Asst Dir Development-28121

About the role

The Assistant Director of Development will play a key role on the major, principal and planned gifts team. This position reports to the Director of Development and works closely and collaboratively within the department including with gift officers, prospect management, development operations, stewardship, special events, and annual giving teams. The individual will also have front-facing interaction with clinicians, faculty and donors.

Responsibilities

• Focus on the acquisition and qualification of prospective major, principal and planned gift donors to strengthen portfolios for leadership annual giving, major, principal and planned giving.
• Develop and execute personalized cultivation, solicitation and stewardship strategies, sometimes in partnership with other gift officers, and write and edit communications to support these plans (including qualification letters, acknowledgement letters and letters for cultivation purposes; proposals; stewardship reports; and other materials).
• Engage Rush Faculty in the grateful patient fundraising process.
• In close collaboration with the prospect management and prospect research teams, utilize multiple data sources to conduct basic research and prospect identification tasks to feed into gift officer portfolios.
• Conduct phone calls to identified prospective donors to schedule face-to-face visits, participate in visits with gift officers, and engage in conversations about RUSH that may qualify them as potential prospects.
• Work with the Data, Systems, and Reporting team to run and create (as needed) reports from Power BI and CRM to support these activities.
• Manage up to date records in donor database to track donor/prospect activity and interests.
• Develop an understanding of the RUSH strategic priorities and philanthropic funding needs to better assist with the identification of major, principal and planned gift prospects.
• Provide guidance to development associates and/or administrative assistants when necessary.
• Other special project management as required.

Requirements

• Baccalaureate degree required. Preferably three to five years in fundraising or a related field.
• Proficiency in the full suite of Microsoft Office products.
• Reliability, flexibility, and sensitivity to issues of confidentiality.
• Willingness to work occasional evenings and weekends, as necessary.
• Professional demeanor.
• Ability to understand and articulate RUSH’s mission and the campaign vision to a variety of constituencies with poise and diplomacy.
• Demonstrated experience working with databases such as Advance, Raiser’s Edge or Salesforce.