Executive Director, Arts Center: Fundraising & Growth

Evergreenchamber; Evergreen (CO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO & sick leave

Sabbatical after 3 years

Simple IRA with 3% employer match

Bonus up to 10%

CAE Discounts

Job summary

Center for the Arts Evergreen (CAE) in Evergreen, Colorado, seeks an experienced Executive Director to lead the organization into its next chapter. You will be CAE’s chief executive, accountable for strategy, fundraising, and organizational health, guiding a staff across exhibitions, education, development, operations, and visitor experience.

With governance support from the Board of Directors, you will strengthen donor relationships, diversify revenues, and ensure long-term financial

Qualifications

• Significant leadership experience in a nonprofit, arts and culture, educational, civic, or other mission-driven organization.
• Demonstrated fundraising success, especially with individual donors and major gifts.
• Experience developing and managing budgets and using financial information to guide decisions.
• Experience supervising professional staff and making significant personnel decisions.
• Experience working with a nonprofit Board of Directors.
• Experience managing complex external relationships and sensitive stakeholder issues.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and sound judgment.
• Familiarity with CRM and donor management systems.

Responsibilities

• Set strategic direction with the Board and staff, translating mission into annual goals, budgets, staffing plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Lead annual and long-range planning; assess capacity, community needs, financial realities, and risks.
• Make timely executive-level decisions, balancing innovation with financial and organizational discipline.
• Serve as CAE’s chief fundraiser: develop the fundraising strategy and personally lead major donor relationships and solicitations.
• Cultivate and steward individual donors, foundations, corporations, and sponsors, and engage Board members in that work.
• Work with development and marketing staff to maintain a donor pipeline, stewardship program, and accurate donor records.
• Lead grant strategy, with enough grant-writing experience to contribute substantively and evaluate proposals; staff handle day-to-day preparation and reporting.
• Provide executive oversight of exhibitions, education, ceramics, youth programming, outreach, events, artist programs, memberships, rentals, and retail.
• Set organizational priorities when programs compete for dates, space, staff, or funding, and evaluate major new programs and partnerships before commitments are made.
• Be a visible, trusted voice for CAE with donors, artists, schools, businesses, civic groups, and government.
• Oversee significant contracts, insurance, permits, and risk, involving legal counsel when needed.
• Hold executive accountability for the campus and lead major capital projects with the Director of Operations, Board leadership, and outside professionals.

Skills

Leadership

Fundraising

Grant writing

Budgeting

Staff supervision

Board relations

Communications

Donor relations

Tools

CRM systems

Job description

Center for the Arts Evergreen (CAE) in Evergreen, Colorado, seeks an experienced Executive Director to lead the organization into its next chapter. You will be CAE’s chief executive, accountable for strategy, fundraising, and organizational health, guiding a staff across exhibitions, education, development, operations, and visitor experience.

With governance support from the Board of Directors, you will strengthen donor relationships, diversify revenues, and ensure long-term financial