Senior Director, Community Fundraising

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope's growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

As a successful candidate, you will:

The Senior Director of Development, Community Fundraising (SDOD), will ensure the fundraising success of City of Hope's Community Fundraising program. The SDOD will serve as a subject matter expert, a professional role model, and an identified team and program leader. The SDOD will contribute by employing and modeling key processes and programs that support an office-wide focus on collaboration, efficiencies and metrics-based performance outcomes, in addition to primary role responsibilities.

In this role, the SDOD will have both individual accountability for performance goals of DIY and P2P community fundraising efforts, sustaining fundraiser acquisition, renewal, upgrade and program-building activities, and collaborate with colleagues within and outside of the Office of Philanthropy to achieve their performance goals through an emphasis on accountability, mentorship and collaboration.

As a successful candidate, you will:

• Lead the strategic planning and production of community fundraising programs and collaborate to reach engagement, participation, and fundraising goals.
• Meet annual activity and program performance metrics.
• Analyze and implement programs to ensure cost effectiveness.
• Identify, develop and manage donor-centric fundraising efforts for City of Hope philanthropic priorities and initiatives.
• Develop strategies to increase and retain loyal and generous of volunteers and donors through varied DIY and P2P fundraising efforts.
• Develop and implement thoughtful and strategic engagement and stewardship plans for fundraising volunteers and donors at all gift levels.
• Identify and develop joint giving opportunities in collaboration with Philanthropy colleagues from across the institution and Office of Philanthropy teams.
• Responsible for fiduciary accounting of the funds raised through these campaigns.
• Responsible for program oversight and ensuring a positive working relationship between other City of Hope Departments and employees. Position will include direct oversight of employees and the management of a work team that is integrated into the larger industry-based fund-raising effort.
• Responsible for meeting established performance goals for team.

Your qualifications should include:

• 5+ years in fund raising, development, or related field in non-profit environment. Demonstrated understanding of social media outlets such as Linked In, Twitter and Facebook required. Minimum 3 years of experience in a leadership capacity.
• Demonstrated success in developing and leading comprehensive DIY and P2P engagement and fundraising programs while building long-term philanthropic relationships.
• Demonstrated experience in the full spectrum of development including gift policies, solicitations, volunteer engagement, and event and campaign management.
• Demonstrated success at building internal (staff, physicians, administrators) relationships.
• Demonstrated the ability to motivate and reward success, provide course correction as needed, and motivate a team around shared and individual goals.

City of Hope employees pay is based on the following criteria: work experience, qualifications, and work location.

City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer.

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