Development Director, half time

Position Summary

Development Director - This is an ongoing position in the organization- half time and remote.

Reporting to and working closely with the Executive Artistic Director, the Development Director will develop and maintain the organization’s ongoing fundraising activities and performance opportunities. Development Director will continue fundraising strategies of the last 28 years that have increased support from individuals, foundations, and government sources.  In addition, the Director will research, cultivate, and engage new performance collaborations and opportunities, including with government departments, community organizations, social service agencies, and presenters. You will be part of a growing Flyaway Productions team, ensuring our financial sustainability and audience reach.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee, implement, and grow Flyaway’s fundraising activities.
• Prepare/maintain annual fundraising calendar, and plans with the Executive Director.
• Sustain/increase fundraising from individual donors, foundations, and other sources.
• Identify major donors for the Executive Director to cultivate.
• Research and write grant proposals, and complete grant reports.
• Implement annual fundraising appeals to individual donors, including letter writing, follow-up calls and thank-you calls.
• Implement donor recognition, including personalized thanks and invitations to performance events.
• Manage donor database, including data entry and gift processing.
• Track grant proposals and reports for foundation fundraising.
• Expand social media’s use for fundraising.
• Research new performance collaborations and opportunities, including with government departments, community organizations, social service agencies, and presenters.
• Cultivate new partnerships.  This may include in-person zoom meetings and attendance of conferences.  It may also include arranging for the Artistic Director to cultivate and engage these partnerships.
• Qualifications
• 5-plus years experience of proven experience managing a fundraising program.
• BA (required), MA (a plus).
• Demonstrated excellence in organizational, managerial, and communication skills.
• Self-starter, highly organized, reliable, and able to meet deadlines.
• Track record as an effective communicator; highly skilled in writing.
• Adept at crafting proposals, donor correspondence, and other kinds of materials.
• Knowledge of Bay Area dance, arts funders, local/national dance ecology and grants   management systems .   
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe and Google Suite.
• Commitment to racial and gender justice

Pay 

$40,000 for half time salaried position. Position Open Until Filled.

What We Offer

• Remote work and schedule flexibility
• Paid vacation and paid winter closure week at year’s end
• Sick pay and paid holidays
• Opportunity to support gender justice and racial justice
• Opportunity to support local artists and the creation of original public art

About the Organization

Founded in 1996, Flyaway Productions democratizes public space. We make dances that are off the ground, site specific and politically driven.  Our performances impact neighborhoods because they unfold at the very place where conflict lives. For us, a building is a witness. It holds the complexity of a neighborhood’s history in its "hands," I-beams, or concrete walls. We’ve brought 100,000+ people to sites of historic or ongoing conflict.

Flyaway's tools include coalition building, an intersectional feminist lens, and a body-based push against the constraints of gravity.  Our mission supports the integration of experimental forms with political content; the uplift of girls/women/GNC artists, where voices marginalized by gender remain an underserved element of public culture; and the use of spectacle/flight/suspended apparatus to expand choreographic language. Recent coalition partners include the Museum of African Diaspora, Empowerment Avenue, Essie Justice Group, Local 2, Bend the Arc Jewish Action, the Tenderloin Museum, and UC Law.

We have been supported by Guggenheim and Rauschenberg Foundation fellowships, NEFA’s National Dance Project, the National Endowment for the Arts, Center for Cultural Innovation, New Music USA, The Gerbode Foundation, MAP, the Creative Work Fund, the Wattis, Fleishhacker and Rainin Foundations, CA Arts Council, SF Grants for the Arts and the SF Arts Commission and have received seven IZZY awards from the SF dance community.  The SF Bay Guardian describes Flyaway as makers of “art at the heart of the democratic ideal.” 

From 2017-2023, Flyaway created The Decarceration Trilogy: Dismantling the Prison Industrial Complex One Dance at a Time. The Decarceration Trilogy was part of a national wave of ongoing political action to expose the devastating effects of prison on American citizens.  The Trilogy was rooted in collaboration with community organizations and people directly impacted by incarceration.  In 2024-2026, Flyaway is continuing its prison systems change work via new public art projects. 

Our Flagship youth program, GIRLFLY, is an award-winning artist as activist training program addressing the lack of arts training opportunities and gender-specific social pressures faced by low-income teen girls and GNC youth.

We are based in San Francisco, CA.

What We Offer

• Remote work and schedule flexibility
• Paid vacation and paid winter closure week at year’s end
• Sick pay and paid holidays
• Opportunity to support gender justice and racial justice
• Opportunity to support local artists and the creation of original public art