Philanthropy Director-BIDMC

Philanthropy Director for Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH) When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you're making a difference in people's lives. The Philanthropy Director 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 department's efforts. An advocate for the mission and programs of the institution, representing it among its senior volunteer leadership and key and influential public audiences. Essential Duties & Responsibilities including but not limited to: 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. Serves as a senior member of the Principal and Major Gifts staff with the primary responsibility for advancing the institution's major and principal gifts program to successfully: identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward major gift ($25,000+) prospects and donors. 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. Establishes and maintains high-quality 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. Shapes key institutional and development-related 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. Builds and manages a personal portfolio of 125 major gift prospects and donors that comprise many of the institution's 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. Shares responsibility for the strategic planning, development, and implementation of the division's goals in collaboration with the Vice President of Philanthropy, and other senior volunteer leaders. 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.