Development Manager

Primary Duties And Responsibilities

• Supports all fundraising efforts of the Utah Film Center, including growing our donor pipeline, cultivating relationships, and implementing fundraising events, sales, sponsorships, and institutional donor initiatives.

Donor Engagement And Cultivation

• Works to grow Individual donor pipelines through programs like the Movie Lovers Club and our festivals, utilizing creativity, strategy and inter-departmental collaboration.
• Provides value-added experiences and exclusive opportunities/information for Movie Lovers Club through communications, small events, and other opportunities.
• Integrates festival household donors into organizational donor pipeline and events.
• Strategizes about cultivating attendees and one time donors to become sustainers.
• Inspires, engages, creatively, and thoughtfully acknowledges donor investment.

Events

• Works with the development director and any contractors to design and implement our annual benefit: A Red Carpet Affair, esp. donor experience.
• Works with the director and marketing team to implement a diverse revenue-generating strategy for events, including sponsorships, ticketing, onsite activation, and any silent and live auction opportunities.
• Supports any platform usage, ticketing, activations, communications, and after-event tax receipts for donors and participants.
• Implements donor-specific festival events, including sneak peeks, receptions, and closing parties.
• Effectively designs and implements other events for donors.

Development Admin/General

• Supports storytelling and relationships through data entry, maintenance and reporting in Salesforce-ensuring communications, follow-up tasks, tax acknowledgments, opportunities, and other records are accurate to optimize database functionality and processes.
• Supports annual report and annual appeal campaigns with research, copy, data, and storytelling.
• Researches funding opportunities for the Film Center and its programs; tracks all grant and report deadlines and helps keep department calendars and priorities up to date; coordinates application components with program managers; gathers all pertinent data and stories to write complete, accurate, and persuasive proposals.
• Helps program managers adhere to grant guidelines and responsibilities with fidelity; works closely with program staff and the communications team to ensure donor investments are acknowledged and used appropriately.
• Collaborates with other Utah Film Center team members to identify and realize opportunities for generating earned and contributed revenue.
• Works with the marketing team to support business engagement and co-branding opportunities.
• Contributes to organizational external storytelling.

This Salt Lake City-based position is a full-time, hourly position and includes paid holidays, paid time off, a retirement, medical and dental plan. The pay range for this position is $23.07/hr to $25.00/hr depending upon experience.

To apply: Submit a cover letter, a one-page resume, and three references to apply@utahfilmcenter.org. The position is open until filled.