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Northern Light Health

Department: Foundation

Position is located: Northern Light Health Foundation

Work Type: Full Time

Hours Per Week: 40.00

Work Schedule: No Hours Assigned

Summary:

The Associate Vice President (AVP) of Philanthropy is a senior executive leader of the Northern Light Health Foundation and a key member of the Foundation’s executive leadership team. Reporting to the Foundation President, the AVP provides strategic leadership for all philanthropy teams across Northern Light Health’s member organizations.

This role requires a dynamic, highly experienced philanthropy leader with a proven record of securing major and principal gifts, leading high-performing teams, and building strong donor and community relationships. The AVP ensures alignment of fundraising strategies across the system, strengthens donor engagement, and supports philanthropy lead in delivering exceptional fundraising results that advance the mission and priorities of Northern Light Health.

Responsibilities:

+ Provide strategic direction to philanthropy teams at each member organization (MO) ensuring alignment with system and member organization priorities.

+ Lead, mentor, and inspire statewide philanthropy team.

+ Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, professional growth, and measurable results.

+ Establish clear expectations for performance, portfolio management, donor strategy, and activity metrics.

+ Maintain a personal portfolio of major and principal gift prospects.

+ Guide MO teams in developing strategic cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship plans for major and principal gifts.

+ Build and deepen relationships with donors, corporate and foundation partners, community leaders, and high-net-worth individuals.

+ Strengthen Northern Light Health engagement and partnership in community.

+ Partner with philanthropy teams to identify new donor and community partnership opportunities.

+ Support proposal development and funding priorities in partnership with philanthropy leads and clinical and administrative leaders.

+ Ensure consistent systemwide standards for stewardship, donor engagement.

+ Champion data-informed decision-making, including reporting, analytics, and forecasting in partnership with philanthropy leads.

+ Support readiness and execution of campaigns and major initiatives across the system.

+ Strengthen cross-system partnerships and collaboration to enhance philanthropic opportunities.

+ Other Duties.

Other Information:

+ Bachelor’s degree and Minimum of 10+ years of progressive fundraising leadership experience, ideally in healthcare.

+ Demonstrated success securing six- and seven-figure gifts and contributing to or leading successful campaigns.

Competencies and Skills

+ Achieves Results: Sets high standards for their own outcomes and seizes opportunities to engage others towards objectives. Consistently moves forward with direct actions in order to attain or exceed objectives. Manages their own time effectively to accomplish assigned tasks. Successfully prioritizes multiple projects and duties as needed.

+ Acts Strategically: Creates effective plans that anticipate future consequences and opportunities and is able to connect the day to day operations to longer-term objectives, shifts in the industry, and system goals.

+ Demonstrates Adaptability: Learns quickly when facing a new problem or unfamiliar task; is flexible in their approach with changing priorities and ambiguity. Manages change effectively and does not give up during adversity. Capable of changing one's behavioral style and/or views in order to attain a goal. Absorbs new information readily and puts it into practice effectively.

+ Effectively Communicates: Listens, speaks and writes appropriately, using clear language. Communication methods are fitting to the message(s), audience, and situation and follow-ups are regular and timely. Shows that important (non-) verbal information is absorbed and understood and asks further questions to clarify when necessary. Expresses ideas and views clearly to others and has ability to adjust use of language to the audiences' level.

+ Fosters Innovation: Employs and encourages the use of meaningful creativity in solving challenges. Proactively identifies opportunities and uses new approaches to enhance processes, systems and services. When appropriate, suggests or initiates new strategies, products, services, and markets.

+ Influences and Inspires: Builds enthusiasm and commitment among others to move in a desired direction and models it personally. Creates a compelling vision of success that motivates workplace initiative and energizes others to follow. Provides direction and guidance to encourage cooperation between team members in order to attain an objective. Has the ability to appropriately influence others' actions and decisions with and without express authority.

+ Spreadsheet application with the ability to use calculations, formulas, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming.

+ Word processing, spreadsheets, data entry, database experience and other computer related skills.

+ Email application with the ability to manage email as well as calendars, managing tasks and contacts, note taking, journaling, and web browsing.

