Mallarmé Chamber Players seeks a Development and Marketing Manager
Mallarmé Chamber Players in Durham, NC seeks a dynamic and creative person to take on the role of Development and Marketing Manager. The ideal candidate will have experience in successful grant writing, fundraising, and marketing in a not for profit structure, as well as a solid foundation in non-profit administration. The successful candidate will likely have worked for three years or more in a leadership position in the non-profit arts sector and will have had experience in developing fundraising and marketing strategies. This position will be expected to take a lead role in developing a strategic plan for the organization. An interest in and knowledge of classical, chamber, and world music is a desired trait.
The Business and Development Manager will report to the Artistic Director and will work closely with staff, board, consultants, and musicians in the following areas:
DEVELOPMENT AND FUNDRAISING
· Grant writing and reporting, to include government agencies at all levels, foundations, and other funding sources
· Research, strategy development, and stewardship for individual donor program
· Identify, cultivate and solicit prospects
· Managing new corporate and small-business development efforts
· Donor relations to include gift acknowledgments, donor recognition strategies, donor records
MARKETING AND PROMOTION
· Marketing communications to include mailings, e-mail, press relations
· Responsible for overall look of Mallarmé marketing materials (including brochures, Playbills, website, etc.)
· Playbill ad sales
· Donor and subscriber database management and maintenance
VOLUNTEER COORDINATION
· Reception coordination
· Front of house management for concerts (ticket sales, ushering, etc)
· Mailings
Salary/Hours
The position is part-time; salary commensurate with experience; health benefits may be available.
About the Organization
Mallarmé Chamber Players is a nationally acclaimed ensemble of professional musicians, performing in mixed ensembles of three to seven artists. Mallarmé’s mission is to perform music among friends that serves to honor the artists and the art of chamber music, to expand cultural awareness, and to build bridges in the community through education and performance and celebrate the diversity in our community by featuring the music of, among others, African-American Asian, Latino, Indian, etc. composers and musicians.
Created in 1984, the ensemble’s name comes from Stéphane Mallarmé, the 19th-century French poet and philosopher who believed that true art is created through a unity of music, dance, literature and the visual arts. In keeping with their namesake, Mallarmé performances are often interdisciplinary and have been praised by critics and audiences as innovative, eclectic, and of the highest artistic quality.
With the most gifted artists from North Carolina’s Piedmont, Mallarmé Chamber Players performs programs that include rarely heard works from the traditional chamber music repertoire, and celebrate the diversity in our community by featuring the music of African-American, Asian, Latino, Indian, Middle Eastern and women composers. Mallarmé regularly commissions new works by American composers. They create new contours in the landscape of chamber music, and develop new models for community-based arts organizations.
Currently Mallarmé offers 5 subscription concerts, 1 gala, and over 40 community and educational concerts each year, with additional private events (i.e. weddings, parties, graduations) rounding out the schedule.
How to Apply
Please email resumé and cover letter to suzanne@mallarmemusic.org
Or mail to:
Human Resources
Mallarmé Chamber Players
120 Morris Street
Durham, NC 27701
No phone calls or faxes, please.