Senior Coordinator-Philanthropy

City of Hope

Chicago, IL

Job posting number: #7306351 (Ref:10030128)

Posted: April 16, 2025

Application Deadline: Open Until Filled

Job Description

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

The Office of Philanthropy’s vision is to support this life-saving work by being known institutionally and nationally as a model of excellence among elite fundraising programs. Recent recruitments of nationally and internationally renowned faculty offer advancement leaders new opportunity for partnership among philanthropy, research, and patient care.

The Senior Coordinator will contribute to this vision by providing support for, and participating in, key processes and programs that sustain an office-wide focus on collaboration, efficiencies and metrics-based outcomes. Through the provision of administrative support, the Senior Coordinator will be a part of creating our evolution into a perpetually campaign-ready, donor-centered, leading industry program to support City of Hope’s mission. In pursuit of this outcome, we are committed to growing careers within the Office of Philanthropy to attract and retain the most talented professionals in the country, and excel as a highly collaborative, efficient and creative team.

Specifically, under the direction of the [Senior Executive Director and Senior Directors of Development], the incumbent will provide clerical support to the team, with an emphasis on project-based work, as follows: Training other coordinators; Support front-line fundraisers in maintaining an up-to-date prospect portfolio, upwards of 100 prospects; support department and donor-initiated cultivation and fundraising events; all pledge agreement work is done by this position, process pledge payments, send pledge reminders for the Office of Philanthropy, maintain fundraiser calendars.

As a successful candidate, you will:

  • Supports front-line fundraisers in maintaining an up-to-date prospect portfolio, including, but not limited to, entering contact reports, updating metric information, and tracking metric progress.
  • Supports department and donor-initiated cultivation and fundraising events. This includes, but is not limited to, preparing invitation lists, tracking rsvps, and tracking income and expenses.
  • Maintain fundraiser calendars: schedule meetings and assist with meeting preparation and follow up.
  • Creates pledge agreement drafts, process pledge payments, send pledge reminders for the Office of Philanthropy.
  • Participate in meetings, search committees, task forces and other special projects as requested.
  • Maintains a positive image when dealing with executive staff, donors, prospects, fundraisers and other City of Hope employees.
  • Practices a high level of integrity and honesty in maintaining confidentiality.

Your qualifications should include:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in marketing, accounting, or business administration or other related field.
  • Experience may substitute for subject area requirements.
  • 5+ years of administrative experience with exposure to fundraising and non-profit systems. Experience in a complex medical or academic development setting encouraged.

City of Hope employees pay is based on the following criteria: work experience, qualifications, and work location.

City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer.

To learn more about our Comprehensive Benefits, please CLICK HERE.

Salary / Pay Rate Information:
Pay Rate: $29.49 - $45.71 / hour

The estimated pay scale represents the typical [salary/hourly] range City of Hope reasonably expects to pay for this position, with offers determined based on several factors which may include, but not be limited to, the candidate’s experience, expertise, skills, education, job scope, training, internal equity, geography/market, etc. This pay scale is subject to change from time to time.



City of Hope is a community of people characterized by our diversity of thought, background and approach, but tied together by our commitment to care for and cure those with cancer and other life-threatening diseases. The innovation that our diversity produces in the areas of research, treatment, philanthropy and education has made us national leaders in this fight. Our unique and diverse workforce provides us the ability to understand our patients' needs, deliver compassionate care and continue the quest for a cure for life-threatening diseases. At City of Hope, diversity and inclusion is a core value at the heart of our mission. We strive to create an inclusive workplace environment that engages all of our employees and provides them with opportunities to develop and grow, both personally and professionally. Each day brings an opportunity to strengthen our work, leverage our different perspectives and improve our patients’ experiences by learning from others. Diversity and inclusion is about much more than policies and campaigns. It is an integral part of who we are as an institution, how we operate and how we see our future.


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Job posting number:#7306351 (Ref:10030128)
Application Deadline:Open Until Filled
Employer Location:City of Hope
Duarte,California
United States
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