Volunteer Opportunities From: Volunteer Center of Washington County

What the Kettle Moraine Symphony Does:
The Kettle Moraine Symphony puts on 4-5 classical music concerts a season in the Southern
Kettle Moraine Area (West Bend, Jackson, Slinger). Season typically run from September-May.
Each concert entails contracting ~60-70 specifically skilled musicians, renting a facility,
advertising for the concert, and staffing the event.

General Manager: Runs the whole symphony
 Volunteering in this role will prepare you with the experience needed to get into general
management at your for-pay job.
 Is always communicating with our volunteers our appreciation of their time, and their
positive impact on our community.
 Gently supports, coordinates, and provides feedback to Facilitates, Marketing, Finance,
and Personal teams’ volunteers - assuring tasks are completed in a timely fashion to the
concert goals.
 Keeps a clear eye on P&L (profit and loss), and finds creative ways to stay within budget
 In the case a volunteer role becomes unfilled, works to address with short and long term
solutions.

What the Kettle Moraine Symphony Does:
The Kettle Moraine Symphony puts on 4-5 classical music concerts a season in the Southern
Kettle Moraine Area (West Bend, Jackson, Slinger). Season typically run from September-May.
Each concert entails contracting ~60-70 specifically skilled musicians, renting a facility,
advertising for the concert, and staffing the event.

Donor Committee Members and Leads: Acknowledge, support, and nurture donors
 Write Thank-you’s to all donors
 Create ways to engage donors, with the goal to maintain or increase their donations
 Brainstorm, plan, and execute ideas aimed to generate more donation revenue in
coordination with other KMS committees.

What the Kettle Moraine Symphony Does:
The Kettle Moraine Symphony puts on 4-5 classical music concerts a season in the Southern
Kettle Moraine Area (West Bend, Jackson, Slinger). Season typically run from September-May.
Each concert entails contracting ~60-70 specifically skilled musicians, renting a facility,
advertising for the concert, and staffing the event.

Accountant/Treasurer: Pay the Bills for KMS, and keep the books
 Create yearly budget. Report on spend against budget to board at each meeting
 Pay the Players, Music director, and any paid staff, and symphony bills
 Balance Quickbooks monthly, send to accountant, and post on Google drive
 Support Account's tax needs, send 1099 forms, send donor tax receipts
 Get mail from P.O. Box in West Bend.
 Cash Checks at Horicon Bank
 Time spent: 3 hours per concert and additional to 2-3 hours per month.

What the Kettle Moraine Symphony Does:
The Kettle Moraine Symphony puts on 4-5 classical music concerts a season in the Southern
Kettle Moraine Area (West Bend, Jackson, Slinger). Season typically run from September-May.
Each concert entails contracting ~60-70 specifically skilled musicians, renting a facility,
advertising for the concert, and staffing the event.

Website: Maintain KMS Website and Betterworld Ticketing Website
 Update the KMS website with season poster, and latest concert poster for each concert
 Create ticketing events on Betterworld Ticketing website, and update for each concert
 Time spent: Up to 2 hours/concert, needing to occur about 4 week in advance of each
concert.

What the Kettle Moraine Symphony Does:
The Kettle Moraine Symphony puts on 4-5 classical music concerts a season in the Southern
Kettle Moraine Area (West Bend, Jackson, Slinger). Season typically run from September-May.
Each concert entails contracting ~60-70 specifically skilled musicians, renting a facility,
advertising for the concert, and staffing the event.

Marketing Distributor: Distributes the Marketing during the concert cycle
 List concert events on applicable web-portals (West Bend Chamber, Hub, etc…)
 Pair the Artistic and written content into Mailerlite email format, and social media
posts.
 Schedule email blasts and social posts
 Create social medial events and engage with pushing on social the concerts
 Submit articles to newspapers for publishing
 Time spent: Up to 10 hours/concert, spread out in the 4 weeks leading up to each
concert.

What the Kettle Moraine Symphony Does:
The Kettle Moraine Symphony puts on 4-5 classical music concerts a season in the Southern
Kettle Moraine Area (West Bend, Jackson, Slinger). Season typically run from September-May.
Each concert entails contracting ~60-70 specifically skilled musicians, renting a facility,
advertising for the concert, and staffing the event.

Marketing Content Writer: Create written content for marketing purposes

 Write the content for the Breve Newsletter containing music-related information about
the concert
 Write content for the 2-3 email blasts before a concert
 Write content for social media accounts in advance of a concert
 Write pre and post-concert newspaper articles
 Time Spent: up to 10 hours/concert. Much can be done in advance

What the Kettle Moraine Symphony Does:
The Kettle Moraine Symphony puts on 4-5 classical music concerts a season in the Southern
Kettle Moraine Area (West Bend, Jackson, Slinger). Season typically run from September-May.
Each concert entails contracting ~60-70 specifically skilled musicians, renting a facility,
advertising for the concert, and staffing the event.

Marketing Artistic Content Creator: Artistic and Creator of Marketing content
 Poster and social graphic for each concert
 Time Spent: 2-5 hours per concert. Can be done in summer for full seasons, with 20min
per concert in updates possible.

What the Kettle Moraine Symphony Does:
The Kettle Moraine Symphony puts on 4-5 classical music concerts a season in the Southern
Kettle Moraine Area (West Bend, Jackson, Slinger). Season typically run from September-May.
Each concert entails contracting ~60-70 specifically skilled musicians, renting a facility,
advertising for the concert, and staffing the event.

Front-of-House Manager: Coordinates volunteers for Front-of-House activities on Concert days
 Acts as the main face of the organization during events
 Coordinates event staffing for 1) ticket taking 2) ushering 3) day of issues
 Has ready for concert day 1) method of digital payment 2) change for cash payments
 Brings list of online ticket sales to front-of-house team
 Carries the box with 1) event signage 2) extra tape/paper/markers/etc
 Time spent:2-5 hours in advance of each concert, 2 hours night before concert, 5 hours
day of concert

What the Kettle Moraine Symphony Does:
The Kettle Moraine Symphony puts on 4-5 classical music concerts a season in the Southern
Kettle Moraine Area (West Bend, Jackson, Slinger). Season typically run from September-May.
Each concert entails contracting ~60-70 specifically skilled musicians, renting a facility,
advertising for the concert, and staffing the event.

Facilitates Coordinator: Contracts for facilitates uses.
 Books facilities for concerts and practices, mainly at local high schools such as West
Bend, Slinger, and Kettle Moraine Lutheran High School.
 Confirms facilitates rentals closer to date.
 Confirms facility details (entry doors, loaned musical instruments like piano's and
percussion).
 Rebooks facilitates as conflicts arise and needs change
 Works hard to stay within facilities rental budgets
 Coordinates with stage manager and personal manager to communicate rental details.
 Time spent:5-10 hours in spring/summer + 2-5 hours per concert.