Shriners Children's

Shriners Children's • Full-time • Boston, Massachusetts • 9m ago

Company Overview

Shriners Children’s is a family that respects, supports, and values each other. We are engaged in providing excellence in patient care, embracing multi-disciplinary education, and research with global impact. We foster a learning environment that values evidenced based practice, experience, innovation, and critical thinking. Our compassion, integrity, accountability, and resilience defines us as leaders in pediatric specialty care for our children and their families.

Job Overview

The Boston Shriners Hospital is one of four pediatric burn specialty hospitals in Shriners Children’s health system and provide comprehensive care for cleft lip, cleft lep palate and other craniofacial anomalies, with a multidisciplinary care team. We are a premier pediatric specialty, research, and academic teaching hospital with a medical and research partnership with Massachusetts General Hospital. It is the world’s leading center for pediatric burn care and is the only American Burn Association (ABA) exclusively pediatric verified burn center in New England and New York. We have a current opening for a Philanthropy Assistant at our Boston Facility.

The Philanthropy Assistant is responsible for administrative operations of the philanthropy department, gift processing, donor acknowledgment, and donor database management. This position reports to the Senior Director of Philanthropy.

Responsibilities

Supports the Senior Director of Philanthropy in the fulfillment of departmental duties, including: generation of annual tactical plans and monthly status reports; budget preparation; expense reporting; travel and meeting coordination; calendar management and overall data management.
Assist philanthropy team with large mailings, preparation of donor packets, tracking of donor recognitions and meeting coordination and file maintenance.
Prepare and scan incoming donations to lockbox and manages the daily acknowledgment letter process for all donations, tribute gifts, pledges, letters of intent, and donor stewardship/recognition.
Assist philanthropy team members and volunteer solicitors with individual donor prospect identification, research, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship. This includes developing stewardship relationships with select donors and volunteers.
Assist Office of philanthropy in maintaining cooperative relationships with affiliated Shrine Temples, Shrine Clubs, and local community support groups for philanthropic support.
Supports the philanthropy team in the planning and execution of major donor cultivation meetings, luncheons, and events.
Support various other departmental meetings, including: date and location scheduling; communication; attendance tracking; agenda; meeting material and presentation preparation; logistics coordination; meeting minutes recording and distribution; and follow-up activities.
Assist philanthropy team with event promotions, check presentations, conducting and assisting with hospital tours, etc.

Qualifications

Excellent Microsoft Office skills, including Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint.
Skilled in mail merging of documents and data clean up in Excel, can provide training
Ability to easily pick up and be trained on cloud based applications for prospect research, online giving, email campaign platform and digital asset management.
Must be comfortable speaking with donors and prospects by phone, email and in person with a polished and professional manner.

Experience Preferred:

Nonprofit fundraising experience preferred, including working with donors and volunteers.
Experience with Blackbaud CRM, Raiser’s Edge or other database system preferred

In accordance with local and system policies, all SHC employees must be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 to be eligible for hire.