Strategic Leadership

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in progressive leadership roles working with numerous senior-level stakeholders in complex environments, ideally academic or healthcare environments.
• Ability to contribute to and interpret business strategy, connect it to the organization’s priorities, and successfully implement.
• Demonstrated experience working as a collaborative and productive member of a senior management team.
• Strong financial acumen and experience being accountable for large departmental revenue and expense budgets.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to see the big picture, balancing short- and long-term objectives and competing priorities, and identifying and generating business development opportunities.
• Superior verbal and written communication abilities, and exceptional listening skills.
• Strong administrative and organizational skills, including robust analytical abilities, and resourcefulness and creativity in problem-solving.
• Proven ability to build and sustain relationships at all levels internally with colleagues and externally with the Board and other volunteers and donors.
• Proven ability to exercise sound and independent judgement in a variety of different situations, maintaining absolute confidentiality and discretion where required.
• Demonstrated ability to lead with excellence and enable the success of a large and diverse team and wider organization through leadership and effective management.
• An excellent coach and mentor who brings a track record of hiring, nurturing, and developing top talent and earning the respect of colleagues and team members.
• Demonstrated commitment to principles of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Anti-Racism (IDEAA).
• Strong and consistently demonstrated alignment with our values of Collaboration, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence.

• A bachelor’s degree or higher is preferred for this role, or an equivalent combination of work experience and education.

Fundraising

• Proven success securing major and transformational gifts at the 7- and 8-figure level.
• Strong experience in and understanding of the Canadian philanthropic landscape.
• Superb relationship management skills with the donor, their family and/or professional advisors, including the ability to navigate what are often complex dynamics.
• An ability to formulate “big ideas” working in conjunction with both the donor and the leadership of the Cancer Centre.
• Intellectual nimbleness and an ability to translate complex clinical and scientific information into everyday language, both through exceptional writing skills and strong verbal communication.
• An ability to strategically align institutional needs with donor interests and recommend creative funding options.
• Technical knowledge and expertise in structuring large, complex gifts, both on an outright basis and on a legacy basis in the case of planned giving.
• Exceptional negotiating skills to ensure that the interests of Princess Margaret Cancer Centre are always paramount.
• Experience partnering with third-party organizations to support transformational donors who wish to solve systemic issues through multiple organizations rather than through a single entity.
• Demonstrated understanding of how to negotiate effective gift agreements with the donor, to ensure realistic, reasonable, and timely reporting on achievements and impact.
• Valuing stewardship as much as securing the gift, and an understanding of how to structure donor recognition opportunities commensurate with the size of the gift.