Development Officer III (Director of Development) ULH-Brown Cancer Center - R104278

Department:

Location: Health Sciences Center

Time Type:

Full time

Worker Type:

Regular

Job Req ID: R104278

Minimum Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in a related field and 4 years of relevant experience. Additional experience may be used one a one-to-one basis to offset the educational requirements. Grade 9 (Salaried)

Position Description:

The Development Officer III (Director of Development) for UofL Health - Brown Cancer Center (BCC) will play a pivotal role in cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding gifts for the BCC's research and clinical trials programs and be responsible for developing and sustaining meaningful connections with donors, ensuring an unparalleled donor experience, and championing the overall advancement goals of the UofL Health - Brown Cancer Center. The Director of Development will focus their fundraising activity on the research efforts, including clinical trials, of the Brown Cancer Center, and be responsible for building a portfolio of major gift donors.  They will lead, develop, and manage a comprehensive fundraising portfolio focused on major giving, leadership annual giving, and grant development in coordination with the VP for UofL Health Philanthropy, the Senior Director of Development for the Brown Cancer Center, and the Director/CAO of the UofL Health - Brown Cancer Center. The Director of Development will work collaboratively with colleagues across University Advancement, UofL School of Medicine, and UofL Health to identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward major gift prospects for research efforts in the Brown Cancer Center. All job functions must be performed with a high degree of professionalism, including responsibility, initiative, creativity, dependability, human relations, cooperation, courtesy, and in compliance with Affirmative Action guidelines. The ideal candidate will have strong written and verbal communication skills, organizational skills, and be mission driven.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Qualify, solicit, and steward donations to advance research for the UofL Health - Brown Cancer Center, working with existing donors, grateful patients, foundations, and community leaders.
• Build and manage a portfolio of approximately 75 major gift and leadership annual fund donors.
• Collaborate with other University Advancement staff to ensure a donor-centric approach is taken, with full consideration of a donor's or organization's multiple interests.
• Develop and implement engagement and stewardship strategies to cultivate and maintain strong relationships with donors focused on research efforts.
• Create and manage personalized donor communications plans, ensuring timely and accurate interactions and reporting.
• Collaborate with the Sr. Director of Development to identify opportunities for donor cultivation and recognition.
• Build relationships with researchers and other university and hospital staff to collect information for impact reports, and cultivation and solicitation efforts.
• Meet or exceed annual unit goals as defined each year by supervisor.
• Refer and identify prospects to, and work collaboratively with, colleagues.
• Write and deliver impact reports for granting partners and donors.
• Collaborate with stewardship team on efforts for the UofL Health - Brown Cancer Center, including supervising the compilation and sharing of stewardship information to necessary institutional partners; supervising the stewardship of past donors with ongoing engagement opportunities that will build affinity for, and ownership of research efforts at the BCC.

Occasional work on nights and weekends will be required to attend events in support of the unit initiatives as well as to complete tasks.  Occasional in-state and regional travel may be required.

Preferred Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have 5-7 years of experience and a passion for improving community health, health outcomes and health equity, and advancing academic medical care for our region. They will demonstrate:

• Collaboration & Teamwork: works cooperatively and collaboratively with others toward the accomplishment of shared goals.
• Valuing Diversity: recognizing and embracing the unique talents and contributions of others.
• Service Orientation: desire to serve and focus one's efforts on discovering and meeting the needs of internal and external customers.
• Achieves Results: reflects a drive to achieve and outperform. Continuously looking for improvements. Accepts responsibility for actions and results.
• Organizational Alignment: ability to align people, processes, and organizational structure with UofL Health's strategic direction.
• Developing Others: views people, their knowledge and capabilities as assets and provides opportunities that allow employees to continuously learn and develop.
• Communication: practices attentive and active listening and can restate opinions of others; exhibits persuasive writing skills.
• Integrity: conducts business with honesty and professional ethics. Seeks to achieve results in the best interest of the organization. Models and reinforces ethical behavior in self and others.

Competencies

• Proficient in MS Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and Zoom.
• Proficient in at least one web content management system and one integrated marketing software.
• Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Well-versed and equipped to work on site or remotely as required.
• Highly organized, meets deadlines, and has flexibility.
• Self-starter and able to work both independently and collaboratively.
• Demonstrates a commitment to service, organizational values, and professionalism through appropriate conduct and demeanor.
• Maintains confidentiality and protects sensitive data.
• Project Management - organized, task oriented, ability to delegate and follow up.
• Team-oriented - equally comfortable working as a team member, team leader, or solo.
• Proactive - anticipates and plans for problems before they arise.
• High energy - works well in fast past and rapidly changing environment.
• Analytical - evaluates data and other information with the ability to choose the best solution and make recommendations.
• Problem solver - able to quickly identify problem and challenge, conduct necessary research or gather stakeholder input, and then propose solution.
• Flexible and agile - ability to change directions as needed for the good of the department or organization.
• Service excellence - responsive, informs constituents of process, pleasant to work with, educates and provides timely, accurate information.
• Consensus & relationship builder.
• Commitment to capacity building - works toward helping obtain, improve, and retain skills, knowledge, tools, and other resources needed to accomplish goals.

Please include a cover letter along with your resume in ONE attachment.

University Advancement encourages candidates to apply who have demonstrated capacity to create inclusive work environments, will work effectively on increasingly diverse teams, and will serve the increasingly diverse students we admit and want to attract.

Benefits - The University of Louisville has an exceptional benefits package; to learn more about our benefits please visit here

Compensation will be commensurate to candidate experience.

Equal Employment Opportunity

The University of Louisville is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer, and is committed to providing employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, age, color, national origin, ethnicity, creed, religion, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity and expression, marital status, pregnancy, or veteran status. If you are unable to use our online application process due to an impairment or disability, please contact the Employment team at [email protected] or 502.852.6258.

Assistance and Accommodations

Computers are available for application submission at the Human Resources Department located at 215 Central Avenue, Ste 205 - Louisville, Kentucky 40208.

If you require assistance or accommodation with our online application process, please contact us by email at [email protected] or by phone 502-852-6258.