Director of Development – End of Life Choices New York

End of Life Choices New York, through leadership, advocacy, education and counseling, seeks to expand choice at the end of life and improve the quality of care for New Yorkers, ensuring that their values and wishes are respected. We help patients and their loved ones face the end of life with calm facts and choices of action during a difficult time. We aggressively pursue legal reforms to improve pain care and palliative care. We engage in a variety of educational and advocacy efforts to ensure that advance directives and end of life wishes are honored. And, we are now engaged in a major effort to establish aid in dying in New York either through litigation or by legislation.

We are looking for a Director of Development who can increase funding for our mission and programs. The specific responsibilities of this position include:

Create, implement and manage a strategic fundraising plan

Research, identify, cultivate, and increase individual and foundation giving, especially major gifts

Develop and maintain ongoing relationships with major donors

Develop and manage donor recognition efforts

Establish legacy giving program

Lead the preparation of effective fundraising appeals, communications materials, grant applications, and acknowledgement/stewardship correspondence

Assist with the development and implementation of special events

Maintain accurate fundraising records and donor database

Qualifications:

At least three years of experience in fundraising, with a proven track record of building a donor base and soliciting and obtaining major gifts

Excellent written and oral communications skills, including perceptive listening skills

Detail oriented, with strong organizational skills

Team player who can also work well independently

A sincere interest in end of life issues and commitment to our mission

Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent life experience

Visit www.endoflifechoicesny.org to learn more about EOLCNY.

Salary is market competitive and commensurate with experience.

Position will be based in the New York City metropolitan area; there will be flexibility to work from home some of the time, if desired.

How to apply

To be considered for this position, please email your resume, cover letter and salary requirements to jobs@endoflifechoicesny.org. (Please do not submit materials by postal mail). Candidates are strongly encouraged to apply by October 10; however, applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

In your cover letter, please include answers to the following questions:

1) Why would you like to work for End of Life Choices New York?

2) What are some highlights from your work experience that you think would make you a good fit for this position?

3) What would you like us to know about you personally?

4) How did you learn about this position?

Further information about End of Life Choices New York

Life is precious, but it ends eventually for all of us. No dying person should have to endure more suffering than he or she is willing to bear. Every dying person who is mentally competent should have the right to die, if possible, in a way that she or he decides and controls, consistent with her or his values and beliefs. Yet many people die protracted deaths with terrible suffering, and often in ways inconsistent with their wishes. Too many people also receive levels of care and treatment at the end of their lives that they do not want or would not want if they were fully informed of their treatment options. Our end of life care system needs dramatic improvement.

End of Life Choices New York is a small nonprofit organization that has established itself as a key and respected player in the end of life field. We currently have an Executive Director, Associate Director, and Director of Client Services; we are in the process of filling two new full-time positions, the Director of Development and the Director of Outreach and Education.

Our mission is to expand choice at the end of life and improve the quality of care for New Yorkers, ensuring that their values and wishes are respected. There is no charge for our services, which include the following:

Counseling–

We serve individuals and families who may be facing the end of life or who may simply be trying to plan ahead. We offer information and support, either in person or by phone, concerning a range of end of life topics, such as advance directives, pain management, and palliative care.

Education–

We participate in conferences and panel discussions and provide lectures to the lay public (such as at senior centers, retirement communities and community organizations); at schools of nursing, social work, law and medicine; and at hospitals and medical centers.

Legislative Leadership–

We have been a major force in New York in the creation and passage of key legislation designed to expand choice and to improve pain, palliative care and end of life care. We have played a leadership role in having important, relevant legislation introduced and we have enjoyed great success in having such legislation enacted.

Litigation–

We have initiated a lawsuit to establish aid in dying in New York. We seek a ruling that will clarify that mentally competent, terminally ill patients have the right to obtain medicine by prescription that they could ingest to achieve a peaceful death, a practice that is currently legal in four other states.

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