Assistant Dean of Development

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership, mentorship, and oversight to a growing team of major gift officers focused on fundraising from grateful patients, alumni.
• Develop, recommend, and implement fundraising strategies and goals that support institutional priorities, ensuring team alignment and accountability.
• Analyze fundraising metrics, and recommend strategies to enhance donor engagement and revenue growth.
• Collaborate closely with other development staff, faculty, and leadership to integrate gift strategies with broader advancement initiatives.
• Provide consistent coaching and support to enhance the team’s skills and effectiveness in fundraising.
• Develop and oversee fundraising programs for clinical service lines, hospital programs, and research initiatives, along with capital campaigns and major gift initiatives.
• Cultivate and nurture relationships with key donors, prospects, and institutional leaders to drive major gift philanthropy.
• Collaborate with the donor relations and stewardship team to develop and implement a comprehensive program for meaningful donor and prospect engagement through a series of on-site and regional opportunities.
• Collaborate with gift officers, hospital leaders, department chairs, and program and institute directors to establish annual departmental development plans and create performance measures for major gift officers.
• Liaise with leaders from priority departments, programs, centers, and institutes to ensure alignment with institutional fundraising goals and strategies are effectively pursued.
• Develop and implement a comprehensive grateful patient fundraising plan in collaboration with faculty, ensuring alignment with institutional priorities.
• Identify and cultivate high-potential donor prospects by leveraging patient engagement opportunities and working closely with medical and academic leadership.
• Design and lead faculty and program leader training programs to enhance fundraising effectiveness, providing guidance on donor identification, engagement strategies, and philanthropic conversations.
• Foster a culture of philanthropy by equipping faculty with the tools and confidence to integrate grateful patient fundraising into their professional interactions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required with a preference for an advanced degree.
• Ten (10) or more years of broad-based related experience spent progressively building a background in the various functions of development and alumni relations with at least five (5) years in major gifts.
• Major Gifts experience in higher education or other complex organization(s) preferred.
• Experience building and implementing a Grateful Patient Program is strongly encouraged and preferred.
• Five (5) years of supervisory or managerial experience.