Head of Major Gifts & Development, Academic Medicine

Hackensack Meridian Health Inc.; Iselin (PA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Hackensack Meridian Health seeks an Executive Director, Development, Academic Medical Centers, to provide strategic leadership for philanthropic initiatives across clinical excellence, biomedical research, and graduate medical education.

You will develop and implement a comprehensive major and principal gift program, personally manage a portfolio of significant donors, and partner with leadership to identify transformative funding priorities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Minimum of ten (10) years of progressively responsible experience in major gift fundraising, with at least five (5) years in an academic medical center, research university, or comparable complex institution.
• Demonstrated record of personally closing gifts of $1 million or more from individuals, families, and institutional sources.
• Deep familiarity with the academic medicine environment, including the faculty governance, research enterprise, and clinical program dynamics unique to academic medical center settings.
• Ability to translate complex scientific and clinical concepts into compelling donor narratives and case statements.
• Experience with endowment fundraising, planned giving vehicles, and the structuring of complex, multi-year gift commitments.
• Proven ability to lead, inspire, and develop a team of fundraising professionals in a matrixed, mission-driven organization.
• Experience with donor management/CRM systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficient computer skills that include but are not limited to Google Suite and/or Microsoft Office platforms.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership for philanthropic initiatives for the hospital's integrated missions of clinical excellence, biomedical research, and graduate medical education.
• Develop and implement a comprehensive major and principal gift program, including grateful patient philanthropy.
• Personally manage a portfolio of the Foundation's most significant donor relationships.
• Partner with medical center leadership to identify transformative funding priorities and articulate cases for philanthropic support to individuals, families, foundations, and corporations.
• Oversee a team of development professionals and contribute to annual budgets, long-range campaign plans, and strategies to advance the medical center's position as a national leader in medicine and medical education.

Skills

Leadership

Fundraising

Communication

Strategic thinking

Team building

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Donor CRM systems

Google Suite

Microsoft Office

Job description

Hackensack Meridian Health seeks an Executive Director, Development, Academic Medical Centers, to provide strategic leadership for philanthropic initiatives across clinical excellence, biomedical research, and graduate medical education.

You will develop and implement a comprehensive major and principal gift program, personally manage a portfolio of significant donors, and partner with leadership to identify transformative funding priorities.