Director of Development - Cranbrook Art Museum

Director of Development - Cranbrook Art Museum

Cranbrook Art Museum seeks an experienced and dynamic Director of Development
. Working closely with the Director of the Art Museum and others on the senior leadership team, the Director of Development will play an important role in realizing the mission of the museum. The successful candidate will help steward and grow the museum's fundraising from individual gifts, foundation grants, and corporate sponsor ships. Entering an exciting new chapter in the museum's history, the Director of Development will help realize the expansion of the museum's mission in serving the vibrant arts and culture community of Detroit and beyond.

Joined and supported by development colleagues in areas such as membership, annual fund, major gifts, planned giving, and special events at Cranbrook Educational Community, the Director of Development will act as an important liaison for the Art Museum.

The Cranbrook Art Museum (CAM) was founded in 1930 and is one of the earliest museums of modern and contemporary art in the United States. Located on Cranbrook Educational Community's campus in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, CAM has grown its programs and operations to include internationally acclaimed exhibitions, scholarly catalogs, and a series of public and educational programs. CAM is Michigan's largest museum dedicated to the art of our time.

It engages with Detroit community partners to present major public art projects and exhibitions about Detroit-based artists and formed the Detroit Collection to acquire, interpret, and preserve the city’s cultural legacy. CAM's collections number nearly 8,000 objects and are housed in one of the first open-storage facilities in the United States (debuted in 2011).

Cranbrook Art Museum is one of seven programmatic units of Cranbrook Educational Community (CEC), which also includes Cranbrook Academy of Art, Cranbrook Institute of Science, Cranbrook Schools, Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research, Cranbrook Horizons-Upward Bound, and Cranbrook House & Gardens. Founded by Detroit philanthropists George and Ellen Booth in 1904, Cranbrook Educational Community is located in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, twenty miles north of downtown Detroit.

Cranbrook's 319-acre campus is a national Historic Landmark District that welcomes thousands of visitors each year to the Art Museum, Institute of Science, and three historic houses. Cranbrook is also home to more than 150 graduate students at the Art Academy and 1,600 students in Cranbrook Schools.

For more information, please visit our website:
Cranbrook.edu.

The Director of Development for Cranbrook Art Museum is responsible for successfully leading, developing and implementing a comprehensive fundraising program for CAM, including annual giving; membership; corporate, foundation, and government support; major and planned giving; and special events. These fundraising activities are executed in coordination with all other fundraising throughout Cranbrook Educational Community and are designed to leverage other programs and enhance the Community's overall fundraising success.

The Director reports to the Chief Advancement Officer of Cranbrook Educational Community (CEC) and works directly with the Director of CAM and its staff. This position has a critical role in CAM’s successful operation and in meeting financial and program goals and objectives for CAM and for CEC.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Develop and implement a comprehensive fundraising program for CAM, including short- and long-term goals and strategies for all areas of fundraising.
• Direct the planning, execution, and evaluation of the annual giving program for CAM, including donor solicitations and acknowledgements and statistical reports and analyses, in coordination with CAM and CEC staff and the Director of Annual Giving and Membership.
• Direct the planning, execution, and evaluation of the CAM membership program, including its individual and any corporate components, new membership acquisition and renewals, retention, stewardship, and statistical reports and analyses, in coordination with CAM and CEC staff and the…