Development Associate

As a key member of our dynamic and collaborative development team, the Development Associate will have a significant impact on the functioning of the department and organization. This role is essential for managing important administrative functions and supporting a variety of fundraising activities, while building strong positive relationships with patrons, artists, and colleagues.

Key Responsibilities:

• Efficiently and accurately handle tasks within our CRM software, including gift processing, report generation, and donor data management.
• Prepare and send weekly gift acknowledgments and monthly pledge reminders.
• Maintain accuracy of records through daily data entry and cleanup as well as regular reconciliation of donations with the business office.
• Generate reports on fundraising progress and donor trends.
• Manage timelines for Annual Fund projects; coordinate the production and distribution of Annual Fund and direct mail solicitations.
• Support development communications, including creating donor solicitation and invitation lists and assisting with donor letters, gift agreements, and proposals.
• Collaborate with the marketing department on a cross-departmental communications calendar
• Research individual donor and foundation prospects.
• Coordinate donor stewardship efforts (gift preparation and delivery).
• Work closely with the Development team on other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

• Excellent communication skills and a proactive approach to problem-solving.
• Strong attention to detail, organizational skills, and experience with software systems.
• Proficiency in data collection, reporting, analysis, Microsoft Office (including Excel), and Google Workspace.
• Availability for occasional evenings and weekends to support fundraising and donor events.
• Valid driver’s license.

Preferred Qualifications:

• A positive, proactive attitude with a passion for contributing to a vibrant team culture.
• Relevant experience in non-profit fundraising, marketing, relationship management, or related fields.
• Familiarity with Tessitura or similar CRM platforms, or a strong aptitude for data management and learning new systems.
• A commitment to TheatreSquared’s mission and values, including inclusion, diversity, equity, anti-racism, and access.

If you are enthusiastic, collaborative, and dedicated to supporting a thriving community, we encourage you to apply and join us in advancing TheatreSquared’s vision.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

This permanent, full-time, exempt position includes an annual salary of $48,000-$50,000, commensurate with experience, and full benefits. These benefits include health; dental; paid time off; relocation assistance; paid parental leave; professional development allowance; employer-sponsored long-term and short-term disability; $100,000 in employer-sponsored term life insurance; and voluntary 401(k).

THEATRESQUARED MISSION

We believe that theatre—done well and with passion—can transform lives and communities. At the theatre, in schools and online, we create remarkable performances; broaden access; foster empathy, equity and cohesion; and gather with one another around art, conversation, food and other shared experiences in a welcoming, inclusive space.

THE COMPANY & REGION

TheatreSquared’s signature offering of bold new plays in an intimate setting has driven its growth to become the state’s largest theatre, offering more than 300 performances annually and operating on a $6 million annual budget. The playwright-led company is one of mid-America’s leading laboratories for new work, having launched more than 75 new plays. Its work has received critical acclaim from The New York Times (“Best Theater of 2020” list), The Wall Street Journal (“an outstanding drama company”), NPR’s All Things Considered, and the American Theater Wing, founder of the Tony Awards. In 2023, TheatreSquared became the first and only Arkansas-based theatre company whose work has won an OBIE Award (off-Broadway’s highest honor).

TheatreSquared’s home—winner of six national and international architecture awards, including the 2020 American Architecture Award and the AIA NY Honor Award—is a cultural landmark. T2’s hometown of Fayetteville is annually ranked among the top ten US News and World Report "Best Places to Live,” a progressive, bike-friendly, and scenic college community near several Fortune 100 world headquarters. TheatreSquared’s remarkable expansion—with a twentyfold increase in audience in just the past decade— parallels the emergence of its home region as a booming population center and destination for American art.

Offering far-reaching access and education programs and an open-all-day gathering space, TheatreSquared remains rooted in its founding vision, that “theatre—done well and with passion—can transform lives and communities.”