Director Philanthropy Major Campaign Gifts

Founded by the Sisters of Mercy, Mercy Hospitals have a history of caring for our community that goes back more than 100 years. We provide a broad range of medical and surgical services including minimally invasive and outpatient options. Our family of services includes the area's only inpatient oncology unit, the Orthopedic, Spine, and Hand Center, Family Birth Center, the Lactation Support Center and retail store, and many others. Mercy Hospital Downtown is a 194-bed facility located in downtown Bakersfield. Mercy Hospital Southwest is a 78-bed facility and the only hospital located in the rapidly growing area west of Highway 99. Mercy 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 1910. Learn more here at https://www.dignityhealth.org/central-california/locations/mercy-bakersfield.

One Community. One Mission. One California 

• 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 provide documentation of such activities as part of a moves management program recorded on CRM.
• Develops, implements. and sustains 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.

Education:

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.