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Director of Development

( Oregon | On-site )

Job Description

Position salary range:  $125,000 - $150,000

Life Flight Network (LFN) is a not-for-profit patient transport service providing helicopter, fixed-wing, and ground ambulance transport throughout Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana. LFN’s mission is saving lives with industry-leading care and transport and for over 45 years, LFN has provided award-winning service and support to patients, hospitals, and EMS, ensuring all patients receive the highest quality care and transport. This commitment to excellence aligns with the values of Life Flight Network’s owner consortium of non-profit, world-class healthcare systems.

LFN prioritizes placing lifesaving air medical resources in rural communities that are often underfunded and overlooked, providing a much-needed lifeline to specialty care and emergency resources. LFN’s aircraft are staffed 24/7/365 with board-certified flight registered nurses, paramedics, or registered respiratory therapists. When time is of the essence, LFN teams’ ability to respond rapidly means they can be to a patient’s side in minutes, improving patient outcomes. LFN safely transports over 15,000 critically ill or injured patients per year, including more than 1700 neonatal and/or pediatric patients.

The LFN Foundation Development Director is responsible for developing, implementing, and overseeing Life Flight Network Foundation’s major gift fundraising, from both individuals and institutional donors. This position identifies and cultivates relationships with prospects and stewards and solicits gifts from current donors. In addition, the Director manages the development and submission of funding requests and sets the strategy for the growth and diversification of the donor and prospect base. Increasing gifts to the Foundation will contribute significantly to LFN’s ability to serve the communities that rely on their life saving services.

This is an exciting opportunity for an innovative, entrepreneurial, and ambitious fundraiser to build and lead a development program.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement a comprehensive and proactive fundraising plan to increase philanthropic revenue, focused on expanding and enhancing relationships with individual and institutional donors, as well as building strategic partnerships with field staff for broadening the base of support
• Build a strong donor pipeline that focuses on institutional and high net worth individual donor identification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship
• Develop highly competitive proposals and compelling cases for support that meet organizational priorities
• Engage LFN leadership in key donor cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship activities
• Create, develop, and execute creative ways to identify engage donors including through events and web-based fundraising at the local and national level
• Work with LFN leadership to ensure development priorities are aligned to meet and/or exceed goals
• Develop strong and collaborative working relationships with other members of senior leadership to best understand LFN’s mission and work, and effectively articulate this information to donors and the public
• Design metrics and measurements to identify trends; track and report progress, and pinpoint areas where proactive measures will make a difference to meeting goals
• Manage database to maintain, monitor and utilize donor information

The salary range for this role is $125,000 - $150,000, commensurate with skills and experience.

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