Levine Museum of the New South

Roles and Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

• Lead, oversee, and integrate a fundraising plan, with goals, objectives, timelines, and assignment of responsibilities to achieve and support initiatives within the museum’s strategic plan.
• Serve as a strategic and innovative thought partner and member of the leadership team to secure necessary funding for exhibitions, programs, and experiences, that are vital to community engagement and the national and international reputation of the museum.
• Cultivate and maintain strong partnerships with the board, major donors, foundations, public agencies, and corporate funders to grow substantial contributed revenue opportunities.
• Identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward a personal portfolio of current and new funding sources, and explore innovative opportunities for expanding individual, foundation, and corporate philanthropy.
• Guide, enhance, and increase the membership base, creating compelling programs and opportunities for members while developing a pipeline for community engagement and support.
• Increase working capital reserves and endowment to support long-term financial stability for the organization as part of the comprehensive campaign for a new facility.
• Maintain best practices and knowledge of significant trends in philanthropy and adapt fundraising strategies as necessary.
• Embrace other strategic leadership responsibilities as needed.

Board and Donor Engagement

• Identify and recruit new board members, educate members about their role in advancing a culture of philanthropy, cultivate and solicit their financial support, maximize their engagement with the museum, and leverage their respective networks to expand the donor base and support for the museum, in partnership with the CEO.
• Devise strategies with the Development Committee that allow the museum’s community to engage with the museum as donors, sponsors, partners, advisors, and community ambassadors.
• Ensure high-quality, individualized, and meaningful stewardship of donors, coordinating with colleagues throughout the museum and personally stewarding donors as needed.
• Speak skillfully and persuasively about the museum’s vision for the future with current and prospective board members and donors.
• Lead and mentor the development team, creating and promoting effective cultivation and solicitation opportunities that involve the director, board, and staff team members as needed.
• Advise board members individually and collectively, on best practices in community ambassadorship and donor cultivation.
• Embrace other board engagement and recruitment, and donor engagement responsibilities as needed.

Team and Organizational Oversight

• Recruit, diversify, coach, inspire, and motivate a strong fundraising team that represents LMNS’s communities.
• Ensure sound fiscal operation of the fundraising function, including timely, accurate, and comprehensive budgeting, monitoring, forecasting, and reporting of charitable contributions and department expenses in partnership with the Director of Finance.
• Maintain consistent messaging and outreach strategies with Marketing and Communications as they relate to all fundraising efforts.
• Create a supportive, collaborative, productive, and healthy work environment based on respect, teamwork, and the equity, diversity, and inclusion values of the LMNS.
• Set performance standards and provide timely, constructive feedback while supporting opportunities for professional development.
• Support team ingenuity and innovation with appropriate human resources, structures, systems, and technological platforms that align with current and future trends in fundraising.
• Enhance and ensure the strategic use of the database and other development communication tools, coordinating communications with existing and potential donors to ensure the highest level of donor engagement, satisfaction, expressions of appreciation, and active stewardship.
• Embrace other team and organizational oversight responsibilities as needed.