Annual Gift Officer Job Listing at Lexington Medical Center in West Columbia, SC (Job ID 1260122500)

Description

LMC Foundation  
Full Time
Day Shift 
8

Consistently named best hospital, Lexington Medical Center dedicates itself to providing quality health services that meet the needs of its communities. Ranked #1 in the Columbia metro area by U.S. News & World Report, Lexington Medical Center is the only hospital named one of the Best Places to Work in South Carolina and the first hospital in the state to achieve Magnet with Distinction status for excellence in nursing care.

The 607-bed teaching hospital anchors a health care network that includes six community medical centers and employs more than 8,700 health care professionals. The network includes a cardiovascular program recognized by the American College of Cardiology as South Carolina's first HeartCARE CenterTM and an accredited Cancer Center of Excellence affiliated with MUSC Hollings Cancer Center for research and education. The network also features an occupational health center, the largest skilled nursing facility in the Carolinas, an Alzheimer's care center and nearly 80 physician practices.  Its postgraduate medical education programs include family medicine and transitional year.

To cultivate gifts from new and existing annual donors and to maintain positive donor relationships through the development and implementation of positive stewardship programs, communications programs and processes. Will maintain all fundraising and research database systems and processes, create/design standard reports and provide reports to Foundation staff as needed, query fundraising database for all mail lists pulls for campaigns, special events and donor events. Ensure appropriate acknowledgement and accounting of funds.

Minimum Education: Bachelor's Degree in Public Health, Communications/Public Relations, Non Profit Management or related field. (Candidate currently enrolled in school may be considered with the required completion of Bachelor's degree within two years of employment in position.)
Minimum Years of Experience: 3+ years of progressively responsible experience in managing stewardship programs. 
Substitutable Education & Experience (Optional): None.
Required Certifications/Licensure: None.
Required Training: Must be proficient with Raiser's Edge or other fundraising database and have experience in operational and infrastructure process, procedural enhancement, fundraising strategy and donor development;
Must have proven track record of achieving revenue goals and/or prospect quotas in a philanthropic environment;
Ability to communicate with donors, understand their charitable goals, and develop a plan to meet those goals is essential;
Excellent computer skills.
 

• Manage the Annual Giving program, specifically of those internal and external donors giving less than or equal to $1,000 per year, to include HOPE employee campaign, external Founders Society, Grateful Hearts program, Midlands Gives, etc.
• Grow and maintain a consistent and year-long Annual Giving Campaign, by cultivating/soliciting new donors and stewarding the current donor programs. 
• Identify and implement best practices in annual giving programs with Foundation staff and to determine strategies for effective stewardship of annual donors.
• Help in identifying annual fund donors that are potential major gift prospects or have potential to upgrade annual giving and assist with developing strategy for next steps.
• Manage the donor recognition programs, such as Donor Wall.
• Assist as needed in creating and implementing communication strategies to enhance donor relations and stewardship that will effectively communicate the Foundation's mission and successes.
• Assist in developing marketing materials related to annual giving efforts; to include internal communication, HOPE collateral pieces as well as external messaging.
• Recruit and coordinate volunteers for assistance with Foundation activities as needed.
• Develop and maintain working relationships with other community organizations in related fields and represent the Foundation at outreach events.
• Manage special events for annual donors, both internal and external.
• Prepare correspondence and reports related to annual giving activities.
• Utilize Raiser's Edge to manage prospects and weekly contact reports.
• Administer Raiser's Edge fundraising database and reconciliation. 
• Maintains and utilizes Raiser's Edge to manage the gift acceptance process to ensure the accuracy of donor data and generate donor status reports and management reports.
• Stays abreast of system issues and makes recommendations to fully utilize the technology to meet the needs of the LMC Foundation.

• Maintains and builds donor database through renewal/prospect/moves management tracking.
• Conducts donor-prospect research and data mining.
• Responsible for administration of honorarium, memorial, Grateful Heart programs and year end fundraising efforts.
• Oversees gift deposits, donor recognition and donor acknowledgment processes to include ensuring prompt and timely donor correspondence. 
• Manages annual donor charitable contributions receipt and acknowledgement process in conformity with IRS rules and regulations with accounting department.
• Utilizes and analyzes campaign and donor data to assist Foundation staff in making strategic decisions that balance limited Foundation resources with broad philanthropic impact.
• Conduct monthly reconciliation of Raiser's Edge data in conjunction with Lexington Medical Center Accounting department.
• Responsible for Foundation's daily deposits including notifying team of such deposits for purposes of tracking in Raiser's Edge.
• Constantly evaluate impact of donor relations programs and develop and implement processes that will improve programs.
• Works with team to prepare correspondence and reports related to donor relations activities.
• Provide support for special events, including mailing lists, logistics, etc.
• Balance donor base of potential donors (50+) while also tracking continuous Doctors Circle, Founders and employee donors.
• Supervise 20+ volunteers at any given time.
• Performs all other duties as assigned.

We are committed to offering quality, cost-effective benefits choices for our employees and their families:

• Day ONE medical, dental and life insurance benefits 
• Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• Employees are eligible for enrollment into the 403(b) match plan day one.  LHI matches dollar for dollar up to 6%.
• Employer paid life insurance – equal to 1x salary
• Employee may elect supplemental life insurance with low cost premiums up to 3x salary 
• Adoption assistance
• LHI provides its full-time employees employer paid short-term disability and long-term disability coverage after 90 days of eligible employment
• Tuition reimbursement
• Student loan forgiveness

Equal Opportunity Employer
It is the policy of LMC to provide equal opportunity of employment for all individuals, and to remain compliant with applicable state and federal laws and regulations. LMC strives to provide a discrimination-free environment, and to recruit, select, on-board, and employ all employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, national origin, veteran status, or pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, including but not limited to, lactation. LMC endeavors to upgrade and promote employees from within the hospital where possible and consistent with the employee's desires and abilities and the hospital's needs.