Associate Vice President, Major Gifts & Development

Connecticut Children's; Hartford (CT); On-site; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Connecticut Children’s seeks an experienced professional with proven leadership skills to join the Foundation team as the Associate Vice President of Development. As Connecticut Children’s embarks on a period of significant growth, our patients, families, and donors have grown far beyond the greater Hartford area.

The Associate Vice President of Development will lead identifying, cultivating and soliciting individuals, corporations, foundations and organizations capable of making major gifts to

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred.
• Minimum seven years’ experience with fundraising, including at least two years of experience with leadership gifts.
• Direct experience in fundraising for a children’s hospital or academic medical center preferred.

Responsibilities

• Identify, cultivate and solicit prospects capable of making major gifts to Connecticut Children’s.
• Develop and maintain a portfolio of 150-175 high-quality, long-term relationships with past and potential donors that maximize their capacity to provide financial support to Connecticut Children’s.
• Focus on developing long-term relationships with donors and prospects through personal contact and close coordination with Connecticut Children’s Medical Center faculty, staff, volunteers as well as Foundation colleagues as needed.
• Achieve annual activity and outcome goals, including set number of personal visits, major gift proposals submitted, major gifts closed and dollars raised.
• Engage and support selected Board Members, Executive Management Team members and Faculty leaders in developing donor relationships so that every donor has at least one personal relationship with a member of the Connecticut Children’s leadership family.
• Through personal contact and donor research, identify and analyze both the capacity and inclination of these relationships to provide financial support and determine areas of interest that would inspire them to make major gifts.
• Keep detailed records of the strategies, steps and progress of every relationship using Salesforce database.
• Act as Foundation liaison to volunteer leadership groups, departments and programs.
• Identify and analyze potential donors, assessing both interest and capacity consistent with Connecticut Children’s Medical Center capital and programmatic priorities.
• Write correspondence, proposals, briefings and submit them according to agreed upon time lines.
• Facilitate appropriate acknowledgement, recognition and stewardship of gift commitments.
• Actively participate and engage in a variety of cultivation, solicitation and recognition events as appropriate.
• Perform additional activities related to the Development effort as required.

Skills

Leadership

Fundraising

Relationship management

Communication

Strategic planning

Education

Bachelor’s Degree preferred

Tools

Salesforce

Job description

Connecticut Children’s seeks an experienced professional with proven leadership skills to join the Foundation team as the Associate Vice President of Development. As Connecticut Children’s embarks on a period of significant growth, our patients, families, and donors have grown far beyond the greater Hartford area.

The Associate Vice President of Development will lead identifying, cultivating and soliciting individuals, corporations, foundations and organizations capable of making major gifts to