Senior Leadership Gift Officer

Summary

Reporting to the Director of Leadership Gifts, the Senior Leadership Gift Officer (SLGO) is a frontline fundraising leader within MaineHealth’s Southern Region responsible for securing leadership-level philanthropic support in alignment with MaineHealth’s top strategic priorities. This role manages a portfolio of high-capacity donors and prospects while supervising and mentoring leadership gift team members. The SLGO serves as a campaign manager for MaineHealth’s southern region, currently leading a $10M campaign focused on scholarship expansion for MaineHealth’s undergraduate medical education program. Additional priority initiatives include graduate medical education, clinical and biomedical research, precision medicine, and capital expansion for orthopedic surgery. The SLGO is expected to secure a minimum of $1M annually in leadership gift commitments.

Key Responsibilities

• Portfolio & Moves Management: Oversee the identification, cultivation, and stewardship of a portfolio of 100-150 leadership gift prospects. Develop customized donor strategies to move each prospect toward a leadership gift commitment aligned with MaineHealth’s strategic priorities and philanthropic initiatives.

• Proposal Development: Achieve annual targets for leadership gift proposal development and submission.

• Funds Secured: Achieve annual targets for secured leadership gift commitments raising a minimum of $1M per year. Contribute materially to multi-year campaign goals through leadership gifts and strategic solicitation planning.

• Campaign and Service Line Management: Serve as campaign manager for the Southern Region leadership gifts team. Lead fundraising strategy and execution for the undergraduate medical education scholarship campaign. Act as primary philanthropy liaison to the Medical Education department. Achieve annual targets for service line liaison work as a part of MaineHealth’s culture of gratitude program focusing on grateful patient and family philanthropy.

• Management People management responsibilities as needed.

Required Minimum Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities (KSAs)

• At least 10 years of progressively responsible development experience, ideally with a background of raising funds in a healthcare or academic medical center setting.

• Demonstrated success securing six figure gifts.

• Experience leading or contributing significantly to comprehensive or leadership gift campaigns.

• Supervisory experience preferred.

• Knowledge of planned giving vehicles preferred.

• Excellent oral and written communication and relationship building skills; the ability to present complex information in a clear and compelling manner.

• Ability to lead and mentor team members in support of shared portfolio goals.

• Flexibility to travel, when necessary, both in and out of state.