Senior Development Associate, Principal Gifts

About The Department

The Department’s mission is to inspire and facilitate philanthropy at the University of Chicago Medicine by building relationships with those who share its goals of advancing excellence in research, education, community, and patient care. We accomplish this mission through expertise, integrity, creativity, and collaboration.

Job Summary

The job implements programs designed to meet fundraising goals for contributed income with moderate guidance. Helps build relationships with alumni, faculty, administrators and organizations with potential to make gifts at the instruction of others. Executes communication strategies for projects.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate, organize, and execute fundraising and stewardship activities for the Senior Associate Vice President and Senior Director, Principal Gifts.
• Manage logistics and prepare strategic interactions aimed at qualifying, soliciting and stewarding the medical center’s highest level (principal gift) donors and prospects.
• Drive strategy and next steps following visits and faculty meetings.
• Facilitate internal meetings and fundraiser visits with current and prospective donors to advance prospect strategy.
• Understand and remain current on institutional priorities, programs, events, engagement opportunities and have a general understanding of the diverse research priorities of the University and UC Medicine.
• Prepare briefing documents to prepare participants in cultivation, solicitation, and recognition visits.
• Write briefings, proposals and a broad spectrum of fundraising materials created for specific audiences such as a donor or prospective donor, family foundation, corporation, or volunteer solicitor in order to support and help achieve their team’s annual fundraising goal.
• Draft acknowledgements, special greetings, letters for cultivation purposes, and a high volume of messaging for others’ signatures including but not limited to the Senior Associate Vice President, the Senior Director, Principal Gifts, and other executive level staff and faculty members.
• Act as a project manager for proposals and other written documents, and coordinate with the Marketing and Communications team.
• Support the management of portfolios of donors who are in stewardship for existing principal gifts.
• Coordinate recognition and stewardship with the Donor Relations team.
• Perform basic prospect research that informs briefings, strategy, proposals and solicitations.
• Collaborate with Prospect Development team on defining the need for in-depth research and negotiating the timeline for such research.
• Utilize and keep up to date a donor database to prospective donor activity and interests.
• Assist in raising $25M+ in new gifts and pledges. Support the qualification of 4+ PG prospects each year.
• Work with others to maximize prospective donor cultivation.
• Perform other related work as needed.

Education

• Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field.
• Minimum requirements include knowledge and skills developed through 2-5 years of work experience in a related job discipline.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience A minimum of two years of relevant work experience in development or a related field, such as public relations, sales, marketing, or a not-for-profit organization.
• Familiarity with database applications.