Officer, Foundation Relations

Key responsibilities: Conducts regular faculty and prospect visits to ensure that goals are met; manages and initiates all activity related to prospects consistent with moves management principles, and creatively and persistently seeks connections to new prospects to qualify interest, shape funding opportunities, and to build pipeline. Analytical skills to resolve problems through innovative application of high levels of specialized development knowledge, plus the ability and desire to improve, enhance, and upgrade existing development systems and programs.

Position summary: The Officer, Foundation Relations works as part of the Foundation Relations team within the larger Strategic Giving team to identify prospects, develop cultivation and solicitation strategies, and solicit, close and steward gifts up to $100k+ from local, national and international foundations. The incumbent actively looks for new opportunities to bring funding to the hospital, develops and executes strategies to secure gifts and assures appropriate and timely cultivation and stewardship.

Key responsibilities:

• Conducts regular faculty and prospect visits to ensure that goals are met; manages and initiates all activity related to prospects consistent with moves management principles, and creatively and persistently seeks connections to new prospects to qualify interest, shape funding opportunities, and to build pipeline
• Contributes to the tracking and management of Foundation request for proposals (RFPs), including identifying efficiencies in processes and distribution across the hospital
• Builds and nurtures effective working relationships with physician-scientists, researchers and volunteer leadership to identify funding needs, prepare the case for support, cultivate, solicit and steward foundation donors, locally and nationally
• Writes, drafts, edits and submits letters, proposals, reports, acknowledgments, case materials, briefings and donor correspondence when appropriate for hospital and lay leadership. Translates complex, rigorous content into compelling, donor-centered language to effectively communicate Children's mission and work.
• Develops an understanding of the breadth of research, clinical, teaching and community health programs of BCH. Stays abreast of clinical, research and admin initiatives and keeps apprised of local, regional and national health care issues, as well as changes within the foundations landscape
• Collaborates with colleagues throughout the Trust, including other frontline fundraising business units to ensure all opportunities for foundation gifts are maximized, and with teams within Communications and Operations to assure that prospects are identified, researched and engaged in the most effective way possible

Minimum qualifications:
Education:

• Bachelor's Degree plus 2 years post degree course work in philanthropy and non-profit management.   Min of 5 years previous experience developing and implementing cultivation and solicitation strategies, and writing and editing significant and complex philanthropic documents such as grant proposals, foundation stewardship reports, etc

Experience:

• Excellent interpersonal, organizational, written and communication skills in relating to management staff and donors
• Analytical skills to resolve problems through innovative application of high levels of specialized development knowledge, plus the ability and desire to improve, enhance, and upgrade existing development systems and programs
• High level of productivity, consistent attention to detail, and a solution-oriented performer who can be highly responsive to both staff and donor issues
• Versatility and ability to change focus rapidly and adeptly while managing with diplomacy and acute attention to competing priorities. Must be able to carry out wide range (in both scope and correlating necessary skill set) of potential assignments
• strong technical skills in Microsoft Office and Blackbaud CRM