Deputy Chief Development Officer Individual Giving

Position: Deputy Chief Development Officer for Individual Giving
Location: New York

** About the Metropolitan Museum of Art
** The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy. The Museum lives in two iconic sites in New York City—The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters. Millions of people also take part in The Met experience online.

Since its founding in 1870, The Met has always aspired to be more than a treasury of rare and beautiful objects. We are committed to fostering a collaborative and respectful work environment with a staff as diverse as the audiences we engage. Our staff members are art lovers who are passionate about working toward a common goal: creating the most dynamic and inspiring art museum in the world.

At The Met, every staff member – from security officers to researchers to scientists and beyond – lives by our core values of respect, inclusivity, collaboration, excellence, and integrity.
** Respect:
** Engage one another with collegiality, empathy, and kindness, always.
** Inclusivity:
** Ensure that all are and feel welcome and valued.
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* Collaboration:

** Reach across boundaries to exchange ideas and work together toward our shared mission.
** Excellence:
** Lead the cultural world in quality and expertise—and inspire curiosity and creativity.
** Integrity:
** Hold ourselves to the highest moral standards, admit when we fall short, and then evolve.## GENERAL STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITIES & DUTIES:

As the Deputy Chief Development Officer for Individual Giving, you will play a key role in advancing Institutional Advancement’s priorities by securing the philanthropic support essential to The Met’s programs, exhibitions, capital projects, and operations. Managing a dynamic portfolio of 100 to 125 individuals with the capacity to make gifts ranging from $25,000 to $10,000,000, you will help drive the revenue necessary for the Museum’s continued strength and long-term strategic initiatives.

You will join an ambitious and collaborative team of development professionals and serve as a strategic partner to senior leadership, curators, and trustees who are deeply engaged in the Museum’s most critical fundraising efforts. In this role, you will work closely with colleagues across Development to identify high-potential donors and prospects and to design and execute tailored cultivation and solicitation strategies.

You will engage prospective donors through The Met’s extensive range of cultivation and stewardship events while also developing new opportunities aligned with donor interests. Your portfolio will be centered on assigned curatorial departments and institutional priorities, including exhibitions, educational programs, endowments, capital projects, and other Museum initiatives, supporting Institutional Advancement’s goals of revenue generation and department-wide collaboration.## PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES & DUTIES:
* Develop and steward a dynamic portfolio of 100 to 125 high-potential donors and prospects, prioritizing frequent, high-quality interactions such as meetings, lunches, gallery visits, and substantive conversations to advance relationships and philanthropic commitments.
* Build and sustain strong relationships with individuals in the portfolio, strategically positioning them for significant fundraising requests aligned with the Museum’s priority needs, with particular emphasis on major capital, programmatic, and general operations priorities.
* Strategically partner, as appropriate, with the Museum’s Trustees, Director and CEO, curators, and Development colleagues to coordinate and elevate cultivation and solicitation efforts.
* Strategically partner with the Museum’s Trustees, Director and CEO, curators, and Development colleagues to coordinate and advance cultivation and solicitation efforts.
* Work closely with curatorial, programmatic, and Development colleagues to design and execute strategic engagement opportunities and events that support donor cultivation and revenue generation.
* Partner with Development leadership to develop systems that track, assess, and strengthen cultivation and solicitation efforts, helping ensure progress toward departmental fundraising goals.
* Maintain strong relationships…