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Komen Graduate Training Program UT MDACC · 15 hours ago

Assistant Director, Discovery Program

United States

Full-time

Remote

Entry, Mid Level

$74K/yr - $94K/yr

2+ years exp

The Komen Graduate Training Program at UT MD Anderson is seeking an Assistant Director for their Discovery Program, which focuses on enhancing donor engagement and fundraising efforts. The role involves managing a cohort of annual giving donors and facilitating their transition to more personalized relationships with the institution while embodying MD Anderson's core values.

Hospital & Health Care

Responsibilities

Display the ability to serve and cultivate relationships with annual giving/leadership giving donors in an effort of donor-centric service and prequalification

Display social awareness, professional etiquette, and the ability to interact and build rapport with donors, faculty and other institutional stakeholders

Engage with varied constituencies with social fluency and garner their trust as to influence donor behavior

Appropriately align donors to giving opportunities and orchestrate and facilitate meaningful engagements

Engage donors using a variety of mediums and channels including mass engagement and one-to-one communication (correspondence, phone, email, video conferencing, etc.) with proactive outbound outreach, while simultaneously serving as an inbound point of contact responding and triaging all requests

Execute monthly and quarterly touchpoint cadences across portfolio to ensure consistent and relevant donor communication

Actively partner with donors, peers, faculty, and divisional stakeholders on the investigation, transition and flow of donors for proper engagement and other projects

The Assistant Director will develop networks and participate in cross-functional activities to deliver on stakeholder engagement

The Assistant Director will be able to work cooperatively with all stakeholders, contribute to the success of collaborative work teams and support completion of initiative or project to achieve stated goals

Execute program strategy while effectively collaborating across all Individual Giving teams and with Prospect Development, Gift Processing and Analytics & Reporting

Proactively reach out to assigned gift officers to assist in donor relationship transition

Accurately assess interests of prospective donors; organize and present information in thoughtful and engaging ways, constantly shift between multiple activities and sources of information, maintain situational awareness, institutional awareness and adeptly navigate cross functional prospect teams in support of donor engagement and stewardship plans

Effectively capture donor data and utilize reporting features for data analysis to garner additional insights for targeted donor engagement and program enhancements

Develop and maintain broad knowledge of the institution such as MD Anderson's mission pillars, institutional strategy, strategic fundraising priorities, disease/physician-specific projects and programs and have the ability to offer suggestions of campaign priority alignment

Develop a network of contacts throughout the division and institution to access additional information

Demonstrate to donors the impact of their giving

Provide information on institutional developments and programs relative to their interests

Share upcoming opportunities to attend events, volunteer, participate in activities/services, or otherwise deepen their engagement with MD Anderson Cancer Center

Qualification

Fundraising experienceStakeholder engagementCustomer serviceCRM systemsData analysisEmotional intelligenceInterpersonal skillsOrganizational skillsCreative thinkingCollaboration