Development Program Manager, Stanford Live
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Stanford Live presents a wide range of the finest performances from around the world, fostering a vibrant learning community and providing distinctive experiences through the performing arts. With its primary home at Bing Concert Hall and a popular second venue at historic Frost Amphitheater, Stanford Live is simultaneously a public square, a sanctuary, and a lab, drawing on the breadth and depth of Stanford University to connect performance to the significant issues, ideas, and discoveries of our time.
Reporting to the Associate Director of Development, the Development Program Manager will provide administrative support for all aspects of Stanford Live’s fundraising programs and activities. This role will handle gift processing, gift reporting and acknowledgments; support donor prospecting, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship activities; and assist with creating, planning, and executing donor cultivation and stewardship events.
In this role, you will:
Please note that this position will be based on the Stanford campus and will be considered a hybrid role with 2 or more days a week on campus. This position may need to work extended or non-standard hours, weekends and holidays based on business needs.
In order to be successful, you will bring:
Don’t meet every single requirement? At Stanford Live and Vice Presidency for the Arts, we are dedicated to building an inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. Let us know in your cover letter how your experience makes you a good fit for us. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles!
The expected pay range for this position is $89,825 - $93,000 per annum.
Stanford University provides pay ranges representing its good faith estimate of what the university reasonably expects to pay for a position. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal equity, geographic location and external market pay for comparable jobs.
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