Director of Development and Communications: Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial

The Director of Development and Communications is a senior leadership position charged with overseeing the success of Fleisher Art Memorial’s strategies in fundraising, brand awareness, and revenue-generating storytelling. Reporting to the Executive Director, the Director will oversee a staff that represents key areas of Fleisher’s donor cultivation, corporate and foundation giving programs, and digital and print strategy for conveying impact and building audiences.

Fleisher has a uniquely vigorous dedication to its mission and core values, recently ratified in a three-year Strategic Plan. The Director of Development and Communications will help advance that plan by overseeing a brand-focused communications and storytelling strategy to cultivate a thriving community of supporters. This position will lead strategies to share Fleisher’s values and mission impact in social and print marketing initiatives, lead Fleisher’s membership initiatives, oversee an already robust portfolio of Foundation and Government grants, and work in partnership with the Executive Director to steward major individual and endowment gifts to secure Fleisher’s future.

Fleisher’s Strategic Plan also calls for reviews of its systems and software, member benefit programs, and long-term collaborations with other non-profits, and the new Director will have an opportunity to significantly shape Fleisher’s Development and Communications operations for the future.

The Director should be a self-directed leader who can sell a vision for Fleisher’s future to both internal staff and external stakeholders, generate new opportunities to create excitement around Fleisher’s history and impact, and advocate for Fleisher’s values in a challenging political landscape. Fleisher has done important work in this area over the last three years, and the new Director joins the team when both institutional and individual giving initiatives have shown positive year-over-year growth, and will oversee a team of enthusiastic, already successful colleagues.

• Sustain and build the infrastructure needed to grow the current $3.5 million budget through the solicitation of major gifts, individual gifts, memberships, government grants, special events, and corporate and foundation support.
• Provide strategic management for a team of three full-time staff as well as contracted consultants (when appropriate) to integrate the institutional work of Development and Communications strategies in alignment with the  Strategic Plan.
• Lead a comprehensive review and revision of Fleisher’s membership program and benefits.
• In partnership with the Executive Director, coordinate and deepen the work of the Board of Directors, including board recruitment, governance oversight, annual giving, and integration with staff/programs in other departments.

• Supervise a Manager of Individual Giving in the development of a pipeline of members and mid-level individual donors.
• Partner with Executive Director to identify and qualify new prospects for major giving and implement a permanent legacy giving strategy for the future.
• Oversee the work of an Events Coordinator in implementing a robust series of external rental events that introduce new individual organizational partners to the institution and provide significant unrestricted funds.
• With the Events Coordinator, implement annual fundraising events, including the Founder’s Award Celebration, that highlight Fleisher’s impact and raise significant unrestricted funds each year.

• Oversee the planning and execution of two annual giving campaigns, including direct mail, digital appeals, and peer-to-peer initiatives.
• Lead the team in crafting compelling donor and member-centric appeals, impact stories, and campaigns that align with Fleisher’s voice.

• Oversee strategic process for stewardship touchpoints, including timely acknowledgments, impact updates, member communications, and donor recognition.
• Lead the execution of cultivation gatherings that celebrate art, build community, and highlight Fleisher’s mission in action.
• Oversee accurate…