Development Assistant

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Regular Full-Time (Non-Exempt)

Anderson Ranch seeks a dedicated, exceptionally organized, detail-oriented colleague who wants to be an essential part of a highly successful team. This will be a person who grows into a deep understanding of how a professional fundraising program works – from the system behind the scenes to how frontline fundraisers inspire gifts that change both the organization and the philanthropist behind it.

The Development Assistant works closely with and assists the Deputy Director of Development with administrative support and database management and helps to develop and manage key fundraising programs. The person in this position will have the opportunity to learn from colleagues with decades of experience, gain a broad and deep knowledge of how annual funds, membership campaigns, and major gifts drive the success of a team and growing organization, and join a renowned creative community at Anderson Ranch Arts Center.

Anderson Ranch Arts Center is a year-round visual-arts not-for-profit, tax-exempt organization with a 55-year history of providing transformative experiences that celebrate artists, art-making and creative dialog, at the intersection of craft and the global contemporary art world. Anderson Ranch brings together both aspiring and internationally renowned artists who come from across the country and around the world to test new ideas, explore new disciplines and techniques, hone their art-making skills, engage in meaningful dialog and connect with thought leaders in the artistic community.

Anderson Ranch’s campus is an artistic community nestled among the pristine peaks of the Rocky Mountains. The Ranch campus consists of 14 buildings providing 55,000 square feet of facilities including eight studio buildings, a gallery, a lecture hall, café, store, administrative offices, a student dormitory, as well as apartments and cabins for artistic staff and artists. State-of-the-art equipment allows cross-disciplinary experimentation within the mediums of ceramics, woodworking, photography, digital fabrication, painting, sculpture and printmaking.

The campus is an oasis of renovated 19th-century cabins and barns that sit alongside contemporary designed buildings, all within the renowned cultural and recreation communities of Aspen/Snowmass, CO, and the Roaring Fork Valley.

Anderson Ranch cultivates a culture of experimentation and collaboration, offering world-class art-making facilities and equipment across diverse mediums, experienced visiting faculty and access to the highest quality staff.

Anderson Ranch Arts Center’s mission is to foster transformative educational experiences and community, embracing traditional and contemporary art making on our vibrant Rocky Mountain campus.

We achieve this by offering:

• Workshops: Providing intensive 1-3-week workshops for artists of all levels and all ages that both improve technical art-making skills and provide transformative experiences for art makers.
• Advanced Mentoring Programs: Offering three-year mentoring programs that advance artistic practice and careers in the arts.
• Artist Residencies: Providing 5 and 10-week long juried Artists-in-Residence programs, which give emerging and mid-career professional artists the time, space and resources to develop new work using our world-class facilities.
• Visiting Artist Experiences: Providing flexible and unique curated experiences to support established national and international artists seeking a retreat to experiment in new mediums or with new techniques and ideas, supported by our staff.
• Anderson Ranch Editions: Artists are invited to work with our professional staff in our studios to make prints or multiples in traditional and cutting-edge processes.
• Community Engagement: Hosting lectures, discussions, seminars and special events which build a community that appreciates, understands and supports art-making within the global contemporary art world and the human experience for both Anderson Ranch guests and the local community.

• Changing Lives and Changing the World Through Art: We care about people and helping them improve their lives. We…