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Beth Israel Lahey Health’s roots in providing top-quality health care date back nearly a century. We're fully committed to ensuring our patients receive the care they deserve. As a leading healthcare provider throughout New England, we aim to change the current state of health care for the better and make lasting improvements that guarantee access to our services.
Director, Philanthropy
Boston, Massachusetts
Organization Facility: Beth Israel Lahey Health - Non Executive Category: Philanthropy Job ID: JR78468 Date posted: 05/27/2025
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Job Type: Regular
Time Type: Full time
Work Shift: Day (United States of America)
FLSA Status: Exempt
When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives. The Director, Philanthropy for Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH) is responsible for the identification, cultivation, and solicitation of individual major and principal gift prospects and donors. S/he serves as a member of the philanthropy team and plays a central role in developing, overseeing, and managing major gift strategies and programs, and coordinating them with other segments of the department's efforts. An advocate for the mission and programs of the institution, representing it among its senior volunteer leadership and key and influential public audiences.
Job Description: Primary Responsibilities: 1. Serve as a lead strategist in creating and implementing a comprehensive major and principal gift strategy to advance the goals of the medical center. With BILH leadership, establish fundraising priorities, develop fundraising goals and timelines, and create a plan for building a prospect pipeline through both traditional and nontraditional means. 2. Serves as a senior member of the Principal and Major Gifts staff with the primary responsibility for advancing the institution's major and principal gifts program to successfully: identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward major gift ($25,000+) prospects and donors. 3. Responsible for devising, implementing, and managing effective, creative, and original strategies designed to individually and systematically interest, engage, and secure a wide range of key prospects to meet or exceed divisional, departmental, and institutional funding goals. 4. Establishes and maintains high-quality relationships with the institutions' department chairs, division chiefs, senior physicians and researchers, and other key staff by establishing a personal rapport and acquiring and demonstrating a firm grasp of a wide range of medically related terms and critical issues facing the health care profession. 5. Shapes key institutional and development-related messages through the direction and preparation of major proposals, solicitation letters, and other materials for major prospects and donors; ensures that they are persuasively communicated to key and target audiences and are consistent with the efforts of others to strategically position the institution in the marketplace. 6. Builds and manages a personal portfolio of 125 major gift prospects and donors that comprise many of the institution's most important and sensitive relationships; works in consultation with the Vice President of Philanthropy, and other volunteer leaders to discuss and devise individually tailored major gift strategies. 7. Shares responsibility for the strategic planning, development, and implementation of the division's goals in collaboration with the Vice President of Philanthropy, and other senior volunteer leaders. 8. Has the authority to direct and support employees daily work activities. Has the direct responsibility to undertake the following employment actions: hiring, termination, corrective action and performance reviews. Direct Reports: 2-3 Indirect Reports: None
Required Qualifications: 1. Bachelor's degree required. 2. More than 10 years of related work experience required in Development experience, with an established track record of major gift or other related development experience. and 0-1 years supervisory/management experience required. 3. Solid volunteer management experience: demonstrated ability to engage and successfully utilize volunteers in achieving fundraising goals. 4. Demonstrated success in personally cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding major and/or annual fund gifts. 5. Ability to travel, occasional evening and weekend work, and adjust to other needs of the department. 6. Advanced skills with Microsoft applications which may include Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Access, and other web-based applications. May produce complex documents, perform analysis, and maintain databases.
Preferred Qualifications: 1. Knowledge of the utilization of information systems to support fundraising activities. 2. Demonstrated ability to prioritize and coordinate a large number of projects simultaneously with minimum supervision.
As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) and COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Learn more about this requirement.
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