Senior Development Coordinator for Cambodian Living Arts

Cambodian Living Arts was founded in 1998 by genocide survivor, musician and peace advocate Arn Chorn-Pond initially to preserve and revive Cambodia’s endangered traditional art forms. 90% of Cambodia’s artists did not survive the Khmer Rouge regime and Cambodia’s artistic heritage, the heart of a culture, was in danger of being lost forever.

Over the last 20 years, both Cambodia and the arts scene have developed rapidly and we have evolved our work to match. Today we focus on helping talented people to build and develop careers in the arts, though providing scholarships, fellowships and support to professional troupes.

Looking forwards, CLA’s mission is to be a catalyst in a vibrant Cambodian arts sector, inspiring new generations. We aim to promote creativity and innovation in the arts sector, build links with our neighbours in the Asian region, and expand audiences and markets for the Cambodian performing arts nationally and internationally.

Position overview

The Senior Development Coordinator is part of CLA’s fundraising team whose work is to manage and support our annual fundraising campaign from individual donors and private family foundations. We focus our strategies on major gift solicitations, direct mail and email campaigns, hosting development-focused cultural tours to Cambodia, and engaging supporters around artistic events in the US and other countries. We have ambitious plans to grow our fundraised income and number of global supporters over the next 5 years.

The Development Team is managed from Cambodia with a supporter network largely based in the United States with desires for growth both regionally and internationally. The Senior Development Coordinator will be based in Cambodia, and as such will need a flexible working schedule in order to be able to take calls and virtual meetings with contacts in the United States and elsewhere. The team liaises closely with our Board, individual supporters and “Friends of CLA” chapters to support fundraising, cultivate supporters, and arrange events.

You will act as the right-hand person with the Development Manager to both run our Annual Campaign and to build the tools and campaigns to grow our capacity to reach our 5-year strategy. You will focus on growing and improving our supporter and community engagement and you are expected to bring particular expertise in running campaigns, drafting amazing, winning content and successfully converting supporters to donor. The role requires somebody who is passionate about engaging people and communities around a mission and the arts and is able to manage projects independently. The role will involve supervising one junior Development Coordinator around gift, donor & campaigns support.

Responsible to: Development Manager (supervisor)