Candidate Information Pack Senior Associate Director, Cambridge University Health Partners, Cancer University of Cambridge
Contents Introduction.......................................................................................................................................................3 Cambridge University Health Partners........................................................................................................4 The Cambridge Cancer Centre........................................................................................................................5 The Development and Alumni Relations Office.........................................................................................8 The Role....................................................................................................................................................................9 Job Description....................................................................................................................................................10 Organisational Chart...........................................................................................................................................13 Person Profile......................................................................................................................................................14 The Structure of the University of Cambridge.........................................................................................16 Schools, Faculties, Departments...................................................................................................................17 Terms & Conditions...........................................................................................................................................18 Application Process...........................................................................................................................................18 Equality of Opportunity...................................................................................................................................19
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Introduction
For eight centuries, the University of Cambridge has welcomed brilliant minds and set them free to collaborate and create, sending world-changing ideas in return. Cambridge scholars identified the building blocks of life, the origins of the universe and the origins of man, and with a significant tradition in the sciences, medicine and mathematics, the research that Cambridge produces affects us all. The University is home to the discovery of world-changing medical breakthroughs such as humanised monoclonal antibodies, in-vitro fertilisation, the insulin molecule, and DNA itself. At Cambridge, philanthropy has driven impact for more than 800 years and this is the basis of the University’s £2 billion campaign, which launched its public phase in October last year, and is the biggest and most ambitious Europe has ever seen. The campaign will enable Cambridge to address some of the biggest issues facing society today, and make a major impact on the world in the 21st century. It will ensure the University’s research and teaching stays at the cutting edge by providing world-class infrastructure, continuing to thrive and serve society at large, and attracting great minds to study and work across the University and Colleges.
Cambridge University’s Development and Alumni Relations (CUDAR) office is now looking for the Senior Associate Director, Cambridge University Health Partners, Cancer to join their successful and rapidly expanding fundraising team. The Senior Associate Director, CUHP, Cancer will report to Gary Keegan, Director of Development, Cambridge University Health Partners. The CUHP fundraising team is responsible for securing philanthropic income for priority areas relating to the School of Clinical Medicine, Papworth Hospital and the Cambridge Cancer Centre. Becoming part of this exceptionally high-performing team now will not only enable you to help shape the future of medical fundraising at the University, but also to play a key role in driving forward some of the most advanced and pioneering scientific research taking place in the world today. This role is crucial to the funding of research that is helping to solve global society’s greatest challenges; an outstanding opportunity for an experienced fundraiser to play a leading role in European higher education’s most momentous campaign.
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Cambridge University Health Partners
Formed in 2009, CUHP effectively formalises and strengthens the pre-existing collaboration between the University of Cambridge and its principal National Health Service partners, namely; Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust and Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. This strategic partnership aims to improve patient care, patient outcomes and population health through innovation and the integration of service delivery, health research and clinical education. The NHS organisations in the partnership are those that work most closely with the University in performing research and education and that involve academic doctors in the delivery of their services.
The Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Addenbrooke’s Hospital) is based at the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. A short distance from the historic city centre, the Campus is a world-class centre of excellence in biomedical related research, patient care and education. The Campus encompasses the Cambridge University Hospitals, a number of University departments, and several internationally renowned research institutes, including the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK, the National Blood Authority, GlaxoSmithKline and the Wellcome Trust. The site’s expansion from 70 to 140 acres will accommodate extensive new clinical facilities including neurosciences and cancer, as well as the new Papworth Hospital, opening in 2018. The expansion will also include University of Cambridge facilities and the new Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, in which the University will have a significant presence. The key principle behind the Campus is to connect absolute excellence in pure science discovery with practical paths to its application. Cambridge University Health Partners (CUHP) is one of only six Academic Health Science Centres in England recognised by the Department of Health as an internationally competitive centre of excellence in the integrated delivery of health care, health research and the education of health professionals.
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The Cambridge Cancer Centre
The Cambridge Cancer Centre is a dynamic collaboration of 650 researchers, clinicians and scientists based in the Cambridge area. The core partners are the University of Cambridge, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Addenbrooke’s Hospital), and Cancer Research UK. Other members include the Babraham Institute, the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, the Cambridge Institute of Public Health, the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, the European Bioinformatics Institute, the MRC Cancer Unit, the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Strangeways Research Laboratory, the Gurdon Institute, the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Combining world-class science and technology with excellent patient care, the Cambridge Cancer Centre is pioneering new ways to prevent, detect and treat cancer. Led by world-renowned childhood brain tumour expert Professor Richard Gilbertson, the Centre breaks down the barriers between the laboratory and the clinic, enabling patients to benefit from the latest innovations in cancer science.
