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Vice President, Individual Giving

Phoenix Children's Foundation

Vice President, Individual Giving

Position Open

The Opportunity

Phoenix Children’s Foundation is seeking an experienced leader who brings a strong fundraising background, including senior leadership experience overseeing and/or leading philanthropy efforts within a similar organization/institution. The Vice President, Individual Giving is ideal for an entrepreneurial, thoughtful, and experienced advancement professional. The Vice President will partner closely with the SVP/ Chief Development Officer and will lead and manage a team of 25 professional fundraisers with an annual department revenue goal of $45M+. He/She will lead by example in the strategic, thoughtful engagement of donors and donor prospects and will bring intelligence and creativity to their cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship strategies. This individual will engage both current donors and build relationships with prospective donors. This is a role for individuals with demonstrated experience closing six-, seven-, and eight figure gifts. In addition to management responsibilities, this individual will carry a robust personal portfolio.

Duties and Responsibilities

  • Proactively maintains a robust portfolio of donors capable of making principal and transformational gifts. Portfolio includes prospects and donors in various stages of identification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship. Will work closely with prospect research and with business intelligence tools to move donors through the various cycles of giving.
  • Provide executive oversight of 9 philanthropic advisory boards that support each of the enterprise’s centers of excellence.
  • In collaboration with the Chief Development Officer, Co-lead all principal and transformational gift strategies across the Foundation.
  • Provide direct leadership of an annual $45M+ annual goal, and strategic oversight of a team responsible for transformational and principal gifts, Major Gifts, Gift Planning, Integrated and Annual Giving and Corporate and Private Foundations. The Individual Giving team aims to reach $70M+ annually in the next 3 years.
  • Provides excellent customer service to donors, colleagues, clinical partners, volunteers, and enterprise/hospital leadership.

Qualifications and Requirements

Education

  • A bachelor’s degree is required; master’s degree is preferred

Experience

  • A Minimum of 15 or more years of experience in the field of fundraising and revenue generation; experience and track record of fundraising success, including closing 7- figure plus gifts. Transformational gift is experience is crucial.

Licenses/Certification​

Special Skills​

  • Demonstrated track record of leading a team with strong, successive and significant revenue growth
  • Experience designing, managing and executing on capital campaigns with demonstrated success in overseeing large scale initiatives involving significant dollar amounts, and many diverse stakeholder groups
  • Adept at leading change management in a dynamic, fast-paced and performance driven environment
  • Experience working with volunteers
  • Proven Leadership and team building skills with the ability to build consensus, rally support around common goals, motivate groups and individuals, as well as effectively monitor and develop the abilities of direct reports.
  • Comprehensive management skills and experience
  • Proven initiative and a team player
  • Ardent advocate and leader for a healthy culture
  • Proven negotiation skills with the ability to overcome obstacles and foster harmonious
    relationships

Additional

The Ideal Candidate

The preferred candidate is a strategic thinker with excellent leadership skills and is a proven leader of businesses and people. They will have a demonstrated track record of conceptualizing and launching new products and ideas while consistently delivering revenue results through an effective performance-driven culture. This leader will have the experience and ability to evaluate business challenges and opportunities and develop a successful strategy and plan. Ideal candidates are metrics and data-driven in their approach to managing the business and hold teams accountable and adjust quickly when appropriate. The successful candidate is adaptable, able to reprioritize and shift gears quickly, and is comfortable in a fast-paced, results-focused environment.

More About the Organization

Phoenix Children's Foundation logo
2929 E. Camelback Road, Suite 122
Phoenix,
Arizona
85016

Phoenix Children’s Foundation supports Phoenix Children’s mission to advance hope, healing and world-class health care for children and their families in Arizona and beyond.

We offer many ways to support patients and families, including joining a giving group, attending a Phoenix Children’s event or finding an inspiring hospital program to support. Together, we can ensure children and families in Arizona have the best pediatric care now and in the future.

We achieve great things, thanks to you

Over the past 40 years, Phoenix Children’s has expanded from a single hospital into a nationally recognized pediatric health system, offering care in over 75 pediatric subspecialties across more than 40 locations throughout the state.

In 2024, Phoenix Children’s was named one of U.S. News & World Report’s Best Children’s Hospitals for the 14th consecutive year. The health system also earned recognition as the top children’s hospital in Arizona for the fourth consecutive year, and it is home to nine Centers of Excellence.

Through the generosity of Arizona’s giving community, Phoenix Children’s can continue to build on these achievements by investing in the physician-scientists who are shaping the future of pediatric medicine; fostering discoveries that improve the quality and length of children’s lives; establishing ground-breaking destination programs that attract patients from around the world; and driving innovations that give ill and injured children hope beyond their wildest dreams.

About Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals

Phoenix Children’s is part of the Children’s Miracle Network. Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals ®️️ raises funds for 170 children’s hospitals that support the health of 10 million kids each year across the U.S. and Canada. Donations go to local hospitals to fund critical lifesaving treatments and health care services, along with innovative research, vital pediatric medical equipment, child life services that put kids’ and families’ minds at ease during difficult hospital stays, and financial assistance for families who could not otherwise afford these health services.

When we improve the health of all children and allow them the opportunity to reach their full potential, we also improve our communities for years to come. Together, we can change kids’ health. Together, we can change the future.

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