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The Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) is northern Australia’s premier cultural institution. It offers a dynamic and diverse arts, science and cultural program to over 300,000 visitors each year.

MAGNT’s objective is to maintain the highest standards of excellence in preserving, researching, exhibiting and communicating the record of natural history, art and peoples of the Northern Territory. Its mission is to be ‘a world class museum connecting people and stories of the Northern Territory’.

MAGNT has six sites, Bullocky Point, the Defence of Darwin Experience, Fannie Bay Gaol, Lyons Cottage, the Museum of Central Australia (incorporating the Strehlow Research Centre) and the Alcoota fossil site. In the middle of 2018 we will be opening our seventh site, in Todd Mall, Alice Springs.

Darwin is Australia’s most northern capital city with a population of 145,000. Boasting year round tropical weather Darwin offers a laid back outdoor lifestyle in a pristine natural environment.

Primary Objective

Reporting to the Director and working in partnership with the Board, staff and other internal and external stakeholders, this position will raise public, private and corporate funds and support for MAGNT.

The Development Manager will continue the growth of MAGNT’s individual philanthropy program and increase income streams from corporate partnerships and grant funding. They will develop strong, trusting, respectful relationships with our loyal donors, charitable trusts and foundations, and other grant-making organisations to enhance the MAGNT’s program delivery.

Key Responsibilities

  1. Develop and manage a Development Strategy to support the delivery of MAGNT’s exhibitions, events, acquisitions and programmes through the identification of specific potential funding sources, and work with project teams to manage related approaches.
  2. Identify and cultivate institutional prospects, prepare grant proposals and manage individual gift solicitation, tracking and acknowledgements and nurture corporate partnerships.
  3. Manage an annual grant schedule for identification, research, applications and reporting to funding bodies including trusts, foundations and government entities.
  4. Work collaboratively to development appeal collateral content and materials
  5. Manage relationships with individual prospects, donors, Ambassadors and key internal and external stakeholders developing and maintaining their interest in MAGNT and ensuring their appropriate acknowledgement.
  6. Maintain donor records within the integrated CRM in a respectful and confidential manner.
  7. Manage cultivation and stewardship events.
  8. Seek new partnership opportunities and develop and present partnership proposals.
  9. Manage the Development budget including monitoring expenditure and obtaining value for money.
  10. Support an integrated advocacy strategy to support revenue funding and longer term development initiatives.
  11. Provide clear, timely and accurate development reports to the Fundraising Committee of the MAGNT Board and the MAGNT Board.

Contact

For further information please visit our website at www.magnt.net.au/careers or contact Marcus Schutenko on 08 8999 8220 or [email protected]