Senior Director Development

Company: The Methodist Hospital
Location: Houston
Posted on: February 11, 2025

Job Description:

OverviewAt Houston Methodist, the Sr. Director Development position is responsible for directing the fundraising efforts for an assigned constituency within the Houston Methodist System. The Sr. Director qualifies donor prospects and cultivates relationships with them to philanthropically support the mission of Houston Methodist. The Sr. Director is also responsible for cultivating relationships with volunteer leaders, physicians, and key hospital leaders to support all Foundation capital and comprehensive campaigns. The Sr. Director position responsibilities include ensuring quality, productivity, functional excellence and efficiency to accomplish strategic and operational objectives. In addition, this position is responsible for key metrics related to philanthropic activity in her/his assigned area of responsibility. This position may be responsible for leading a small team of fundraising professionals. In this area of responsibility, the Sr. Director is accountable for employee engagement, staffing decisions such as hiring and terminating employment, coaching and counseling employees on work related performance, and developing and implementing policies and procedures to ensure a safe and effective work environment. This position also ensures training, monitoring and operations initiatives are implemented which secure compliance with ethical and legal business practices and accreditation/regulatory/government regulations.ResponsibilitiesPEOPLE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Directs, develops and implements strategic and operational/high level projects and processes either through independent/highly autonomous work or through the facilitation of work teams to enable the effective and efficient completion of objectives.
• Identifies opportunities and takes action to build strategic relationships between one's area and other areas, teams, departments, and units to achieve business goals. Drives the promotion of teamwork within and between departments; participates and/or leads and facilitates department process improvements as needed.
• Maintains a portfolio of high-level prospective donors to HM.
• Identifies, qualifies cultivates, solicits and stewards prospective major gift donors.
• Leads and coordinates with the Donor Relations and stewardship Department to support strategic enlistment and use of councils, volunteers and events for HM and assists with events that support key volunteer and donor pipeline development as appropriate.
• Leads the fundraising efforts for at least one Houston Methodist department or Center of Excellence (COE), including the management of campaign activities as well as an iterative fundraising priority-setting process.SERVICE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
  • Oversees department operations, designated projects, schedules and activities as needed to ensure that goals or objectives are accomplished within the prescribed time frame. Sets priorities and functional standards, giving direction to staff as necessary to ensure the best possible delivery of service and high customer/patient satisfaction.
  • Drives department service standards and activities to impact department and/or system score for patient/customer-based satisfaction, through role modeling and fostering accountability.
  • Serves as the liaison to designated service lines or other key programs within the system and in coordination with Foundation leadership teams.
  • Develops an accelerated pipeline of giving targets according to Foundation goals.
  • Actively engages stakeholders in the development and achievement of strategic initiatives.QUALITY/SAFETY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
    • Ensures a safe and effective working environment; monitors and/or revises the department safety plan and/or any specific accreditation/regulatory required safety guidelines.
    • Employs a proactive approach in the optimization of safe outcomes and information systems by monitoring and improving the department workflow and enhancing operations, using peer-to-peer accountability and identifying solutions via collaboration.
    • Responsible for employee compliance to policies and procedures and performs associated actions upon non-compliance.
    • Ensures ethical compliance, as defined by the Association of Fundraising Professionals and all Foundation and Houston Methodist gift-related and administrative policies.
    • Documents results of all substantive contacts with donors for review and critique and maintains documentation on a timely basis to be input by closing of each month.FINANCE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
      • Develops and manages department operational and capital budgets, approvals, and ongoing maintenance of the department(s), ensuring operation in a cost-effective manner.
      • Creates department strategies to achieve financial target and staffing needs.
      • Achieves minimum agreed upon personal annual fundraising targets including oversight of targets for assigned team when applicable.
      • Partners with leadership to determine annual fundraising targets in alignment with the Foundation's overall fundraising targets.Qualifications
        • Bachelor's degree required
        • Master's degree preferred
          • Five years of successful fundraising experience
          • Academic medical center and/or large university experience preferredCompany ProfileHouston Methodist (HM) is one of the nation's leading health systems and academic medical centers. HM consists of eight hospitals: Houston Methodist Hospital, its flagship academic hospital in the heart of the Texas Medical Center, and seven community hospitals throughout the greater Houston metropolitan area. HM also includes an academic institute, a comprehensive residency program, a global business division, numerous physician practices and several free-standing emergency rooms and outpatient facilities.
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