Porchlight Music Theatre seeks an outcome-driven, full-time Development Manager to join our fast-paced team. This position manages a successful annual giving program, including developing and implementing data-based strategies to achieve goals, preparing and executing fundraising appeals, acknowledgements and reports, and cultivating strong relationships by engaging and stewarding donors through multiple touchpoints.
Responsibilities:
Manage the annual giving program and fundraising events, ensuring goals are met through the effective engagement, empowerment and mobilization of diverse partners and stakeholders.
Annual Fund & Database Management (60%)
With Development staff, develop and execute fundraising plans, prepare and ensure accuracy of quarterly fundraising appeals (renewals and acquisitions), manage logistics of successful mailings to strategically segmenting lists, ensure quality and accurate database management, and generate reports that track and analyze participation and progress.
Event Coordination & Support (30%)
Coordinate a portfolio of events, including Mainstage opening night celebrations, ICONS Gala, Chicago Sings fundraising concert, and other smaller donor events. Serve as a knowledgeable and enthusiastic representative, and implement engagement strategies for converting event attendees to donors.
General Development Support (10%)
Reconcile income and expenses monthly with Finance and work with Development Director to create and manage the department budget. Manage the Porchlight Young Professionals group. Collaborate with Development Director, Executive Director and other staff to manage relationships with major donors, corporate sponsors, foundations, vendors, in-kind donors, individual sponsors and board members.
Full job description available at porchlightmusictheatre.org
Qualifications
Compensation/Benefits
Please send cover letter and resume via email to employment-intern@porchlightmusictheatre.org. No phone calls, please. Porchlight Music Theatre is an equal opportunity employer.
Porchlight Music Theatre is Chicago’s home for music theatre, celebrating the past, present and future of this unique American art form for over 25 years. After the pandemic shuttered stages last spring, Porchlight has been an industry leader with virtual programming, offering a wide range of both free and premium programs. As an Artist In-Residence at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts in Chicago’s Gold Coast, we present our Mainstage and Porchlight Revisits series in this intimate, historic 218-seat venue. Other programs bring us to neighborhoods across the city. And our award-winning productions delighted 35,000+ patrons last season.