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• Design, implement, and coordinate membership recruitment and retention plan for individual and corporate members
• Ensures that all membership applications are processed in accordance with Museum policies, and that weekly and monthly reminders and thank-you letters are appropriately customized and sent in timely manner.
• Working with the Office Coordinator, assists in maintaining accurate donor and prospect data collection and management in Altru database; records revenue and reviews data for accuracy
• Manages preparation of proposals, reports, strategies, special donor correspondence, and donor/prospect meeting briefings, event briefings, and donor mailings
• Works with the Office Coordinator to implement electronic and direct mail appeals; this includes helping draft appeal letters, creating and managing the appeal plan, identifying and creating lists for each scheduled appeal, managing and maintaining appeal donation records and, providing reports of performance for each appeal
• Oversees the gift acknowledgement and donor recognition process for all contributions
• Tracks development department progress towards annual goal, benchmarks and prepares regular reports as requested

• Develops, writes, and submits grant proposals for funds from private foundations, corporations and government agencies; writes and submits acknowledgement letters and reports, and maintains grant and sponsor funding calendar and cycle
• Working in conjunction with Event Planning Contractors (Legacy Events), coordinates implementation of fundraising events and activities, cultivation and stewardship events for MONA, tracking attendance/participation and executing follow-up strategies. This includes but is not limited to the biannual “Spirit Art Auction” fundraiser.

• Develop and implement annual fundraising strategies to support the mission and long-term sustainability of the museum.
• Manage and grow individual giving programs, including annual fund campaigns, donor cultivation, stewardship, and recognition.

• Strong writing and database experience
• Ability to work a flexible schedule; willingness to travel periodically, and work occasional evenings and weekends as needed
• Excellent project management skills
• Entrepreneurial approach to fundraising and grant management, with a keen appreciation for the specific challenges of working with prospects who may lack a direct affiliation and/or involvement with the Museum
• Professionalism, maturity, good judgment, and ability to foster and work well in a team environment
• High level of integrity and ability to exercise confidentiality and discretion

Frequently required to solve issues as related to grants implementation, tracking, donor recognition, and ethical stewardship of gifts and contributions, this person is communicated with regularly and trusted to make substantial independent decisions on behalf of MONA

The impact is great for this position in direct relationship to operational funding for MONA's annual budget of $1.4 to $1.7 Million. This position holds great impact on our long term sustainability.

Determined within a relatively short period of time

There is significant accountability on this position as they are directly working with and utilizing our budget for grant reporting and benchmarking. This position works directly with the Executive Director to set overall budgetary needs as it relates to the revenues and fundraising.

Great impact on the department. Little impact on the UNK campus

Frequent interactions in department. In-frequent with the UNK campus

This person is expected to operate independently on a regular basis, but the communication and collaboration with the Executive Director is continuous and necessary for their success

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