Working title:

Assistant Director for External Affairs

Official title:

ASST DIR, UNSPEC (8)(M94LN)

Degree and area of specialization:

Bachelor's degree required, preferably in a related field.

Minimum number of years and type of relevant work experience:

Six to eight years professional experience required; experience in communications, development, marketing or public relations strongly preferred.

Principal duties:

(15%) Supervise Individual and Family Membership Program
-Develop and implement practices to broaden and diversify the museum's member base, to communicate effectively with members to retain their loyalty, and to graduate members to escalating levels of annual, as well as capital and endowment support.
-Evaluate performance of the Museum's membership and outreach programs on an ongoing basis with attention to cost-effectiveness; diversity and demographics of visitors, donors and program participants; retention and growth among member and donor pools; and the Museum's public profile as measured by visitation, media citations, website usage, and survey data.
-Oversee the management of member appreciation events and public programs throughout the year including exhibition openings.

(30%) Manage Corporate Membership Program
-Design and implement a new corporate membership program, initially targeting businesses in the immediate region with the goal of building durable, long-term relationships with partners in the business sector with appropriately structured membership levels and benefits.
-Develop and maintain close working relationships with relevant organizations such as business associations and chambers of commerce to enhance awareness of the Museum and its corporate membership program.

(10%) Manage Volunteer Organization
-Create and manage a structured volunteer program to support Museum programs and operations based upon research into successful examples of museum volunteer programs.

(20%) Manage Community and Constituent Relations
-Develop, in consultation with the Director, a multi-year marketing and outreach plan targeting key constituencies and including timetables, quantifiable goals, budgets, and evaluation criteria.
-Represent the Museum in routine interaction with the media and with external organizations.
-Develop and implement a media and marketing plan for promotion of the Museum's planned expansion, working with the Director, the Editor, and the architectural team as appropriate.
-Manage all aspects of the planning, hosting and follow-up of special events and programs at the Museum including public outreach and fundraising activities.
-Manage policies for use of Museum space by external organizations, ensuring that space use and rental furthers the Museum's own educational and outreach objectives.
-Keep abreast of the public and community professional involvements of the Director and of other members of the Museum staff as these activities support the Museum's outreach objectives, helping to maximize the coordinated impact of those individual efforts.

(20%) Manage Development Program
-Develop and manage a comprehensive fundraising plan featuring tiered targets for numbers of donors at various giving levels, benchmarks for fundraising performance through the year, and mechanisms for reporting fundraising progress.
-Continually consult with the Director and with staff of the UW Foundation on progress in identifying, cultivating and soliciting major gift prospects for both annual and capital fundraising campaigns.

( 5%) General Management and Administration
-Provide all manner of management and administrative support to these functions, keeping abreast of techniques, technologies and resources on campus and from the professional field.

Additional Information:

This position requires vision, capacity to develop and manage medium- to long-range strategies, and creative initiative. It also requires a sophisticated capacity to network and to interact effectively and purposefully with specialized, often high-level external audiences including the media, donors, and corporate executives.

TO ENSURE CONSIDERATION

Application must be received by: AUGUST 05, 2008

HOW TO APPLY:

Applicants should submit a cover letter, resume, and contact information for 5 professional references. (References will not be contacted without the applicant's prior permission.)

Unless another application procedure has been specified above, please send resume and cover letter referring to Position Vacancy Listing #59198 to