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Req #: 243185

Department: BURKE MUSEUM

Appointing Department Web Address: http://www.BurkeMuseum.org

Job Location Detail: Burke Museum

Posting Date: 02/05/2025

Closing Info: Closes On 02/19/2025

Salary: $7,500 - $8,826 per month

Shift: First Shift

Notes: As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For a complete description of our benefits for this position, please visit our website, click here. (https://hr.uw.edu/benefits/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/02/benefits-professional-staff-librarians-academic-staff-20230701_a11y.pdf)

As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills, and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world.

UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty.

About the Burke Museum

The Burke Museum cares for and shares natural and cultural collections so all people can learn, be inspired, generate knowledge, feel joy, and heal. The Burke was founded in 1885 by the Young Naturalists, a group of curious teenagers inspired by seeing Seattle transform before their eyes. For 135 years, the museum has built upon this legacy, collecting objects that help us understand how the Northwest has grown and changed.

Totaling over 18 million objects, the Burke’s collections help sustain cultural traditions, enable groundbreaking scientific research, and advance timely conversations that matter to us all. The collections are records of our past and investments in our future. The museum’s curators—faculty members at the University of Washington—grow collections in anticipation of change: continued disruption to ecosystems, shifting cultural landscapes and advances in technology we have yet to imagine. Our work is collaborative; we partner with institutions, students, communities and people around the world to understand our past and create positive change in the future.

As both a university and state museum, the Burke Museum is a public resource committed to building an inclusive environment that welcomes and values all people. We recognize that our history, from the founding to the present day, is built upon a colonial model of museums that consistently privileged collections, preservation, and research over cultural autonomy and community survival.

The Burke is committed to decolonization as a key institutional priority, and across the museum, we now work as facilitators and stewards, not as gatekeepers and sole authorities, in order to honor our mandate to truly be a museum for all.

The Burke Museum has an exciting opportunity for a Development Officer for Corporate and Foundation Relations. Reporting to the Director of Development, the Development Officer for Corporate and Foundation Relations builds long-term, engaging relationships with the Burke’s institutional partners and increases financial support for operational and programmatic priorities museum wide. The Development Officer for Corporate and Foundation Relations cultivates and stewards a large portfolio of corporate, foundation, tribal and government funders, and is responsible for developing, writing, tracking, and reporting on grants to benefit the Burke Museum. Fundraising efforts are split among general operations, exhibits, education, and collections and research divisions.

This role is a vital member of the Burke’s Development team, contributing knowledge and new ideas to the team’s shared work and playing a hands-on role in delivering on goals.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Program and Fundraising Support: (60%)

• Collaborate with Director of Development and other staff members to research and strategize about potential grant sources 4-5 years out for exhibits and other museum programs. Each fiscal year, create an annual plan and determine projected amount/timing of grant revenue.

• Maintain detailed institutional grants calendar to ensure timely submission of letters of inquiry, proposal deadlines, and final reports.

• Coordinate with key staff members to identify budget needs and articulate goals, activities, anticipated outcomes, and other information needed for effective grant proposals.

• Research, develop, write, and submit proposals.

• Craft reports, letters, and other institutional communications as needed.

• Cultivate, solicit, and steward corporate, foundation, tribal, and government funders. Track this work through contact reports and proposals in the Tandem database.

• Manage a “Top 25” portfolio of corporate and foundation donors within UW Advancement system.

• Communicate and collaborate as needed with UW Foundation and Corporate Relations colleagues about Burke activities and plans.

• Manage and track stewardship activities for existing grants, including writing of final reports.

• Prioritize and manage workflow effectively to keep multiple projects moving in a timely manner and meet grant and reporting deadlines.

• Manage supplemental materials required for grant proposals.

• Manage list of individual contacts for each funder in portfolio.

• Prepare weekly reports on grants submitted, status of funding to goal, and upcoming opportunities to director of development; prepare monthly reports for leadership.

• Provide consultation, editing, training and/or support for other grant writing efforts at the museum.

• Maintain and update records in the museum’s central donor database, including corporate and foundation donor activities and contact information.Other museum tasks (35%)

• Provide writing support for major donor and individual contribution letters and acknowledgement.

• Coordinate and communicate about funded activities and programs with appropriate Burke staff, board, and UW advancement colleagues.

• Contribute to writing, editing, development, and/or proofreading of key museum documents, including fact sheets, annual reports, case statements, newsletters, blog posts, legislative requests, etc.

• Contribute to the development and strengthening of museum partnerships through outreach to environmental and cultural organizations, university departments, tribal members, local businesses, and other groups.Other duties as required (5%) MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree in English, Communications, or another related field.

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience grant writing and development experience. Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration. WHAT YOU BRING

• Demonstrated ability to research and secure funding through grant writing initiatives.

• Must be able to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.

• Excellent interpersonal skills, including verbal and written communication.

• Superior knowledge of and proven experience writing proposals to large corporate, foundation and government donors, and an understanding of technical and financial requirements for large grants.

• Ability to understand and communicate the museum’s mission, activities, services and programs.

• Extremely self-motivated with a high degree of initiative, organization, and attention to detail.

• Ability to express oneself clearly and empathetically in interactions with others in all forms of communications, e.g. verbal and written, one-on-one and group, etc.

• Ability to communicate in a direct and professional manner.

• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain positive working relationships and actively contribute as a team member.

• Proven ability to work collegially and effectively with development colleagues, leadership staff and external constituencies.

• Understanding of budgets as they relate to proposals and grants.

• Ability to manage competing deadlines in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

• Demonstrated ability to maintain discretion and protect confidential information, modeling the UW’s ethical values. DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Familiarity and experience working with donor databases; ideally Tandem.

• Ability to easily adjust writing style to fit the audience and voice of the piece.

• Familiarity with diverse grant-making organizations such as tribes, consulates, and rotary groups.

• Familiarity with UW Office of Research, SAGE, and OSP. WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT

• Hybrid work schedule available.

• Cubicle/open workspace environment that may result in higher noise levels and visual distractions.

• Occasional weekend or evening hours to accommodate the workload and events. CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

• Appointment to this position is contingent upon obtaining satisfactory results from a criminal background check. Application Process: The application process may include completion of a variety of online assessments to obtain additional information that will be used in the evaluation process. These assessments may include Work Authorization, Cover Letter and/or others. Any assessments that you need to complete will appear on your screen as soon as you select “Apply to this position”. Once you begin an assessment, it must be completed at that time; if you do not complete the assessment, you will be prompted to do so the next time you access your “My Jobs” page. If you select to take it later, it will appear on your "My Jobs" page to take when you are access ready. Please note that your application will not be reviewed, and you will not be considered for this position until all required assessments have been completed.

University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.