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Job Opportunity
Development Manager
Founded in 1999, Cool Culture is a citywide nonprofit organization
that helps low-income families to access and enjoy New York City's
cultural life, in order to provide educational experiences for children
and to strengthen the capacity of parents to serve as their child's
first educator. Cool Culture's programs address the absence
of low-income families, especially people of color, in the audiences
of New York City's great museums and other cultural institutions by
providing free, unlimited admission to families and working in partnership
with early childhood education, and other parent support programs. We
help our program partners to meet their goal of supporting families;
and cultural institutions to broaden the reach of their educational
programs by connecting them with new and more diverse audiences. Most
importantly, we enable low-income children and families to experience
and enjoy the rich educational and cultural programs available at the
city's cultural institutions.
Cool Culture's programs currently serve over 45,000 families throughout
the five boroughs and it has developed partnerships with over 70 of
the City's best-known cultural institutions, including the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, the Museum of
Modern Art, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and The Studio Museum in Harlem.
Cool Culture is seeking a Development Manager who will work in partnership
with the Executive Director, Cool Culture staff and the Board of Directors
to develop and implement a plan to enhance fundraising activities to
support organizational growth. The Development Manager will be responsible
for the management of all fundraising activities for Cool Culture,
including: developing and managing corporate partnerships, foundation
and individual donor relationships, and working strategically with
members of the Board of Directors and Cool Culture staff. The Development
Manger will report to the Executive Director and may manage interns
and/or volunteers in the future.
Responsibilities
- Work in collaboration
with Executive Director, Board of Directors and Cool Culture staff
to identify agency fundraising needs and opportunities; manage
assessment of agency strengths, challenges and fundraising opportunities;
establish fundraising goals.
- Lead creation and
implementation of short- and long-term fundraising strategy based
on donor prospect research and ongoing research of government, corporate
and foundation funding sources to raise $600,000 budget for Cool
Culture programs.
- Identify funding
sources, cultivate new and existing relationships; manage corporate,
foundation and government grants process including developing proposals
and writing grant reports; manage calendar and deadlines for submissions
and track full correspondence with donors;
- Manage and execute
Cool Culture's special events including the annual Spring Benefit
and ongoing individual cultivation events; coordinate direct mail
appeals to ensure successful planning, and execution;
- Manage all development
administrative tools including donor database, fundraising budgets
and all related activity and generate reports to Executive Director
on a regular basis; work with Executive Director to build organization's
fundraising infrastructure;
- Work with Cool
Culture staff to enhance organization's communications and PR efforts;
manage and write copy for Cool Culture's e-newsletter; create and
manage process for annual report and other communications/marketing
materials as needed;
- Learn and amass
knowledge of the early childhood education, parent support/engagement
and arts and cultural fields; build on existing knowledge of development,
marketing, communications and fundraising to ensure Cool Culture
is utilizing the most current proven strategies;
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree, Master's degree a plus
- 3 to 5 years of professional experience with nonprofit
resource development, including foundation, corporate, individual fundraising;
the use of communications and marketing strategies to strengthen visibility,
profile and fundraising opportunities required
- Demonstrated experience handling multiple assignments
and deadlines simultaneously and working in fast-paced environments
on tight deadlines
- Highly self-motivated, with keen interest in organizational
capacity building, developing partnerships and creative application
of a combination of fundraising, communications and marketing strategies
to grow small, dynamic organization
- Flexibility and initiative to work both independently
and as part of a team
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent organizational ability, attention to detail
and accuracy a must
- Commitment to Cool Culture's mission of making cultural
institutions accessible and available to all New York families, regardless
of income level; and a desire to learn about early education, arts
and culture
- Excellent computer skills (knowledge of MS Word, Excel,
Outlook, and database skills required)
- Bilingual Spanish/English, French/English, or Chinese/English
a plus
Salary commensurate with experience.
Cool Culture is an Equal
Opportunity Employer.
Women and People of Color are strongly
encouraged to apply.
To Apply
lPease submit a cover letter, resume, writing
sample and salary requirements to: Candice Anderson, Executive Director, hr@cool-culture.org .
Absolutely NO phone calls.
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