Opportunity Center

Portland Revels, best known for its popular holiday presentation The Christmas Revels, is seeking a half-time Development Director to launch it into a third decade of artistic excellence and financial sustainability.

KC Cowan, past producer of Oregon Public Television’s Art Beat program, has called The Christmas Revels "the best gift of the season." This show, a delightful combination of dance, song, story, audience participation, solstice ritual and Christmas cheer, has been captivating Portland audience members since 1995. Growing from a modest beginning to an annual production playing to nearly 7,000 patrons over eleven performances at the Scottish Rite Center Theater in downtown Portland, Oregon, this successful arts organization has a quarter-million-dollar budget and a half-time Executive Director. The mission of this educational nonprofit is "celebrating the seasons in community through ritual, dance, story and song." Portland Revels is now seeking to expand income beyond ticket sales and a modest annual fund to enable it to add a summer solstice production, grow the Executive Director job to full-time, and begin to lay the groundwork to raise capital funds.

The Development Director of Portland Revels will be responsible for planning, coordinating and implementing an Annual Fund, to include a year-round automatic withdrawal giving campaign, major gifts, and Advisory and Board giving; the creation of a Revels Alumni organization; and laying the ground work for capital, planned and restricted giving. The primary task during the first year will be to expand the donor base and raise giving expectations among existing donors.

Portland Revels has a collegial and working board of directors, an engaged development committee, a small but committed donor base, beginnings of a donor research effort, and a group of loyal volunteers. The preferred candidate for this position will have experience with growing an Annual Fund, have worked with a board and small staff to cultivate and expand an existing donor base, and knowledge of Portland’s performing arts scene and giving community. This new half-time position will report to the Executive Director and is made possible through a multi-year capacity-building grant.

Annual salary range will be $15,000+ per year, based on qualifications, and will have initial benefits including flexible working hours, paid vacation and holidays. Portland Revels intends to grow the benefits package and the position scope over the next several years.

Apply by sending a cover letter, resume, writing sample, and two references to Executive Director Debby Garman at portlandrevels@gmail.com.

Sisters Of The Road’s Volunteer Co-Manager is responsible for ensuring that all volunteer trainings, guidance and support, and work done by Sisters’ volunteers is conducted in a manner consistent with Sister’s philosophies of nonviolence and gentle personalism, anti-oppressions, our community organizing model, and our systemic change approach. This position ensures that volunteer resources are available throughout our organization, including the Cafe, Administration, Systemic Change, Development, small and special events, the Board of Directors and outreach initiatives.

Summary

Ecotrust is looking for a talented and well rounded systems administrator who is motivated by the goals of our organization. You are a jack of all technology trades with interests in network management, data security, and system administration. You will seek out network problems and solve them wherever they may be. No problem, technical or otherwise ever seems insurmountable to you. You are friendly and helpful in the face of requests large and small, working with each individual situation to find the best solution.

Ecotrust's mission is to help people and organizations see the world equally in terms of social equity, environmental well-being, and economic opportunity. We do this by inventing tools and developing ideas that can create systemic change to benefit communities and the natural environment that sustains us.

To support our work, Ecotrust's IT department uses a wide variety of technologies to address the diverse needs of our user base. We're always looking for creative ways to standardize and consolidate but flexibility is often necessary. Open source solutions are used wherever practical. We are currently a 95% windows workstation environment. Over the next five years we will be moving to a virtual-desktop core with a bring-your-own-device model for physical hardware.

Responsibilities

You will work with the Director to envision and create the future of the network, maintain and, when necessary, upgrade our Apache and IIS web servers, exchange server, SQL server, firewalls and other network infrastructure. You will be individually responsible for maintaining our active directory data store and group policy objects, implementing a Windows update services server, completing in-progress migrations from sql 2000 and IIS 5 to new versions, managing backup systems, ensuring a very high up-time, and maintaining relevant documentation. As a member of a small team, you will also work flexibly, covering other team member's duties when necessary.

This position is full-time, based in Portland, Oregon at the Natural Capital Center. Salary commensurate with experience. Ecotrust offers an excellent benefits package including generous vacation, retirement plan match, medical and dental insurance, life insurance and disability coverage.

Application instructions: Please compose your coverletter in the body of an email. Tell us what motivates you to work for Ecotrust as well as how you're qualified. Attached the following documents to your e-mail in separate Word or Open Office files:

Ecotrust application (http://www.ecotrust.org/about/employment_application.doc)
Resume

Send your email to alex(at)ecotrust(dot)org with the subject line "Systems Administrator application from [your name]."

BE A DEMOCRACY MENTOR
We’re building a corps of rising leaders age 21-35 to take on the task of engaging Oregon’s next generation. We’ll meet them where they are and connect with them as peers. Together, we’ll build the kind of Oregon we all want. If you’re a magnetic, talented and passionate young leader, this is all you.

DEMOCRACY MENTORS
-Forge Deep Connections with Their Communities
-Attend a full day training in Salem on March 10th to learn the program and connect with other rising leaders like yourself
-Build relationships with local teachers and administrations, you will bring five new local schools into Democracy Cup

Empower Hundreds of High School Students
-Lead 2-4 classroom workshops each month of the school year at your regional high schools alongside your partner coach
-Workshops teach students core concepts in civics and educate them on how they can become involved in our democracy
-Identify & support five student Democracy Captains through classroom workshops, one at each high school & will work with them to achieve their goals
-Manage and track the processing of volunteer data and voter registration cards in compliance with Oregon law

Drive The Personal and Civic Development of New Leaders
-Serve as a positive role model and mentor to Democracy Captains by teaching them skills in student outreach and workshop coordination

Develop Your Own Skills as Leaders
-Through direct trainings and hands-on experience, develop skills in effective public speaking, project management, and collaborative problem solving
-Meet local elected officials and expand your professional network

TO APPLY
Send a letter of interest and resume to Amanda Tripp (amanda@busfoundation.org) Applications are due Feb. 22.