Overview
Associate Director, Foundation and Corporate Relations Jobs in Houston, Texas, USA at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
The primarypurposeof the Associate Director of Foundation and Corporate Relations is to promote and support the mission of Philanthropy through establishing and maintaining ongoingcommunicationwith professionally staffed national, local, and corporate foundations with a mid-level giving capacity, with the end objective of seeking additional grant dollars. The scope of the position includes working with faculty and other campus stakeholders on developing strategies for investigation, approach and solicitation for foundations;
conducting research to identify alignment of a foundation’s funding interest to that of MD Anderson’s priorities and funding needs; working closely with faculty members to understand their work; contacting foundation staff to enhance knowledge exchange on both ends; informal reporting/updating foundations with news and project updates; and writing/editing LOIs and introductory documents to foundation staff. The Associate Director will focus on foundations with a grant-making capacity of $100,000+, both those with which MD Anderson has an existing relationship and new foundations from which we have not had prior contact or received funding.
The Associate Director will also manage a limited number of corporate giving relationships.
KEY FUNCTIONS
Stakeholder Engagement (50%)
Display the ability to qualify, cultivate and solicit new donors to the institution. Display social awareness, professional etiquette, and the ability to interact and build rapport with donors, faculty and institutional leaders. Engage with varied constituencies with social fluency and garner their trust as to influence donor behavior. Appropriately align donors to giving opportunities and orchestrate and facilitate meaningful engagements.
Build relationships with faculty to learn more about their funding needs, particularly in the $100-250K giving range in support of the Foundation and Corporate Relations Program in the mid-level grants space. Through phone calls, emails and meetings, engage with researchers and physicians, grant managers of departments, etc., and conduct formal presentations when necessary.
Build and steward relationships with professionally staffed foundations and corporations with giving capacities of $100K-250K+. This includes contact via email, phone calls and, if needed, face-to-face visits to introduce and talk about MD Anderson, its research, our faculty and areas of need that would align with a funder’s field of interest. Informal updates/reporting to foundations and corporations that have supported our faculty would also be part of this function.
Manage portfolio of assigned prospects and leads, including investigation/qualification of new leads, tracking of annual RFAs, deadlines and funders’ fields of interest.
Collaboration and Teaming (20%)
Actively partner with donors, peers, faculty, and divisionalleadershipon donor strategy development, donor strategy execution and other projects. Gift officer will develop networks, engage in cross-functional activities to deliver on stakeholder engagement. Gift Officer will be able to work co-operatively with all stakeholders, contribute to the success ofcollaborative workteams and support completion of initiative or project to achieve stated goals.
Work with the Director (and Associate Vice President, as appropriate) of Foundation and Corporate Relations to create investigation, approach and solicitation strategies for assigned targeted funders. These may be leads …
Title: Associate Director, Foundation and Corporate Relations
Company: University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Location: Houston, Texas, USA
Category: Education / Teaching, Non-Profit & Social Impact
