Job title: Fundraising & Sponsorship Manager
Reporting to: Executive Director and Operations Manager
Term: Part-Time or Full time
Pay: Based on experience
Length of contract: 3 months
Start Date: Immediately
Opportunity:
CaribbeanTales Inc is seeking a Fundraising and Sponsorship Manager to join it's vibrant team. You will be part of a dynamic international Black-owned, female-led cultural organisation, and potentially participate in projects across a wide range of activities including development, training, production, marketing, and distribution of film and television content, and festivals/ events both online and live.
Job Description:
- Researching, prioritizing, and writing grant and sponsorship proposals to Governmental, Non-Profit, private Sector organizations and donors, persuasively communicating the organization’s mission and programs to potential funders, drawing on previous successful funding applications and templates
- Establishing and maintaining relationships with funding contacts, potential sponsors, partners and stakeholders
- Maintaining funding calendar to ensure timely submissions
- Coordinating and working with the CaribbeanTales Team to manage fundraising overlaps, ensure efficiency, and maintain an up-to- date picture of CaribbeanTales funding status, carry out organizational communications, support marketing activities and assist with administrative tasks pertaining to various programs and events.
- Support the Executive Director in effectively executing sponsorship campaign
- Maintaining company databases.
- Set up, coordinate and attend funding and sponsorship meetings and take notes
- Manage and keep track of deadlines for deliverable for assigned tasks
- Prepare and edit funding related correspondence, communications, presentations and other documents
- Conduct research, collect and analyze data to prepare reports and documents
Skills and Requirements:
- Must be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident.
- Excellent organizational, written, and communication skills.
- The ability to work well as part of a team as well as independently.
- Proficiency with online skills including conferencing, project management, marketing, social media and filing systems especially Google drive.
- Excellent knowledge of all basic computer programs and software on Mac and PC .
- The ability to take direction as well as to work independently and take leadership where required.
- Project Management experience and knowledge of the film industry a strong asset.
- The ability and willingness to work within the constraints and limitations of the not for profit arts sector.
- Administration, funding and sponsorship experience for a not-for profit organization required: 3 years
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CaribbeanTales Media Group
(CTMG) is a multi-facetted group of media companies that produces, markets, and sells culturally diverse film and television content from the Caribbean and its wide Diaspora. Founded by award-winning filmmaker, and Academy member
Frances-Anne Solomon
, CTMG includes:
CaribbeanTales Inc
a registered Canadian Charity,
CaribbeanTales Worldwide Distribution
, a film distribution entity,
CaribbeanTales International Film Festival
,
now celebrating 15 years;
Caribbeantales-TV
,
a VOD streaming service; the
CaribbeanTales Incubator
a year-round development and production hub for Creatives of Color, and
CaribbeanTalesFlix
,
our production arm.
In 2014, Frances-Anne Solomon founded
CineFAM
,
to amplify the voices of women of colour creators worldwide - that now includes an annual film festival, a film challenge, and an incubator.
2020 sees the launch of the inaugural
Windrush Caribbean Film Festival
, a UK-based charity co-founded by CaribbeanTales-UK and many amazing local organizations.
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