Senior Major Gifts Officer

Share Salary Not Available Position range in Rhode Island $48k - $87k Per Year Senior Major Gifts Officer Yale New Haven Health

Occupation:

Fundraisers

Location:

Westerly, RI - 02891

Job Type:

Full Time (30 Hours or More), Day Shift Shift

Posted:

05/15/2026 Positions available: 1

Source:

Yale New Haven Health

Web Site:

www.ynhh.org Job #: 181161 Job Requirements and Properties Help for Job Requirements and Properties. Opens a new window. Work Onsite Full Time Schedule Full Time Hours 40 Hours Per Week Job Description Help for Job Description. Opens a new window. Overview To be part of our organization, every employee should understand and share in the YNHHS Vision, support our Mission, and live our Values. These values - integrity, patient-centered, respect, accountability, and compassion - must guide what we do, as individuals and professionals, every day. The Senior Major Gift Officer is responsible for managing and securing philanthropic gifts of $100,000 or more towards the overall individual major gift goal of the Westerly / Lawrence + Memorial Hospitals set annually. This position manages a prospect portfolio and applies moves management to approximately 75 donors; conducts 125 visits per year; works with the Department Leadership on the visitation and events calendar for strategic prospect visits; provides support to the Westerly Foundation Board; supports and promotes the planned giving Legacy Society; and assists in the implementation of a Concierge program. The position also requires aggressive development and maintenance of relationships with donors and prospects; function as part of the Westerly/L+M Hospital management teams in achieving identified priorities; achieving fundraising goals; and understanding and communicating the funding needs of the hospital to volunteer, hospital staff, board members and prospective donors. EEO/AA/Disability/Veteran Responsibilities

• Personally cultivates and solicits portfolio of 75 individual major gift prospects to secure gifts of $100,000 or more for L+M and WH Hospitals needs and projects, including endowment, specific capital equipment needs, major construction and renovation projects, and other capital campaigns.
• Identifies major and special gift prospects from the Hospital's existing donor base, as well as from independent research of outside sources.
• Develops and implements plans for prospect management for identified prospect constituencies and for individual prospects.
• Manage 125 visits annually.
• Advance balance of donors in portfolio via moves management / from discovery to cultivation/solicitation / ultimately incorporating them into top 25 list.
• Provides on-going stewardship for all individual major donors in the continuing development cycle.
• Steward donors via acknowledgement letters, special stewardship letters, phone calls, visits and special major gift events.
• Manages all input of donor information in Raiser's Edge inclusive of call reports, moves management details and related information.
• Provide Foundation team with timely updates/insights regarding prospects
• Coordinate with Executive Director of Development on Development gift agreements.
• In partnership with the Major Gift Team and the Executive Director of Development, implements the Legacy Society, Concierge Program, regional fundraising and participates in the Westerly Foundation Board & L+M Dev Committee meetings.
• Work occasional late evenings and weekends to staff special events.