The Metropolitan Opera
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The Deputy Director solicits special campaign gifts and provide
high level campaign and stewardship support for various special
campaign and funding areas, with a primary focus on the Saturday
Matinee Broadcasts Campaign, but also including New Productions,
Revivals, Commissions, Met Opening Night transmission, Access
Opera, Rush Tickets, Summer HD Festival, HD Live in Schools, Met
Live in HD, Met Opera Student Access, Met Students, Special
Initiatives, Capital, and the Transforming the
Met Campaign. Responsibilities include day-to-day
contract fulfilment and high-level stewardship for Global Sponsors
and leadership level foundation and individual sponsors.
He/she also helps prepare multiple types of advanced proposals and
reports, applications, proposals, and campaign documents, endowment
requests and reporting. Primary Responsibilities
high level campaign and stewardship support for various special
campaign and funding areas, with a primary focus on the Saturday
Matinee Broadcasts Campaign, but also including New Productions,
Revivals, Commissions, Met Opening Night transmission, Access
Opera, Rush Tickets, Summer HD Festival, HD Live in Schools, Met
Live in HD, Met Opera Student Access, Met Students, Special
Initiatives, Capital, and the Transforming the
Met Campaign. Responsibilities include day-to-day
contract fulfilment and high-level stewardship for Global Sponsors
and leadership level foundation and individual sponsors.
He/she also helps prepare multiple types of advanced proposals and
reports, applications, proposals, and campaign documents, endowment
requests and reporting. Primary Responsibilities
- Solicit a portfolio of special campaign donors, starting with
Saturday Matinee Broadcast Campaign and Met Opera on Demand Student
Access donors, and adding other campaigns over time. - Work with Sr. Director to manage multi-year, multi-million
dollar Global Sponsors, foundation and individual leadership funder
extensive agreement requirements and delivery of involved benefits,
managing a myriad of day-to-day stewardship needs, including
internal/external crediting review and approvals process with
various Campaign donors. - Prepare advanced proposals, reports, and pledge agreements for
Leadership and Special Campaign donors, including select corporate
and foundation grant applications, extensive reports, gift
acknowledgments, and other related elements of leadership donor
stewardship. - Engage directly with colleagues across Artistic, Marketing, and
other Development to pull reporting data and program details to
create proposals, reports, as well as fulfill funder
agreements. - Manage Special Campaign fulfillment tracking, and special
stewardship events and benefits are fulfilled in a timely
manner. - Prepare annual Endowment requests with required additional
materials and annual reporting. - Conduct and prepare in-depth research on campaign prospects and
special plans put in place for high level prospective special
campaign funders; attend select functions and special events. - Manage Support the Met Broadcasts donor plaques and cumulative
donor list updating, and cultivate lower level radio and education
prospects; attend select functions and special events.
Skills and Qualifications
- Minimum of 7 years of development experience high level
campaign donor stewardship and institutional fundraising
experience. - Superior writing skills, with the ability to create persuasive
and descriptive written materials. - Extensive experience and comfort with preparing applications
and reports in donor portals - Ability to manage a special campaign donor needs within the
constructs of an overall development and marketing operations,
coordinating all campaign stewardship efforts with other
institutional priorities and goals. - Excellent oral, written and computer skills; knowledge of Excel
and Tessitura preferred - Experience fundraising for the performing arts/cultural sector
in New York City; knowledge of opera preferred. - Undergraduate degree; graduate degree in related field
preferred.
Physical Demands
- Diplomacy, tact and ability to skillfully handle donor
situations. - Superior organizational/time management skills.
- Ability to work quickly and adapt readily to changes in
priorities. - Requires some late evenings/weekends for cultivation
activities.
$90,000 – $100,000 a year
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