Last Date: September 5, 2010
Maimonides Medical Center
Chief Development Officer
Job Description
Background:
Maimonides Medical Center is Brooklyn’s preeminent hospital and healthcare institution. Founded in 1911 as the New Utrecht Dispensary, the Medical Center has been providing high quality patient care for nearly 100 years while respecting and celebrating the diversity of its patients. A nonsectarian, nonprofit institution, in 2009 the Medical Center had 46,000 inpatient admissions, 220,000 outpatient clinic visits and 110,000 emergency room visits. It is committed to clinical excellence and is ranked in the top 5% of hospitals in the US for stroke, cardiology and critical care. It also delivers more babies than any other healthcare institution in New York State.
At its core, the Medical Center is dedicated to offering high quality, compassionate and patient-centered healthcare while being responsive to the diverse communities it serves. In furtherance of that mission, the hospital is growing in size and increasing its treatment options to meet the changing needs of the community. Increased charitable support is key to that growth, and the Medical Center is enhancing its development office to expand private funding opportunities. As such, Maimonides Medical Center is seeking a Chief Development Officer (“CDO”) to become part of its executive team to help spearhead new fundraising campaigns, with an emphasis on major gifts.
The Position:
The Chief Development Officer at Maimonides must be a highly energetic, smart, outgoing and experienced fundraising professional who can build support in the community to fund the Medical Center. Reporting to the Vice President for External Affairs and working closely with the Medical Center’s President, Board and other staff, the CDO will set the direction and focus for fundraising strategies and manage corporate and foundation fundraising, major donor solicitation, planned giving, direct mail campaigns and special events. This is a unique opportunity for a creative and entrepreneurial development professional to play a major role in building the leading healthcare institution in Brooklyn. Above all, this individual will be a highly successful fundraiser who is looking for a challenge and who possesses an excellent track record working with both Boards and leadership.
The CDO must be a hands-on manager, a strategic thinker and planner, a problem solver, and be able to respond to crises quickly and effectively. Excellent negotiation and communication skills are very important. He or she must be comfortable in making presentations before high wealth individuals, corporate executives, elected officials, foundations, and members of the community. He or she must be able to work closely with the Board and staff to promote an open, inclusive environment that emphasizes cooperation and teamwork with a minimum of ego. In addition, he or she will be bright, diplomatic, analytical, of the highest integrity, and possess sound judgment as well as a sense of humor.
Specific Responsibilities:
• Provide leadership and direction for the design and implementation of an overall fundraising strategy for the annual campaign and fundraising projects.
• Design and implement identification, solicitation, cultivation and stewardship strategies for major gift donors.
• Serve as a primary major gift solicitor and support to key Board members and other hospital leadership in individual solicitations.
• Develop creative strategies for identifying and engaging diverse constituencies critical to the organization’s fundraising goals.
• Provide direction and support to strengthen Maimonides’ position with its current donor base and in new emerging markets.
• Foster a culture that promotes teamwork and professional growth while pursuing an aggressive and creative fundraising program; build and maintain strong, collaborative relationships with colleagues across the organization.
• Oversee special events.
• Supervise other development staff activities to implement fundraising priorities and initiatives successfully.
Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year college or university; advanced degree preferred.
• Experience in managing large fundraising gifts and other development activities, with a proven track record in campaign planning and major gifts solicitation, preferably in a healthcare environment.
• Knowledge of Jewish philanthropy, corporate giving and foundation communities in the New York metropolitan area strongly preferred.
• Experience in asking for and closing major gifts, as well as building and maintaining long-term relationships with major individual donors, foundations and corporations.
• A team player who is comfortable working with volunteers, development and marketing professionals, physicians and hospital-wide staff.
• Experience in building, mentoring and motivating a team in a complex organization.
• Strong leadership ability, including management, strategic and analytical skills required.
• Experience with managing and organizing special events.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills with experience in development-related writing.
• Excellent organizational skills with close attention to detail.
• Superior interpersonal skills with the ability to project professional competence, leadership capability and personal maturity.
• A self starter and independent thinker with good judgment, sensitivity and common sense.
For more information about Maimonides Medical Center, please visit their website at www.maimonidesmed.org.
To Apply:
Maimonides Medical Center has retained the services of Harris Rand Lusk to conduct this search. Inquiries, nominations, and applications may be directed in confidence to:
Jack Lusk, Managing Partner
or
Sue Waterbury, Senior Director
Harris Rand Lusk
261 Madison Avenue, 11th Floor
New York, NY 10016
swaterbury@harrisrand.com
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