Chief Development Officer – Levine Museum

Position Summary

The Chief Development Officer (CDO) is responsible for planning,

implementing, overseeing, and assessing the LMNS's fundraising

plans in support of the organization's strategic vision and growth.

The CDO will effectively represent the organization's philanthropy

interests to all constituencies to establish and advance ambitious

goals in support of LMNS's operations and endowment. Reporting to

the CEO and serving as a strategic thought partner and member of

the senior leadership team, the CDO will lead LMNS's annual fund,

major gift, membership, planned, corporate, and foundation giving,

events, and government relations, including the development of a

capital campaign.

Collaborating with the CEO, Board of Directors, and leadership

team, the CDO will contribute to LMNS' strategic planning process,

deliver innovative strategies, and lead by example in a

mission-driven work environment balancing the need and relevance of

programs with fiscal accountability and organizational impact in

keeping with LMNS's values, mission, and vision.

Roles and Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

• Lead, oversee, and integrate a fundraising plan, with goals,
  
  objectives, timelines, and assignment of responsibilities to
  
  achieve and support initiatives within the museum's strategic
  
  plan.
• Serve as a strategic and innovative thought partner and member
  
  of the leadership team to secure necessary funding for exhibitions,
  
  programs, and experiences, that are vital to community engagement
  
  and the national and international reputation of the museum.
• Cultivate and maintain strong partnerships with the board,
  
  major donors, foundations, public agencies, and corporate funders
  
  to grow substantial contributed revenue opportunities.
• Identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward a personal portfolio
  
  of current and new funding sources, and explore innovative
  
  opportunities for expanding individual, foundation, and corporate
  
  philanthropy.
• Guide, enhance, and increase the membership base, creating
  
  compelling programs and opportunities for members while developing
  
  a pipeline for community engagement and support.
• Increase working capital reserves and endowment to support
  
  long-term financial stability for the organization as part of the
  
  comprehensive campaign for a new facility.
• Maintain best practices and knowledge of significant trends in
  
  philanthropy and adapt fundraising strategies as necessary.
• Embrace other strategic leadership responsibilities as
  
  needed.

Board and Donor Engagement

• Identify and recruit new board members, educate members about
  
  their role in advancing a culture of philanthropy, cultivate and
  
  solicit their financial support, maximize their engagement with the
  
  museum, and leverage their respective networks to expand the donor
  
  base and support for the museum, in partnership with the CEO.
• Devise strategies with the Development Committee that allow the
  
  museum's community to engage with the museum as donors, sponsors,
  
  partners, advisors, and community ambassadors.
• Ensure high-quality, individualized, and meaningful stewardship
  
  of donors, coordinating with colleagues throughout the museum and
  
  personally stewarding donors as needed.
• Speak skillfully and persuasively about the museum's vision for
  
  the future with current and prospective board members and
  
  donors.
• Lead and mentor the development team, creating and promoting
  
  effective cultivation and solicitation opportunities that involve
  
  the director, board, and staff team members as needed.
• Advise board members individually and collectively, on best
  
  practices in community ambassadorship and donor cultivation.
• Embrace other board engagement and recruitment, and donor
  
  engagement responsibilities as needed.

Team and Organizational Oversight

• Recruit, diversify, coach, inspire, and motivate a strong
  
  fundraising team that represents LMNS's communities.
• Ensure sound fiscal operation of the fundraising function,
  
  including timely, accurate, and comprehensive budgeting,
  
  monitoring, forecasting, and reporting of charitable contributions
  
  and department expenses in partnership with the Director of
  
  Finance.
• Maintain consistent messaging and outreach strategies with
  
  Marketing and Communications as they relate to all fundraising
  
  efforts.
• Create a supportive, collaborative, productive, and healthy
  
  work environment based on respect, teamwork, and the equity,
  
  diversity, and inclusion values of the LMNS.
• Set performance standards and provide timely, constructive
  
  feedback while supporting opportunities for professional
  
  development.
• Support team ingenuity and innovation with appropriate human
  
  resources, structures, systems, and technological platforms that
  
  align with current and future trends in fundraising.
• Enhance and ensure the strategic use of the database and other
  
  development communication tools, coordinating communications with
  
  existing and potential donors to ensure the highest level of donor
  
  engagement, satisfaction, expressions of appreciation, and active
  
  stewardship.
• Embrace other team and organizational oversight
  
  responsibilities as needed.

Traits and Characteristics

The CDO will be an experienced fundraising professional with a

demonstrated capacity to achieve contributed revenue goals, an

affinity for the LMNS's mission, collection, and programs, and a

passion to positively impact the organization's long-term success.

