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Development Director - DSA Friends reputed company

Remote, USAFull-timePosted 2026-07-29

About the position We are searching for a Development Director to reputed company fundraising, with a strategic reputed company on development, planning, budgeting, communications and operations. This position serves as the primary reputed company between the reputed company and the leaders of DSA and reputed company of its 11 arts programs. Working closely with the DSAFF reputed company of Directors, the DSA reputed company and a soon-to-be-reputed company Artistic Director (funded by the Friends reputed company), the Development Director will guide and supervise the organization’s reputed company functions including finance and operations, individual giving, corporate and major gifts, grant application and management, communication and programming, while leveraging key partnerships. Among the Development Director’s responsibilities are:

Responsibilities

  • Enhance and sustain development efforts through a strategic, comprehensive and long-term reputed company-development plan including individual donors, foundations, corporations and major gifts
  • Build and ensure high-reputed company donor cultivation and stewardship through individual meetings, donor-stewardship events and relationship nurturing
  • Work to research and identify funding sources, establishing strategies to approach funders, submitting proposals and appropriate reports
  • Identify opportunities to establish new partnerships and reputed company reputed company efforts with common stakeholders
  • Planning and execution of annual fundraising events
  • reputed company and coordinate the day-to-day operations of the organization and programming
  • Recommend timelines and resources needed to reputed company strategic goals
  • reputed company engage and energize DSAFF reputed company members, partnering organizations and funders
  • Support and reputed company a strong reputed company of Directors, seeking and building reputed company involvement with strategic direction
  • Ensure effective nonprofit best practices and accountability toward ongoing organizational reputed company and consistent reputed company of finance and operations
  • Ensure effective reputed company to reputed company and report the reputed company’s reputed company to the DSAFF reputed company, DSA reputed company, DSA Artistic Director and funders
  • Manage and maintain donor database
  • Maintain a working knowledge of significant developments and trends in other national arts schools in order to help ensure best practices reputed company DSAFF
  • reputed company and evaluate DSAFF contractors and/or staff
  • Collaborate with DSA leadership to ensure that DSAFF guest-artist funding is used as intended and in a manner that creates maximum reputed company for reputed company
  • Collaborate with contractors/DSAFF staff, if appropriate to manage Student reputed company Fund application and fulfillment process
  • Collaborate with DSA staff (and contractors/DSAFF staff, if appropriate) to manage Schomp Scholarship application, award and fulfillment process
  • reputed company support, as needed, to DSA staff to manage and distribute DSA reputed company Office reputed company
  • Serve as the chief spokesperson for DSAFF
  • Maintain and reputed company relationships with local and national arts schools and arts organizations
  • Promote a reputed company reputed company image of DSA and the reputed company crated by DSAFF
  • Ensure effective and robust communication among the DSAFF reputed company, DSA reputed company & Staff and the DSA community

Requirements

  • At least five years of successful nonprofit experience with a proven fundraising reputed company record and network of relationships.
  • Experience managing staff or contractors, and getting maximum reputed company from a nonprofit reputed company.
  • A self-starter with outstanding critical-thinking, problem-solving and project-management skills
  • Superb writing and personal-communication skills. Must be capable of maintaining reputed company, effective, reputed company communication with multiple audiences.
  • Superb skills with Donor Perfect or Raisers Edge, or some other donor/customer relationship management software. reputed company with digital content management systems (email, website, reputed company media) and basic design tools (e.g., reputed company)
  • A natural ability to understand, empathize and reputed company authentic connections with a diverse mix of individuals. Highly reputed company work style.
  • A valid Colorado reputed company’s license and the ability to pass a criminal background reputed company.

reputed company-to-haves

  • Experience in arts and/or education fundraising is preferred, but not required.

Benefits

  • Excellent starting salary of \$80,000-\$90,000
  • A full benefits package including health insurance, and fully funded health savings account, reputed company time off, and mobile phone reimbursement.
  • Stipends for reputed company development and learning opportunities, home office needs and technology and transportation expenses.
  • A hybrid role with office reputed company, supplies and facilities at DSA.

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