Senior Development Officer at the New Museum of Contemporary Art
Job Title: Senior Development Officer
Job Status: Full-time
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $85,000
Position Overview
The Senior Development Officer works closely with the New Museum’s Development team to support the Museum’s annual operating fundraising goal of $14M and its capital campaign goal of $108M. Responsibilities include prospect research, analysis, and strategy; preparation of cultivation and solicitation materials; proposal writing; benefit fulfillment and reports. This position supervises development staff in the assistant, associate, or manager or fellow level roles.
Primary Responsibilities, Senior Development Officer
- Develop leads, create prospect portfolios and prospect strategy for high level giving across individual and institutional sources
- Develop and action systems for moves management: tracking actions to support stewardship and cultivation; with the senior team, develop short- and long-term donor strategies
- Create written materials to support grants and gift solicitation: proposal narratives; major gift letters; annual fund campaigns, capital campaign materials, among other written materials
- Collect statistics and information across museum areas and prepare materials to support donor cultivation, grants, gifts, reports, and communications
- Provide strategic and management support of corporate membership, sponsorships and strategic partnerships
- Contribute to strategy on how to best present the New Museum to potential and current funders
- Work across departments (Curatorial, Directors Office, Education and Public Engagement, New Inc) and with our affiliate Rhizome to cultivate, expand, secure, and steward institutional funder relationships
- Assist in the preparation of budgets for proposals and reports, liaise with Finance
- Facilitate donor communications and be a key steward to foundations, corporations, and government agencies, with oversight of institutional giving deadlines and communications
- Complete institutional reporting, track and ensure fulfillment of institutional benefits
- Supervise staff at the manager, associate, assistant or fellow level; supervise development internships
Qualifications
Advanced degree—MA / MFA or above—in Arts, Business, or Philanthropy. Candidates should have 5-7 years experience in fundraising for cultural institutions, possess outstanding expository writing skills, and have advanced experience with researching, strategizing, and securing donors in relation to time bound financial goals. Excellent communication skills, keen attention to detail, superior copy editing, high-level organization skills, strong follow-through, and ability to work independently is required. Excellent time management, ability to meet deadlines, and flexibility to adjust workflow in relation to priorities is essential. Candidates should have demonstrated success with fundraising, and experience interacting with donors and program officers. Proficiency with Microsoft Office and its associated applications, as well as Raiser’s Edge or equivalent database is required; proficiency with InDesign is a plus. An interest in contemporary art and knowledge of the New York arts funding community is highly preferred.
We recognize that it is highly unlikely that someone meets 100% of the qualifications for a role. If much of this position suits you, then please apply for this role.
Employee Benefits
We offer a full comprehensive benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Flexible Spending Account (FSA), Health Reimbursement Program through the Difference Card, Commuter Benefits Program through the Difference Card, Voluntary Short Term Disability Plan and Long-Term Disability, Life Insurance, Retirement Plan, and other voluntary benefits.
Paid Time and Holidays Off
We offer full-time employees 15 days of paid time off, 8 sick days off and 13 holidays off as applicable through the fiscal year.
ABOUT THE MUSEUM
The New Museum’s mission is simply “New Art, New Ideas.” Founded in 1977 by curator Marcia Tucker with a bold vision of presenting contemporary culture in a critical and scholarly context, the New Museum has been a leader among contemporary art museums for over 40 years and is among the most respected internationally for its risk-taking curatorial program. The New Museum is a center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists from around the world, focusing on emerging and under-recognized voices, and providing a platform for the artists who are defining our cultural moment. In 2007, the New Museum made history with the inauguration of its first permanent building at 235 Bowery designed by the Tokyo-based firm SANAA. Since opening in its new location, over 4 million have visited or attended programs and events, and the Museum has 155 exhibitions featuring over 600 artists from 60+ countries in our galleries, as well as over 1,200 public programs ranging from live performances, conferences, residencies, screening, after-school programs, and family days. For more information about the New Museum and its programs, please visit www.newmuseum.org.
Equal Opportunity Employer
The New Museum of Contemporary Art believes that all persons are entitled to Equal Employment Opportunity, and we do not discriminate against our staff members or applicants for employment because of race, creed, color, religion, national origin, gender identity and expression, sex, age, disability, marital status, political affiliation, sexual orientation, genetic information, or veteran or citizenship status provided they are qualified and meet the requirements for the job. The New Museum provides Reasonable Accommodation to candidates with Disabilities. As per New York State Guidelines, all candidates hired must be vaccinated with the COVID vaccine.
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