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Appalshop is an equal opportunity employer, and its employment policies and practices are applicable to all employees without regard to race, age, sex, color, sexual orientation, creed, disability or national origin.

Appalshop Director of Institutional Development: Job Description

Appalshop, a regional cultural center with national impact, seeks an experienced fundraiser to coordinate development activities and generate major institutional support. The Development Director will work closely with staff leaders to develop fundraising strategies and to raise an annual budget of $1.5 million from foundations, public agencies, and individual donors. The Development Director will represent Appalshop in a variety of settings and host Appalshop fundraising events. This is a great chance to work with creative, dedicated folks and build on our organization’s success.

Qualifications we are looking for in a Development Director:

• Success in fundraising with foundations, public agencies and individuals
• Excellent communication skills including verbal and written
• Experience in work with multiple staff members and the ability to work in a democratic manner
• Ability to travel throughout the region and the country to represent Appalshop in a wide range of settings
• Knowledge & understanding of community-based arts and the roles that arts and culture can play in promoting social justice and economic development
• Knowledge of history and culture of Appalachia and/or other rural or underserved regions is a plus
• Capacity in research and identification of new sources of income and revenue

Goals

• To help meet Appalshop’s fundraising targets
• To maximize the effectiveness of other Appalshop fundraisers
• Increase fundraising for/with Appalshop projects by evaluating funding world and seeking new opportunities for funding
• To create a supportive, innovative environment in which Appalshop development staff and others who are producing proposals can work effectively and efficiently
• To represent Appalshop at various conferences, with funders, and individual donors
• To ensure that Appalshop fundraising proposals, reports, correspondence and related materials are prepared in a timely and exemplary manner

Responsibilities

• Translate dynamic arts and cultural programming in multiple disciplines into funding opportunities
• Produce proposals, reports, correspondence and other written fundraising materials and edit the work of other writers
• Provide technical assistance to project staff to enable them to meet their fundraising commitments
• Attend regional and national forums as well as funder meetings on behalf of Appalshop
• Host local, regional and national events that contribute to Appalshop fundraising needs
• Monitor compliance with organizational fundraising policy
• Foster and help maintain strategic partnerships across sectors
• Ensure that fundraising information flows well throughout the organization
• Manage and assist in raising a yearly development budget

Reporting

Reports to Appalshop’s Executive Committee and the Fundraising Committee. This position also works within a collaborative team of development, administrative and project staff. In addition, the Appalshop Board provides organizational oversight.

Salary and Benefits

Salary range for the Director of Institutional Development is $30-40,000 per year commensurate with experience. Benefits include employer-paid full family health (medical and dental) insurance, disability insurance, retirement plan, sick days and vacation.

Organizational Profile

Widely recognized for its commitment to developing a vibrant community-based arts presence in Appalachia and beyond, Appalshop is a nonprofit arts and education center based in eastern Kentucky. Established in 1969 as a media-training program, Appalshop has developed into a multi-disciplinary arts and social justice organization. The staff of 20+ full-time workers currently produces documentary media, tour original musical theater, present community arts programming and conduct a variety of youth educational and arts training programs. Appalshop owns and manages a dynamic community radio station that is run, in part, by volunteer programmers from the local area and has established a regional archive. Every year Appalshop productions and services reach several million people nationally and internationally.

At the heart of this diverse body of work is the shared proposition that the world is immeasurably enriched when local cultures garner the resources, including new technologies, to tell their own stories and to listen to the unique stories of others. The creative acts of listening and telling are Appalshop's core competency.

Appalshop’s work environment is creative and cooperative. Employees have a strong voice in designing and implementing the day-to-day work, management, and governance of the organization. We desire self-directed employees who are capable and willing to work collaboratively with others.

Visit the Appalshop website for more information – www.appalshop.org

To Apply

We would like to receive applications by May 31, 2013. Review of applications will continue until the position is filled. Appalshop is an equal opportunity employer, and its employment policies and practices are applicable to all employees without regard to race, age, sex, color, sexual orientation, creed, disability or national origin.

Send a cover letter and resume to:

Attn: Search - Development Director

Appalshop, Inc.

91 Madison Ave.

Whitesburg, KY 41858

Or via email to: searchdevdir@appalshop.org