OVERVIEW
Canada’s Theatre Museum invites the world to explore and be inspired by the past, present and future of Canadian theatre. The museum’s work can be found online, and at its new home on the Terrace Level Lobby of the Elgin & Winter Garden Theatres. The recent growth of the museum has been fueled by philanthropic Canadians who believe that our country has a performing arts heritage to preserve and celebrate.
The museum is underway with a multi-year campaign to raise $2Million for renovations, initial exhibitions, programming, and museum startup costs, and $3Million to build its long-term Sustaining or Endowment Funds. You will also manage CTM’s activities to support our mission-fulfilling operations.
In this new role, you will steward, identify, cultivate, and solicit individuals, foundations, and corporations to make the museum’s current and future work possible.
We are a small team that works hybrid, blending remote work with 2 to 5 days each week at The Elgin & Winter Garden Theatres. Depending on the museum’s activities and programming, there will also be weekend and evening working hours.
The successful candidate will be an engaging and creative development professional who is a team player with a demonstrated track record of success in raising funds across a spectrum of donors. You will creatively contribute to the expansion of the museum’s fundraising efforts.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Reporting to the Executive Director, as the Philanthropy & Audience Relations Manager you will set and realize community building and revenue goals. Your main responsibilities will be:
Overview:
· Implement and oversee transition to new donor and community member relationship management database and ticketing system
· Manage CRM and ticketing software by creating events, group visits, timed entrances
· Make strategic recommendations based on reports of actual and potential attendance
Philanthropy
- Create and implement annual fundraising plan along with principal staff and volunteers
- Manage and track identification, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship activities
- Manage relationships with individual and foundation donors
- Manage and implement direct mail and email campaigns
- Maintain meeting minutes and notes
- Prepare and implement membership, stewardship and cultivation events
- Identify and research prospective private sector supporters
- Prepare proposals and reports for individuals, foundations and corporations
- Manage and prepare public sector grant writing and reporting
- Maintain accurate records of donor activity
- Maintain consistent and accurate donor, sponsor and funder recognition information
- Maintain consistent and accurate donor and sponsor benefits information
- Coordinate recording of financial contributions with Bookkeeper
- Prepare receipts and thank you letters for individual and foundation donors
- Process donations made by credit card and cheque
Audience Relations:
- Work with Executive Director to manage online ticketing to individuals and groups
- Work with staff to manage onsite processing of tickets
- Maintain consistent and accurate information about stakeholders in the performing arts, heritage and educational fields
- Maintain consistent and accurate information about prospective educational and community groups for sales of museum visits and programs
- Work with staff to manage online sales of museum merchandise
- Manage electronic newsletters, including writing and proofreading
- Create social media posts to support mission, programming, and audience engagement
- Update website content related to events, group and individual visits
- Update website content related to philanthropic giving and sponsorship
- Ensure that all communications materials reflect the diversity of Canada and its artists and audiences, and meet standards of accessibility and inclusive language practices.
Please Note:
CTM is a dynamic start-up with a small team: work will inevitably include other mutually agreed upon tasks
