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VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation
Philanthropy Lead, Major Gifts
VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation is the leading charity investing in health care innovation in British Columbia, raising essential funds for specialized adult health care services and research for people across the province. In partnership with donors, the Foundation supports Vancouver Coastal Health’s key institutions, including VGH & UBC Hospital, GF Strong Rehab Centre, and others.
The Foundation is one of BC’s largest fundraising organizations, whose dedicated staff team raised $149+ million last year, approximately 70% of which is raised by the Philanthropy & Campaign Division, including the Foundation’s exceptional team of major gifts fundraisers focused on gifts of over $100,000.
Recognizing the significance of the team’s work – which amounts to approximately $60 million raised every year – the Foundation has created the new role of Philanthropy Lead, Major Gifts to lead this dynamic group.
The Lead will provide strategic leadership and management of the four staff, each of whom have goals of up to $10 million, as well as managing their own pipeline of major gift prospects. This is a senior role in the Foundation with significant leadership, fundraising, and cross-Foundation collaboration expectations.
As well, the Lead will play a key role in fundraising for VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation’s campaign, its most ambitious fundraising campaign in history and the largest ever health care campaign in BC.
The title Philanthropy Lead, Major Gifts reflects both the role’s seniority and strategic nature. As part of an evolving leadership structure at the Foundation, “Lead” has been introduced to recognize positions with significant responsibility, influence, and decision-making authority. Internally, the role is equivalent in level to a Director.
This is a unique opportunity to further enable major gift best practices and help achieve the Foundation’s strategic priorities by:
- Playing a pivotal leadership role in a historic and transformative campaign;
- Shaping and advancing major gifts strategy at a critical moment of growth;
- Partnering with senior leaders, physicians, and volunteers to secure significant gifts;
- Combining big-picture strategic thinking with hands-on leadership of a high-performing team;
- Working at the intersection of campaign fundraising, clinical priorities, and organizational strategy;
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Joining an established, deeply committed, and high-performing fundraising team.
For more information or to apply, please read the candidate brief, then get in touch by email or fill in this confidential form.
Ideal Traits & Competencies:
- An experienced major gifts professional
- with a preference for health care philanthropy experience or similar complex organizations.
- A proven team leader and coach
- A strategic thinker
- An effective practice lead
- Collaborative and relationship-oriented
- A strong communicator
- A model of the Foundation’s core values of being Bold, acting with Integrity, and embracing Community
