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The AVP - Major Gifts & Planned Giving will be responsible for managing a growing team of frontline fundraisers charged with identifying, cultivating, and soliciting major gifts from individual donors and prospects. The AVP will lead a relatively new major gifts effort, with tremendous growth potential, and will assist with designing and implementing best practices. Candidates should have a demonstrated track record of securing major gifts, coupled with strong relationship building skills.
* 10+ years of progressively responsible development experience, with a strong working knowledge of the principles and practices of major gift fundraising in an academic medical, healthcare environment or comparable complex organization.
* Proven ability to close gifts of $100,000+ and experience in cultivating relationships with physicians and clinicians, administrative leadership, patients and their families.
* Prior success in hiring, mentoring and retaining a team.
* Experience with initiating, organizing, and managing projects while interfacing successfully with colleagues in a collaborative approach.
* Outgoing personality and ability to initiate and enjoy direct communication with key constituencies; customer-service orientation.
* Excellent presentation, organizational, interpersonal, and writing skills.
* Solid working knowledge of fundraising databases, preferably Raisers' Edge.
* Fundraising in a health care environment preferred.