**Overview**
Bakersfield Memorial Hospital includes 385 general acute beds 48 licensed critical care beds 13 state-of-the-art surgical suites and a full-service Emergency Department with an Accredited Chest Pain Center and Nationally Certified Stroke Center. In addition we offer a beautiful Family Care and Birthing Center the Lauren Small Childrens Center including the areas only Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Family Care Center a Level II NICU the Sarvanand Heart and Brain Center with Kern Countys first Bi-Plane Interventional Suite the Center for Wound Care and Hyperbarics and many more services. Memorial Hospital is a Children’s Miracle Network Hospital and is home to the Bakersfield Ronald McDonald House. Memorial Hospital is a member of Dignity Health and is a trusted community partner serving residents of Bakersfield and Kern County with quality compassionate care since 1956. Click here (https://www.dignityhealth.org/central-california/locations/memorial-hospital) to learn more about Bakersfield Memorial Hospital.
If you are committed to social justice, health equity, and prepared to deliver care in new, innovative ways, you belong with us.
We offer the following benefits to support you and your family:
+ Annual Incentive (Bonus) Program.
+ Matching Retirement Program.
+ Pension fully funded by the Hospital.
+ Tuition Assistance for career growth and development.
+ Health/Dental/Vision Insurance.
+ Free Membership to our Care@Work program supporting child care, pet care, and adult dependent needs.
+ Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family.
+ Flexible spending accounts.
+ Voluntary Protection: Group Accident, Critical Illness, and Identity Theft.
+ Wellness Program.
+ Paid Time Off (PTO).
**Responsibilities**
**Position Summary:**
We have a cornerstone and highly visible position for a Director of Major Campaign Gifts. In this role you will serve as the primary Foundation member responsible for growing and maintaining a comprehensive major gifts program.
You will research and manage a full portfolio of major donors and prospects, overseeing written cultivation, solicitation and stewardship plans, utilizing a moves management approach to engage prospects and donors. You will strive to build strong relationships with major giving donors and prospects and actively develop a major giving pipeline of larger gifts and increased revenue.
In addition, you will work with our Chief Philanthropy Officer to identify potential programs and projects for major gift support, and help lead the development of cases for support, and the proposals and materials needed to make such activities successful.
**Qualifications**
**Required Education and Experience:**
+ Bachelor's degree in a related field required, or a combination of education and/or additional job-related experience may be substituted in lieu of the degree.
+ Minimum of five (5) years of not-for-profit fundraising and development experience required.
+ Minimum of three (3) years direct work experience as a fundraising professional with a major gift portfolio required.
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**Pay Range**
$54.12 - $78.47 /hour
We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.