As a virtual organisation, one of the main principles of the Cambridge Cancer Centre is the open exchange of scientific knowledge and skills across the many disciplines involved in cancer science, creating a culture of continuous learning and development for all members. In keeping with this aim, the Centre promotes collaborative projects, and the sharing of laboratory equipment and facilities between its 170 research groups. It also supports a broad programme of formal education and training designed to nurture the next generation of cancer researchers and clinicians, and funds PhD studentships. The Centre is organised into 12 research programmes as depicted below.
Cambridge is well-known for the quality and concentration of research across a range of scientific disciplines, including population genetics, epidemiology, and computational biology, that have practical applications to cancer science. Building on the foundations of this prestigious scientific legacy, the Cambridge Cancer Centre was established in 2007 when the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute opened beside Addenbrooke’s Hospital on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. Many of the other members are now also based on the site.
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The Cambridge Cancer Centre Recent Achievements
Vital Collaborations
The Cambridge Cancer Centre is one of only three Cancer Research UK Major Centres in the UK, underlining its pivotal role in translational research, and is the only UK Centre which is a member of Cancer Core Europe, the premier virtual cancer centre in Europe. It is a Comprehensive Cancer Centre of the Organisation of European Cancer Institutes and has achieved the Excellence Designation of the European Academy of Cancer Sciences.
Cambridge is a hub for innovation and enterprise with a vibrant biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry, hosting over 160 life science spin-offs and established businesses. The Cambridge Cancer Centre is building a Therapeutics Consortium, which will connect the intellectual know-how of several large academic institutions with the drug-developing potential of the pharmaceutical industry to deliver better drugs to the clinic. Cancer Research UK has teamed up with Cambridge-based research company MedImmune to form the newly-opened CRUK-MedImmune Alliance Laboratory with the aim of accelerating the translation of cancer research into potential new drugs. AstraZeneca is due to open its new global headquarters and oncology research and development in Cambridge in 2017. The new building will be on the Biomedical Campus and will house 2,000 staff.
On the scientific side, Cambridge Cancer Centre scientists have published over 4,500 peer-reviewed papers over the last 7 years, 380 having an impact factor of more than 20. This makes the Centre more academically productive than any other Cancer Centre in the UK. Cambridge receives more than £40 million a year in investment from Cancer Research UK, its largest investment outside London. Cambridge’s groundbreaking METABRIC study used genomic technologies to profile 2,000 breast cancers. The resulting classification of breast cancer into 10 distinct subtypes with particular genetic mutations was a world first, which will enable clinicians to stratify patients, monitor tumours and select appropriate treatment. Cambridge researchers have developed a technique to detect circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) in blood samples, which means that tumour cells can be detected and monitored through a simple blood test, avoiding repeated tissue biopsies. Novel imaging techniques are being pioneered in Cambridge. Hyperpolarised MRI is an imaging method with 10,000 times the sensitivity of conventional MRI that can reveal how tumour cells are responding to treatment in real time. The first patient in Europe was treated with this new method in March 2016. On the clinical side, over 6,000 new cancer patients are seen annually in Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and world leading cancer care is offered at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. The hospital pioneered the first robotic prostate surgery in the UK, is one of the top radiotherapy centres in the UK, and has European-leading rates of cancer survival. Around half of the hospital’s cancer patients – the highest proportion in the UK, take part in a clinical trial. Over 130 clinical trials are now running.
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The Cambridge Cancer Centre
Future Vision The most pressing objective of the Centre at the present time is to establish a state of the art Cancer
Architecturally the hospital will be seen as iconic. Investment in good design will have major benefits—
Research and Treatment Hospital which integrates clinical research and excellent care in a unique and iconic building. This project is the most significant joint venture between the University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals in the 40 years since the Medical School was established. It will be built on the biomedical campus close to Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Cancer Research Institutes and will amount to more than 25,000 square metres. The estimated cost of the building is £120 million, together with £60 million for the groundbreaking programmes of Early Detection and Integrative Cancer Medicine within the building.
patient recovery times can be reduced by well designed buildings, while attractive, functional working environments help recruit and retain hospital staff. The impression a hospital leaves on its patients can make a huge difference to the process of recuperation, and the environment can empower patients and their families and help them to find the right support and information at the right time. Additionally, the strategically located site of the new hospital on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus puts the hospital amongst some of the world’s leading molecular biology and medical research institutions.
