Porchlight Music Theatre seeks an outcome-driven, full-time Development Manager to join our fast-paced team. This position manages a successful annual giving program, including developing and implementing data-based strategies to achieve goals, preparing and executing fundraising appeals, acknowledgements and reports, and cultivating strong relationships by engaging and stewarding donors through multiple touchpoints.
Responsibilities:
Manage the annual giving program and fundraising events, ensuring goals are met through the effective engagement, empowerment and mobilization of diverse partners and stakeholders.
Annual Fund & Database Management (60%)
With Development staff, develop and execute fundraising plans, prepare and ensure accuracy of quarterly fundraising appeals (renewals and acquisitions), manage logistics of successful mailings to strategically segmenting lists, ensure quality and accurate database management, and generate reports that track and analyze participation and progress.
Event Coordination & Support (30%)
Coordinate a portfolio of events, including Mainstage opening night celebrations, ICONS Gala, Chicago Sings fundraising concert, and other smaller donor events. Serve as a knowledgeable and enthusiastic representative, and implement engagement strategies for converting event attendees to donors.
General Development Support (10%)
Reconcile income and expenses monthly with Finance and work with Development Director to create and manage the department budget. Manage the Porchlight Young Professionals group. Collaborate with Development Director, Executive Director and other staff to manage relationships with major donors, corporate sponsors, foundations, vendors, in-kind donors, individual sponsors and board members.
Full job description available at porchlightmusictheatre.org
Qualifications
Compensation/Benefits
Please send cover letter and resume via email to employment-intern@porchlightmusictheatre.org. No phone calls, please. Porchlight Music Theatre is an equal opportunity employer.
Porchlight Music Theatre is Chicago’s home for music theatre, celebrating the past, present and future of this unique American art form for almost 30 years.
A nonprofit professional company with an annual budget of approximately $2.5 million, Porchlight is Chicago’s award-winning home for music theatre, celebrating the past, present and future of this unique American art form for nearly 30 years. In residence at the historic, intimate Ruth Page Center for the Arts in Chicago’s Gold Coast, Porchlight Music Theatre delights more than 30,000 patrons each year with a Mainstage season of inventively reimagined classics, recent Broadway hits and new musical finds; the Porchlight Revisits series of rarely seen musicals in limited run with enhanced dramaturgy; the Porchlight in Concert symphonic staged reading series; and the free Broadway in your Backyard neighborhood-park summer concert series, in addition to educational programs for students of all ages through classes and camps, Chicago Public Schools and community partnerships.