Development Officer III or Development Officer IV - ULH (UofL Hospital) - R103279

Department:

Location: Health Sciences Center

Time Type:

Full time

Worker Type:

Regular

Job Req ID: R103279

Minimum Requirements:

Development Officer III - Bachelor's degree and three years of related experience.  Additional experience may not be used on a one-to-one basis to offset the educational requirements. Grade 9 Salary Range Min 73,600 Mid 92,000

Development Officer IV - Bachelor's degree and five years of related experience.  Additional experience may not be used on a one-to-one basis to offset the educational requirements. Grade 10 Salary Range Min 82,800 Mid 103,500

Position Description:

The UofL Health - UofL Hospital is seeking a Development Officer IV (Senior Director of Development) or a Development Officer III (Director of Development), depending on the top candidate's level of experience, to serve UofL Health - UofL Hospital. This individual will lead, develop, and manage a comprehensive fundraising program focused on major gifts, employee giving, grateful patient support, and grant development in coordination with the VP for UofL Health Philanthropy, the Senior Director of Development for the Brown Cancer Center, and the hospital CEOs. The Sr. Director of Development or Director of Development will work collaboratively with colleagues across UofL Health, UofL School of Medicine, and University Advancement, to identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward major gift prospects for UofL Hospital's programs, including trauma, emergency department, burn unit, stroke program, oncology, and the Center for Women and Infants. UofL Hospital is undergoing major construction to build a new hospital tower and this person will lead capital fundraising efforts. All job functions must be performed with a high degree of professionalism, including responsibility, initiative, creativity, dependability, human relations, cooperation, courtesy, confidentiality, 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

• Manage relationship with the internal leadership of the UofL Health - UofL Hospital, gathering and disseminating funding priorities and opportunities with development team.
• 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.
• Oversee annual giving, employee giving and the grateful patient program in coordination with the UofL Health development team, the UofL Foundation, and UofL Hospital leadership.
• Build relationships with doctors, staff, and patients to collect patient stories for the Gratitude Heals grateful patient program, marketing, and impact reports.
• Work with hospital staff to identify potential grateful patient verbal cues and how to make the referral to a member of development.
• Supervise the drafting and deployment of annual giving solicitation letters and emails.
• Collaborate with internal leadership on an employee giving program and build a culture of giving among staff.
• Supervise the drafting and deployment of monthly thank you emails.
• Supervise the development of annual giving, employee giving and grateful patient materials.
• Collaborate with stewardship team on efforts for the UofL Health - UofL Hospital, including supervising the compilation and sharing of stewardship in
• formation from across the hospitals; supervising the stewardship of past donors with ongoing engagement opportunities that will build affinity for, and ownership of UofL Hospital.
• Meet or exceed annual unit goals as defined each year by supervisor.
• Build and manage a portfolio of approximately 100 major gift donors.
• Refer and identify prospects to, and work collaboratively with, colleagues.
• Collaborate with event coordinator on planning of events for UofL Hospital.

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.

This is an in-person position.

Preferred Qualifications

The ideal candidate for the Senior Director of Development will have 7-10 years of experience and for the Director of Development, the ideal candidate will have 3-5 years of experience. Either person will have 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.