Director, Major Gifts

About Us

Founded in 1955, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Einstein) is one of the nation’s premier institutions for medical education, basic research and clinical investigation. A full-time faculty of some 2,000 conducts research, teaches, and delivers health care in every major biomedical specialty. The college has some 730 medical students, 193 Ph.D. students, 106 MD/Ph.D. students and 275 postdoctoral fellows.

Einstein’s major strength, in addition to training physicians and scientists, is its science. During fiscal year 2015, the faculty’s consistently high level of scientific achievement resulted in the awarding of more than $150 million in peer-reviewed grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Einstein is part of Montefiore Medicine Academic Health System, an integrated academic delivery system comprising seven campuses, including 8 hospitals, a multi-county ambulatory network, a new state-of-the art “hospital without beds”, a skilled nursing facility, school of nursing, home health agency, and the state’s first freestanding emergency department. As the University Hospital for the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore is a premier academic health system, employing Einstein’s clinical faculty and training Einstein’s medical students, over 1,300 residents, 420 allied health students, and 1,600 nursing students annually.

The Albert Einstein College of Medicine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information. Einstein seeks candidates whose skills, and personal and professional experience, have prepared them to contribute to our commitment to diversity and excellence, and the communities we serve.

Albert Einstein College of Medicine seeks an experienced, highly motivated fundraising professional to serve as Director of Major Gifts. Reporting to the Vice President of Development, the Director will play a critical role in advancing Einstein’s philanthropic priorities by developing meaningful relationships with alumni, parents, faculty, and friends of the institution.

The Director will manage a dynamic portfolio of approximately 120 current and prospective donors capable of making leadership-level commitments in support of Einstein’s mission, with the majority of these individuals as friends of the College of Medicine. Through strategic qualification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship efforts, the Director will guide constituents through the donor continuum, deepening their engagement with the College of Medicine and creating opportunities for transformational philanthropic investment.

The successful candidate will employ a donor-centered approach to fundraising, developing customized engagement strategies that align donor interests and passions with institutional priorities. Working collaboratively with academic and administrative leadership, faculty, volunteers, and development colleagues, the Director will identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward philanthropic support for key initiatives across the College of Medicine.

This position requires a proactive and highly organized fundraiser who is comfortable managing a robust portfolio, conducting substantive donor visits, and building long-term relationships that result in significant philanthropic commitments and sustained engagement with Einstein.

• Manage a portfolio of approximately 120 major gift prospects and donors, including alumni, parents, friends, and other key constituents with the capacity to make gifts at the $100,000+ level.
• Develop…