Philanthropy Manager

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🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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MPN Research Foundation

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2 - 10 employees

Founded 1999

🤝 Non-profit

🏥 Healthcare

🔬 Science

Non-profit • Healthcare • Science

MPN Research Foundation is a non-profit organization that funds and advances original research into myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) — the blood cancers essential thrombocythemia (ET), polycythemia vera (PV), and myelofibrosis (MF). Founded in 1999 as the first organization dedicated to MPNs, the Foundation leads collaborative, patient-centered efforts including the MPN Progression Registry, tissue banking, clinical trial engagement, patient-focused drug development, and convening researchers, clinicians, patients, and biopharma partners to accelerate scientific progress toward better treatments and a cure.

📋 Description

• Manage and actively grow a portfolio of high-net-worth donors, ensuring both strong retention and increased annual and lifetime contributions. • Identify, cultivate, and secure new major donors through strategic research, outreach, and personalized cultivation plans, in partnership with marketing and communication, patient engagement, and research teams. • Research, respectfully inquire, and infer through behavior, a donor's affinity and connection to myeloid malignancies. • Partner closely with the leadership team, marketing, operations and Board of Directors to secure high-impact contributions. • Maintain the comprehensive major-donor forecast and pipeline, ensuring accuracy, strategic clarity, and consistent quarter-over-quarter, year-over-year board-ready reporting. • Develop data-informed strategies to prioritize prospects, deepen engagement, segment donors by affinity, and forecast revenue. • Serve as the internal analytics expert, leveraging data to inform outreach strategy, predict donor behavior, and identify growth opportunities. • Nurture personal relationships with mid-level donors, meeting them where they are in their journey and connection relative to MPNs. • Act as the Salesforce expert for the philanthropy function; building dashboards, optimizing workflows, maintaining data hygiene, and ensuring accurate reporting. • Utilize wealth-screening platforms and prospect-research tools to identify, segment, and evaluate donor capacity and affinity. • Lead the creation and continuous improvement of systems, processes, and analytic tools to increase fundraising efficiency. • Develop individualized cultivation and stewardship plans for top donors and prospects, managing mid-level donors effectively while moving top prospects and higher-level donors to close in partnership with Chief Executive Officer, Chief Scientific Officer, and Board of Directors. • Coordinate with team members to ensure meaningful, timely, and coordinated donor engagement. • Advocate for increased philanthropic investment in the organization’s mission, by immersing and effectively communicating organizations past impact and promising future programs, moving donors toward higher levels of impact. • Develop strategies to convert grassroots and mid-level donors into long-term major donors. • Track campaign performance and identify opportunities to elevate giving and deepen engagement. • Cultivate and manage relationships with donors interested in legacy and planned giving. • Work with legal and financial advisors to educate, structure, and secure planned gift commitments. • Integrate planned giving conversations into broader major donor strategies at all stages of the donor journey. • Use donor-management, analytics, and wealth-screening tools to document and track donor profiles, giving histories, and engagement patterns relative to their affinities and interests in healthcare and rare diseases, cancers, and the life sciences. • Leverage propensity-to-give data to optimize outreach, qualify prospects, and prioritize and segment portfolios. • Analyze trends to identify opportunities for stewardship, upgrades, and new donor acquisitions. • Outline & implement processes inclusive of documentation expectations memorialized with the creation of necessary standard operating procedures. • Cultivate philanthropic leadership among Board members, encouraging meaningful participation in giving and fundraising. • Leverage Board networks to identify, introduce, and cultivate new major donor prospects. • Serve as a thought leader on rare disease and/or oncology adjacent philanthropy, guiding staff and Board leadership on trends, strategy, and best practices for medical research organizations, sourcing from all industries and applying fit for purpose to MPN Research Foundation. • Stay current on advancements in cancer research and related technologies to inform donor messaging and case-for-support development.

🎯 Requirements

• Experience in rare disease and/or oncology industries highly desired. • Ability and strong interest in learning about MPNs, medical research and drug development, the disease landscape and global ecosystem required. • Proven track record in philanthropy and major donor engagement within the non-profit sector or sales acumen in life sciences, healthcare, or the biopharmaceutical industry. • Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent. • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage and inspire stakeholders to meet them where they are and understand their journey with MPNs. • Technical proficiency in relevant research methodologies and development tools. • Strong analytical skills and ability to leverage data to inform fundraising strategies. • Critical thinking and problem-solving abilities, with a focus on driving impact. • Experience in developing and implementing systems and processes to enhance fundraising efficiency. • Chicago based preferred, with ability to work from an office occasionally, but not required. • Ability and interest to travel once a quarter required. • Ability to work cross-functionally, putting aside personal agendas, in a dynamic, fast-paced, lean startup-like environment. • Strong organizational skills and ability to prioritize and execute tasks effectively in unstructured or ambiguous situations. • Passion for the mission and demonstrated commitment to the values of the MPN Research Foundation. • Driven and committed to making a difference in the lives of those affected by MPNs. • Familiarity with marketing principles and strategies is a plus. • Ability to straddle the team environment and individual tasks to achieve common goals.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • 401(k) matching • Flexible work hours • Paid time off • Professional development opportunities