Assistant Director, Principal and Major Gifts I

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston

Job Description

Job ID: 22873
Date Posted: 08/24/2012
Location: 10 Brookline Place, Brookline
Job Family: Development
Full/Part Time: Full-Time
Regular/Temporary: Regular
FLSA Status: Exempt

Job Summary

Located in Boston, Dana Farber Cancer Institute brings together world renowned clinicians, innovative researchers and dedicated professionals, allies in the common mission of conquering cancer, HIV/AIDS and related diseases. Combining extremely talented people with the best technologies in a genuinely positive environment, we provide compassionate and comprehensive care to patients of all ages; we conduct research that advances treatment; we educate tomorrow’s physician/researchers; we reach out to underserved members of our community; and we work with amazing partners, including other Harvard Medical School-affiliated hospitals.

The Assistant Director of Principal and Major Gifts will report directly to one or two Associate Directors of Principal and Major Gifts, and bear primary responsibility for building a pipeline and individual portfolio within one or more disease areas.  His/her primary focus will be on identifying, qualifying and soliciting prospects for major gifts of $10K+.  He/she will also focus on the tracking and moves management for major gift prospects newly identified within their assigned disease area(s)/program(s). 

• Work entrepreneurially to coordinate the tracking and moves management for a portfolio of prospects and qualify the pipeline for one or more disease areas/programs;
• Manage a dynamic portfolio of approximately 150-200 prospects with a goal of raising at least $750K annually;
• Oversee all details relating to reporting, tracking, and next steps follow-up for this dynamic portfolio with a focus on driving the solicitation process forward;
• In collaboration with the Associate Director for the Susan F. Smith Center, build and execute a major gift fundraising strategy for the Men’s Collaborative to Cure Women’s Cancers (MC);
• Responsible for meeting an annual fundraising goal set with the Director of Principal and Major Gifts and the Associate Director(s) of Principal and Major Gifts;
• Work with the Director of Principal and Major Gifts and the Associate Director(s) of Principal and Major Gifts on mid-year and year-end reporting;
• Conduct 10 – 12 donor visits a month;
• Perform special projects, donor tours and faculty meetings as assigned.