Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, andtreatment facilitiesin Atlanta, Chicago, and Phoenix. our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

City of Hope’s mission is to “turn hope into reality.” Focused on eliminating cancer, diabetes and other life-threatening illnesses, City of Hope has established itself as a world-class leader in transforming the future of health. Raising the philanthropic resources to fuel its leading-edge research, its exquisite and compassionate clinical care, and its advancement of biomedical education and training, is a vital component of the City of Hope model of success. Each member of the Office of Philanthropy is a stakeholder in this work, with personal accountability for his/her role in building a successful future of delivering new cures, treatments, and education.

The Office of Philanthropy’s vision is to support this life-saving work by being known institutionally and nationally as a model of excellence among elite fundraising programs. Recent recruitments of nationally and internationally renowned faculty offer advancement leaders new opportunity for partnership among philanthropy, research and patient care.

The Senior Manager, Planned Giving will play an invaluable role in our success in the Office of Philanthropy. As demonstrated in the Preparing our People initiative, the Senior Manager plans, directs and implements fundraising strategies that align with office-wide focus on collaboration, efficiencies, individual fundraising, and outcomes. By both leading and supporting strategies for planning, implementing, and leading the identification, qualification, cultivation, solicitation, tracking, and stewardship of planned giving prospects, the Senior Manager will play a key role in creating our vision of being known institutionally and nationally as a model of excellence among elite fundraising programs.

As a successful candidate, you will:

• Develop and work a portfolio of prospects, as well as providing planned giving expertise, guidance and support to fellow frontline staff.
• Ensure the fundraising success of the Office of Philanthropy through a focus on frontline activity, with special emphasis on creating and implementing strategies for successful solicitations and building strategic relationships with prospects and donors.
• Prepare written and oral presentations to potential donors, developing gift opportunities, cultivating and soliciting gift prospects.
• Lead in the creation of tools for the Office of Philanthropy to increase awareness of, and participation in, planned giving; includes mailers and marketing material, annual recognition event, and giving society management.

Your qualifications should include:

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• 7-10 years related experience in event planning and management. Relevant education or related experience in biomedical sciences or health care may be substituted for part of this requirement. Experience in a complex medical or academic development setting encouraged.
• 3+ years of experience in managing staff.

City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer. To learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, please click here.