Development Officer
Company: CommonSpirit Health
Location: Gilbert
Posted on: January 24, 2026
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Job Description:
Primary responsibility of this position is to solicit annual and
major gifts in support of identified priorities and goals of
Dignity Health - East Valley Hospitals. The Gift Officer will be
responsible for establishing close working relationships with
prospects and donors as well as the members of the board of Dignity
Health East Valley Foundation, the hospitals community board,
senior management and physicians to meet annual fundraising goals.
Essential Functions: • Manage and maintain an annual portfolio of
75-100 donors and prospects. • Work with designated staff to
identify new prospects through research and pipeline sources. •
Manage the qualification, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship
of current donors and prospects. • Work with Board members,
physicians, volunteers and hospital staff to identify potential
donors, secure gifts and pledges and to connect with identified
grateful patients. • Maintain frequent personal contact (in person,
text and email) with a variety of constituents including donors and
prospects. • Learn and maintain an operational knowledge of
Blackbaud CRM and utilize the system to accurately track prospect
plans and activity. • Attend Foundation, hospital, and community
events as required or necessary - many of which might be outside of
normal office hours. Job Requirements Minimum: Education and
Experience: • Bachelors • Masters Degree preferred • Minimum of
three (3) years experience in a professional fundraising role with
a demonstrated ability to solicit and close gifts. • Previous
experience in healthcare fundraising preferred Knowledge, Skills
and Abilities • Ability to think strategically to plan, solicit,
close and steward gifts at various levels. • Ability to develop
substantive relationships with prospects and donors. • Demonstrated
ability to work with board members and volunteers to raise gifts at
various levels. • Must have excellent interpersonal skills,good
oral and written communications skills and the ability to relate
and form relationships with the hospital family donors and
prospects • The Gift Officer should exhibit a level of personal and
professional sophistication and stylecommensurate with that of
thedonor/prospect pool. Where Youll Work Located in the Phoenix,
Ariz., suburb of Gilbert, the Mercy Gilbert Medical Center, is a
198-bed, not-for profit hospital with more than 1,300 team members
and almost 900 doctors on staff representing all major specialties.
In 2014, Phoenix Children’s Hospital launched a 22-bed pediatric
unit inside the hospital. Mercy Gilbert opened in 2006 and has been
a vital part of the growing community. Today it is the fifth
largest employer in Gilbert. During the fiscal year ending June 30,
2016, Mercy Gilbert provided more than $24 million in community
benefit. As a result of Dignity Health’s mission to deliver health
care and partner with the community, more than 42,000 people in the
East Valley were reached through community health services. For
more information visit:
https://www.dignityhealth.org/arizona/locations/mercygilbert.
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