Hiring: Fundraising and Grants Coordinator

About Theater in Asylum

Theater in Asylum (TIA) is a New York-based theater company founded in 2010 to challenge and empower our community. TIA joyfully pursues rigorous research and an ensemble-driven approach to theater-making. We create performances to investigate our past, interpret our present, and imagine our future. We prize space to process, space to question—asylum—for ourselves and our community.


Core programs include original productions; themed cabarets, presenting new work from our community; and Cold Readings, a program to read and discuss published plays.

Community is of utmost importance to Theater in Asylum. Some of our strategies for community safety and empowerment may be found here. See Theater in Asylum’s transparency commitments and company pay structure here.

About The Position: Fundraising and Grants Coordinator

2023 will be a big year for Theater in Asylum, and we have a lot of money to raise in Fall 2022 to make it happen. With multiple grants due in September and October and our fundraising launching in December, we are looking to bring on a new staff member to help coordinate it all. We are not looking for someone with connections to funding, but instead someone who can help us make all our fundraising efforts happen. This includes keeping us on track with deadlines, helping pull together materials for grants applications, following up with perk-providers, and thanking donors. While this role could grow in the future to a more traditional development position, at present we are looking for a coordinator/project manager for our fundraising efforts.

Key Responsibilities

1. Working with TIA staff to submit 3-5 grants this fall. Managing the timelines of each grant and the overall schedule. This entails setting up documents, pulling media, writing, editing, proofing etc.
2. Working with TIA staff to plan, launch, run, and follow up on its annual fundraiser. This includes determining overall messaging (text, images, video), working with perk providers, and making sure donors get what they are owed after the fundraiser ends.
3. Coordinating with TIA’s Marketing Manager on fundraising publicity, as well as on our Giving Tuesday messaging (in which we encourage our community to support other organizations).
   

About You

• Kind, creative, and a team player.
• Enthusiastic about Theater in Asylum’s mission to use theater to challenge and empower our community.
• Organized and available to carry out plans (and stick to deadlines) for fundraising success.
• Familiar with fundraising for small theater companies (borough grants, crowdfunding, etc).
• Familiar with Zoom, Gmail, and Google Docs. Familiar with Fractured Atlas and its fundraising platform a plus.
• Fully vaccinated against Covid-19.
  

Logistics

• Start: Immediately.
• End: February 2023.
• Opportunity for extension and growth in role: To be discussed in January 2023.
• Pay: $300 honorarium, paid in two installments.
  • TIA’s 2022 pay days: 10/15/22, 12/15/22.
  • Theater in Asylum is committed to budget transparency. See company pay structure here.
• The position is remote;  regular meetings with the TIA staff over Zoom.
• Will work most closely with Paul Bedard and Katie Palmer (Artistic Directors), Kathryn Appleton (Managing Director), and Charlotte Dow (PR and Marketing Manager)
• This position will be considered an independent contractor of Theater in Asylum and as such, no taxes will be withheld.
  

To Apply

Please send a resume and a cover letter to [email protected]. In the letter, please tell us:

• A little about yourself.
• What is your background, if any, with Theater in Asylum?
• What drew you to apply for this position? Or what excites you about it?

Theater in Asylum believes in Equal Opportunity Collaboration. We are committed to diversity in all areas of our work, on and offstage. We encourage applicants with a unique cultural perspective inclusive of race, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, class, physical ability, and sexual orientation to apply.

Thank you!