Donor Relations & Special Events Director

Who We Are

Rooted in North Minneapolis, PCYC ignites a spirit of inspiration, connection, and growth. We are committed to working creatively toward a bright future focused on education, art, equity, and justice for the children, youth, and families of North Minneapolis and beyond. PCYC is a strong and long-standing community-based nonprofit organization with a 68-year history of delivering exceptional education, arts, and youth programming to children, families, and the North Minneapolis community.

Why You’ll Love Working Here

PCYC is a place of strength and beauty, where every young person is nurtured and challenged to reach their utmost potential, where the power of the arts percolates and elevates, and where youth, adults, families, and communities come together to embrace hope and compassion.

Wages and Benefits

$82,000 - $87,000 on an annual basis, depending on qualifications and experience; medical insurance, dental and vision insurance; employer contributions to a Health Savings Account; flexible spending account; participation in the agency-sponsored retirement plan; employer-paid life insurance; long-term disability insurance; generous paid time off, plus 9 employer paid holidays per year.

A Typical Day in the Life…

A typical day as PCYC’s Donor Relations & Special Events Director provides an opportunity to foster positive and long-term Donor Relationships that are critical to PCYC's philanthropic support. Responsibilities will include the following:

Donor Relations and Fundraising

• Creating development strategies to include prospect identification, donor cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship to meet specified revenue goals.
• Collaborating with the Development Director on fundraising campaigns and smaller, targeted solicitations.
• Working with PCYC’s Board Development Committee and Development Director to identify strategic sponsorships and major donors.
• Developing strategies to increase Board giving and donor prospecting through personal networks.
• Managing the creation and distribution of donor and prospect communications, including thank-you letters, invitations, and other development collateral.
• Collaborating with the Communications Director to increase brand awareness of PCYC and its three programs, engaging a wider audience, and driving crucial fundraising activities.
• Determining and fulfilling Ambassador Circle member and sponsor benefits throughout the season.
• Identifying strategies for audience development and increasing individual, subscription, and group ticket sales.
• Tracking Donor Relations and stewardship activities within the PCYC Blackbaud database to enhance relationships and increase the likelihood of continued contributions.
• Optimizing the Capri’s ticketing and rental records to convert prospective constituents into long-term donors.
• Overseeing occasional donor satisfaction surveys; reviewing and analyzing results to guide better stewardship practices.
• Collaborating with the leadership team to implement a strategy for soliciting, engaging, and maintaining new volunteers.

Special Events and Community Engagement

• Planning and executing community outreach, community partner, and other Special Events (including VIP pre-show meet and greets and Capri Ambassador Circle events throughout the year).
• Overseeing the planning and implementation of donor recognition events.
• Providing project management leadership for each event, including ensuring all components are successfully executed.
• Creating and executing stewardship plans for all event sponsors.
• Identifying, soliciting, and managing relationships with community partners for PCYC/Capri-produced events.
• Working closely with the Communications Director to develop and implement the marketing, advertising, and social media plans for all events.
• Creating and managing event budgets and ensuring that established revenue goals are met while staying within approved budgets.
• Planning and executing the annual Gala in coordination with the Development Director, Communication Director, and external event planners, including sponsorship and auction item solicitation, vendor communications, entertainment booking, program writing, volunteer coordination, print and press material creation, and guest tracking and communication.
• Acting as a direct point of contact for sponsorship inquiries, while engaging and informing the community of ongoing sponsorships (Capri events, etc.).

Leadership

• Meeting once a month with and reporting to the Board Development Committee.
• Attending and presenting reports at bi-monthly Board meetings.
• Playing an active role in the preparation of annual departmental and organization-wide budgets and reports.
• Maintaining cooperative working relationships with program staff and leadership whose cooperation is essential to effective outreach and fundraising.

Who You Are

• You hold a bachelor’s degree or have related experience.
• You have a minimum of 5 years of relevant fundraising, donor communication, and stewardship experience, preferably in an educational or cultural nonprofit organization.
• You have proven success at meeting and exceeding revenue goals.
• You demonstrate successful interactions with Boards and a diverse array of community stakeholders.
• You show a demonstrated ability to deliver culturally competent services and to work effectively in cross-cultural situations.
• You possess substantial experience writing clear, logical, and persuasive communication materials for fundraising, marketing, or advocacy purposes, as reflected in a robust portfolio of newsletters, proposals, appeals, reports, briefs, etc.
• You excel in computer/technology skills, especially in Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and social media platforms.
• You have experience using a CRM database, such as Blackbaud, or similar software.
• You are an engaging public speaker with an emphasis on storytelling.
• You have experience working in a nonprofit community-based organization (preferred).
• You are highly collaborative, creative, curious, energetic, and self-directed with demonstrated ability to work as part of a team.
• You have a valid driver’s license, access to reliable transportation, and the ability to meet PCYC’s driving record requirements. Please note that if the license was not issued in the state of Minnesota, you have 60 days after becoming a Minnesota resident in which to apply for your Minnesota driver's license or permit (not applicable for new hires living out of state).

Diversity and open expression are fundamental to the work of PCYC. We are passionate about building and sustaining an inclusive and equitable working environment where everyone can belong. Every member of our team enriches our work by exposing us to a broad range of ways to understand and engage with the world, identify challenges, and to discover, design, and deliver solutions. We welcome everyone to apply, especially those individuals who are underrepresented in our sector: individuals who identify as BIPOC, LGBTQI+ and gender fluid or gender nonconforming, individuals with disabilities (both seen and unseen), veterans, people of any age or family status. We encourage you to apply even if you feel like you don't fit 100% of the technical requirements. Equal Opportunity Employer: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, disability, marital status, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, familial status, genetic information or a protected veteran’s status.

Our organization has a partnership with Metropolitan Alliance of Connected Communities (MACC) to provide administrative services including management of the recruiting process. If you apply for this position, you may see references to MACC in some online materials.

PCYC participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. See E-Verify’s official poster at https://e-verify.uscis.gov/web/media/resourcesContents/E-Verify_Participation_Poster_ES.pdf. See E-Verify’s Right to Work poster at https://www.e-verify.gov/sites/default/files/everify/posters/IER_RightToWorkPoster%20Eng_Es.pdf.

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