Career Opportunity
Community Partnerships & Sponsorships Manager
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra & Francis Winspear Centre for Music
Are you known for your ability to build relationships?
Are you an ambitious self-starter who thinks big and strives to accomplish goals?
Would you like to work in the heart of the Downtown Arts District?
The Francis Winspear Centre for Music is recognized as one of North America’s finest acoustic concert facilities. It is home to the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, an ensemble with adventurous programming that reflects the diversity of the communities it serves. The ESO and the Winspear Centre are two distinct arts organizations with a shared Board of Directors and administration. Their vision is to make music central to tourism, business, and cultural development initiatives in the city by building partnerships with businesses and community organizations to maximize the use of the venue as a community resource and minimize barriers for people to access musical arts experiences.
Our Community Relations team is seeking a Community Partnerships & Sponsorships Manager to cultivate and nurture relationships with our partners in industry and the social sectors. This position involves stewarding existing partnerships, identifying strategic opportunities, and meeting budget targets. In this role, you are actively involved in community events and engage in ongoing communication with existing and prospective sponsors and partners. Additionally, you are accountable for coordinating internal events for corporate partners in conjunction with other departments, creating processes to track sponsorship deliverables, building a sponsorships dossier, and finding creative ways to inspire and maintain sponsor and partner engagement.
This role is ideal for a self-directed employee who remains team-oriented and strongly inclined to be communicative. While pursuing goals with vigour, you interact respectfully and confidently with others. You demonstrate a capacity for fostering long-term relationships, as well as proven abilities to identify new opportunities and create and implement plans.
Your qualifications include a post-secondary degree and related experience with sponsorships, project management, marketing, and sales. To succeed in this role, you love meeting new people and attending events and you are passionate about the value arts bring to the community as a whole. Through your professional and personal inclinations, you reveal your connectedness to the community. You are a strong communicator, in person and in writing, who is conscientious, organized, and diligent with details. Understanding of events coordination and social sector not-for-profits is beneficial.
If you enjoy the challenge of surpassing your own targets and building mutually beneficial relationships that contribute to a better community for everyone, submit your application to begin your career with one of Edmonton’s finest arts organizations. Email your cover letter and résumé as a single attachment PDF to Meghan Unterschultz at munterschultz@winspearcentre.com. Subject line: Community Partnerships & Sponsorships Manager. Closing date for this competition is Friday, February 7th at 4:00 pm. We thank all candidates for their interest. Qualified candidates will be contacted for an interview. Please no phone calls.
