Job Summary

Responsible for designing, implementing and coordinating a system-wide comprehensive donor relations and system events program that consistently promotes interaction with, and recognition of, donors, volunteers, community members and leadership team. Responsible for oversight of stewardship event fundraising activities.

Job Duties

• Plans, implements and coordinates the system-wide events program, including but not limited to, community engagement, system-wide celebrations, fundraising events and community volunteer event committees.
• Create and manage event budgets for all events ensuring fundraising events meet targeted cost-to-raise a dollar and cultivation and stewardship and community events stay within budget.
• Create sponsorships for fundraising events, identify and solicit perspective donors to secure sponsorships and participation for fundraising events to ensure successful event returns.
• Manage a portfolio of perspective event sponsors and donors identifying appropriate funding strategy for each.
• Plans, implements and coordinates the executive leadership meetings, retreats, symposiums as required by the Executive Office.
• Collaborates with Chief Executive Officer, Chief Philanthropy Officer and Vice President of Philanthropy to develop and review strategies for engaging top donors in events.
• Supervises system event staff activities to structure a comprehensive, efficient and effective team of event professionals.
• Establishes and manages information tracking processes regarding acknowledgement, recognition, on-going communications and upcoming donor engagements and events.
• Collaborate with Foundation staff in donor receipting and acknowledgement, stewardship opportunities including event invitations, developing appropriate invitation lists, engaging featured program participants, and program creation.
• Directs changes in event work scope and ensure appropriate planning measures are taken with internal and external vendors to reassess, renegotiate and amend scope of work responsibilities, proposals, budgets, etc.
• Develops and implements yearly growth plans for all system and auxiliary events, including corporate sponsorship opportunities.
• Interacts with key leadership to build donor relationships through events.
• Collaborates with Marketing and Communications to be certain that leadership and donors are appropriately recognized at events.
• This could include talking points, seating arrangements, assigning staff to key donors and leadership during institutional events and appropriate follow-up.

Work is typically performed in an office or remote environment. Travel may be required. Accountable for satisfying all job specific obligations and complying with all organization policies and procedures. The specific statements in this profile are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job. *Relevant experience may be a combination of related work experience and degree obtained (Associate’s Degree = 2 years; Bachelor’s Degree = 4 years).

Position Details

Fundraising experience/knowledge required

Education

High School Diploma or Equivalent (GED)- (Required)

Experience

Minimum of 9 years-Relevant experience* (Required)

Skills

Office Administration

About Geisinger

Founded more than 100 years ago by Abigail Geisinger, the system now includes ten hospital campuses, a 550,000-member health plan, two research centers and the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. With nearly 24,000 employees and more than 1,700 employed physicians, Geisinger boosts its hometown economies in Pennsylvania by billions of dollars annually. Learn more at geisinger.org or connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Geisinger values who you are, where you are from, and where you are going. We seek out people of various backgrounds and cultures with unique abilities, non-traditional career paths and ambitious aspirations. We are an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and Minorities are encouraged to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability or their protected veteran status. Read more about Our Commitment to Inclusive Recruiting.

Our Vision & Values

Everything we do is about making better health easier for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities.

KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves.

EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence.

LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow.

INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation.

SAFETY: We provide a safe environment for our patients and members and the Geisinger family.

Our Benefits

We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and prescription coverage.