Do you enjoy working one on one with donors and prioritize a meaningful donor journey? Do you want to be part of a dynamic team that is making significant impact on the advancement of healthcare on Vancouver Island? If so, the Victoria Hospitals Foundation may be your next opportunity!

The Victoria Hospitals Foundation (VHF) works in partnership with Island Health to enable donations to every area of care at Royal Jubilee, Victoria General, and Gorge Road hospitals. As Island Health’s charitable partner, we raise donations for medical equipment, special projects, education, and research. VHF donors fund an incredible 40% of the equipment in Victoria General and Royal Jubilee hospitals.

In 2021/22, we raised over $17.9 million for our hospitals, including gifts from over 5,400 donors. Since 1989, the Victoria Hospitals Foundation has raised more than $180 million to benefit our hospitals. Our community generously funded thousands of pieces of urgently needed medical equipment and special projects to help these hospitals provide care to all 860,000+ residents of Vancouver Island.

The Philanthropy team plays a vital role in VHF’s fundraising efforts through our work with individuals, corporations and foundations. The current team of three is looking forward to welcoming a new member for this exciting and unique role. 

The Philanthropy Associate is responsible for inspiring community and major gifts through the effective management of a donor pipeline. This position will cultivate, solicit and steward a portfolio of community gift donors ($1,000-$9,999), major gift donors ($10,000+) and prospects, with a focus on upgrading community gift donors to the major gift level. This position also leads the strategy and roll out of quarterly engagement initiatives for internal prospects with major gift capacity. The Philanthropy Associate plays a key role in writing and editing donor proposals, solicitation letters, impact reports and stewardship letters. Through these activities, the Philanthropy Associate will help the team achieve long-term growth of the philanthropy program.

The Philanthropy Associate professionally represents the Foundation in interactions with donors, Island Health staff, patients, volunteers and other external stakeholders. The Philanthropy Associate will need to demonstrate excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills, build and maintain relations within the VHF team and grow VHF’s positive reputation with peers and the community.

This position will report to the Manager, Philanthropy and will work closely with the Philanthropy team and in consultation and collaboration with the entire VHF team. This position can enjoy a mix of hybrid and in-office work. A core responsibility of this role is to be onsite or in the community for donor events and meetings.   

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