Director of Development - ULH Brown Cancer Center (Job Id: 41576)

Job ID: 41576

Location: VP Advancement

Minimum Qualifications

Master's degree and three years of related experience. An equivalent combination of education and/or experience may be substituted for the requirements noted. Grade EX

The ideal candidate will have 5 or more years of related experience and have a passion for improving community health, health outcomes, 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; communicates messages in a way that has the desired effect.
• 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.

The Director of Development for the UofL Health Brown Cancer Center (BCC) will oversee efforts for the BCC annual-fund, employee giving, targeted fundraising efforts, vendor engagement and solicitation, grateful patient outreach, and special events. They will work with a team of fundraisers and related staff, as well as BCC leadership and members of the board of the UofL Health Foundation. They will serve as a front-line fundraiser for efforts as assigned. They will work with minimal supervision and are responsible for planning, researching, problem solving and performing special projects as assigned. They must be able to function independently, organize, prioritize, work well under pressure and deal effectively with all levels within and outside of the organization. They will coordinate targeted BCC fundraising campaigns, special appeals, engagement efforts, and ongoing events.

Responsibilities

• Oversee, organize, and implement BCC annual giving, employee giving, targeted fundraising campaigns as assigned, and grateful patient program in coordination with senior leadership of development, the UofL Foundation and Brown Cancer Center Leadership.
• Collaborate with other university advancement staff on shared areas to ensure a donor-centric approach is taken so full consideration of a donor's or organization's multiple interests are taken into account.
• Will coordinate and organize BCC events, in communication with BCC Executive Director of Development, to assist with planning and execution of events, providing guidance, support and presence at third-party fundraising events, and securing needed funds to hold events and increase mission support.
• Work with prospective vendors and sponsors to build mission support.
• Build relationships with doctors, staff, and patients to collect patient stories for the grateful patient program, marketing, and impact reports.
• Work with staff to identify potential grateful patient verbal cues and how to make the referral to a member of development.
• Draft and deploy annual giving solicitation letters and emails, and special campaigns. Collaborate on an employee giving program and build a culture of giving among staff.
• Draft and deploy monthly thank you emails and weekly calls. Call each donor to unit within one week of gift to thank them for their gift and verify gift intent/placement.
• Create, in conjunction with Senior Director of Development-BCC and marketing of annual giving, employee giving and grateful patient materials.
• Assist in BCC Stewardship and compile stewardship information from across the Brown Cancer Center, steward past donors with ongoing engagement opportunities that will build affinity for, and ownership of, the Brown Cancer Center.
• Maintain usage numbers on patient resources and report back to donors.
• Assist with BCC and ULF finance officers to ensure timely use and disbursement of donor funds and reporting. Maintain budgets of fund usage and ensure private support is available to key programs.
• Meet or exceed annual goals as defined each year by VP of UofL Health Philanthropy.
• Build and manage a portfolio of approximately 100 vendors and leadership annual donors, executing actions/contacts and recording all visits and contacts within the CRM database.
• Refer and identify prospects to, and work collaboratively with, colleagues.
• Coordinate with researchers and community members to schedule tours of the CTRB and BCC.
• Ongoing efforts to share timely updates on responsibilities. Performs other duties as assigned.

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

Competencies include:

• Excellent Excel, Word and PowerPoint skills required.
• Proficient in MS Outlook, Teams, Zoom.
• Excellent oral, written and interpersonal communication skills.
• Well organized and able to meet deadlines.
• Self-starter and able to work both independently and collaboratively.
• Able to demonstrate a commitment to service, organization values and professionalism through appropriate conduct and demeanor at all times.
• Able to adhere to and exhibits our core values.
• Maintains confidentiality and protects sensitive data at all times.
• 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 and relationship builder.
• Commitment to capacity building - works toward helping obtain, improve, and retain skills, knowledge, tools, and other resources needed to accomplish goals.

The University of Louisville is a vibrant and inclusive community, and we actively seek candidates who are interested in contributing to diversity and equal opportunity within higher education.

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.

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