Foundation Specialist

Job Description Summary
Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS) is seeking a Foundation Specialist to join our team. The Foundation Specialist is responsible for creating and executing fundraising strategies for annual donations and fundraising events for one or more specific ministry foundations. This role works with ministry donor and prospect inquiries and manages all local mailings, system and colleague appeals, event management and implementations, online giving, stewardship mailings/activities, memorials/tribute gifts, and grateful patient acquisition.

Position Specifics:
• Schedule: Full time, 40 hrs/wk, Monday-Friday
• Location: 100% on-site in Springfield, IL
• Compensation that aligns with your experience
Education Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, communications, philanthropy, or a related field is required.
• High School Diploma or equivalent plus five year's of experience in fundraising, communications, sales/marketing, public relations or related field may be considered in lieu of a Bachelor's degree.

Experience Qualifications

• 1-2 years of experience in fundraising, communications, sales/marketing or public relations is required. (This experience is in addition to experience in lieu of Bachelor's degree)

Certifications, Licenses and Registrations

• N/A

Job Description

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Throughout communities in Illinois and Wisconsin, 13 hospitals, numerous community-based health centers and clinics, our 13,000+ colleagues have built a culture based on our solid core values of respect, care, competence, and joy. These are the ideals we believe in, work by, and live each day.

Built upon more than 145 years of service to the communities we serve, we now look to the future and our place in it as a health care system that strives to continually improve processes, procedures, and outcomes with the latest and most advanced technologies and treatments.

Regardless of how far our passion for excellence carries us, our focus will always remain on the most important person in our entire organization: The patient.

HSHS requires COVID-19 vaccines or an approved medical or religious exemption for all colleagues.

Benefits:  HSHS provides a benefits package designed to support the overall well-being of our colleagues including their physical, emotional, financial, spiritual, and work health. Colleagues budgeted to work at least 32 hours per pay period are eligible for HSHS benefits.

• Comprehensive and affordable health coverage includes medical, prescription, dental and vision coverage for full-time and part-time colleagues.
• Paid Time Off (PTO)  combines vacation, sick, and personal days into one balance to allow you the flexibility to use your time off as you need.
• Retirement benefits including HSHS
  contributions.
• Education Assistance benefits include up to $4,000 of educational assistance each calendar year and tuition discounts to select colleges with no waiting period.
• Adoption Assistance provides financial support up to $7,500 for colleagues growing their families through adoption   to reimburse application and legal fees, transportation, and more!
• Other benefits include: Wellness program with incentives, employer-paid life insurance and short-term and long-term disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, employee assistance program, ID theft coverage, colleague rewards and recognition program, discount program, and more!

Benefits

HSHS and affiliates is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE).

HSHS is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.

Pay Range:

$28.14 - $42.21