Museum Jobs in Phoenix, AZ

Phoenix Art Museum is looking for a Chief Development Officer . As the largest art museum in the American Southwest, Phoenix Art Museum serves Maricopa County, one of the fastest growing urban regions in the nation, Arizona, and the broader southwest region by creating access to world-class visual arts and learning and engagement programs. Annually, the Museum welcomes nearly 300,000 visitors to view exhibitions and a collection numbering more than 21,000 objects in the areas of American and Western American, Asian, European, Latin American, modern and contemporary art, and fashion design. A groundbreaking partnership with the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona in Tucson provides access to the Greater Phoenix community to exhibitions of fine-art photography.

With the completion of its strategic plan in 2024, the Museum is pursuing ambitious and comprehensive strategic, institutional goals to better enable the Museum to serve its broadest community and create opportunities for learning, creativity, and exchange for persons of all walks of life, ensuring that there are not financial impediments to creating access to the visual arts. As we embark in this work, Phoenix Art Museum is seeking a dynamic candidate for the position of Chief Development Officer, working within the Museum’s Advancement Division. The Chief Development Officer will direct plan, strategize, and execute fundraising and development-related activities; direct the Development Department staff and activities; work closely with the Chief Advancement Officer and the Director and CEO to cultivate and steward the Board of Trustees, major individual, corporate, and foundation donors; advance the planned-giving program for the Museum; and build relationships and collaborate closely with colleagues across the Museum to help advance the mission and support for the Museum.

Job Duties :

• Prepare and manage strategic development plans in collaboration with the Chief Advancement Officer, ensuring that the department’s activities align with the strategic plan and the operational goals and objectives of the Museum.
• Lead the Museum’s fundraising efforts for gifts up to $500,000, in support of the Museum’s annual contributed revenue goals. Support the Chief Advancement Officer and the Museum’s director and CEO on the development of transformational gifts.
• Maintain a portfolio of high-level individual major gift prospects to support fundraising.
• Oversee the successful execution of the Museum’s fundraising channels, including foundation and government grants, corporate giving, the Circles of Support membership program, the annual fund, fundraising events planned giving, and major giving programs to ensure that the organization has a growing and sustainable stream of contributed revenue.
• Direct and manage the department’s staff, including interviewing, hiring, performance evaluations, and mentoring team members to develop and grow their fundraising skills.
• Prepare and oversee the department’s budget and retain ultimate responsibility for its achievement of established revenue goals and expense management.
• Oversee the facilitation of development events with the support of the Museum’s internal events management team, leveraging necessary resources and staff, to grow and manage a schedule of donor cultivation events including VIP openings and the Museum’s major fundraisers, the pARTy gala and the ACI Holiday Luncheon.
• Manage donor relationship and stewardship efforts and create an annual plan to ensure donor cultivation and stewardship activities are being fulfilled for donors and sponsors at all levels.
• Collaborate with the Chief Advancement Officer and the Chief Financial Officer to reconcile development revenue reporting, prepare cash flow projections for contributed revenue, and department projections throughout the year.
• Coordinate and collaborate with appropriate Museum departments in developing the strategy for grant applications and gift requests to ensure contributions best align donor’s wishes with Museum needs.
• Support the Chief Advancement Officer in the coordination and management of the Board Development Committee and as an alternative point of development contact with the Museum’s Board after the Director and CEO and Chief Advancement Officer.
• Work with the Board Chair, Museum Director, Chief Advancement Officer, and the Development Committee Chair, and individual members of the Board to identify their development and networking capabilities to leverage their willingness and ability to help the Museum achieve its goals.
• Serve as the primary liaison to the Museum’s planned giving committee of the board.
• Represent the Museum to the community at events and conferences as appropriate, consistent with the annual budget, and the Museum’s goals.
• Attend all appropriate Museum events to represent the Development Department and interact with members, donors, prospects and community leaders.

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Please email cover letter and resume with job code PAM-CDO to [email protected]

Job Status : Regular, full-time, exempt                                                                                EOE

Salary : $150,000 -$165,000 annually