Senior Major Gifts Officer-Philanthropy-BID Needham Hospital

Beth Israel Lahey Health; Needham (MA); On-site; USD 114,000 - 156,000; Full time

Job summary

Beth Israel Lahey Health seeks a Senior Major Gifts Officer to cultivate, solicit, and steward a 100+ prospect portfolio, advancing annual and capital fundraising goals. The role requires strategic thinking, entrepreneurial spirit, and strong relationship-building with clinical and executive leadership.

The individual collaborates across medical, educational, and research teams to articulate the value of academic health care, shaping proposals and donor communications while supporting

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 5-8 years of related work experience.
• Strong communication with donors and colleagues.
• Experience with gift processing, donor relations, and annual fund programs.
• Proficiency with Microsoft applications.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage a major gift portfolio.
• Collaborate with leadership to meet fundraising goals.
• Develop gift strategies for 100+ prospects.
• Prepare letters of intent, proposals, and donor materials.
• Communicate effectively with executive leadership and staff.
• Plan prospect management strategies with Philanthropy Office.
• Support campaign efforts and capital fundraising.

Skills

Communication

Donor relations

Database management

Gift processing

Microsoft Office

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Outlook

Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Access

Job description

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.The Senior Major Gifts Officer at Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH) collaborates with Philanthropy colleagues as well as Clinical and Executive leadership to ensure the fundraising success that is a part of BILH and its affiliate institutions. The SMGO manages a robust prospect portfolio (cultivates, solicits, and stewards donors and prospective donors) to meet articulated annual and capital fundraising goals. Must be entrepreneurial, a strategic thinker, collaborative colleague and possess strong relationship-building, written and oral communication skills with a passion for community and academic health care. Must also be able to articulate the value of an academic medical center in a large, multi-institutional healthcare organization.Job Description:Primary Responsibilities:1. Builds and strengthens relationships with major gift prospects and donors, in coordination with leadership and existing networks across BILH. Collaborates with a wide range of medical, educational, and research experts to support fundraising efforts2. Manages a personal portfolio of 100+ prospects and donors and creates individually tailored gift strategies.3. Researches, engages, and qualifies as prospects, including re-qualifying the current philanthropic interests and gift potential of lapsed donors.4. Builds and strengthens relationships with major gift prospects and donors, in coordination with leadership and existing networks across BILH. Collaborates with a wide range of medical, educational, and research experts to support fundraising efforts5. Shapes key institutional and development-related messages through the direction and preparation of letters of intent, proposals, and other materials for major prospects and donors; ensures that they are persuasively communicated to key and target audiences and are consistent with the efforts of others to strategically position the institution in the marketplace.6. Establishes and maintains high-quality relationships with the institutions' executive leadership, department chairs, division chiefs, physicians and researchers, and other key staff by establishing a personal rapport and acquiring and demonstrating a firm grasp of a wide range of medically related terms and critical issues facing the health care profession.7. Shares responsibility for the strategic planning, development, and implementation of the system, hospital, medical centers’ and division's goals in collaboration with others as necessary. Collaborates with members of the Philanthropy Office to plan prospect management strategies and moves steps that are coordinated and place the prospect's best interests first.8. Works to foster an atmosphere, internally and externally, of widespread cooperation and ownership to reinforce a common sense of purpose and establish an ever-increasing understanding and comfort with the philanthropy plans and strategies designed to achieve institutionally supported objectives.9. Participates in the preparation of the annual operating plan for the business unit and/or division, which includes a complete review of the year's activities and sets specific goals and objectives for the next and future fiscal years.10. Assists the Philanthropy team in advancing organizational and system-wide goals, including annual and capital fund-raising, assisting with campaign efforts, and building a strong corp of volunteer leaders.Required Qualifications:1.Bachelor's degree required.2. 5-8 years of related work experience required.3. Ability to communicate effectively and persuasively with donors, volunteers, and colleagues.4. Understanding of database management, gift processing and donor relations.5. A solid understanding of annual fund programs and institutional development more broadly.6. Advanced skills with Microsoft applications which may include Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Access and other web-based applications. May produce complex documents, perform analysis and maintain databases.Preferred Qualifications:1. Relevant business experience considered but non-profit strongly preferred.Pay Range:$114,000.00 USD – $156,000.00 USDThe pay range listed for this position is the annual base salary range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geography of work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law.As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/DisabledEmployment: Full-timeHours/Week: 40Shift: DayCategory: PhilanthropyPay Range: $114,000.00 USD - $156,000.00 USDFLSA: ExemptReq ID: JR97787