Media Art Xploration (MAXlive) is seeking an enthusiastic and experienced individual with excellent communication and strong organizational skills to join its growing team. MAXlive produces and presents groundbreaking live & immersive arts that harness & interrogate the scientific advances of our times.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
MAXlive is seeking a Development and Strategic Partnerships Manager. The ideal candidate is an agile thinker with significant, demonstrated background in fundraising—both high-level strategy and day-to-day operations—for non profits, and ideally in organizations that focus on the performing arts, science, or technology. The Development and Strategic Partnerships Manager will create a robust new fundraising strategy for MAXlive to diversify income sources and increase annual contributed income totals. Our goal is to adjust the model of non-profit sustainability with a combination of fundraising strategies and revenue streams. This individual will be a creative thinker who connects the dots between the funding and development of MAXlive and the future of the performing arts. This is an excellent opportunity for an early to mid-career arts administrator who is looking for an opportunity to take on a leadership position and have more ownership over organizational growth.
Position Report to: Artistic Director
Start Date: Immediate
Compensation: $40 - $50 per hour
Perks:
Paid time off
Successful implementation of strategic innovations will result in salary increases.
Opportunities for travel to develop strategic partners
Location: New York City (Hybrid)
Job type: Part-time
RESPONSIBILITIES:
-Design and implement a development strategy for the growth of MAXlive: Identify funds needed, targets, and approaches. Set ambitious fundraising goals and define the pathways to achieve them
-Leading institutional and foundation fundraising efforts, including grant research and writing, maintaining a grants calendar, compiling reports, and preparing organizational documents for foundation submission
-Diversify income: Research, devise, and activate new revenue streams
-Manage institutional giving: Maintain and build relationships with institutional funders
-Manage grant applications and reporting.
-Review and manage institutional budgets and ensure MAXlive is prepared to meet fundraising goals.
-Planning and executing cultivation and fundraising events
-Strengthen relationships with individual donors
-Scout and cultivate new individual donors
-End of year fundraising including appeals
-Managing the current grant portfolio and expanding foundation, institutional and corporate support.
-Liaising with Board regarding their fundraising goals, events and sub-committees
-Managing fundraising committee
-Collaborating with Marketing Associate on monthly newsletter and Membership Program
EXPERIENCE:
-BA (required), MA (a plus)
-4+ years of fundraising experience, ideally in arts or science-focused non profits
-Demonstrated success in developing and implementing fundraising strategy
-Budget management experience
-The ability to serve as a strategic thinker, capable of providing positive and proactive solutions to challenges and opportunities
-Collaborative and entrepreneurial spirit; a scrappy and bold personality
-Demonstrated excellence in organizational, managerial, communication, and relationship building skills
-Particular interest and knowledge in performing arts and media arts.
MAXlive is an equal opportunity employer. MAXlive does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, disability, age, religion, sexual orientation, or national or ethnic origin.
About Us
Media Art Xploration expands live performance through science and technology. We bring together storytellers, performers, scientists, and creative technologists to make music, dance, and immersive performance that raise awareness and spark constructive dialogue about the constant innovation around us. We illuminate scientific innovation through artistic expression and broaden artistic expression through scientific insight to create shared experiences and build a more informed democracy.
In MAXlive 2019: A Space Festival and MAXlive 2021: The Neuroverse, MAX’s recent biennial festivals, we worked with over 150 artists and scientists to bring dozens of performances and presentations and 14 museum installations to over 15 ,000 audience members across 3 cities in partnership with 10 premiere venues including the Exploratorium, California Academy of Sciences, Carnegie Hall, New York Live Arts, ONX Studio, MASS MoCA, and the Norton Museum.
Diversity Equity & Inclusion Statement
Media Art Xploration is committed to increasing the accessibility of science, technology, and the arts.
We aim to reach a diverse public through presentations that defy disciplinary boundaries without sacrificing nuance, rigor, or meaningful debate. We strive to scrutinize the apparatus of scientific research and technological development as we expand the tools of artistic expression by fostering collaborations between artists, technologists, and scientists. We work to cultivate an artistic presentation environment and workplace where all staff, volunteers, artist residents, and partners feel welcome and free to be their full selves. We are committed to supporting a diverse and inclusive space that reflects the communities in which our work is presented and cultivated.
Media Art Xploration is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our organization does not discriminate on the basis of an individual’s race, sex, age, color, creed, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, socio-economic background, disability status, religion, marital or partnership status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, past incarceration status, veteran or military status and any other attributes protected by law.
