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

City of Hope’s mission is to “turn hope into reality.” Focused on eliminating cancer, diabetes and other life-threatening illnesses, City of Hope has established itself as a world-class leader in transforming the future of health. Raising the philanthropic resources to fuel its leading-edge research, its exquisite and compassionate clinical care, and its advancement of biomedical education and training, is a vital component of the City of Hope model of success. Each member of the Office of Philanthropy is a stakeholder in this work, with personal accountability for his/her role in building a successful future of delivering new cures, treatments, and education.

The Office of Philanthropy’s vision is to support this life-saving work by being known institutionally and nationally as a model of excellence among elite fundraising programs. Recent recruitments of nationally and internationally renowned faculty offer advancement leaders new opportunity for partnership among philanthropy, research and patient care.

The Director of Development, Membership Groups (DOD), will contribute to this vision by supporting and role modeling a commitment to key processes and programs that sustain an office-wide focus on collaboration, efficiencies and metrics-based outcomes. By providing strong individual contribution and direct report management, the DOD will be a part of creating our evolution into a perpetually campaign-ready, donor-centered, leading industry program to support City of Hope’s mission. In pursuit of this outcome, we are committed to growing careers within the Office of Philanthropy to attract and retain the most talented professionals in the country, and excel as a highly collaborative, efficient and creative team.

Specifically, under the direction of the Associate Vice President, Community Fundraising, the incumbent will be a frontline fundraiser securing individual, group and corporate donations for Legacy Groups. The DOD will maintain and enhance existing fundraising campaigns, and secure new revenue through identification, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship in addition to program growth. In support of these outcomes, responsibilities including securing meetings and building partnerships with donors around the country and strategically engaging volunteers, as well as oversight and execution of fundraising events.

As a successful candidate, you will:

• Meet annual activity and financial performance metrics.
• Analyze and implement program to ensure cost effectiveness and revenue growth in alignment with OOP goals.
• Partner with colleagues on a variety of fundraising initiatives, and maintains and enhances collaborative relationships with City of Hope (COH) administrative offices and donors.
• Maintain and enhance existing fundraising campaigns for Legacy Groups through frontline activity to build individual relationships and make successful solicitations.
• Identify, cultivate and successfully secure donations from new and existing donors and volunteers across the country.
• Work closely with volunteers, staff, external vendors and volunteer hosts in the execution of fundraising events.
• Lead and/or oversee events efforts from budget to final execution, including initial event planning, vendor negotiations and contracts, mailings, tracking responses and online registration.

Your qualifications should include:

• Bachelor’s Degree;
• 3 years of experience may substitute for subject area requirements.
• 5+ years related experience. Relevant education or related experience in biomedical sciences or health care may be substituted for part of this requirement. Experience in a complex medical or academic development setting encouraged.

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