Vice President of Philanthropy

Job Description:

Organization Profile

Intermountain Health is a top ranked healthcare system and national model whose mission is Helping People Live the Healthiest Lives Possible. Its visionary leadership team is relentlessly focused on providing excellent, pro-active, evidence-based, affordable and accessible care in a healing environment, over an expansive and strategic geography.

Serving the healthcare needs of people across the Intermountain West – primarily in Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, and Kansas – Intermountain is an integrated, not-for-profit system comprised of 33 hospitals and 385 clinics, staffed by more than 68,000 employees, including a Medical Group with more than 3,800 physicians and advanced practice clinicians. It also owns a number of subsidiaries including Castell, Tellica, Classic Air Medical and SelectHealth – its non-profit health plan covering more than a million members across Utah, Idaho, Nevada, and Colorado.

Intermountain Foundation:

Intermountain Foundation is a subsidiary of Intermountain Health whose sole purpose is to generate philanthropy in support of Intermountain’s mission. Over the past decade, the Foundation, led by its dedicated volunteer fiduciary board, has experienced remarkable growth with increased total funds raised year over year, employing increasingly sophisticated/contemporary methods of prospect and donor engagement; the result has been top honors from the Association of Healthcare Philanthropy as a North American ‘High Performer’ for 10 consecutive years. The Foundation is committed to building and maintaining a philanthropic landscape commensurate with one of the nations finest health systems.

The Foundation has recently completed its first-ever system-wide campaign for children – Primary Promise – exceeding an ambitious $600M+ goal. Primarily focused in Utah (Intermountain’s Canyons Region), this campaign has been central to support and amplify Intermountain’s ambition to Create the Nation’s Model Health System for Children. For donors, this has been a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to create a lasting legacy that will impact the lives of children and families for decades.

As the Foundation and community celebrate the success of Primary Promise, focus is now expanding to other strategic priorities/campaigns aimed at helping people live the healthiest lives possible. These include constructing Nevada’s first free-standing childrens hospital, replacement of St. Vincent’s Hospital in Billings, and a variety of Women's Health, Cancer, Rural Health, Behavioral Health, and Cardiovascular initiatives.

Remarkable momentum, Intermountain Foundation is growing its impact and footprint following Intermountain’s expansion into Colorado and Montana, while having just completed and approved a new 7 year strategic fundraising plan that calls for additional resources such as this important role. It is an exciting time of strategic expansion and innovation.

The Vice President of Philanthropy is a senior system-level philanthropy executive who serves as a key strategic and operational leader for the Intermountain Foundation. Reporting to the health system’s Chief Development Officer and Foundation President, this role functions as a trusted deputy and leadership partner, helping guide and grow the performance, with emphasis on alignment, measurement, and overall effectiveness of the Foundation’s major gift fundraising enterprise.

The system VPP has primary responsibility for leading regional and system-level fundraising performance, providing direct management and mentorship to the Foundation’s Region Vice Presidents, the Vice President of Strategic Services, and Corporate Relations and Planned Giving functions. The role is designed to strengthen leadership capacity, accountability, consistency, and outcomes across fundraising teams while reducing operational span for the Chief Development Officer and Foundation President.

In addition to guiding fundraising leaders and teams, the system VPP personally manages a portfolio of principal and transformational gift prospects and donors, partnering with executive, clinical, and volunteer leaders to advance Intermountain Health’s philanthropic priorities.

Essential Functions

This position has enterprise-level responsibility across the Foundation’s regional and strategic fundraising functions, and plays a central role in strengthening and simplifying fundraising execution, leadership effectiveness, and measurable results.

This role:

• Reports directly to the Chief Development Officer and Foundation President
• Directly supports and manages the outward facing fundraising teams including:
  • Region Vice Presidents and their major gift fundraising teams
  • Vice President of Strategic Services, which includes annual giving, mid-level giving, and fundraising events
  • Executive Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations and their team
  • Executive Director of Planned Giving and their team
• Maintains a personal portfolio of high-capacity donors and prospects.
• A senior-level team resource, continually gathering, understanding, systemizing, implementing and mentoring contemporary/best fundraising practices and evaluative measurement protocols – particularly as they relate to effective pipeline building and major gift programming.
• Partners closely with Foundation leadership, executive leadership, and clinical partners.
• Requires travel as needed to support donor engagement, team leadership, and organizational priorities.

