Senior Executive Director, Planned Giving

Overview

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we are 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.

• Assist the planned giving team in reaching its goal by consistently using collaboration, strategy and a focus on the frontline to achieve annual metrics and financial goals.
• Manage key planned giving fundraising initiatives in alignment with City of Hope goals through current fundraising priorities and special fundraising initiatives.
• Develop prospect pipeline through programmatic and individualized approaches to identify, qualifying, developing and moving individual prospect relationships.
• Develop and implement thoughtful, strategic cultivation, solicitation and stewardship plans for individual planned giving prospects and donors to move these prospects through the donor cycle.
• Maintain an active portfolio by maintaining regular, effective contact with donors through various activities and communications, with an emphasis on face‑to‑face meetings.
• Identify, organize and direct the efforts of philanthropic volunteers as needed.
• Develop and implement joint major/planned giving opportunities in collaboration with colleagues from across the institution, leading to successful joint solicitations.
• Provide strategic oversight in creating tools for the Office of Philanthropy to increase awareness of, and participation in, planned giving; includes mailers and marketing material, annual recognition and/or community events and giving society management.

• Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s in business, philanthropy or related field (Experience may substitute for Planned Giving requirements.)

• 7+ years in fundraising, development, or related field in non‑profit environment.
• Experience in a complex medical or academic development setting encouraged.
• Demonstrated understanding of social media outlets such as Linked In, Twitter and Facebook required.

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.