Senior Director Editorial & Development Strategy CNHF

Job Description

Description

The Senior Director of Editorial and Development Strategy at Children's National Hospital Foundation reports to the Chief Marketing Officer.

This position manages strategic content development for cultivation, solicitation and stewardship of Children's National donors and prospects across major gifts, events, direct response and digital communications.

This includes strategy and content development for the production of proposals, impact reports, emails, remarks, scripts and other written materials in support of fundraising initiatives and campaigns.

The role requires a skilled writer and editor who can elevate donor-facing copy from across the Foundation, ensuring accuracy and consistency of style, tone and content.

The Senior Director is responsible for ensuring that content is shared across all Foundation channels to optimize donor engagement, increase awareness of the Foundation's work and ensure efficiency of content development.

These channels include but are not limited to the semiannual magazine, website, digital stewardship platform and social media channels as appropriate.

This position oversees the Foundation's editorial team and contract employees as needed to ensure the best possible quality content and results.

These responsibilities include working with and supporting individuals to improve their strategic, analytical, writing and editing skills.

The Senior Director will assign projects and allocate resources based on fundraising priorities and ROI in collaboration with leadership team members.

This role requires close collaboration with designers and other members of the Foundation to deliver the most compelling content across all media, including events, video and web.

The Senior Director will work successfully with multiple stakeholders across the Foundation and Hospital to build consensus and meet critical submission deadlines.

This position requires consistent focus on improving operations of editorial function to streamline process and improve outcomes for the benefit of donors and philanthropic goals.

Qualifications

Minimum Education

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Bachelor's Degree (Required)

Minimum Work Experience

12 years (Required)

Required Skills / Knowledge

Ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders across the Foundation and Hospital and build consensus with stakeholders to meet critical submission deadlines.

Consistent focus on improving operations of editorial function to streamline process and improve outcomes for the benefit of donors.

Demonstrated strength in persuasive writing and editing is required, as is a proven record of successful proposal writing or the equivalent.

Ability to set priorities and meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment is essential, as is ability to simultaneously manage multiple projects at once.

Management and understanding of budgets.

Must be skilled in communicating effectively with a diverse range of professionals (executives, physicians, scientists, donors, development officers and administrators).

Ability to research information from a variety of internal and external sources, and then synthesize and tailor information into proposals, reports and other communications.

Skill in presentation and program development as well as speech writing and executive communication is vital to the strategic cultivation aspect of this position.

Demonstrated leadership as a writer, editor, with significant experience in creative collaboration and project management.

Ability to develop and manage a high level of detail for strategic projects.

Working independently to move projects forward when parameters are ambiguous. Need to take the initiative to move things forward and seek consensus at key points.

Ability to work collaboratively and think creatively is necessary.

Interest and experience in philanthropic proposal writing in a medical setting is preferred.

Functional Accountabilities

Proposal writing / stewardship / event program development

• Work with gift officers, lead collaboration with faculty, scientists and other hospital staff to develop material necessary for philanthropic proposals, including project budgets.
• Conduct research from internal and external sources necessary for proposal development.
• Serve as primary writer for major gifts, delivering high-quality, compelling proposals and impact reports.
• Work with gift officers to manage the pipeline of proposal production on a regular basis, effectively guaranteeing that resources are properly deployed to produce results in a timely fashion.
• Work with business operations team to produce financial philanthropic data necessary for proposals and impact reports, when necessary.
• Provide master messaging documents for campaigns.
• Supports writing team, ensuring editorial quality control and successful project execution.

Collateral material development

• Serve as a resource to Foundation staff to ensure that messaging for all materials supports strategic initiatives, provides donor-centric perspective and meets the highest level of quality.
• Prepare and / or edit important major gift documents prepared by various team members including proposals, impact reports, stewardship functions and other collateral material in support of $5M+ donors and prospects.

Strategic Planning

• Serve as content strategists for major gift officers relating to campaigns, proposal development, impact reports and events.
• Manage key projects deemed important to the strategic direction of the Foundation, particularly those relating unrestricted fundraising.
• Develop budgets and project revenue based on strategic plans.
• Work strategically with executives and team members across the organization.

Organizational Accountabilities

Organizational Accountabilities (Staff)

Organizational Commitment / Identification

Teamwork / Communication

Performance Improvement / Problem-solving

Cost Management / Financial Responsibility

Safety

Primary Location

Maryland-Silver Spring

Other Locations

District of Columbia-Washington

Work Locations

Inventa Towers

1 Inventa Place

Silver Spring 20910

Management

Organization

Position Status : R (Regular) - FT - Full-Time

Shift : Day

Work Schedule : Monday - Friday

Job Posting

Aug 6, 2024, 7 : 04 : 19 PM

Full-Time Salary Range

137550.4 - 229257.6

Children's National Hospital is an equal opportunity employer that evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, identity, or other characteristics protected by law.

Please note that it is the policy of Children's National Hospital to ensure a drug-free work environment : a workplace free from the illegal use, possession or distribution of controlled substances (as defined in the Controlled Substances Act), or the misuse of legal substances, by all staff (management, employees and contractors).

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