Director of Development

WorkInNonProfits; St. Catharines; On-site; CAD 95,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

HOOPP pension plan

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Hotel Dieu Shaver Foundation is seeking a strategic Director of Development to advance a $40 million capital campaign and grow major gifts across Niagara. The role reports to the Executive Director, builds fundraising systems, and may evolve to lead a small team of development professionals.

The successful candidate will secure transformational gifts, create campaign strategy, and partner with donors, volunteers, and leadership to advance patient-care initiatives in Niagara.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in major gifts and capital campaigns.
• Ability to build donor relationships and steward volunteers and donors.
• Strategic thinker with a track record of growing fundraising programs.

Responsibilities

• Lead the organization’s major gifts program and capital campaign strategy.
• Cultivate transformational donor relationships and drive solicitation.
• Develop campaign materials and coordinate with leadership and volunteers.

Skills

Fundraising

Major gifts

Capital campaigns

Donor stewardship

Strategic planning

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Director of Development
Hotel Dieu Shaver Foundation
Hybrid -Toronto Metro area, Hamilton area, Southern Ontario
St. Catherines, Ontario

closes in 2 days (Sun, 16 Aug)
full time $95,000 to $115,000

Director of Development

THE OPPORTUNITY

As part of an exciting new chapter of growth, Hotel Dieu Shaver Foundation (HDSF) is seeking a strategic, dynamic, and experienced fundraiser to serve as our inaugural Director of Development. This newly created role will play a pivotal part in advancing the Foundation’s ambitious vision and fundraising priorities, including a transformative $40 million capital campaign designed to address the growing and evolving healthcare needs of communities across the Niagara Region. As the fundraising partner for Niagara’s only rehabilitation hospital, HDSF plays a critical role in supporting patient care, equipment, education, and specialized programs that enable patients to recover, regain independence, and improve their quality of life.

Reporting to the Executive Director, the Director of Development is responsible for advancing the Foundation’s major gift and planned giving strategies while serving as a key contributor to the capital campaign for a new Inpatient Hospital. Working in close partnership with the Executive Director, campaign volunteers, donors, and organizational leadership, the Director will help develop and execute the campaign strategy, cultivate transformational philanthropic relationships, and foster a strong culture of philanthropy throughout the organization.

This position will focus on expanding philanthropy at the $25,000+ level by securing transformational gifts and growing the Foundation’s major gift revenue stream in support of leading-edge programs and strategic priorities. As a newly established role, the Director of Development will initially operate as a senior individual contributor, leading donor engagement, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship efforts while building the structure, strategy, and systems required to support long‑term growth. Over time, the role will evolve to include leadership and mentorship of a small team of development professionals.

The ideal candidate is entrepreneurial, collaborative, and results oriented. The new Director will thrive in dynamic environments, enjoy building systems and processes from the ground up, and be energized by the opportunity to help shape a growing development program, playing a leadership role in a transformational capital campaign.

This is a full-time permanent, in-office position based in St. Catharines, Ontario. The salary range is $ 95,000 to $115,000 with an industry leading pension plan (HOOPP), and comprehensive benefits package.

ABOUT HOTEL DIEU SHAVER

As the only rehabilitation hospital in Niagara, Hotel Dieu Shaver Health and Rehabilitation Centre is a specialty hospital that excels in providing rehabilitation and complex care to thousands of patients across the Niagara Region.

Hotel Dieu Hospital began in 1944 when Senator J. Joseph Bench, a prominent St. Catharines Lawyer, Dean Michael Cullinane, pastor of St. Catherine of Alexandria Church, and Toronto's Archbishop James Cardinal McGuigan pursued the opportunity to establish a Catholic acute care hospital in St. Catharines in an effort to provide adequate health carealong with the already existing St. Catharines General Hospital. Due to its good reputation and excellent credentials, the Kingston based Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph (RHSJ) were invited to help plan and build the new hospital.

Throughout the years, the hospital expanded to provide necessary healthcare programs such as kidney dialysis centre, an eye clinic in 1974 and oncology clinic in 1985.

