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MD Anderson Cancer Center · 3 weeks ago

Assistant Director, Leadership Giving (Portfolio)

United States

Full-time

Remote

Entry, Mid Level

$74K/yr - $94K/yr

2+ years exp

MD Anderson Cancer Center is seeking an Assistant Director, Leadership Giving to join the Individual Giving team. The role focuses on prospecting for leadership gift donors and developing custom cultivation strategies to secure philanthropic gifts, aiming to generate a minimum of $1 million in gift revenue annually.

Health CareHealth DiagnosticsHospitalMedical

Growth Opportunities

Responsibilities

Display the ability to qualify, cultivate and solicit new donors to the institution

Display social awareness, professional etiquette, and the ability to interact and build rapport with donors, faculty and institutional leaders

Engage with varied constituencies with social fluency and garner their trust as to influence donor behavior

Appropriately align donors to giving opportunities and orchestrate and facilitate meaningful engagements

Actively partner with donors, peers, faculty and divisional leadership on donor strategy development, donor strategy execution and other projects

Gift officer will develop networks, engage in cross-functional activities to deliver on stakeholder engagement

Gift Officer will be able to work co-operatively with all stakeholders, contribute to the success of collaborative work teams and support completion of initiative and project to achieve stated goals

Accurately assess interests of prospective donors; organize and present information in thoughtful and engaging ways, constantly shift between multiple activities and sources of information, maintain situational awareness, institutional awareness and adeptly navigate cross functional prospect teams in support of donor engagement, solicitation and stewardship plans

Qualification

Portfolio-based fundraisingDonor engagement strategiesPhilanthropic solicitationHealthcare fundraisingHigher education fundraisingCultural sensitivityDiplomacyEmotional intelligence

Required

Bachelor's degree

Two years of any development experience

Ability to maintain a high level of consistent productivity

High degree of diplomacy, emotional intelligence, ethical sensitivity, cultural sensitivity and commitment to confidentiality

Demonstrated track record of using tact and diplomacy in communications with a wide variety of personalities

Willingness to travel as well as work some nights and weekends

Ability to satisfy and maintain all requirements necessary to ensure the continued security and integrity of critical infrastructure

Preferred

Three or more years of professional experience in portfolio-based fundraising with experience securing five-figure gifts

Demonstrated experience working with faculty, leadership teams, campaign/board members and fellow development professionals to execute fundraising strategies

Experience in healthcare or higher education fundraising