What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate Director, Leadership Giving position at MD Anderson Cancer Center?
The Leadership Giving program serves donors whose gifts support MD Anderson at a giving level of $5,000 - $100,000 with a goal to develop lifelong relationships, ensuring interested donors are involved at a level, and in opportunities, where they are joyfully engaged and best able to support the institution.
MD Anderson Cancer Center is seeking an Associate Director, Leadership Giving to join the Individual Giving team. The Associate Director, Leadership Giving engages in the qualification, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship of the Leadership Giving donor segment to advance philanthropic support for The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. The Associate Director, Leadership Giving will develop and strategically manage a portfolio of Leadership Giving donors, seeking to qualify interest and connection points for further engagement with the institution.
This fundraiser will foster relationships between the donor and the institution through regular contact with personal visits, phone calls, and other engagement opportunities. This position includes frequent travel with overnight stays. The ideal candidate is adept in professional and sophisticated communications, is diligent and authentic in his or her approach, has a natural curiosity with active listening skills and a collaborative spirit.
Key Functions
Stakeholder Engagement (70%)
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.
Perception and Attentiveness (20%)
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.
Collaboration and Teaming (10%)
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 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 or project to achieve stated goals.
EDUCATION
Required: Bachelor's degree.
Experience
Required: One year direct fundraising experience.
Preferred: Two or more years of professional experience in portfolio-based fundraising with experience securing five-figure major gifts. Demonstrated experience working with faculty, leadership teams, campaign/board members and fellow development professionals to execute fundraising strategies.
It is the policy of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center to provide equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by institutional policy or by federal, state or local laws unless such distinction is required by law. http://www.mdanderson.org/about-us/legal-and-policy/legal-statements/eeo-affirmative-action.html
Additional Information
MD Anderson Cancer Center is seeking an Associate Director, Leadership Giving to join the Individual Giving team. The Associate Director, Leadership Giving engages in the qualification, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship of the Leadership Giving donor segment to advance philanthropic support for The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. The Associate Director, Leadership Giving will develop and strategically manage a portfolio of Leadership Giving donors, seeking to qualify interest and connection points for further engagement with the institution.
This fundraiser will foster relationships between the donor and the institution through regular contact with personal visits, phone calls, and other engagement opportunities. This position includes frequent travel with overnight stays. The ideal candidate is adept in professional and sophisticated communications, is diligent and authentic in his or her approach, has a natural curiosity with active listening skills and a collaborative spirit.
Key Functions
Stakeholder Engagement (70%)
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.
Perception and Attentiveness (20%)
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.
Collaboration and Teaming (10%)
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 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 or project to achieve stated goals.
EDUCATION
Required: Bachelor's degree.
Experience
Required: One year direct fundraising experience.
Preferred: Two or more years of professional experience in portfolio-based fundraising with experience securing five-figure major gifts. Demonstrated experience working with faculty, leadership teams, campaign/board members and fellow development professionals to execute fundraising strategies.
It is the policy of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center to provide equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by institutional policy or by federal, state or local laws unless such distinction is required by law. http://www.mdanderson.org/about-us/legal-and-policy/legal-statements/eeo-affirmative-action.html
Additional Information
- Requisition ID: 172748
- Employment Status: Full-Time
- Employee Status: Regular
- Work Week: Days
- Minimum Salary: US Dollar (USD) 91,000
- Midpoint Salary: US Dollar (USD) 103,500
- Maximum Salary : US Dollar (USD) 116,000
- FLSA: exempt and not eligible for overtime pay
- Fund Type: Hard
- Work Location: Remote
- Pivotal Position: Yes
- Referral Bonus Available?: No
- Relocation Assistance Available?: Yes
- Science Jobs: No
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