Our operating name changed in 2005 when Hotel Dieu Hospital took over the governance and management of the Shaver Hospital as a result of new directions for health care restructuring by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.

At Hotel Dieu Shaver Health and Rehabilitation Centre, we work closely with our healthcare and community partners to ensure high quality, timely access to care, and to make systematic improvements that will benefit those in need of care.

Mission: Hotel Dieu Shaver is a community of holistic and compassionate care for all those who seek our service and for those who serve. As a Roman Catholic facility, grounded in God's love, we provide the resources and care to enable people to reach their optimal level of health and well‑being.

Vision: Inspiring Hope. Renewing Lives. Visionaries in Rehabilitation and Compassionate Care.

Values:

• Spirituality | We contribute to the spiritual and emotional well-being of each person by respecting their human dignity in a healing environment.
• Professionalism | We use our special knowledge and expertise to provide compassionate service at the highest possible standard.
• Innovation | We empower our staff to embrace new ideas and processes that create improvements in what we do.
• Responsible Stewardship | We respond to community needs by balancing human needs with financial resources.
• Integrity | We are consistent, honest, and respectful in all we do.
• Teamwork | We commit to work with clients, families and each other to achieve our mission.

ABOUT HOTEL DIEU SHAVER FOUNDATION

Hotel Dieu Shaver Health and Rehabilitation Foundation raises and manages funds for patient-care equipment, education, specialty clinics, and improvements to treatment areas to support exemplary patient care at Hotel Dieu Shaver.

Donors play an important role in the health care provided in our communities.The HDS Foundation relies on the generosity of the community to help meet the needs of patients at Hotel Dieu Shaver since funding from the government does not support the purchase of capital equipment.

Mission: Hotel Dieu Shaver Foundation effectively raises and stewards funds to support Niagara’s only rehabilitation and complex care hospital.

Vision: To be recognized as a fundraising leader in Niagara supporting the growing needs of Hotel Dieu Shaver Hospital.

Values: Committed to ethical fundraising, exemplary stewardship and accountability to our donors and the community.

• Professionalism
• Compassion
• Partnership
• Integrity
• Fiduciary Responsibility

Building a New Hotel Dieu Shaver

At Hotel Dieu Shaver, our mission has always been to restore health, rebuild lives, and renew hope. For nearly a century, our teams have provided rehabilitation care in the same facility originally built in 1930.

Now, we are embarking on the most transformational project in our history: building a new hospital, three times the size of our current inpatient facility.

The new Hotel Dieu Shaver will ensure that patients across Niagara have timely access to the rehabilitation, complex care, and recovery services they need; close to home and surrounded by family.

This project is about more than bricks and mortar. It's about building the future of rehabilitation and complex care in Niagara.

• Niagara has one of the fastest‑aging populations in Ontario.
• Our current inpatient facility was built in 1930 and has long outgrown demand.
• Hotel Dieu Shaver consistently achieves 99%+ patient satisfaction, showing the care is exceptional, but the space must now match the quality of that care.
• Work closely with the Executive Director, serving as a fundraising strategist and an operational leader.
• Partner with the Executive Director to design and implement a comprehensive capital campaign plan.
• Develop and enhance strategies for the Campaign and Major Gift Program including implementation of consultant (KCI) recommendations.
• Coordinate and support campaign meetings, volunteer activities, and fundraising strategy sessions.
• Partner with hospital and foundation leadership to align campaign priorities, funding objectives, and donor engagement activities.
• Collaborate with the Executive Director to establish short‑and long‑term fundraising strategies, operational plans, budgets, and performance targets that align with organizational priorities.
• Lead major gift strategy in support of campaign goals, including prospect identification, cultivation, and solicitation.
• Develop campaign materials such as the case for support, gift charts, and donor strategies.
• Provide leadership, training, and support to senior leadership, campaign cabinet members, and volunteers who serve as partners in campaign activities.
• Monitor campaign progress and adjust strategies to achieve targets.
• Collaborate on the preparation of campaign communications, including proposals, gift agreements, partnership agreements, and stewardship materials.