Development Program Coordinator II-Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center

The Office of Development seeks a skillful administrative and project management professional to join and bolster its successful Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center fundraising team. As the Development Program Coordinator for the Tisch Cancer Center, you will play a pivotal role in providing indispensable administrative support and project management, ensuring the seamless functioning of the team. The position requires a highly organized, proactive and often self-directed approach and the ability to anticipate the needs of fundraisers, colleagues, institutional leaders, and donor constituents. This role presents an ideal opportunity for non-frontline fundraising professionals seeking the opportunity to make an impact on philanthropy through expert project management, focusing clearly on supporting and enabling the team rather than direct fundraising responsibilities.

This is a hybrid position, and must be within commutable distance from the midtown office (42nd Street).

Responsibilities

Support the Office of Development’s comprehensive major gifts program to raise funds for the Mount Sinai Health System.

• Provide administrative support for Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center development team (e.g. overseeing logistics of physician meetings, donor meetings, and internal meetings; preparing and coordinating materials; pulling data reports; drafting meeting agendas, etc.)
• Draft high level correspondence on behalf of physician leadership and fundraisers, and oversee preparation and coordination of in house mailings to managed prospect portfolios. Develop fundraising materials that include, but are not limited to newsletters, letters, Chairs’ reports and donor outreach research summaries to be used in concert with solicitation strategies.
• Schedule Advisory Board meetings and cultivation events. Coordinate all logistics and materials for these meetings, including agendas, speaker bios, research and project summaries, and PowerPoint presentations.
• Compose and proofread letters, talking points, briefings, personalized donor acknowledgments as well as other correspondence as directed. 
• Along with Writing, Communications, and Stewardship teams, project manage written documents such as proposals, cases for support, stewardship reports, and program summaries.
• Manage special donor stewardship projects for the Tisch Cancer Center development team, including identifying existing communications and re-packaging for stewardship purposes, creating a donor engagement calendar, tracking Advisory Board Member milestones, coordinating high level donor acknowledgements on behalf of Tisch Cancer Center leadership, and assisting with special stewardship reports as assigned.
• In partnership with administrative colleagues, oversee preparation of periodic acknowledgment letters from faculty leadership and monthly high-level acknowledgments from Tisch Cancer Center Director.
• Conceive and implement strategies and systems that will help the Tisch Cancer Center team’s efforts to operate more efficiently and enable fundraisers to focus more on frontline activities.
• Field and respond to donor, physician, and administrators’ phone and email inquiries relating to donation and fund related issues.
• Foster positive and professional working relationships with all staff.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree preferred; an equivalent combination of education and/or experience may substitute for the degree when the experiences are closely related to the duties of the job.
• 3+ years experience coordinating and administering program activities for assigned area
• A cover letter is required

Computer Skills: 

• Proficiency in the Microsoft Office environment; Basic skills in Microsoft Excel and Word required; intermediate skills in Excel and Word preferred
• Ability to learn fund-raising database; Raiser's Edge experience preferred

General Skills:

• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
• Skilled in connecting disparate information, proactive in leveraging available data, and proficient in synthesizing information to impact the bigger picture
• Attention to detail
• Organized, meticulous, and flexible
• The ability to work within an environment that emphasizes teamwork as well as individual initiative 
• Sensitivity, tact, and diplomacy
• The ability to honor confidentiality

The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.

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