| Venice Arts, a 27 year-old nonprofit media arts organization working primarily with low-income youth, seeks an experienced, versatile, and personable Director of Advancement, who can articulate Venice Arts’ vision and impacts with enthusiasm and passion, while attending to the daily organizational details so critical to success. The Director of Advancement is well-versed in all aspects of fundraising and communications, with significant experience in major donor, individual, and corporate donor development, events, and multiplatform fundraising campaigns. Experience in a leadership role with capital or expansion campaigns a plus. Specific roles and responsibilities include: - Organizational Leadership
- Provide leadership to the Board: attend meetings, steward Directors, staff Committees.
- Represent Venice Arts through Chamber, and other, memberships, at conferences, and in other areas, as assigned.
- Development Leadership and Responsibilities
Development Planning and Analysis - Maintain and update Venice Arts’ multi-year, comprehensive development plan with clear benchmarks for prospecting, cultivation, stewarding, and dollars raised.
- Work in partnership with the Director of Grants and Administration to assure that grants-based data and planning is integrated into the overall Development Plan.
- Maintain the development calendars and development project-management systems.
- Assure that data is regularly and consistently entered into existing tracking mechanisms (Donor Pyramid, Annual Development Analysis, Top 25, Lapsed Donors, other) to track and communicate about Venice Arts’ fundraising successes and challenges.
- Regularly analyze development data, including progress toward benchmarks, both for the Dev/Comm Team (monthly) and the Board (bi-monthly, year-end).
Individual and Corporate Donor Cultivation and Stewardship - Manage a personal portfolio of at least 50 active individual and corporate prospects and donors, building these relationships through regular meetings, phone calls, emails, and other communications; setting quarterly contact and fundraising goals; tracking all efforts; and regularly reporting on outcomes.
Annual Campaigns - Lead the spring “Camp” campaign and the year-end campaign, including overseeing the timely creation of all campaign materials, modified to be effective across multiple platforms (print, social media, electronic, and web) and, for the Camp campaign, stewarding volunteer involvement.
Events - Serve as the lead for all fundraising events, including Creativity Uncorked, the annual Gala and smaller annual events (1-2 per year); direct and work closely with the Event Producer; build and direct a Gala committee; guide all post-event communications and analysis.
- Communications and Marketing
- Work with the Executive Director in the development of agency-wide communication strategies, including program news, features, and donor acknowledgments.
- Oversee the Development Associate in implementation of website and social media communications.
- Manage all image and media use requests and press outreach.
- Provide a quarterly analysis of marketing and communications outcomes to the Dev Comm Team.
- Venue Rental
- Oversee the Development Associate in responding to rental inquiries, including site visits.
- Process contracts and payment for venue rentals.
- Oversee and assure staffing for secured rentals.
- Supervision
- Cultivate and supervise, professionals who volunteer (marketing, design, event, other), as well as college interns working in support of Venice Arts’ development and communications strategies.
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