What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director Foundation Operations position at St. Joseph's Health?
Job Description
The Director, Foundation Operations provides strategic leadership for the systems, processes, data, financial controls, gift administration, prospect development infrastructure, and performance reporting that enable St. Joseph’s Health Foundation to achieve its fundraising goals.
The Director partners with Foundation leadership and fundraising program directors to translate institutional priorities into effective operating systems. The Director establishes the framework for portfolio construction and management, prospect identification and assignment, fundraising activity tracking, gift processing and administration, donor and fund reporting, and performance dashboards. Operations create reliable processes, definitions, reports, dashboards, portfolio standards, data structures, and controls. Major Gifts, Annual Giving, Corporate and Foundation Relations, Planned Giving, Events, and other fundraising leaders use those tools to establish strategy, manage staff, and achieve program goals.
Qualifications
Work requires the knowledge of theories, principles, and concepts normally acquired through completion of a Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, accounting, nonprofit management, information systems, fundraising, or a related field; advanced degree or relevant professional certification preferred. Progressive experience in fundraising operations, advancement services, gift administration, nonprofit finance, CRM/data management, prospect development, or related functions, including demonstrated people-management responsibility.
Strong knowledge of the philanthropic gift cycle, including gift processing, acknowledgments, pledges, donor restrictions, reconciliation, and applicable charitable-giving regulations. Demonstrated experience designing fundraising reports, dashboards, portfolio-management processes, and performance-management systems. Strong understanding of fundraising CRM systems, relational data, data governance, reporting, and the use of technology to improve fundraising operations. Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with frontline fundraisers, Finance, Information Technology, Donor Relations/Stewardship, and organizational leadership. Strong leadership, communication, analytical, project-management, change-management, and process-improvement skills. Experience with Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge/NXT preferred.
About Us
St. Joseph’s Health is recognized for the expertise and compassion of its highly skilled and responsive staff. The combined efforts of the organization’s outstanding physicians, superb nurses, and dedicated clinical and professional staff have made us one of the most highly respected healthcare organizations in the state, the largest employer in Passaic County, and one of the nation’s “100 Best Places to Work in Health Care”.
Benefits Eligibility: (Full-time and Part-time Employees-over 20 hours a week)
About The Team
St. Joseph’s University Medical Center is an academic tertiary care medical center and state designated trauma center, located on the Paterson campus, regularly accepts referrals of difficult or unusual cases from other hospitals and physicians and performs both complex and routine procedures.
The Medical Center offers a full complement of specialty and subspecialty services including ambulatory, behavioral health, cardiovascular, emergency/trauma, internal medicine, neuroscience, oncology, orthopedic/spine, rehabilitation, surgical specialty, women’s health, imaging and pediatrics.
The nursing team at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center, which includes St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital, has held the Magnet Award for Nursing Excellence, the profession’s highest honor, since 1999. They are also recipients of the prestigious 2010 Magnet Prize™ - one of only 8 Magnet-designated hospitals to ever receive The Magnet Prize, and the only one worldwide to receive the 2010 award.
The Director, Foundation Operations provides strategic leadership for the systems, processes, data, financial controls, gift administration, prospect development infrastructure, and performance reporting that enable St. Joseph’s Health Foundation to achieve its fundraising goals.
The Director partners with Foundation leadership and fundraising program directors to translate institutional priorities into effective operating systems. The Director establishes the framework for portfolio construction and management, prospect identification and assignment, fundraising activity tracking, gift processing and administration, donor and fund reporting, and performance dashboards. Operations create reliable processes, definitions, reports, dashboards, portfolio standards, data structures, and controls. Major Gifts, Annual Giving, Corporate and Foundation Relations, Planned Giving, Events, and other fundraising leaders use those tools to establish strategy, manage staff, and achieve program goals.
Qualifications
Work requires the knowledge of theories, principles, and concepts normally acquired through completion of a Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, accounting, nonprofit management, information systems, fundraising, or a related field; advanced degree or relevant professional certification preferred. Progressive experience in fundraising operations, advancement services, gift administration, nonprofit finance, CRM/data management, prospect development, or related functions, including demonstrated people-management responsibility.
Strong knowledge of the philanthropic gift cycle, including gift processing, acknowledgments, pledges, donor restrictions, reconciliation, and applicable charitable-giving regulations. Demonstrated experience designing fundraising reports, dashboards, portfolio-management processes, and performance-management systems. Strong understanding of fundraising CRM systems, relational data, data governance, reporting, and the use of technology to improve fundraising operations. Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with frontline fundraisers, Finance, Information Technology, Donor Relations/Stewardship, and organizational leadership. Strong leadership, communication, analytical, project-management, change-management, and process-improvement skills. Experience with Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge/NXT preferred.
About Us
St. Joseph’s Health is recognized for the expertise and compassion of its highly skilled and responsive staff. The combined efforts of the organization’s outstanding physicians, superb nurses, and dedicated clinical and professional staff have made us one of the most highly respected healthcare organizations in the state, the largest employer in Passaic County, and one of the nation’s “100 Best Places to Work in Health Care”.
Benefits Eligibility: (Full-time and Part-time Employees-over 20 hours a week)
- Competitive salary*
- Robust benefits with health, dental, Rx and vision plans
- 403b retirement plan options with company match**
- Health & Wellness*
- Non-Profit Health System – eligible for Federal Student Loan Forgiveness
- PTO, and paid holidays
- Tuition reimbursement
- Employee Assistance Program
- LTD : Long Term Disability
- Life Insurance Options
- Onsite Day care Program
- Available for Per Diem Employees and Part-time Employees working under 20 hours per week.
- 403b Company Match not applicable for Per Diem Employees and Part-time Employees working under 20 hours per week.
About The Team
St. Joseph’s University Medical Center is an academic tertiary care medical center and state designated trauma center, located on the Paterson campus, regularly accepts referrals of difficult or unusual cases from other hospitals and physicians and performs both complex and routine procedures.
The Medical Center offers a full complement of specialty and subspecialty services including ambulatory, behavioral health, cardiovascular, emergency/trauma, internal medicine, neuroscience, oncology, orthopedic/spine, rehabilitation, surgical specialty, women’s health, imaging and pediatrics.
The nursing team at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center, which includes St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital, has held the Magnet Award for Nursing Excellence, the profession’s highest honor, since 1999. They are also recipients of the prestigious 2010 Magnet Prize™ - one of only 8 Magnet-designated hospitals to ever receive The Magnet Prize, and the only one worldwide to receive the 2010 award.