The successful candidate will be goal-oriented and highly

self-motivated, balancing both individual and team autonomy and

collaboration with finesse. The CDO will be highly accountable with

strong attention to detail and exceptional follow-through in

partnership with the CEO, board, and senior leadership team. An

effective communicator and authentic relationship builder, they

will show sensitivity and a strong commitment to diversity, equity,

and inclusion in all its forms.

Other key competencies include:

• Leadership and Diplomacy – The dexterity to
  
  anticipate, meet, and exceed a variety of stakeholder needs and
  
  expectations, inspiring others in effectively handling difficult or
  
  sensitive issues.
• Teamwork – The agility to cooperate with
  
  others to meet objectives; and to organize and motivate others
  
  while creating of sense of trust, order, direction, and active
  
  participation among the board, staff, and other stakeholders to
  
  achieve collective goals.
• Flexibility and Creativity – The capacity to
  
  respond quickly and adapt to change with minimal resistance,
  
  adapting to change and creating new approaches to achieve desired
  
  results.
• Stakeholder Focus – The sensitivity to
  
  anticipate, meet, and frequently exceed patron and stakeholder
  
  needs, wants, and expectations.
• Planning, Organizing and Project Management –
  
  The capability to build trust and cooperate with others to meet
  
  objectives, establishing courses of action to ensure that work is
  
  completed effectively.

Qualifications

A minimum of eight years of senior management experience that

includes developing new revenue sources, building and strengthening

relationships, and a track record of success in major gift

fundraising is required. Successful experience planning and

implementing annual operating, endowment, planned giving,

membership programs, external communications, and capital campaigns

is preferred. Demonstrated acumen and commitment to the

intersection of art history and social justice is essential.

Genuine enthusiasm for art and its transformative power,

exceptional written and interpersonal skills, and a high degree of

professionalism and integrity are needed. A record of recruiting

and developing exceptional people and fostering a transparent and

collaborative work environment is a key to success. Educational

credentials and demonstrated professional experience supporting

leadership intelligence, organizational growth, arts and culture

experiences, and community engagement, are highly desired.

Compensation and Benefits

Levine Museum of the New South offers a competitive and

equitable compensation package, with an anticipated annual salary

range between $100,000 to $120,000. Employee benefits include paid

vacation, sick leave, personal days, and holidays; health,

long-term disability, and life insurance; and a voluntary 401(k)

retirement plan.

Applications and Inquiries

To submit a cover letter and resume highlighting relevant and

demonstrable accomplishments (electronic submissions preferred),

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For questions or general inquiries about this job opportunity,

please contact:

Renée Danger-James, Vice President

1040 First Avenue, Suite 352

New York, New York

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Levine Museum of the New South is committed to sharing

the stories of historically underrepresented people and cultures

and acknowledging and addressing systemic inequities and

wrongdoings both internally and externally.

Levine Museum is in a unique position to expose

injustices in our community, past and present, and to raise

awareness of DEAI issues. We value differences and work to remove

and reduce emotional, cognitive, physical, and financial barriers

to Levine Museum's offerings.

We will commit to fearlessly facing and addressing

historical inequities, and we will continue to foster conversation,

inspire empathy, and celebrate communities in everything we

do.

Organization

The Levine Museum

of the New South (LMNS) connects the past to the future to

realize the promises of a new south. Created with, for, and about

Charlotte's diverse communities long before that approach was

commonplace. LMNS was founded in 1991 as a "museum without walls"

mounting exhibitions in public places, engaging the community

through outreach programs, and developing a committed local

audience. LMNS opened its first permanent home in 1996, gaining

recognition as an innovative leader in the national museum

community with award-winning work such as Cotton Fields to

Skyscrapers, Courage, and NUEVOlution: Latinos in the New

South. LMNS' groundbreaking work explored often difficult

subjects like school segregation, undocumented immigrant youth, and

the 2016 police-involved shooting and death of Keith Lamont Scott,

providing a hub and meeting ground to share ideas and have

meaningful conversations.

Moving from its aging, beloved facility in 2022, LMNS embraced

the opportunity to connect with its community in innovative ways

and diverse places, from libraries and churches to breweries,

universities, and its temporary home in Uptown Charlotte. These

efforts broadened LMNS' reach by nearly 43% serving 70,000 through

on-site visits, community programs, and online initiatives.

Nominated once again for the National Medal from the Institute of

Museum and Library Sciences, since its first in 2005, LMNS

continues to explore new and more dynamic ways to engage

communities by bringing programming, digitally ambitious

exhibitions, and immersive experiences.

