Vice President, Medical and Health Sciences Advancement

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Job Title:

Vice President, Medical and Health Sciences Advancement

Department:

Advancement | Development Vice President

Position Overview

Ohio State is seeking a talented leader to elevate the advancement office at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center to new heights - capitalizing on the existing, successful development efforts and coalescing them into greater success. In addition to leading fundraising efforts for the entire medical center, including the James Cancer Center, this individual will oversee all advancement efforts taking place in the seven health colleges of the University; this includes the Colleges of Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Optometry, Public Health, Pharmacy, Social Work, and Veterinary Medicine. The Vice President (VP) serves as a key member of both the medical center CEO’s leadership team and the Advancement executive team. In this dual capacity, the VP provides strategic guidance and leadership for a high-performing principal gifts program, focused on the identification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of prospects capable of making transformational gifts of $5 million or more. This individual will be a key strategist for the building and cultivating of relationships with individuals, foundations, and corporations who can contribute at the targeted level.

 

Duties and Responsibilities

40%       

Serves as a key strategist for the building and cultivating of relationships with individuals, foundations, and corporations who can contribute at the targeted level; Provides visionary leadership for fundraising efforts across the entire medical center, including the James Cancer Center, and health science colleges; Creates strategies to identify, qualify and develop a robust pipeline of donors while managing a complex portfolio of top donors and prospects at the $500,000 to the principal gift level ($5M+); Supervises and supports a high-performing team of development professionals working across multiple units and disciplines; Leads strategy sessions, drives performance, and champions best practices in donor cultivation, solicitation, stewardship, and prospect strategy with all team members; Maximizes partnerships with central service providers such as Estate and Planned Giving, Principal Gifts, Corporate Relations and Foundation Relations, Donor Experience, Stewardship, Prospect Research and Business Intelligence to align and support the achievement of goals; Facilitates collaboration in support of interdisciplinary projects and related fundraising; Advocates for area with regard to resources in order to accomplish goals; Works to build cohesiveness within Advancement and across units to enhance overall fundraising for Ohio State; Cultivates meaningful relationships with alumni, grateful patients, volunteers, foundations, and corporations to deepen engagement and increase giving; Drives the integration of alumni and donor relations efforts, ensuring alignment with philanthropic strategy; Recruits, trains and inspires alumni leaders and volunteers.

 

30%       

Partner closely with deans, faculty, medical center leadership, and advancement peers to align fundraising priorities with institutional goals; Builds effective relationships with medical center, including the James Cancer Center, health science colleges and advancement leadership; Serves as a key advisor in campaign planning and capital project fundraising, helping shape compelling cases for support; Leads strategy t