Development Manager

The Utah Film Center; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 31,781 - 34,440; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Retirement plan

Medical and dental plan

Job summary

The Utah Film Center, based in Salt Lake City, seeks a Development Manager to lead donor relations, events, and fundraising initiatives. The role partners with the Development Director and teams across programs to grow donations and manage fundraising campaigns.

Responsibilities include donor engagement, coordinating high-impact events like the Red Carpet Affair, and maintaining Salesforce records to support reporting and compliance.

Qualifications

• Conscientious with keen attention to detail and strong organizational skills.
• Passion for the Film Center’s mission and vision.
• Interest in people and building lasting relationships.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to prioritize and pursue multiple projects, meeting deadlines.
• Proactive attitude and enthusiasm to carry development activities from conception to conclusion.

Responsibilities

• Supports all fundraising efforts, donor pipeline growth, cultivating relationships, and implementing fundraising events, sponsorships, and institutional donor initiatives.
• Donor engagement and cultivation: grow donor pipelines, provide exclusive opportunities for Movie Lovers Club, integrate festival donors into donor pipeline, encourage sustainers, acknowledge donor investments.
• Plan and execute events, including A Red Carpet Affair, sponsorships, ticketing, activations, and tax receipts; coordinate with contractors and marketing for revenue generation.
• Development Admin/General: data entry, Salesforce maintenance, annual reports and campaigns, grant research and proposal writing, ensure adherence to grant guidelines, collaborate for earned and contributed revenue, support external storytelling.

Skills

Customer relations

Project management

Written communication

Verbal communication

Detail-oriented

Tools

Salesforce

Job description

Utah Film Center connects people, stories, and ideas through film, media arts, and artist support. We offer Utahns unparalleled arts and cultural programming including year round access to primarily documentary films and discussions, two annual festivals (Utah Queer Film Festival and Tumbleweeds Film Festival), media arts education for 20,000+ students and teachers annually, and support for Utah-based and international filmmakers. We are a place for discovery and community.

Our environment is creative and fast-paced. A successful team member is a self-starter, problem-solver, organized, detail-oriented, and collaborative.

This position reports to the Development Director and works closely across all programs and departments. Previous development experience, including customer relations and events or project management, is strongly preferred.

Additionally, this position requires:

• conscientiousness with a keen attention to detail,
• a passion for the Film Center’s mission and vision,
• an interest in people with a desire to build and nurture relationships,
• excellent written and verbal communication skills,
• the ability to prioritize and pursue multiple projects at the same time, and to be deadline-driven,
• a proactive attitude, drive and enthusiasm to carry development activities from conception to conclusion, with creativity.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

The development manager supports all fundraising efforts of the Utah Film Center, including growing our donor pipeline, cultivating relationships, and implementing fundraising events, sales, sponsorships, and institutional donor initiatives.

Donor Engagement and Cultivation

• Works to grow Individual donor pipelines through programs like the Movie Lovers Club and our festivals, utilizing creativity, strategy and inter-departmental collaboration,
• Provides value-added experiences and exclusive opportunities/information for Movie Lovers Club through communications, small events, and other opportunities,
• Integrates festival household donors into organizational donor pipeline and events,
• Strategizes about cultivating attendees and one time donors to become sustainers, and
• Inspires, engages, creatively, and thoughtfully acknowledges donor investment.

Events

• Works with the development director and any contractors to design and implement our annual benefit: A Red Carpet Affair, esp. donor experience
• Works with the director and marketing team to implement a diverse revenue-generating strategy for events, including sponsorships, ticketing, onsite activation, and any silent and live auction opportunities
• Supports any platform usage, ticketing, activations, communications, and after-event tax receipts for donors and participants
• Implements donor-specific festival events, including sneak peeks, receptions, and closing parties, and
• Effectively designs and implements other events for donors.

Development Admin/General

• Supports storytelling and relationships through data entry, maintenance and reporting in Salesforce-ensuring communications, follow-up tasks, tax acknowledgments, opportunities, and other records are accurate to optimize database functionality and processes.
• Supports annual report and annual appeal campaigns with research, copy, data, and storytelling.
• Researches funding opportunities for the Film Center and its programs; tracks all grant and report deadlines and helps keep department calendars and priorities up to date; coordinates application components with program managers; gathers all pertinent data and stories to write complete, accurate, and persuasive proposals.
• Helps program managers adhere to grant guidelines and responsibilities with fidelity; works closely with program staff and the communications team to ensure donor investments are acknowledged and used appropriately.
• Collaborates with other Utah Film Center team members to identify and realize opportunities for generating earned and contributed revenue.
• Works with the marketing team to support business engagement and co-branding opportunities.
• Contributes to organizational external storytelling.
• Other duties as assigned, Including supporting the leadership team and the board for fundraising-specific events and activities.

This Salt Lake City-based position is a full-time in-person, hourly position and includes paid holidays, paid time off, a retirement, medical and dental plan. The pay range for this position is $23.07/hr to $25.00/hr depending upon experience.

To Apply

Submit a cover letter, a one-page resume, and three references to [e-mail] . The position is open until filled.