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About ECU Health Medical Center
ECU Health Medical Center, one of four academic medical centers in North Carolina, is the 974-bed flagship hospital for ECU Health and serves as the primary teaching hospital for The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. ECU Health Medical Center has achieved Magnet designation twice and provides acute and intermediate care, rehabilitation and outpatient health services to a 29-county region that is home to more than 1.4 million people.

About ECU Health

ECU Health Medical Center, one of four academic medical centers in North Carolina, is the 974-bed flagship hospital for ECU Health and serves as the primary teaching hospital for The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. ECU Health Medical Center has achieved Magnet designation twice and provides acute and intermediate care, rehabilitation and outpatient health services to a 29-county region that is home to more than 1.4 million people.

Position Summary

Primary Purpose of Organization: An agreement between the ECU Medical & Health Sciences Foundation and Vidant Health Foundation has been signed and executed, creating the ECU Health Foundation. The two entities are aligned to operate as one philanthropic arm supporting ECU Health and ECU's health sciences campus. The alignment follows the joint operating agreement between East Carolina University and Vidant Health to create ECU Health and work together to improve health care delivery to the 1.4 million residents of eastern North Carolina.

Under the agreement, the two foundations will remain separate legal entities, but will integrate under a new, shared brand known as ECU Health Foundation. The ECU Health Foundation was created to align the fundraising and stewardship operations of the ECU Medical & Health Sciences Foundation and the Vidant Health Foundation in order to boost philanthropic support for ECU Health, the ECU Schools and Colleges of the health sciences, and Laupus Library.

The ECU Health Foundation works in collaboration with ECU's Division of University Advancement, as the friend-raising and fund-raising arm of the general academic areas of the university. The units and subunits within the division work together to identify, involve, cultivate, and solicit alumni and friends of the university to gain financial support from the private sector for the purpose of enhancing the long and short range growth and welfare of the university. Advancement Officers representing the Medical & Health Sciences Foundation support the fundraising needs of ECU's Health Sciences campus.

Purpose Of The Position

The Director of Development is responsible for building and maintaining relationships with a wide variety of constituents including alumni, donors, divisional colleagues, campus partners, and volunteers. As part of the health sciences fundraising team, this position carries a portfolio of alumni and friends with major gift potential and executes significant qualification work on a monthly basis. The position will serve the College of Nursing and work closely with the Dean, the College's advancement team, and the faculty and staff of the college.

Key Responsibilities:

• Fundraising (60%): Conduct discovery work to build a qualified major gift portfolio, develop strategies for each prospect, establish and work toward annual visit, solicitation, and fundraising goals, plan and execute travel strategies, maintain knowledge of donor patterns, facilitate alumni events, and manage data using Excel and alumni database.
• ECU and ECU Health engagement (20%): Collaborate with university colleagues, utilize internal resources for database and gift processing, attend training, participate in campus events, and support fundraising priorities.
• Donor Stewardship and Reporting (20%): Support stewardship events, ensure scholarship awards, develop fund agreements, respond to donor requests, and address reporting needs.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a related field; Master's and/or CFRE preferred.
• Five or more years of fundraising experience with major and planned gifts responsibility.
• Excellent organizational and communication skills, with a client/customer focus.

Other Information

ECU Health aims to employ the most qualified individuals. Employment offers are contingent upon successful pre-employment screenings. ECU Health is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and prohibits retaliation for complaints.

Additional Details

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Other
• Industry: Hospitals and Health Care