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Duties and Responsibilities

Primary Responsibilities


Individual Giving: (40% of time)

- Coordinate giving campaigns in conjunction with ELA including the spring facilities appeal, the summer LYBUNT and Make It Do campaigns, the fall annual appeal, and Giving Tuesday campaign.
- Maintain customer relations management program: Little Green Light and other data driven programs.
- Document donations, produce and send thank you correspondence, and conduct phone calls to maintain networks.
- Assist ELA in refining donor levels included but not limited to one-time and recurring giving, Sunflower Circle giving, donor advised fund giving, legacy giving and endowment giving.
- Research employee resource groups determining best outreach to achieve goals.
- Evaluate individual donor giving to make recommendations as to communication approaches and yearly financial goals.


Special Giving Project Management: (25% of time)

- Coordinate special events such as art sales and auctions, “Welcome Walk” inscribed brick campaign, galas as determined by the Executive Leadership Team.
- Network with donors and patrons at spring SJ ArtsFest, Fall Festival and other events.


Sponsorship Management: (25% of time)

- Work with ELA to evaluate and refine funding levels for corporate sponsorships.
- Assist with securing corporate sponsorships through phone, zoom meetings and in-person meetings.
- Procure ads for Festival program books.


Grant Management: (10% as time warrants)

- Research foundation, corporate and governmental opportunities making recommendations of viability and sustainability of said grants.
- Assist ELA in generating proposals by creating grant budgets and narratives based on programmatic and operational goals.
- Assist in creating mid-year and year end reports in conjunction with ELA, and the programming and operations departments.


Public Relations:

- Produce department emails and social media posts announcing grant awards, check awards, mid-project success, and final outputs, client interviews etc.
- Create an annual impact report, in conjunction with ELT.
- Assist with refinement of corporate sponsorship materials and employee resource materials with consultation of ELT.
- Assist with creation of the bi-annual board presentation in relationship to funding.


Professional Development:

- Determine interpersonal and skill-based professional goals with annual benchmarks that correspond with organizational strategic plans and priorities.
- Must participate in bi-annual review, professional development discussion in reference to job, salary and advancement of the company (Oct-wrap up and new year, March-mid year)
- Attend funder/corporate meetings, chamber of commerce meetings and other development-related meetings as requested to support vision and goals of the organization.


Secondary Responsibilities

Additional duties:

- Assist ELT with special projects/activities from time to time as requested.