Title: Community Giving Director
Reports To: Executive Director
Hours: An average of 20 hours per week, with variability week-to-week
Availability: Flexible hybrid work, including significant and flexible availability to attend in-person events and meetings on weekdays, as well as sporadic in-person events on evenings and weekends.
Compensation Range: $27,500 – $35,000 annually
THE QUICK DESCRIPTION
The Community Giving Director is active in the Chatham County community, knowing the who, what, when, and where to help connect businesses, individuals, artists, and children. You’re ready to help us serve through the planning, creation, and execution of our Annual Fund and Sponsorship giving strategies. As a critical part of a part-time crew, you can handle all parts of the giving cycle with individuals and small businesses. You like people. You love our work. And you also enjoy sitting down at your laptop to get all your ducks in a row. An able juggler-of-details, a clear communicator, and a skillful nudger, you love knowing that your work makes our work possible.
A LITTLE MORE DETAIL FOR YOU
- Develop strategic Annual Fund and Sponsorship campaign plans to support our overall goals and mission. For this, you’ll need solid planning skills–and an ability to simplify so that what we plan is actually doable.
- Grow our fledgling Annual Fund program by investing in all parts of the giving cycle–identification, cultivation, solicitation, acknowledgement, and stewardship–with a focus on gifts ranging all the way from $50 to $1,000.
- Evolve our existing strong Sponsorship program through identification, cultivation, solicitation, acknowledgement, and stewardship, too–with gifts from $250 to $5,000.
- Manage a portfolio of 30+ small business and individual givers, finding ways to welcome and include them in our work throughout the year.
- Write well and speak confidently about our work and its impact on folks who live and work in Chatham County. In person and on the phone, you’ll be warm and personable—and in writing, you’ll be both professional and human.
- Implement completely. You’ll use Trello, our project management software, and bloomerang, our donor database, and you’ll feel great about checking things off a list toward a bigger goal. You’ll be comfortable collaborating remotely with staff and Board members and nudging folks along to get things done.
- Thank consistently. Gratitude will be your default throughout the season, and you’re the Head of Ensuring Excellent Acknowledgment. From timely thank you letters and emails to meaningful sponsor recognition, you’ll appropriately thank our donors, sponsors, and our partners so that they understand their importance in our work.
IF YOU DON’T GET A LITTLE THRILL OF SATISFACTION FROM THESE THINGS, THIS MIGHT NOT BE RIGHT FOR YOU
- Excellence in your work
- Using a donor database to enter and track contacts, giving records, and next steps so that it’s a well-maintained tool to serve us all
- Carrying several flats of mail to the post office, after you’ve orchestrated a well-organized direct mail process
- Connecting with folks via phone, text, and email, over coffee or in the grocery aisle, at an event or at their home
- Talking with all kinds of folks about the arts
- Attending to details and generally being the host with the most at prospect and donor events
- Following up, following up, and following up again
THE PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
- Ability to work at a computer
- Ability to participate at fundraising and sponsored events for up to 4 hours a stretch
- Ability to participate as an audience member at diverse arts events—inside and outdoors—for up to two hours at a stretch
- Reliable transportation to locations across Chatham County
NOT REQUIRED TO APPLY, BUT CERTAINLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE
- Nonprofit experience
- Arts experience
- Donor database proficiency
- Experience growing a nonprofit Annual Fund
- Familiarity with diverse Chatham communities
- Chatham County resident
- Familiarity with Google technology
OUR PERSPECTIVE ON BUILDING A STAFF TEAM
We’re committed to creating a place of belonging. We welcome applications from folks of all races, religions, gender identities, ages, sexual orientations, and disability status (visible and invisible).
ENTICEMENTS
- You can get the flexibility of a part-time gig with the stability of a regular paycheck.
- You’ll make a huge impact in a small-but-mighty organization.
- We do our best to be kind to one another.
ABOUT THE CHATHAM ARTS COUNCIL
The Chatham Arts Council nurtures creative thinkers in Chatham County. We do this in two ways: we invest in artists, and we educate kids through the arts. With more than 40 years as a nonprofit arts agency, Chatham Arts Council’s flagship programs include Meet This Artist, artist grants, ClydeFEST, and the Chatham Artists-in-Schools Initative– serving more than 3,000 children in this season. Chatham Arts Council is proud to partner with the North Carolina Arts Council, Durham Arts Council, Orange County Arts Commission, United Arts Council of Raleigh & Wake County, Chatham County Schools, and numerous Chatham arts organizations, human resource nonprofits, and local businesses. For more information, visit www.ChathamArtsCouncil.org.
TIMELINE
Applications will be received online until the position is filled. Submissions will be reviewed on a rolling basis beginning 08 October 2025, with priority given to submissions received by that date. We seek to have our next Community Giving Director begin work as soon as possible.
TO APPLY
We’re asking for a one-page cover letter and a resume. For each opening, we think carefully about whether to even ask for a cover letter, so that we don’t waste your time (or ours). It will help us to have one, and here’s what we’re hoping to learn in your cover letter:
- Something we wouldn’t know just by looking at your resumé
- How you balance friendliness, connection, and humanity with professionalism in your writing
- Whether you’re detail-oriented when it comes to proofreading your communications
Please submit your cover letter and resume to Executive Director Cheryl Chamblee at this application materials link. Submissions must be received online, and we cannot accept phone calls. Quick reminder: Priority will be given to submissions received by 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, 08 October 2025, and submissions will be accepted until the position is filled.