Vice President of Philanthropy
About the role
The Vice President of Philanthropy is a senior system-level philanthropy executive who serves as a key strategic and operational leader for the Intermountain Foundation. Reporting to the health system’s Chief Development Officer and Foundation President, this role functions as a trusted deputy and leadership partner, helping guide and grow the performance, with emphasis on alignment, measurement, and overall effectiveness of the Foundation’s major gift fundraising enterprise.
Responsibilities
- Directly supports and manages the outward facing fundraising teams including: Region Vice Presidents and their major gift fundraising teams, Vice President of Strategic Services, Executive Director of Gift Planning, and Executive Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations.
- Maintains a personal portfolio of high-capacity donors and prospects.
- Partners closely with Foundation leadership, executive leadership, and clinical partners.
- Represents the Foundation with professionalism, credibility, discretion, and strong executive presence.
- Supports engagement with volunteer leaders, advisory groups, boards, and campaign partners, as appropriate.
- Evaluates and promotes the presence and visibility of reporting Vice Presidents among their respective stakeholders and care site teams.
Requirements
This position has enterprise-level responsibility across the Foundation’s regional and strategic fundraising functions, and plays a central role in strengthening and simplifying fundraising execution, leadership effectiveness, and measurable results.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- Ten (10) or more years of progressive experience and success in professional philanthropy/fundraising and systems development with leadership of teams and system emphasis.
- Demonstrated success securing major and/or principal gifts and managing complex donor relationships.
- Five (5) or more years of experience leading senior fundraisers, fundraising managers, or multi-level teams.
- Proven ability to drive accountability, performance, and consistency across geographically distributed or matrixed teams.
- Experience using CRM systems and fundraising data to manage performance and inform decision-making.
- Exceptional communication, relationship-building, and leadership skills, with the ability to work effectively with executives, clinicians, donors, and community leaders.
- A clear understanding of, and experience in implementing and maintaining major gift program infrastructure to manage, measure, incentivize, and support large major gift campaigns within a matrixed organization.
- High level of integrity, judgment, discretion, ownership, team-rooted, and motivational presence, and ability to manage sensitive information.
- Ability to travel as needed.
Skills
- Strategic Fundraising Leadership
- Partner with the Chief Development Officer and Foundation President to advance the Foundation’s fundraising vision, priorities, and performance goals.
- Translate enterprise fundraising strategy into clear goals, systems, expectations, and action plans for regional and functional leaders.
- Continually assess and evaluate the systems, metrics, and landscape that represent contemporary, best-practice major gift success to include enterprise-wide activity metrics, incentive planning, budgeting, etc.
- Support the continued growth and maturity of a vibrant, high-performing healthcare philanthropy organization serving both local and system priorities.
Benefits
At Intermountain Health, we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.