Major Gifts Coordinator

This position supports the Senior Director of Major Gifts as well as a nine-person Major Gifts team with solicitations, acknowledgements, and stewardship opportunities. Provides support and executes centralized team functions including support for small cultivation and stewardship events, regular project management, and tracking team progress towards goals throughout the year. Also assists with donor requests; coordinates and produces special mailings and maintains department schedule. This role reports to the Senior Director, Major Gifts.

• Support the Major Gifts team by coordinating all project-based functions of the Major Gifts programs including small group cultivation events, and invitation-based cultivation activities.
• Work alongside Assistant Director, Major Gifts and Development Strategy to execute change management projects for the Major Gift team.
• Maintain calendar for Major Gift team that reflects all Major Gifts related events.
• Keep Major Gift team on task through sharing upcoming deadlines, reporting out on next steps, and driving to project completion on time.
• Work alongside the Senior Director, Major Gifts to facilitate weekly team meetings, maintain agenda and planned calendar of discussion, share pertinent materials and run weekly reports on team progress towards goals.
• Assist the Senior Director of Major Gifts with donor ticket requests and routing contributions.
• Execute all Major Gift mailings; data maintenance, uploads into Tessitura, mail merges, printing, and sending via mail. This includes four solicitation mailings per year.
• Handle Major Gifts invoicing, bills, and purchase orders and track expense reporting.
• Maintain and enter weekly payroll information for Major Gifts team.
• Produce reports as needed from Tessitura.
• Execute individual stewardship gifts for donors, as requested.
• Provide phone coverage for the Senior Director of Major Gifts, Assistant General Manager of Development, Council Concierge, and general Development Department.
• Other tasks and office duties as assigned.

• B.A. degree or equivalent.
• 2 years of related administrative experience.
• Good organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent interpersonal and written skills required.
• Proficient with all basic computer programs, including Outlook and Microsoft Office. Experience with donor databases, particularly Tessitura, a plus.
• Must be passionate about the performing arts, with knowledge of music and/or opera a plus.

• Ability to work well with all personality types.
• Superior organizational/time management skills.
• Ability to work quickly and adapt readily to changes in priorities.
• Willingness to work occasional nights and additional weekend hours as needed.

The Metropolitan Opera is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and existing employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, citizenship status, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, or any protected category prohibited by local, state or federal laws.