Overview

Gift of Hope is proud to serve as the federally designated not-for-profit organ procurement organization (OPO) that coordinates organ and tissue donation and provides compassionate service to families of donors in the northern three-quarters of Illinois and northwest Indiana.

Since our inception in 1986, we have coordinated donations that have saved the lives of more than 26,000 organ transplant recipients, and improved the lives of hundreds of thousands of tissue transplant recipients. As one of 56 organ procurement organizations that make up the nation’s organ donation system, we work with 183 hospitals in our donation service area.

Summary

Support Community Outreach Department in coordinating tasks that support the efforts of a variety of projects, programs, campaigns and events throughout the our donation service area to increase organ and tissue donation.

The salary range for this position is $57,062-$64,195 annually.

Responsibilities

Essential Functions

The following essential functions are the basic job duties that an employee must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation:

• Advance Gift of Hope's mission, vision and core values: providing compassionate service, contributing outstanding teams and engaging as one of our passionate people committed to a positive culture that embraces diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. Adhere to all policies and procedures in carrying out the responsibilities of this position.Develop and maintain partnerships with select community, educational, religious, civic and social organizations to increase awareness and support for organ and tissue donation and increase donor registration
• Develop and implement programs/projects and special events with community partners ; foster participation by Ambassadors for Hope volunteer members and Gift of Hope staff Support coordination of a minimum of four (4) signature events per year
• Create expense reports, organize food expenses for community events, and own administrative duties for Community Outreach
• Maintain, manage, develop and analyze program data and databases
• Support marketing, outreach campaigns, grassroots programs, and special events to provide education on organ/tissue donation
• Contribute to general market website, social media and intranet communications
• Attend program and campaign meetings at a variety of community/workplace locations within Gift of Hope’s service area
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Education and Training Required

The following identifies the minimum education and training required to perform the essential functions of the job.

•  Bachelor’s degree in community relations, business, marketing, or a related field, or equivalent work experience

Experience and Skills Required

The following indicates the minimum skills and experience required to perform the essential functions of the job.

• 2 years’ related experience in community relations or not-for-profit public relations, preferably in a healthcare environment
• Intermediate skills in Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Salesforc
• Minimum of 3 years of volunteer or community outreach experience
• Ability to demonstrate sensitivity to community specific cultural issues
• Excellent speaking, writing, proofreading and editing skills
• Ability to represent Gift of Hope in a professional manner
• Ability to speak publicly before a wide variety of audiences to motivate and inspire others

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.

• Ability to drive personal car to offsite locations to perform job functions
• Ability to work outside normal business hours including evenings and weekends
• Ability to lift and move 30 pounds
• Ability to spend extensive time travelling across designated service area
• Ability to use personal cell phone for business purposes

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that will be encountered by an employee while performing the essential functions of the job.

•  Normal office environment
•  Carry a personal cell phone to be accessible outside regular business hours

The policy of Gift of Hope Organ and Tissue Donor Network is to promote equal employment opportunity through a positive and continuous program of specific practices designed to ensure the full realization of equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, or status as a disabled veteran, recently separated veteran, other protected veteran, or Armed Forces service medal veteran designated under the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act, as amended (VEVRAA). This reaffirms our commitment to this policy.