Gift Officer - Office of Development

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Job Requisition ID:

R00048096

Job Category:

Professional and Technical

Organization:

Office of Development - Special Projects

Location/s:

Main Campus Jackson

Job Title:

Gift Officer - Office of Development

Job Summary:

Responsible for working with Office of Development leaders to advance and manage a portfolio of donors in the $5,000-100,000 range in support of institutional priorities. Develops and cultivates donor prospects to foster giving and ensures appropriate recognition of gifts. Creates and implements effective strategies designed to interest, engage, and secure a wide range of gift prospects and donors to support the capital, programmatic, research, and education funding priorities identified by institutional leaders.

Education & Experience

Education and Experience Required:

 Bachelor's degree and three (3) years of non-profit fundraising, capital campaigning, or development experience.

Certifications, Licenses, or Registration required:

N/A

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Understanding of major issues and trends in healthcare and philanthropy. Grasp of the complexities of a medical center environment preferred. Ability to learn appropriate levels of information about a broad range of health disciplines and interdisciplinary areas related to campaign efforts. Knowledge of development database applications. Computer skills including ability to manage and query data in development-related database. Outstanding organizational and time management skills. Superior writing skills. Deadline-driven, with a commitment to donor relationships and the ability to independently drive multiple projects and sub-projects. Ability to build effective, collaborative relationships internally with departments, program staff, physicians, and other internal constituents. Effective communication skills and collaboration with external stakeholders and community supporters. Critical thinking skills. Ability to assess processes and work flow. Ability to maintain confidentiality on behalf of philanthropic donors and medical center colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Prospect Management: Assists in working with individuals, corporations and foundations soliciting/raising major, principal and deferred gifts. Coordinates meetings and events between development team and donors. Assists with building and maintaining a development program and supporting database of prospective donor names and related information and accurately reporting achievement of established charitable fundraising goals.
• Fundraising: Advances a portfolio of donors and prospects from alumni, grateful patients, foundations, corporations, community groups, and friends throughout Mississippi, in the $5,000 -- $100,000+ gift range. Develops and implements annual gift strategies for individual and group donors and prospects related to specific fundraising initiatives.
• External Collaboration: Works with Executive Director of Development and Development team to engage, inform, and work with campaign and fundraising leaders to achieve overall campaign and other initiative goals, including through community events. Engages internal leaders to assist in these efforts. Serves as the liaison between leaders, donors, community, and the Office of Development.
• Creates Proposals: Ensures proposals and solicitations are timely, professional, advance the campaign goals, and consistent with the mission of the medical center. Prepares correspondence, including major gift proposals/solicitations, for UMMC leadership.  Produces appropriate collateral materials. Manages relationships with donors and their financial advisors to encourage gifts, as appropriate.
• Stewardship: Remains in constant contact with donors through cultivations letters, solicitation letters, proposals, case statements, acknowledgement letters, and more for the purpose of strategically communication with and managing donors.
• Donor Records: Maintains current and comprehensive records in the donor database and, when appropriate, in hard copy.
• General Administration: Monitors requests by UMMC Staff as well as third-party fundraisers to ensure adherence with UMMC policies. Communicates with various departments involved in the approval process. Prepares articulate, tailored, gift acknowledgment letters.  
• Event Management: Collaborates with the executive and event committees to plan and orchestrate special fundraising and recognition events.
• Performs other duties as assigned. The duties listed are general in nature and are examples of the duties and responsibilities performed and are not meant to be construed as exclusive or all-inclusive. Management retains the right to add or change duties at any time.
• The duties listed are general in nature and are examples of the duties and responsibilities performed and are not meant to be construed as exclusive or all-inclusive. Management retains the right to add or change duties at any time.

Physical and Environmental Demands

Requires no exposure to unpleasant or disagreeable physical environment such as high noise level and exposure to heat and cold, no handling or working with potentially dangerous equipment, no working hours beyond regularly scheduled  hours, frequent travelling to offsite locations, occasional activities subject to significant volume changes of a seasonal/clinical nature, constant work produced is subject to precise measures of quantity and quality, occasional bending, occasional lifting/carrying up to 10 pounds, occasional lifting/carrying up to 25 pounds, no lifting/carrying up to 50 pounds, no lifting/carrying up to 75 pounds, no lifting/carrying up to100 pounds, no lifting/carrying 100 pounds or more, no climbing, no crawling, occasional crouching/stooping, occasional driving, occasional kneeling, occasional pushing/pulling, occasional reaching, constant sitting, frequent standing, no twisting, and occasional walking (occasional-up to 20%, frequent-from 21% to 50%, constant-51% or more).

Time Type:

Full time

FLSA Designation/Job Exempt:

Yes

Pay Class:

Salary

FTE %:

100

Work Shift:

Day

Benefits Eligibility:

Grant Funded:

No

Job Posting Date:

01/16/2026

Job Closing Date (open until filled if no date specified):