DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT - Pacific Opera Victoria
Job Information
Founded in 1980, Pacific Opera Victoria (POV) has earned a reputation as one of Canada's leading opera companies. The company is distinguished by its commitment to diverse repertoire, original productions, and its commitment to Canadian artists, and our leadership within the arts sector regionally and the opera sector nationally.
Thanks to its extraordinary audience and generous supporters – individual, corporate, foundation and government - POV has grown by 250% in the last decade. This growth has been invested in artistic quality, education programs, outreach programs and the nurturing of Canadian artists at every stage of their careers. Beginning last season, the company expanded from three main stage productions each season to four, thus giving POV more scope to explore works from opera's 400-year history.
Today the company has an annual operating budget of $3.7M. The POV Foundation, which is a separately incorporated endowment for Pacific Opera, holds assets of $3.4M. Currently POV fundraises approximately $1.5M a year, and seeks to grow fundraising revenues for artistic operations, for working capital and reserve funds, and for endowment.
Director of Development position:
The Director of Development is a senior member of a small, high-performance, collaborative administrative team reporting to the Executive Director, working closely with the Artistic Director, the Board of Directors and Board Committees and the administrative staff. The Director of Development is responsible for leading and maximizing Pacific Opera Victoria’s development programs, and maintaining active and productive relationships with donors, sponsors, grantors, and volunteers. This position is an agent of advancement for both the POV Association and the separately incorporated POV Foundation, which focuses on future gifts and building long-term assets and endowments.
The successful candidate will have a minimum of 5 years experience and will be able to demonstrate a solid history of fundraising revenue growth throughout his or her career. Professional accreditation in the allied professions or a CFRE designation is a definite asset. Also valuable is your involvement with a professional organization such as The Canadian Association of Gift Planners or the Association of Fundraising Professionals. Experience with Tessitura software, or proficiency in using state of the art fundraising database programs required. Complete computer proficiency required. Experience in the arts sector or a passion for the arts a big asset
Fundraising
- Develops fundraising strategy with the Executive Director and fundraising committees to achieve revenue goals
- Designs, implements and manages all fundraising campaigns, activities, and events including annual giving, major gifts, corporate and foundation giving, planned giving and endowment, and special campaigns.
- Manages all strategies and activities for donor cultivation, solicitation, and relations.
- Develops and implements committee strategies with fundraising committee chairs
- Advances and strengthens planned-giving program
- Provides and articulates contributed revenue analysis for setting fundraising goals and creating operating budgets
Board of Directors
- Works with Board members, Foundation Trustees and Development Committees to meet fundraising goals.
- Assumes responsibility for all Development reports to the Board and other agencies, and attends all Board meetings.
- Assists the Board with recommending and researching potential new members.
Development Office Infrastructure
- Manages office systems to support all Development projects and operations.
- Supervises donor and gift record-keeping.
- Coordinates development research activities.
- Oversees the management of databases and all records, files, and gift processing.
- Manages acknowledgement programs.
Qualifications:
- A minimum of 5 years professional fundraising experience
- A proven track record of fundraising growth
- Proven experience in designing and managing successful fundraising campaigns.
- Experience with developing and maintaining productive working relationships with board members, donors, patrons, community leaders, administrators and artists.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to work as a leader and as part of a team.
- Experience in the arts sector or a passion for the arts a big asset
Pacific Opera Victoria provides an industry competitive salary with generous benefits. Interested applicants are asked to submit a cover letter and resume by September 15, 2010 to Patrick Corrigan, Executive Director, at pcorrigan@pov.bc.ca,
or by mail to 500-1815 Blanshard Street, Victoria, BC V8T 5A4
Applications will be reviewed as received. Only the applicants that are selected for interview will be contacted.