Public programs in 2022, informed by a community advisory

committee, included the provocative What Is It Going To

Take? series, focusing on contemporary and deeply rooted

social topics such as homelessness and immigration; Author

Talks which provided opportunities to engage with and learn

about influential authors while discovering contemporary books on

historical topics; and Exhibitions in its uptown location

and community-based venues including the recent Men of

Change,Climates of Inequality, and Grier

Heights: Community is Family. Expanding its catalog of digital

experiences, LMNS' 2022 season included 50 Places in

Charlotte, NC History Case Studies, Youth Voices with

young people creating history-based content for peers on topics

that matter to them, and LMNS' KnowCLT, an augmented

reality tour of Brooklyn, a once-thriving African American

community demolished and displaced by racist policies to enable the

city's ambitious plans for growth.

School and youth programming, developed with an Educator

Advisory group, offers inquiry-based curricular resources,

standards-aligned teacher professional development opportunities,

and field trips in the city. Community engagement also featured six

festival-style Family Days across the city, and traveling

exhibitions like Grier Heights: Community is Family, an

oral history project in collaboration with Grier Heights Community

Center and Grier Heights residents highlighting 140+ years of

community history.

Entering its third decade, LMNS welcomed President and CEO Dr.

Richard Cooper, EdD who is leading the museum forward in innovative

programming and storytelling that will foster community engagement

and inclusive dialogue, expanding its regional and national reach

both in-person and virtual experiences, and identifying a new

permanent home for the museum.

LMNS is governed by a 24-member Board of Directors led by Chair

Ty Niess and President and CEO Dr. Richard Cooper, EdD leads a

staff of 21. For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, LMNS reports

a total revenue of $2.39 million with $2.3 million in contributions

and grants and $68,000 in earned revenue. Total expenses were $3

million with total assets of $18.7 million.

Community

Present-day Charlotte sits on the ancestral lands of the

Catawba, Cheraw, Sugeree, Wateree, and Waxhaw Peoples. European

colonists chartered the city in 1768 and named it to honor Queen

Charlotte, wife of British King George III, and is affectionately

known as "The Queen City." A center of commerce and industry,

Charlotte is the most populous city in the State of North Carolina

with a population exceeding 897,700 and is the center city of a

bi-state metropolitan area of more than 2.5 million people.

According to the 2020 United States Census, Charlotte's diverse and

vibrant population is 46.7% Caucasian, 35.5% African American, and

14.6% Latinx.

Charlotte is home to the second largest research triangle in the

Southeast with Research Triangle Park encompassing 7,000 acres and

300+ pharmaceutical, agriculture technology, medical device,

networking equipment, and biotechnology companies. Charlotte

Douglas International Airport is ranked 5th worldwide for air

traffic and 6th for passenger traffic, with an annual passenger

total of more than 48 million people. The central business district

is known as "Uptown." Residential and commercial development abound

most notably in the broad South End, just south of Uptown, and in

Camp North End. The city has 199 distinct neighborhoods that host

multiple cultural and creative events throughout the year as well

as a wide range of shops, restaurants, and nightlife. Professional

sports in Charlotte include the NFL Carolina Panthers, the NBA

Charlotte Hornets, the MLS Charlotte FC, MiLB Charlotte Knights,

the AHL Charlotte Checkers, and NASCAR racing at the Charlotte

Motor Speedway.

With nine Fortune 500 and 17 Fortune 1000 companies

headquartered in its metropolitan area, Charlotte boasts the

second-largest banking center in the United States. It is home to a

wide range of businesses and major financial institutions,

including Bank of America, Truist, and the East Coast operations of

Wells Fargo. The University of North Carolina at Charlotte is the

city's largest public university. The city's central location is

surrounded by many colleges and universities including Queens

University of Charlotte, historically black college Johnson C.

Smith University, Davidson College, and Johnson and Wales

University. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg School system is the second

largest in the state; its Performing Arts department is home to

approximately 350 professional, certified music and theater arts

teachers and ranks nationally in the top five arts education

programs.

Charlotte offers local foods through all seasons with local

farmers markets, wine trails, breweries, food halls, and James

Beard-nominated restaurants. A substantial cultural and economic

hub, the area is home to numerous museums, parks, state-of-the-art

performing arts centers, and renowned performing arts

organizations, including Blumenthal Performing Arts Center,

Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Charlotte Ballet, and Opera Carolina.

Charlotte also hosts annual festivals including the Juneteenth

Festival of the Carolinas, Taste of Charlotte, the Charlotte Fair,

the BBQ & Blues Festival, the Carolina Renaissance Festival,

the Matthews Alive Festival, and the South Carolina Strawberry

Festival. In 2021, the city increased its annual investment in the

arts to $6 million for three years, the Foundation for the

Carolinas led a matching fundraising campaign, and the Infusion

Fund raised $23 million from generous private sector donors.

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