Donor Relations Specialist

Responsibilities

The Donor Relations Specialist (DRS) develops and oversees the annual Southeast Health system employee fundraising campaign for the Foundation, manages community initiatives, and oversees the allocations distribution process. This position also collaborates with the fundraising team to secure various community gifts in support of funding priorities at SE Health and the Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine. The DRS accepts and processes donations, posts donor contributions, creates invoices and generates financial and donor‑related letters and reports using the Foundation’s donor database.

As the donor database subject matter expert, the DRS retrieves donor data for team members, accounts reconciliation, the Foundation’s Board of Trustees, and policy manuals. The DRS is responsible for preparing board minutes, agendas, and reports as needed and maintaining the Foundation’s board meeting and policy manuals.

• Create and implement annual employee gifting campaign in collaboration with the employee advisory council
• Manage community‑based initiatives; e.g., Heart Safe
• Support all donor gift processing and gift acknowledgment for the fundraising team (monetary and in‑kind)
• Manage all stewardship activities under the leadership of the SE Health Foundation Stewardship Committee chairperson (birthday cards, thank‑you letters, thank‑you calls, anniversary cards, acknowledgement letters)
• Oversee the allocations/Foundation’s grant process under the direction of the Foundation’s Board of Trustees
• Identify and implement processes and improvements to ensure the integrity of the database: build queries, run reports, maintain account contacts and journal records
• Act as accounting liaison – Foundation point person for SE Health Accounting Department, support audit, 990, quarterly and annual accounting reports, monthly reconciliation between accounting and database entries, and year‑end donor reports
• Assist with coordination of donor cultivation and special event logistics
• Solicit in‑kind donations for various events
• Manage general operations for the department (supplies, meeting rooms, catering)
• Performs other related duties as assigned

Shift: 8:00am – 4:30pm. FTE, Type:
Regular.

Southeast Health is an academic community‑based health system serving the healthcare needs of 460,000 residents and is committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

Southeast Health will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.