Senior Director, Events

Overview

The Senior Director of Events is responsible for overseeing a comprehensive and robust recognition, stewardship, and cultivation events program. This position works with the utmost professionalism to support the Division’s senior management and Dana-Farber leadership, including by directly supporting the President and CEO during events. The Senior Director will provide strategic input into event programming, conceptualize innovative tactics to reach new audiences, and oversee new and ongoing event activities. Accountable for executing all events within budget, on time, and aligned with strategic goals, the Senior Director will lead a team tasked with securing the best value from vendors, collaborating with Dana-Farber departments to formulate mutually beneficial policies and standards, and planning and executing a robust portfolio of high-level, unique, and programmatically focused events for Trustees, donors, and prospective donors within the transformational gifts, principal gifts, major gifts, annual gifts, planned gifts, institutional, and Jimmy Fund portfolios. The Senior Director will serve as a key member of the Donor Experience & Engagement management group. Responsible for assisting the entire Division with reaching financial goals. Reports to the Assistant Vice President of Donor Experience & Engagement.

This position is considered remote, 0-1 days onsite at 10 Brookline Place, Brookline, MA each week. DFCI guidelines state that employees must reside in New England: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, or Vermont.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS:

Resume and cover letter required with application submission. If you wish to disclose your personal pronouns, please include them within your resume and cover letter submission.

Located in Boston and the surrounding communities, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is a leader in life changing breakthroughs in cancer research and patient care. We are united in our mission of conquering cancer, HIV/AIDS and related diseases. We strive to create an inclusive, diverse, and equitable environment where we provide compassionate and comprehensive care to patients of all backgrounds, and design programs to promote public health particularly among high-risk and underserved populations. We conduct groundbreaking research that advances treatment, we educate tomorrow's physician/researchers, and we work with amazing partners, including other Harvard Medical School-affiliated hospitals.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Office of the President, Senior Vice President and Chief Philanthropy Officer, Vice Presidents, Associate Vice Presidents, Assistant Vice Presidents, gift officers, and colleagues across the Division to ensure all strategic and cross-functional goals are accomplished through the execution of a robust portfolio of recognition, stewardship, and cultivation events.
• Serve as the lead strategist, event manager, and budget manager for the annual Presidential Symposium.
• Develop and implement new strategies and programming ideas for unique experiential recognition, stewardship, and cultivation events for donors and prospective donors, with a focus on supporting the Division’s fundraising goals for the Future Cancer Hospital and other strategic plan priorities.
• Design and oversee the consistent implementation of project management tools to aid in the successful planning and execution of all events.
• Manage all Division-wide policies and procedures related to recognition, stewardship, and cultivation events.
• Manage the event-related budget process for Donor Experience & Engagement; provide counsel to teams across the Division on their event budgets.
• Execute other new projects and perform additional management duties, as necessary.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Leads a team of seven staff.
• Directly supervises three Senior/Associate Directors, and shared supervision of an Assistant.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalency required; Bachelor’s degree preferred. 8+ years’ relevant work experience .
• Event planning experience required; experience planning philanthropy events required.
• Direct work with donors and frontline fundraising, preferred.
• Direct report management experience required.
• Significant donor and volunteer leadership experience strongly preferred.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:

• Proven ability to think strategically and from a “big-picture” perspective.
• Superior people management, leadership, and project management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to conceptualize, draft, and present new event concepts to senior leadership required.
• Sharp attention to detail with strong editing and review capabilities.
• Exceptional organizational skills and ability to assess and improve processes and procedures.
• Effective in working with wide audiences, including highest level of Dana-Farber constituencies.
• Strong sense of client support and success.
• Mission-driven, desire to help meet the goals of the Division of Philanthropy.

Pay Transparency Statement

The hiring range is based on market pay structures, with individual salaries determined by factors such as business needs, market conditions, internal equity, and based on the candidate’s relevant experience, skills and qualifications.

For union positions, the pay range is determined by the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA)

Salary: $177,637

At Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, we work every day to create an innovative, caring, and inclusive environment where every patient, family, and staff member feels they belong. As relentless as we are in our mission to reduce the burden of cancer for all, we are committed to having faculty and staff who offer multifaceted experiences. Cancer knows no boundaries and when it comes to hiring the most dedicated and compassionate professionals, neither do we. If working in this kind of organization inspires you, we encourage you to apply.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is an equal opportunity employer and affirms the right of every qualified applicant to receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, disability, age, ancestry, military service, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.

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