Director, Major and Planned Giving

Mercy Medical Center • Baltimore, MD

8h • Onsite

About The Position

Join our Team at Mercy Medical Center - Now Hiring a Director, Major and Planned Giving! Mercy Medical Center is honored to be recognized by Newsweek as one of America's Most Trustworthy Companies for three consecutive years (2023–2025) and as one of America's Greatest Workplaces for Women in 2025. Additionally, we are proud to be a SEVEN TIME recipient of Forbes' America's Best Midsize Employers award, most recently in 2026. As a hospital founded by the Sisters of Mercy, we offer a supportive and empowering environment where dedicated medical professionals thrive. If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact through your work and contributing to a mission of compassionate care, we invite you to apply today and join our Mercy family.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Minimum of seven years of progressively responsible fundraising experience, with demonstrated success in individual and major gift fundraising.
• Knowledge of annual giving strategy, donor pipeline development, portfolio management, and moves management.
• Demonstrated knowledge of planned giving strategies and experience working with planned giving prospects and donors.
• Strong interpersonal, written, verbal, and organizational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships with donors, clinicians, senior leaders, volunteers, and colleagues.
• Proficiency with donor databases and fundraising technology.
• Ability to attend occasional evening and weekend donor meetings, events, and other Foundation activities.
• Commitment to the mission and values of the Sisters of Mercy.

Nice To Haves

• Healthcare fundraising experience strongly preferred.
• Experience with grateful patient fundraising and clinician engagement strongly preferred.
• Previous supervisory or team leadership experience strongly preferred.
• Experience with Blackbaud products preferred.

Responsibilities

• Leads Mercy Health Foundation’s individual giving program, with responsibility for annual giving, major gifts, grateful patient and clinician engagement, and planned giving.
• Develops strategies to grow individual giving, build strong donor relationships, and achieve fundraising goals in support of Mercy’s priorities and campaigns.
• Manages a portfolio of major and planned gift prospects and donors.
• Collaborates with Foundation leadership, clinicians, hospital leaders, volunteers, and colleagues to identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward donors.
• Provides strategic oversight of Mercy’s annual giving program.
• Supervises a development officer responsible for the day-to-day management and execution of the annual giving program.

Benefits

• Competitive health, prescription, vision and dental benefits & wellness credit for eligible employees
• 403(b) retirement plan with generous company match and “catch up” provision
• Paid Time Off (PTO) & company paid holidays
• Tuition reimbursement
• Mental Health resources and other employee related wellness opportunities through our Employee Assistance Program
• Employer paid Short & Long Term Disability benefits for eligible employees
• Voluntary Benefits
• Discounts on auto & home insurance and Verizon plans
• Mercy’s Rewards & Recognition Program rewarding employees for going above and beyond in living Mercy’s Mission and Values

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior