The Metropolitan Opera
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Gifts and Special Campaigns to solicit special campaign gifts and
provide high level campaign and stewardship support for various
special campaign and funding areas, including New Productions,
Revivals, Commissions, Met Opening Night transmission, Access
Opera, Rush Tickets, Summer HD Festival, HD Live in Schools, Met
Live in HD, the Met Radio Broadcasts, Met Opera Student Access, Met
Students, Special Initiatives, Capital, and
the Transforming the Met Campaign. The Deputy
Director carries a portfolio of special campaign donors to solicit.
He/she also helps prepare multiple types of advanced proposals and
reports, applications, proposals, and campaign documents, endowment
requests and reporting. Responsibilities also includes
day-to-day contract fulfilment and high-level stewardship for
Global Sponsors and leadership level foundation and individual
sponsors. 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - Ensure highly organized 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. - Provide additional support to Sr. Director of Special Campaigns
and Leadership Gifts for unexpected special projects as they
arrive.
Skills & 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. - Required to be on site 5 days a week.
$90,000 – $100,000 a year The Metropolitan Opera
believes that diversity is critical to our success and growth as a
leading performing arts institution and we seek to recruit, develop
and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.
Our goal is to be a diverse workforce that is representative, at
all job levels, of the communities we serve.
The Metropolitan Opera is an equal opportunity employer. We
are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where
equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and
existing employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex,
pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical
conditions), national origin, citizenship status, age, physical and
mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender
identity, gender expression, genetic information (including
characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, or any
protected category prohibited by local, state or federal
laws.
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