Associate Director of Development, School of Dental Medicine and UConn Health

Job Description

Position Summary

The Associate Director of Development is an entrepreneurial and collaborative fundraising professional who will join a growing and dynamic fundraising team that is reshaping the philanthropic program and culture at UConn Health. Together with the UConn Health development team, they will fuel scientific research, medical education, and patient care with impactful philanthropy The Associate Director serves as the primary development professional for the School of Dental Medicine, plus help support additional grateful patient fundraising programs.

The Director will serve as the Foundation’s academic unit lead for the Dean of the School of Dental Medicine and will work closely with key faculty and participating physicians and nurses. The individual will also manage a caseload of current and prospective donors and solicits them at giving levels that achieve annual fundraising goals and propel the UConn Health forward.

The Director of Development will join a growing and increasingly impactful UConn Health advancement team and contribute to its continued success in medical and healthcare philanthropy.

UConn Health

UConn Health, comprised of John Dempsey Hospital, UConn School of Medicine, and UConn School of Dental Medicine based at the Farmington campus, is a vibrant, integrated academic medical center that is in an era of unprecedented growth in all three areas of its mission: academics, research, and clinical care. John Dempsey Hospital includes the University Tower and the Connecticut Tower, which combined has over 400,000 sq ft of clinical space and 169 patient rooms. The Medical School is ranked as one of the top 10 most diverse medical schools in the nation, with 400 medical students, 300 graduate students, and 685 medical residents and fellows. The Dental School has approximately 1700 alumni since the first D.M.D class in 1972. Over 65% of the dental alumni live and practice in the tri state area. Both Schools are celebrating their 50th anniversary in 2021.

Primary Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of leadership and major gift prospects and donors from the grateful patient, family, and community constituencies.
• Conceives and executes creative ways to engage prospects and steward donors.
• Lead the grateful patient leadership and major gift fundraising program for the School of Dental Medicine in partnership with the Dean, key faculty and participating physicians and nurses.
• Use moves management concepts and tools to qualify, engage, solicit, and steward major and principal gift prospects and donors.
• Partner with Foundation Advancement leadership, deans, center directors, department heads, and members of the faculty and staff to create annual fundraising plans with goals and metrics to achieve specific priorities across UConn Health.
• Prepare funding proposals needed for individual donors.
• Work with Prospect Management colleagues to review caseload assignments; track, analyze, and report on progress against goals; complete quarterly reports; and recommend enhancements to increase operational efficiencies, improve communication, and increase donor engagement.
• Update and maintain contact reports in a timely manner and implement next steps of moves process according to prospect/donor engagement strategies.
• Collaborate with the UConn Health development team members of the UConn Foundation central development programs staff to coordinate fundraising priorities of UConn Health.
• Conducts all fundraising and stewardship activities in compliance with Foundation, HIPAA, and UConn Health patient rights and privacy policies.
• Create opportunities to engage key volunteers and University leadership in the cultivation, and where appropriate, the solicitation of current and potential donors.
• Actively participate in the Academic Unit Lead (AUL) group at the Foundation.
• Values the diversity of Foundation colleagues, UConn Health faculty and staff, alumni, patients, families, and community members and how that positively impacts the work of philanthropy.
• Other duties as assigned.

Key Competencies

• Demonstrate the ability to personally solicit gifts at $50,000.
• Values diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
• High level of motivation and assertiveness, as well as an ability to exercise independent judgment.
• Strong interpersonal skills, tack, and diplomacy. The ability to build productive, beneficial relationships with a broad range of constituencies.
• Highly organized and motivated with ability to easily transition between working autonomously and collaboratively with a team.
• Ability to engender trust and confidence of donors and prospective donors and to maintain confidentiality of donor information; ability to represent the UConn Foundation to prospects, donors, faculty, administrators, and others.
• Strong written and verbal communications skills, including ability to effectively communicate University priorities to donors and prospects, and to positively represent the University and Foundation
• Adept in use of computers and information management tools
• Ability to handle multiple tasks, to assess and order priorities, and to track details in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work to the demands of the position, which may exceed a 40-hour work week.
• Must be willing to travel extensively and reliable personal transportation is required for this position.
• Must possess a valid driver’s license issued from state in which employee resides. Employee must maintain at their expense, automobile liability insurance coverage in the minimum amount of $500,000 or a combination of umbrella and automobile liability insurance coverage of $500,000. A certificate of automobile insurance evidencing the limit, must be provided to the Foundation at hire and annually thereafter.