+ Presentation software with the ability to create presentations with the ability to incorporate animation, audio, video, time delays, as well as designing themes and variants with animations and effects.

+ MS Teams

+ Word process application with the ability to create and edit documents, format, use tables, apply footnoting, create table of contents and mail merge techniques.

+ Promotes Health and Safety: Promotes a healthy and safe environment for patients, employees and visitors. Advocates and models healthy physical and mental health behaviors even in challenging circumstances. Sets high quality standards and strives for continuous improvement and quality assurance by reporting and encouraging others to report near misses and safety issues.

+ Public Speaking

+ Seeks Process Improvement & Applies System Thinking: Possesses and gains insight into situations, problems and processes. Understands the interconnection between organizational elements. Deconstructs problems and systematically investigates the various components. Considers the impact of actions on the entire process/system. Detects problems and opportunities, recognizes important information, and links various data to trace potential causes and relevant details.

+ Serves Others: Strives to understand, meet and exceed the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers which may include the people and communities in our service areas. Develops and maintains relationships, alliances and coalitions within and outside the organization and leverages them in order to obtain information, support, and promote cooperation and collaboration.

+ Utilizes Resources Effectively: Understands how to get the most out of available resources and uses cost-benefit thinking in decision-making and in setting priorities. Monitors and analyzes resource usage to identify and eliminate areas of waste and maximize resources. As a leader, defines targets and provides appropriate means; oversees progress and makes adjustments when necessary. Appropriately delegates work, sets clear direction and manages workflow and time.

+ Zoom

+ Behaves with Integrity and Builds Trust: Acts consistently in line with the core values, commitments and rules of conduct. Leads by example and tells the truth. Does what they say they will, when and how they say they will, or communicates an alternate plan.

+ Cultivates Respect: Treats others fairly, embraces and values differences, and contributes to a culture of belonging, empowerment, and cooperation.

+ Demonstrates Emotional Intelligence: Exhibits a high level of self-awareness, self-management, other awareness and relationship management. Conducts themselves in an empathic, appropriate way, with a sense of humor and stimulates a collaborative work environment. Is respectful of the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others and aware of the influence of their own behavior on them. Is aware of relevant social, political, system, and professional trends and developments and uses this information for the organization's benefit.

+ Develops Self and Others:Takes responsibility for engaging in professional self-development activities and programs. Strives to gain insight into their own values, strengths and weaknesses, interests and ambitions and takes action in order to enhance competencies and skills when possible. As a leader, encourages and guides employees towards growth opportunities to enhance performance and help them reach goals. Reviews and analyzes employees' strengths and weaknesses to distinguish their talents and development needs, and to ensure they are enhanced appropriately.

+ Exercises Sound Judgment & Decision Making: Understands and processes complex information, which allows for appropriate and accountable conclusions. Does not react too quickly or slowly. Balances facts, goals, and potential approaches taking the appropriate criteria into account. Makes active decisions and commits oneself by communicating confidently and respectfully.

+ Fosters Accountability: Creates and participates in a work environment where people hold themselves and others accountable for processes, results and behaviors. Takes appropriate ownership not only of successes but also mistakes and works to correct them in a timely manner. Demonstrates understanding that we all work as a team and the quality and timeliness of work impacts everyone involved.

+ Practices Compassion: Exhibits genuine care for people and is available and ready to help; displays a deep awareness of and strong willingness to relieve the suffering of others.

+ Resolves Conflict: Promptly acts to find alternatives/solutions when team members disagree. Addresses issues in a direct, honest, and appropriate manner. Handles conflicting interests diplomatically and helps to solve them. Transforms difficult situations into teachable moments using respect and accountability .

Education

+ Required Bachelor's Degree

Required Experience

+ 10 year/years of Leadership Experience

+ 10 year/years of Relevant Work Experience

Working Conditions

+ Work with computers, typing, reading or writing.

+ Work beyond the regularly scheduled hours.

Brewer, Maine, Corporate Office, Cianchette, Foundation, Finance, Human Resources, Legal Services

Position AVP- PhilanthropyLocation Req ID 85515