Skills

1. Strategic Fundraising Leadership

• Partner with the Chief Development Officer and Foundation President to advance the Foundation’s fundraising vision, priorities, and performance goals.
• Serve as a senior leader for the Foundation and may act on behalf of the Chief Development Officer and Foundation President as delegated.
• Provide day-to-day leadership to regional and system-level fundraising functions with a focus on execution, accountability, and measurable outcomes.
• Translate enterprise fundraising strategy into clear goals, systems, expectations, and action plans for regional and functional leaders.
• Continually assess and evaluate the systems, metrics, and landscape that represent contemporary, best-practice major gift success to include enterprise-wide activity metrics, incentive planning, budgeting, etc.
• Support the continued growth and maturity of a vibrant, high-performing healthcare philanthropy organization serving both local and system priorities.

2. Leadership and Team Management

• Directly manage, coach, and support Region Vice Presidents, the Vice President of Strategic Services, the Executive Director of Gift Planning and the Executive Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations.
• Establish clear expectations, performance standards, and consistent management practices.
• Foster a supportive culture of collaboration, accountability, transparency, responsiveness, and shared success across geographically distributed teams.

3. Accountability, Standardization, and Performance Management

• Establish operating rhythms that improve visibility into fundraising activity, progress toward goals, and team performance.
• Partner with data, systems, and operations leaders to improve CRM discipline, prospect management, reporting accuracy, and use of analytics.
• Use performance data to identify opportunities, address gaps, and improve fundraising outcomes.

4. Principal and Major Gift Fundraising

• Oversee Regional Philanthropy Teams, Strategic Services, Gift Planning, and Corporate and Foundation Relations toward respective and collective revenue goal attainment.
• Manage a portfolio of principal and transformational gift prospects and donors.
• Personally cultivate, solicit, and steward significant philanthropic investments aligned with Intermountain Health priorities.
• Partner with the Chief Development Officer and Foundation President on select top-tier donor strategies and enterprise-level opportunities.

5. Cross-Functional and Executive Partnership

• Represent the Foundation with professionalism, credibility, discretion, and strong executive presence.
• Support engagement with volunteer leaders, advisory groups, boards, and campaign partners, as appropriate.
• Evaluate and promote the presence and visibility of reporting Vice Presidents among their respective stakeholders and care site teams.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Ten (10) or more years of progressive experience and success in professional philanthropy/fundraising and systems development with leadership of teams and system emphasis.
• Demonstrated success securing major and/or principal gifts and managing complex donor relationships.
• Five (5) or more years of experience leading senior fundraisers, fundraising managers, or multi-level teams.
• Proven ability to drive accountability, performance, and consistency across geographically distributed or matrixed teams.
• Experience using CRM systems and fundraising data to manage performance and inform decision-making.
• Exceptional communication, relationship-building, and leadership skills, with the ability to work effectively with executives, clinicians, donors, and community leaders.
• Clear understanding of, and experience in implementing and maintaining major gift program infrastructure to manage, measure, incentivize, and support large major gift campaigns within a matrixed organization.
• High level of integrity, judgment, discretion, ownership, team-rooted, and motivational presence, and ability to manage sensitive information.
• Ability to travel as needed.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree and/or related professional credential.
• Experience in healthcare philanthropy, hospital or health system foundations, academic medicine, or another large, matrixed, mission-driven nonprofit environment.
• Experience partnering with senior executives, physician leaders, boards, and volunteer leaders to advance philanthropic priorities.

Physical Requirements

• Ongoing need to see and read information, documents, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess customer needs. 
• Frequent interactions with providers, colleagues, customers, patients/clients, and visitors require ability to verbally communicate, as well as hear and understand spoken information, needs, and issues quickly and accurately. 
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use for typing, accessing needed information, etc.
• For roles requiring driving: Expected to drive a vehicle which requires sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles, and in accordance with all applicable driving laws and regulations.

With this position, you are eligible to participate in the Annual Pay for Performance (AP4P) Plan. This plan enables Intermountain Health to provide leaders with an additional performance compensation opportunity. The AP4P award opportunities are calculated as a percentage of your base salary. Awards are paid out based on attainment of selected Board-approved goals.
 

Location:

Key Bank Tower

Work City:

Salt Lake City

Work State:

Utah

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience. 

$119.67 - $184.72

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

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Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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