Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, andtreatment facilitiesin Atlanta, Chicago, and Phoenix. our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

City of Hope’s mission is to “turn hope into reality.” Focused on eliminating cancer, diabetes and other life-threatening illnesses, City of Hope has established itself as a world-class leader in transforming the future of health. Raising the philanthropic resources to fuel its leading-edge research, its exquisite and compassionate clinical care, and its advancement of biomedical education and training, is a vital component of the City of Hope model of success. Each member of the Office of Philanthropy is a stakeholder in this work, with personal accountability for his/her role in building a successful future of delivering new cures, treatments, and education.

The Office of Philanthropy’s vision is to support this life-saving work by being known institutionally and nationally as a model of excellence among elite fundraising programs. Recent recruitments of nationally and internationally renowned faculty offer advancement leaders new opportunity for partnership among philanthropy, research and patient care.

The Senior Coordinator will contribute to this vision by providing support for, and participating in, key processes and programs that sustain an office-wide focus on collaboration, efficiencies and metrics-based outcomes. Through the provision of administrative support, the Senior Coordinator will be a part of creating our evolution into a perpetually campaign-ready, donor-centered, leading industry program to support City of Hope’s mission. In pursuit of this outcome, we are committed to growing careers within the Office of Philanthropy to attract and retain the most talented professionals in the country, and excel as a highly collaborative, efficient and creative team.

Specifically, under the direction of the Associate Vice President, the senior coordinator will provide administrativesupport to the team, with an emphasis on project-based work, as follows: Training other coordinators; Support front-line fundraisers in maintaining an up-to-date prospect portfolio, upwards of 100 prospects; support department and donor-initiated cultivation and fundraising events; all pledge agreement work is done by this position, process pledge payments, send pledge reminders for the Office of Philanthropy, maintain fundraiser calendars.

As a successful candidate, you will:

Contributes to program reaching its annual performance goals by providing administrative and project-based support to key functions. Includes:

• Supports front-line fundraisers in maintaining an up-to-date prospect portfolio, including, but not limited to, entering contact reports, updating metric information, and tracking metric progress.
• Supports department and donor-initiated cultivation and fundraising events. This includes, but is not limited to, preparing invitation lists, tracking rsvps, and tracking income and expenses.
• Maintain fundraiser calendars: schedule meetings and assist with meeting preparation and follow up.
• Creates pledge agreement drafts, process pledge payments, send pledge reminders for the Office of Philanthropy.

Serve as a role model for the Office of Philanthropy. Includes:

• Participate in meetings, search committees, task forces and other special projects as requested.
• Maintains a positive image when dealing with executive staff, donors, prospects, fundraisers and other City of Hope employees.

Your qualifications should include:

• Bachelor’s Degree in marketing, accounting, or business administration or other related field.
• Experience may substitute for subject area requirements.
• 5+ years of administrative experience with exposure to fundraising and non-profit systems. Experience in a complex medical or academic development setting encouraged.

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