Volunteer & Careers
Mallarmé Chamber Players seeks a Business and Development Manager
Mallarmé Chamber Players in Durham, NC seeks a dynamic and creative person to take on the role of Business and Development Manager. The ideal candidate will have experience in successful grant writing, as well as a solid foundation in bookkeeping, financial management, office management and non-profit administration. The successful candidate will likely have worked in a leadership position in the non-profit arts sector. An interest in and knowledge of classical, chamber, and world music is a desired trait.
The Business and Development Manager will report to the Artistic Director and will work closely with staff, board, consultants, and musicians in the following areas:
DEVELOPMENT AND FUNDRAISING- Grant writing and reporting, to include government agencies at all levels, foundations, and other funding sources
- Research, strategy development, and stewardship for individual donor program
- Managing new corporate and small-business development efforts
- Donor relations to include gift acknowledgments, donor recognition strategies, donor records
- Bookkeeping, payroll, bank deposits
- Purchasing and supplies
- Generation of pro forma documents and correspondence, invoices, contracts
- Principal liaison with Treasurer of the Board
- Equipment maintenance
- Other office and administrative duties to assist Director and officers of the board as needed.
- Playbill ad sales
- Database management and maintenance
- Marketing communications to include mailings, e-mailings, press relations
- Website maintenance and liaison with contract agencies
- Volunteer coordination
- Reception coordination
- Front-of-house activities for concerts and special events
- Touring concert management to include travel and lodging arrangements, press, liaison with presenters
- Musician contracts
The position is 30-35* hours a week, with a salary in the low-to-mid-thirties. *With a possibility of moving to 40 hours per week.
How to Apply
Please email resumé and cover letter to mickaella@mallarmemusic.org
Or mail to:
Human Resources
Mallarmé Chamber Players
120 Morris Street
Durham, NC 27701
No phone calls or faxes, please.
We are always in search of volunteers! You can help keep Mallarmé’s costs down by volunteering to usher at concerts, stage-manage, do office work, as well as many other ways to help us with the gift of your time.
Call or email the office for more information: 919-560-2788 and .