Development Manager

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Leeds Museums and Galleries

Schedule: Full time
Contract: Temporary
Location: Leeds
Salary: £32,910.00 – £35,745.00 (pro rata)

Leeds Museums and Galleries are looking to appoint a Development Manager (Project) to develop and implement a fundraising strategy including the setting up of a development foundation and progressing opportunities to maximise unrestricted income from individual donors and the corporate sector.

This new post of Development (Project) Manager is needed to implement a key part of our new strategy, Deepening Connections, Widening Impact (2022-27), to make the service more financially sustainable and to support fundraising for large capital projects. It comes at an exciting time for the service and for the city, most notably with Leeds’ year of culture in 2023.

Leeds Museums & Galleries (LMG) is one of the largest local authority-run museum service in England with some of the most significant multi-disciplinary collections in the UK.

Our vision is to create deeper connections with the people we serve using the collections and sites we care for, and to widen our impact on the world.

Our 196 (FTE) staff (including 33 externally funded posts) care for 1.3 million objects across eight collections (Natural History, Fine Art, Decorative Art, Dress and Textiles, Industrial History, Social History, World Cultures and Archaeology), four of which have designated status.

We manage nine amazing venues across Leeds: Abbey House Museum (Grade II*), Kirkstall Abbey (Grade I listed and Scheduled Ancient Monument), Leeds Art Gallery (Grade II), Leeds City Museum (Grade II), Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills (Grade II* and II listed), Thwaite Watermill (Grade II), Leeds Discovery Centre, Lotherton and Temple Newsam (Grade I listed).

Pre-Covid our venues welcomed almost 1.7 million visitors and over 49,000 schoolchildren. Our websites continue to attract 3.5 million page views, and we have 300,000 followers on social media. We contribute at least £24 million a year to the local economy.

We promote diversity and want a workforce that reflects the population of Leeds. Leeds City Council is a Stonewall Top 100 employer 2020, a Mindful employer and a Disability Confident Leader.

For more information, please refer to the website of organisation.