Development Associate, Neurosciences - Jefferson Center City

Job Details

Provides day-to-day support for the fundraising effort for an assigned area. Coordinates and carries out fundraising activities, including identification, qualification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of donors and prospective donors, as well as relationship building with frontline and administrative staff and faculty. As a key member of the Office of Institutional Advancement (OIA) and clinical department teams, this position collaborates with stakeholders to implement key fundraising strategies, assists in translating institutional priorities into appropriate major gift fundraising programs and captures the flow of information regarding priorities throughout the organization, identifies and responds to gift opportunities, and maintains an active portfolio of key gift prospects.

Job Description

• Develop and maintain a portfolio that fosters relationships that lead to philanthropic commitments of 75 or more individual gift prospects, maintaining a minimum of 125 meaningful encounters with prospects that generates gift proposals soliciting at least $2,500 (minimum of 30 solicitations per year at this level). Maintain consistent contact with department leaders, volunteers, and key members of Jefferson’s administrative leadership.
• Using written materials, meetings, and other sources of information, develop a comprehensive understanding of the educational, research, clinical, and financial needs and goals of assigned programs. Support leadership and other members of the assigned team to establish, maintain, and grow a highly responsive and collaborative fundraising program.
• Work with leadership and team members to prepare and distribute materials and schedule meetings & events to qualify, cultivate, solicit, and steward top prospects.
• Serve as a liaison for OIA leadership when conducting communications projects, generating donor and physician communication, during events and other duties as assigned.

Education - Required

• Bachelor’s Degree Required
• Master’s Degree Preferred
• Less than 1 year of direct or related fundraising experience Required
• 1 year experience fundraising in a health related or educational institution focusing on individual gift development, annual, corporate or foundation giving Preferred

 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities - Required

• Exhibits strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Possesses the ability to work independently as well as cohesively as a member of the team.
• Attention to detail and the ability to work with confidential information.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office and knowledge of or willingness to learn database software systems/CRM.

Work Shift

Workday Day (United States of America)

Worker Sub Type

Regular

Employee Entity

Thomas Jefferson University

Primary Location Address

1101 Market, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.    

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educa­tional and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status. 

Benefits

Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.

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