Annual Fund and Membership Manager - John Michael Kohler Arts Center
Sheboygan, WI 53081
About the Job
The John Michael Kohler Arts Center (Sheboygan, WI) - a world-renowned museum with a mission to generate a creative exchange between artists and the public - seeks an energized, creative, and collaborative fundraising professional to join its development team.
The Annual Fund and Membership Manager will be responsible for developing, managing and executing a comprehensive and integrated membership/annual fund program including direct mail, email, social media and phone strategies to broaden, retain and upgrade the member and donor bases. This position is also responsible for fundraising events.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee will frequently sit; use hands to finger, handle, or touch objects; and talk or hear. The employee will also intermittently stand, walk, climb or balance, and smell to complete this job. The employee should be able to lift and/or move up to 15 pounds. Specific vision abilities when performing this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Able to read and interpret documents, write routine correspondence, speak effectively with others. Able to add, subtract, multiply and divide using whole numbers. Able to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Able to deal with problems involving few concrete variables in standard situations.
Work Environments:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The position is office/art gallery based and noise level usually moderate. May occasionally work inside or outside at events where noise level could be moderate to loud.
Hours of work include daytime hours Monday – Friday and occasionally Saturday and Sunday to meet staffing and/or event needs.
The Annual Fund and Membership Manager will be responsible for developing, managing and executing a comprehensive and integrated membership/annual fund program including direct mail, email, social media and phone strategies to broaden, retain and upgrade the member and donor bases. This position is also responsible for fundraising events.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Design, implement and manage a hybrid annual fund and membership fundraising program to broaden, retain, and upgrade the member and donor bases, monitoring progress against goals and providing timely reports.
- Create and implement an integrated donor and member communications and stewardship plan that creates a philanthropic connection by balancing philanthropic messaging with the transactional nature of membership; coordinate messaging with Marketing strategies.
- Develop, manage, execute, and evaluate fundraising events, such as the biennial gala, including program, invitation list, logistics, and contractors.
- Monitor and evaluate membership benefits, evolving the benefits strategy.
- Develop, monitor and adhere to expense budget for membership, events and annual fund.
- Delegate fulfillment of member benefits, gift entry, and gift acknowledgements to Development Coordinator, supervising timeliness and accuracy.
- Maintain accurate member/donor and member/donor prospect records and moves management progress in CRM.
- Motivated self-starter and collaborative team player
- Detail oriented, with strong time management and organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities and tasks, meeting deadlines
- Knowledge of member-based nonprofits and membership fundraising a plus
- Ability to handle sensitive and confidential situations and information with absolute discretion
- Bachelor’s degree or 4 – 8 years of equivalent experience in a related field
- 3 years of relevant experience in membership, annual fundraising, and events planning and execution.
- Excellent listening, verbal and written communications skills, skilled at integrating donor centric messaging into fundraising materials and working with marketing.
- Demonstrated analytical skills, using data to inform planning and decision making
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite
- Experience with customer relationship management software (Salesforce, Blackbaud, etc.) is preferred.
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee will frequently sit; use hands to finger, handle, or touch objects; and talk or hear. The employee will also intermittently stand, walk, climb or balance, and smell to complete this job. The employee should be able to lift and/or move up to 15 pounds. Specific vision abilities when performing this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Able to read and interpret documents, write routine correspondence, speak effectively with others. Able to add, subtract, multiply and divide using whole numbers. Able to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Able to deal with problems involving few concrete variables in standard situations.
Work Environments:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The position is office/art gallery based and noise level usually moderate. May occasionally work inside or outside at events where noise level could be moderate to loud.
Hours of work include daytime hours Monday – Friday and occasionally Saturday and Sunday to meet staffing and/or event needs.
The John Michael Kohler Arts Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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