Director Philanthropy Major Campaign Gifts

Bakersfield Memorial Hospital includes 385 general acute beds, 48 licensed critical care beds, 13 state-of-the-art surgical suites, and a full-service Emergency Department with an Accredited Chest Pain Center and Nationally Certified Stroke Center. In addition, we offer a beautiful Family Care and Birthing Center, the Lauren Small Children's Center including the area's only Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Family Care Center, a Level II NICU, the Sarvanand Heart, and Brain Center with Kern County's first Bi-Plane Interventional Suite, the Center for Wound Care and Hyperbarics, and many more services.

Memorial Hospital is a Children’s Miracle Network Hospital and is home to the Bakersfield Ronald McDonald House. Memorial Hospital is a member of Dignity Health and is a trusted community partner, serving residents of Bakersfield and Kern County with quality, compassionate care since 1956.  to learn more about Bakersfield Memorial Hospital.

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• Serves as the primary Foundation development staff responsible for growing and maintaining a comprehensive major gifts program focused on attracting gifts in excess of $10,000 (or the defined major gift threshold). The director builds strong relationships with major giving donors and prospects and actively develops a major giving pipeline of larger gifts and increased revenue.
• Researches and manages a full portfolio of major donors and prospects. Oversees and develops written cultivation, solicitation and stewardship plans, utilizing a moves management approach to engage prospects and donors.
• Devotes at least 60 percent of an annual work year’s hours to direct and conduct face-to-face contacts with identified, qualified potential and existing major gift donors and provides documentation of such activities as part of a moves management program recorded on CRM.
• Develops, implements, and sustains a program that engages and involves Foundation trustees, volunteers and staff in major gift planning, cultivation, solicitations and gift stewardship.
• Works with the Chief Philanthropy Officer and appropriate leadership to identify approved potential programs and projects for major gift support. Participates in the development of cases for support and all the proposals and materials needed to make such activities successful.

Experience:

Minimum five (5) years of not-for-profit fundraising and development experience. In addition, three (3) to five (5) years’ direct work experience as a fundraising professional with a major gift portfolio.

Bachelor’s degree in a related field or a combination of education and/or additional job-related experience may be substituted in lieu of the degree.

Mid-Senior level

Full-time

Other

Non-profit Organizations

Bakersfield, CA

Salary: $57.37-$85.33