Donor Relations & Fundraising Associate

Theatre Alberta; Calgary; On-site; CAD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Theatre Calgary is seeking a Development Associate to manage stewardship and delivery of benefits to our sponsor network and assist the Development Director. This full-time, permanent role involves collaboration with the Business Development team to meet fundraising goals.

The role requires 3 years in fund development, attention to detail, event support experience, and strong MS Office and communications skills. Weekend/evening commitments apply and remuneration is contingent on experience.

Qualifications

• 3 years prior experience in a dedicated fund development capacity, preferably in a comparable arts or not-for-profit organization.
• Superb attention to detail.
• Hospitality and special-event experience an asset.
• Ability to self-manage workload volumes and changing priorities in a team environment with a strong results-oriented focus.
• Excellent relationship management skills an asset.
• Superb written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office (Outlook/Word/Excel/Publisher).
• Experience with the Tessitura database system a strong asset.

Responsibilities

• Ongoing stewardship and benefit delivery to the Theatre’s growing network of sponsors.
• Support for sponsor cultivation, solicitation and prospecting.
• Management and execution of annual fundraising event, in collaboration with senior staff/Board of Directors.
• Tracking and acknowledgement of donations; issuing of tax receipts and other acknowledgement as needed.
• Ongoing support of the Dress Circle program and Dress Circle events.
• Ongoing support for the Director of Development on an as-needed basis.
• Occasional grant writing and editing.
• Donor recognition/acknowledgements.
• Tax receipting and related reporting on an ongoing basis.
• Management of the Theatre’s ongoing Senior Saturday program.
• On-site event support for ongoing sponsor engagement events.
• Coordination of Opening Nights, our Season Launch and other special events with a sponsor/partner recognition component.

Skills

Fund development

Attention to detail

Hospitality & events

Workload management

Relationship management

Written & oral communication

MS Office

Tessitura experience

Tools

Tessitura

Job description

Theatre Calgary is seeking a Development Associate to manage stewardship and delivery of benefits to our sponsor network and assist the Development Director. This full-time, permanent role involves collaboration with the Business Development team to meet fundraising goals.

The role requires 3 years in fund development, attention to detail, event support experience, and strong MS Office and communications skills. Weekend/evening commitments apply and remuneration is contingent on experience.