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Fundraising Consultant

ARTstor New York, NY

ARTstor is seeking a Fundraising Consultant to identify opportunities for philanthropic support. The Fundraising Consultant will be responsible for identifying, engaging, and cultivating prospective philanthropies, resulting in the support of various ARTstor services, including public access collections and K-12 support.

ARTstor (artstor.org) is a nonprofit organization that makes available a digital library of more than 1.5 million images designed to enhance education and scholarship in the arts, architecture, the humanities, and sciences. The ARTstor Digital Library currently serves more than 1,400 educational institutions and museums worldwide. ARTstor also makes available Shared Shelf (sharedshelf.org), a Web-based cataloging and image management software service that allows institutions to catalog, edit, store, and share local collections. ARTstor participates in open data creation and sharing via its Built Works Registry and provides more than 25,000 free images for scholarly use via its Images for Academic Publications program. ARTstor has a strong commitment to improving the resources available for teaching and research at all levels of education, and is looking to strengthen its capacity to support open educational resources, K-12 education, and media asset management in the sciences.

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Develop targets to support particular organizational initiatives in collaboration with ARTstor's president.
  • Develop fundraising strategy and objectives to maximize fundraising.
  • Identify philanthropies that support education, libraries, the arts, and open educational resources.
  • Identify funders with interest in supporting Shared Shelf's capacity to improve effectiveness and efficiency in the management of media content in academic science teaching and research.
  • Create and execute particular fundraising projects.
  • Partner with the Communications and Library Relations teams to create and review fundraising materials and ensure that they align ARTstor's priorities with funder interest.

Qualifications:

  • Knowledge of funders with interest in library, museum, educational technology, K-12, arts education, open educational resources.
  • Familiarity with government funding agencies such as IMLS, NEH, NSF.
  • Minimum of 2 years experience leading and implementing fundraising projects, preferably in a museum, library, arts education, social entrepreneurial organization, or innovative educational organization.
  • A high degree of organizational skills, including analytical and project management skills.
  • Highly motivated with strong initiative and exceptional interpersonal skills and judgment.
  • Experience with strategic planning, budget preparation, and resource management.
  • Ability to create compelling written and oral communications for fundraising, and experience presenting materials to external audiences.
  • A proven ability to strengthen existing relationships and to build new ones.

Nominations and applications, including a cover letter, resume and salary history should be emailed to careers@artstor.org