Senior Philanthropic Advisor Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center | Cincinnati, Ohio Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati Children’s or CCHMC)—the #1 children’s hospital in the nation—seeks an experienced, strategic, and highly collaborative principal gifts professional to serve as the senior philanthropic advisor (SPA). Partnering closely with hospital leadership and reporting directly to the senior vice president (SVP) of development, the SPA will raise philanthropic sights by expanding the national pipeline of principal and transformational gift prospects and enhancing the visibility of CCHMC’s national reputation in clinical care and research. CCHMC’s cutting-edge research spans seven strategic areas of basic, translational, and clinical science, aimed at uncovering the developmental origins of disease to help predict and prevent childhood disease and chronic adult conditions. The SPA will lead and drive efforts to raise seven- and eight-figure gifts in support of regenerative medicine, mental health, vaccine development, cancer cell and gene therapy, health equity, developmental disorders across lifespan, and genomics, among other areas of research strength.U.S. News & World Report has ranked Cincinnati Children’s among the Top 5 Best Children’s Hospitals for over a decade. In 2023-2024, the hospital ranked #1 in the nation and in the Top 10 for all specialties. Cincinnati Children’s is also one of the top two recipients of pediatric research grants bestowed by the National Institutes of Health. With new executive leadership in place, the hospital continues to boldly deliver on its mission to improve child health and transform delivery of care through fully integrated, globally recognized research, education, and innovation.In 2020, Cincinnati Children’s unveiled Pursuing Our Potential Together, a long-term aspirational plan to accelerate how CCHMC will continue to transform child health between now and the hospital’s 150th anniversary in 2033. The plan capitalizes on recent expansion and growth, including a newly opened 249-bed critical care building, which adds a new emergency department, operating rooms, and spaces to support patients and families. Dynamic new leadership and an expanding physical footprint enhance the hospital’s ability to serve the most medically complex patients locally and globally, while creating significant opportunity for new transformational philanthropy. To drive the strategic plan’s success, CCHMC aims to double current annual gifts and pledges to more than $100 million by its 150th anniversary in 2033. CCHMC is investing in increased development personnel, data analytics, and volunteer management to reach this goal sustainably through year-over-year philanthropic growth. The successful candidate will be a proven principal gift strategist, and an inclusive and approachable colleague who leads with integrity and has a strong track record of securing seven-figure gifts—including cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship—in complex academic, medical, and/or research environments. The SPA will have a sophisticated understanding of how to align a donor’s interests with the aspirational goals of the institution, as well as experience coaching institutional leadership on principal gift cultivation, and structuring gifts that involve complex assets, multiple family members, and donors with transformational capacity. Further, this individual must be an expansive thinker who can match Cincinnati Children’s research innovation with creativity in discovery efforts aimed at new high-capacity individual and institutional donors, including those currently unaffiliated with the hospital.The successful candidate must be an active listener who exhibits the credibility, emotional intelligence, judgment, and sophistication to effectively engage and partner with key internal and external stakeholders, including highest-level volunteers and donors. This person must possess superb communication and negotiation skills, the ability to speak credibly and compellingly about cutting-edge medical research and clinical programs, the political savvy to navigate a complex health care enterprise, and the desire and resiliency to build bridges and strong collaborative relationships across a diverse body of faculty, staff, donors, and patient families. The successful candidate must also possess a deep appreciation and passion for the mission of CCHMC.Rachel Ellenport is leading this search with Grace Zakim, Bryce Ervin, and Lisa Clayton.CCHMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, or other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. APPLY NOMINATE contact Bryce Ervin Full Description