Director Philanthropy
Director Philanthropy
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Job Description
When you join the growing BILH team youre not just taking a job youre making a difference in peoples lives.
The Director Philanthropy for Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH) is responsible for the identification cultivation and solicitation of individual major and principal gift prospects and donors. S/he serves as a member of the philanthropy team and plays a central role in developing overseeing and managing major gift strategies and programs and coordinating them with other segments of the departments efforts. An advocate for the mission and programs of the institution representing it among its senior volunteer leadership and key and influential public audiences.Job Description:
Primary Responsibilities:
1. Serve as a lead strategist in creating and implementing a comprehensive major and principal gift strategy to advance the goals of the medical center. With BILH leadership establish fundraising priorities develop fundraising goals and timelines and create a plan for building a prospect pipeline through both traditional and nontraditional means.
2. Serves as a senior member of the Principal and Major Gifts staff with the primary responsibility for advancing the institutions major and principal gifts program to successfully: identify cultivate solicit and steward major gift $25000 prospects and donors.
3. Responsible for devising implementing and managing effective creative and original strategies designed to individually and systematically interest engage and secure a wide range of key prospects to meet or exceed divisional departmental and institutional funding goals.
4. Establishes and maintains highquality relationships with the institutions department chairs division chiefs senior physicians and researchers and other key staff by establishing a personal rapport and acquiring and demonstrating a firm grasp of a wide range of medically related terms and critical issues facing the health care profession.
5. Shapes key institutional and developmentrelated messages through the direction and preparation of major proposals solicitation letters and other materials for major prospects and donors; ensures that they are persuasively communicated to key and target audiences and are consistent with the efforts of others to strategically position the institution in the marketplace.
6. Builds and manages a personal portfolio of 125 major gift prospects and donors that comprise many of the institutions most important and sensitive relationships; works in consultation with the Vice President of Philanthropy and other volunteer leaders to discuss and devise individually tailored major gift strategies.
7. Shares responsibility for the strategic planning development and implementation of the divisions goals in collaboration with the Vice President of Philanthropy and other senior volunteer leaders.
8. Has the authority to direct and support employees daily work activities. Has the direct responsibility to undertake the following employment actions: hiring termination corrective action and performance reviews. Direct Reports: 23 Indirect Reports: None
Required Qualifications:
1. Bachelors degree required.
2. More than 10 years of related work experience required in Development experience with an established track record of major gift or other related development experience. and 01 years supervisory/management experience required.
3. Solid volunteer management experience: demonstrated ability to engage and successfully utilize volunteers in achieving fundraising goals.
4. Demonstrated success in personally cultivating soliciting and stewarding major and/or annual fund gifts.
5. Ability to travel occasional evening and weekend work and adjust to other needs of the department.
6. Advanced skills with Microsoft applications which may include Outlook Word Excel PowerPoint or Access and other webbased applications. May produce complex documents perform analysis and maintain databases.
Preferred Qualifications:
1. Knowledge of the utilization of information systems to support fundraising activities.
2. Demonstrated ability to prioritize and coordinate a large number of projects simultaneously with minimum supervision.
As a health care organization we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) and COVID19 as a condition of employment. Learn more about this requirement.
More than 35000 people working together. Nurses doctors technicians therapists researchers teachers and more making a difference in patients lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full-Time
