, reporting, budgeting, and forecasting. The role supervises a membership coordinator, partners across Development, Marketing, Guest Experience, and Finance, and uses CRM data, testing, and performance analysis to improve membership outcomes and encourage advancement into higher-level giving societies.

Lead and execute a comprehensive fundraising and membership strategy, overseeing annual giving, major/planned gifts, corporate and foundation relations, sponsorships, events, and membership acquisition/retention. Manage a development team and volunteers, collaborate with senior leadership and Board, use CRM to track pipelines and metrics, manage budgets, ensure stewardship and compliance, and serve as a public ambassador to grow philanthropic revenue and advance institutional priorities.