Development Associate

Job Number: JR102509

Job Title: Development Associate

Department: TSHF Major Gifts - Admin

Job Category: Foundation

Hospital Location: General Site

**Job Type**: Permanent, Full time

Number of Positions: 1

Hours: Days

Scarborough Health Network is a leading community teaching health network, consisting of three hospitals and eight satellite sites in Scarborough, one of the most diverse communities in Canada. Our Foundation works with generous donors, volunteers and community members to raise funds for state-of-the-art infrastructure and medical technology to support the hospital’s mission to improve lives through exceptional care.

SHN Foundation is raising the profile of our hospitals through the Love, Scarborough marketing and fundraising campaign. The extraordinary success of Love, Scarborough has helped generate mass awareness, has inspired transformational gifts, and has shown needed attention onto healthcare inequity and gaps in Scarborough. The Foundation has seen tremendous growth all around (staff, events, donations, media coverage, partnership, etc.). It’s an exciting time to join the organization as we continue to build upon this momentum

Find out more about this compelling campaign by visiting

lovescarborough.ca


Job Description:
Who we are:
Scarborough Health Network is a leading community teaching health network, consisting of three hospitals and eight satellite sites in Scarborough, one of the most diverse communities in Canada. Our Foundation works with generous donors, volunteers and community members to raise funds for state-of-the-art infrastructure and medical technology to support the hospital’s mission to improve lives through exceptional care.

SHN Foundation is raising the profile of our hospitals through the _Love, Scarborough_ marketing and fundraising campaign. The extraordinary success of _Love, Scarborough_ has helped generate mass awareness, has inspired transformational gifts, and has shone needed attention onto healthcare inequity and gaps in Scarborough. The Foundation has seen tremendous growth all around (staff, events, donations, media coverage, partnership, etc.). It’s an exciting time to join the organization as we continue to build upon this momentum

Find out more about this compelling campaign by visiting


What you’ll be doing:
Are you a highly-skilled, incredibly organized and experienced fundraising professional who is a strong administrator and committed to excellence?

Reporting to the Director, Major Gifts, the Development Associate is a member of the Philanthropy team.

Your responsibilities:
Donor Development, Major Gifts/Campaign/Planned Giving
- Provide accurate, responsive and professional administrative and organizational support to relationship managers.
- Support the relationship manager to implement solicitation and stewardship strategies for major gifts and planned giving prospects and donors.
- Schedule and coordinate meetings and tours with prospects, donors, and volunteers.
- Coordinate complex calendars, meetings, appointments and events.
- Assist in identifying, cultivating, and supporting the solicitation of campaign, major gifts and planned giving prospects and donors.
- Request research profiles and assist with elemental research (i.e., contact information, addresses, etc.).
- Support marketing strategies, events, seminars and digital activities for the program, in partnership with the Philanthropy team and Marketing & Communications team.
- Support stewardship and cultivation events to maintain ongoing relationships with donors who have made major or planned gifts to the Foundation.
- Provide support to campaign volunteers by proactively preparing fundraising materials such as cultivation/solicitation packages, proposals, strategy documents, and other major gift collateral materials.
- Coordinate team and committee meetings, compile agenda packages, prepare presentation materials and briefing notes, and produce meeting notes/minutes.

Moves Management & Data Integrity
- Proactively track constituent moves through the stages of fundraising, understand what actions are to be taken with key prospects, and prompt relationship managers to complete actions.
- Work with relationship managers to ensure prospect/donor files in Raiser’s Edge are always up-to-date, and that donor touchpoints and next steps are appropriately documented.
- Pull reports and data from Raiser’s Edge, customize for the intended audience, and distribute.

Cross-functional Team Engagement
- In partnership with colleagues across the Foundation, co-ordinate campaign cultivation events and other campaign related events.
- Along with the entire Foundation team, support special events and programs for cultivation, fundraising and stewardship, which may require occasional evening or weekend work (with lieu time provided).

What you bring to the position:

- 3 to 5+ years’ experience, preferably at a fundraising or charitable organization.
- Undergraduate degree or di