Major Gift Officer (Development)
Company: Joslin Diabetes Center
Location: Brookline
Posted on: June 21, 2022
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Job Description:
The Major Gifts Officer is primarily responsible for the
identification, cultivation, and solicitation of individual major
gift prospects and donors in a healthcare environment.
Serves as a member of the philanthropy team and plays a central
role in developing, overseeing, and managing major gift strategies
and programs, and relating them to other segments of the
department's advancement efforts, in coordination with the Major
Gifts staff.
An advocate for the mission and programs of the network and
institution, represents the institution among its volunteer
leadership and key and influential public audiences as a frontline
fundraiser.
Responsibilities:
Serves as a member of the department's staff with responsibility
for advancing the institution's major gifts program to
successfully: identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward major gift
($50,000+) prospects and donors. Particular attention will be given
to high-end annual fund donors who have the capacity to become
major gifts prospects.
Builds and manages a personal portfolio of 100+ major gift
prospects and donors that comprise many of the institution's most
important and sensitive relationships; works in consultation with
unit leadership, colleagues on the Major Gifts team and key board
and other volunteer leaders to discuss and devise individually
tailored major gift strategies.
Works to foster an atmosphere, internally and externally, of
widespread cooperation and ownership to reinforce a common sense of
purpose and establish an ever-increasing understanding and comfort
with the development plans, and strategies designed to achieve
institutionally supported objectives.
Shares responsibility for the strategic planning, development, and
implementation of the division's goals in collaboration with the
others as necessary.
Shapes key institutional and philanthropy related messages through
the direction and preparation of 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.
Establishes and maintains high quality relationships with the
institutions' department chairs, division chiefs, 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.
Collaborates with the members of the Philanthropy Office to plan
prospect management strategies and moves steps that are coordinated
and place the prospect's best interests first.
Participates in the preparation of an annual operating plan for the
division, which includes a complete review of the year's activities
and sets specific goals and objectives for the next and future
fiscal years.
Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree required.
3-5 years related work experience required.
Ability to travel locally/regionally as prospect relationship
building requires face-to-face, phone and written contact.
Must demonstrate teamwork, resourcefulness, results orientation,
optimism, and trust.
Advanced skills with Microsoft applications which may include
Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Access and other web- based
applications. May produce complex documents, perform analysis and
maintain databases.
Joslin is an Equal Opportunity Employer of
Minority/Female/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected
Veterans.
Joslin values diversity and inclusion, and we encourage diversity
applicants.
Joslin Diabetes Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer and it is
the policy of Joslin to prohibit discrimination of any type and to
afford equal employment opportunities to employees, and all
qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment
without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation,
gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information,
marital/parental status, disability status, protected veteran
status or any other status protected by law.
Keywords: Joslin Diabetes Center, Brookline , Major Gift Officer (Development), Other , Brookline, Massachusetts
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