Philanthropy Development Officer

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Job description

Job Description:

Weekly Hours: 40

Status: Full Time

Shift: 1st

Baptist Health is looking for an energetic & qualified candidate to join our family as a Philanthropy Development Officer, supporting the hospital's foundation fundraising development. At Baptist Health, we believe that our competitive salary and enticing benefit package is among the best in the market area. The Fund Development office is located in East Louisville, which is situated on the Kentucky-Indiana border. Affectionately know as Kentuckiana, the area offers the best of both worlds with its big city excitement and small town ambiance.

Job Summary:

The Philanthropy Officer is charged with meeting goals and contributing to the overall growth of philanthropy; to secure funds for the organization by fulfilling the interests and passions of donors to Baptist Health through solicitations and stewardship opportunities.

The Philanthropy Officer will work directly with the Executive Director to execute a major gift program that will significantly increase individual major giving to the Foundation; will build strong relationships with major giving donors and prospects and actively develop a major giving pipeline of larger gifts; will steward an active portfolio of individual major gift prospects and donors, with a focus in Oldham County and La Grange.

An advocate for the hospital, the Philanthropy Officer represents the institution among its senior volunteer leadership and key and influential public audiences.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

The following is a summary of the major functions of this individual's job and is intended to describe the general content and functions of this job. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties or responsibilities. He/she may perform other job related duties, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below as required by their supervisor, and specific functions may change from time to time.

• Serves as a strategic member of the philanthropy team with the primary responsibility for advancing the organization's mid-level to major gifts program by successfully identifying, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding major gift prospects and donors; plays a role in developing, overseeing, and managing major gift strategies and programs, and coordinating them with other areas of the department's advancement efforts. Responsible for growing and maintaining a comprehensive gifts program focused on attracting gifts in excess of $10,000.
• Works closely with the team to enhance discovery work through high volume of calls and outreach to prospective donors.
• Assists the Executive Director and team with managing the annual employee giving campaign.
• Works with the Executive Director to devise, implement, and manage effective, creative, innovative and original strategies, timelines, objectives, and metrics designed to individually and systematically interest, engage, and secure a wide range of key prospects to meet or exceed organizational funding goals.
• Achieve realistic and quantifiable goals based on mutually agreed upon fundraising targets that will be the primary performance standards used to measure fundraising success. Achieve annual activity and outcome goals, including set number of personal visits, major gift proposals submitted, major gifts closed, and dollars raised.
• Researches and manages a portfolio of donors and prospects. In consultation with System Foundation leadership, develops written cultivation, solicitation and stewardship plans, utilizing a moves management approach to engage prospects and donors. Responsible for making a targeted number of donor visits per month to assigned prospect portfolio.
• Devotes a majority of an annual work year's hours to face-to-face contacts with identified, qualified potential and existing major gift donors and provide documentation of such activities as part of a moves management program recorded in portfolio.
• As part of the Grateful Patient program, build close working relationships with physicians and other clinical staff to build a grateful patient pipeline. Contribute to the goals, priorities and success metrics for grateful patient giving.
• Assists with the preparation of major gift proposals, solicitation letters, and other materials for major donor prospects; ensures that they are persuasively communicated to key and target audiences and are consistent with the efforts of others to strategically position the organization for success.
• Other assignments and special projects as assigned by the Foundation Executive Director.

Minimum Education, Training and Experience Required:

• Bachelor's degree required. CFRE Certification preferred.
• 0-3 years related work experience in development required, with an established track record of major gift fundraising and donor relationship management. Management experience a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully build and manage many relationships. A proven track record of increased net revenue.
• Solid volunteer management experience; demonstrated ability to engage and successfully utilize volunteers in achieving fundraising goals.
• Demonstrated success in personally cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding major and/or annual fund gifts. Demonstrated ability to effectively represent an organization to diverse external audiences through the use of strong verbal and written communications skills and marketing of concepts and ideas. Knowledge of the utilization of information systems to support fund raising activities. Demonstrated ability to prioritize and coordinate a large number of projects simultaneously.
• General knowledge of the principles of fundraising - able to participate in all aspects of the gift cycle:

to initiate contacts with potential benefactors;
to develop appropriate cultivation strategies for them;
to move potential benefactors in an appropriate and timely fashion toward solicitation and closure;
to make solicitations when appropriate;
to maintain stewardship contacts with benefactors.

• Experience with computer systems required, including web based applications and some Microsoft Office applications which may include Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Access. Database experience required - Raiser's Edge or Salesforce experience preferred

Baptist is a leader with providing exceptionally high patient care. As a faith-based health system, Baptist Health places special emphasis on our Core Values of treating all with integrity, respect and compassion, with a focus on excellence and collaboration in all that we do, helping us to experience the joy of caring for other. We invite you to join our family!

Foundation, Development, Fundraising, Major Gift Officer and Philanthropy.

If you would like to be part of a growing family focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork and innovation, we urge you to apply now!

Employees will be expected to comply with Baptist Health's infectious disease and vaccination policies, which include but may not be limited to compliance with BHS' mandatory vaccination policies for influenza and COVID unless reasonable accommodations are needed under applicable law

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.