Start Date: January 3, 2024 (or earlier)
Salary: In keeping with experience
Location: Toronto, ON
Position: Full-Time
Koffler Arts is a cultural platform that explores critical ideas and concerns of our time through exhibitions, publications, performances, literary events and digital initiatives. We examine complex issues through transformative art experiences that stimulate intercultural dialogue and position Jewish identity in conversation with diverse perspectives and global voices.
Koffler Arts is committed to equity, diversity and accessibility in the workplace and welcomes and encourages applications from Indigenous, Black and racialized peoples, people who identify as 2SLGBTQ+, women and non-binary people, and persons with disabilities. To request any access solutions that you may require to participate in the application and recruitment process, please contact
Job description: Working collaboratively with the General Director, Board of Directors, other staff, and volunteers, the Director of Development will be responsible for helping to design and implement Koffler Arts fundraising strategies.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Developing and implementing all fundraising strategies and tools for Koffler Arts
- Working hand in hand with Board members on executing the annual campaign and all other fundraising campaigns throughout the year
- Designing and implementing corporate, public, and private donation strategies
- Designing and writing all fundraising material, hard copy and website
- Data gathering and management for all donors
- Stewardship of major donors, individual and corporate
- Coordination with the grant-writing activities for government and foundation support, and maintaining reporting requirements for grants
- Supporting the annual major fundraising event, Koffler Couture
- Participating in strategic thinking related to programming
- Working with accounting on donation cash-flow
- Working with accounting to provide necessary paperwork to all donors in a timely fashion, including but not limited to tax receipting
- Maintaining clear calendar, database and budgets regarding all aspects of development and fundraising
Qualifications:
- The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 5 years experience in a similarly high responsibility role within an arts organization, or successful not-for-profit enterprise
- A post-secondary education
- The capacity to work in a small team with wide-ranging responsibilities, including managing multiple projects concurrently
- Experience in donor relations and management and proven capacity to fundraise and make appropriate asks
- A well-honed practice of financial and data management
- Experience interacting with funders and donors, and familiarity with the philanthropic community and communities
- Experience in event management for key fundraising events
- An excellent command of English, written and oral, and preferably French or other language
- A strong desire to help an adventuresome arts organization grow nationally and internationally
How to apply:
Please apply by emailing your application to
admin@kofflerarts.org
Applications should include:
- A cover letter detailing why you believe you are the right candidate for the position (please be sure to have this in Georgia, 11 pt font);
- An up-to-date resume;
- Name and contact of three references;
- Please include in your Cover Letter what your salary expectations are
Applications can be addressed to:
Matthew Jocelyn
General Director