This will be a new kind of hospital: one staffed not just by doctors and nurses, but by chemists, engineers, physicists, and mathematicians. These experts will be housed in specialist laboratories, right next to the patient’s bedside, where the next generation of cancer tests and treatments can be conceived and born. By uniting the greatest minds in Cambridge University we will generate a completely new generation of technologies, diagnostic tests and treatments aimed and finding and stopping cancer, before it appears on a scan or x-ray, before it spreads and becomes uncontrollable.
There is no hospital like this in the world—it will be a first; because while Cambridge University scientists and doctors cannot be in every neighbourhood in every country, their life-saving discoveries can and should be; because one patient cured in Cambridge potentially means 1000 patients cured worldwide. As well as developing brand new treatments, the centre is working to diagnose cancer early and instigate a complete change in the way we manage cancer from a reactive to a proactive paradigm. The Centre is focusing an entire programme on the development and implementation of novel, early cancer diagnostics. These already include a new highly accurate test for prostate cancer and brand new ways of detecting oesophageal and gastric cancer developed at Cambridge. For more information, see www. cambridgecancercentre.org.uk
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The Development and Alumni Relations Office
Cambridge University Development & Alumni Relations (CUDAR) is the fundraising, alumni and supporter engagement arm of the University. It has responsibility for raising major philanthropic gifts from alumni and non-alumni sources; for encouraging lifelong relationships and building links between the University, its alumni and supporters; for ensuring that the worldwide community of over 200,000 alumni are wellinformed about the development of the University and equipped to be effective ambassadors and advocates; and for communicating persuasively with all audiences to satisfy these objectives. Cambridge in America (CAm) is the fundraising and alumni & supporter engagement arm for Collegiate Cambridge in the most developed philanthropic market globally, the United States. For more information about Cambridge in America please visit http://www.cantab. org/
This spirit of collaboration was first articulated in the Code of Practice for Collaborative Fundraising, agreed by the University and all Colleges, and has been in effect since July 2013. In 2005, to mark its 800th anniversary, the University of Cambridge launched the public phase of Europe’s first £1 billion campaign. It reached its target by 2010, two years ahead of schedule and was the first Higher Education institution in Europe to raise more than £1 billion philanthropically. Building on this platform, the new campaign for the University and Colleges of Cambridge, launched in October 2015, focuses on the University’s impact on the world and will work with philanthropists to address major global problems. As of early 2016, the £2 billion campaign has already raised close to £600 million towards its total. For more information about the campaign, please visit www.cam.ac.uk/YoursCambridge
CUDAR and CAm work collaboratively with each other and their advancement counterparts in the 31 Colleges to maximise collective effectiveness with regard to key constituencies and programmes. This is particularly true in relation to coordinating activity and objectives relating to those current and prospective donors with the greatest capacity to give to the priorities of the Collegiate institution. Candidate Information Pack Senior Associate Director, Cambridge University Health Partners, Cancer
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The Role
The role of Senior Associate Director, CUHP, Cancer is a senior fundraiser within the CUHP fundraising programme. The role holder will be responsible for the design, support and delivery of the major gifts programme of Cancer as one of CUHP’s main fundraising priorities, and most immediately and specifically the establishment of a large Cancer Research and Treatment Centre on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, which aims to set new standards in Europe in the integration of clinical research, new technologies, and excellent patient care. This 25,000m2 development will be more revolutionary in design than any previous Cancer Centre development in Europe. The role holder is responsible for supporting the senior leadership team in the Cambridge Cancer Centre in their development of prioritised development needs for the programme. This will involve matching development needs to the prospect list, and articulating the needs to make them philanthropically attractive, and then soliciting and securing gifts in support of these prioritised needs. Working closely with the Director of the Cancer Centre, the Senior Associate Director will develop effective systems of collaboration between academics, fundraisers and volunteers in order to represent the Centre’s priorities effectively. S/he will ensure and monitor progress against fundraising priorities, and organise effective strategies to reach goals over the course of the Campaign. S/he will represent the University to high-level individuals (alumni and non-alumni), trust, foundations, and corporations in the UK and internationally with the means to make six- and seven-figure gifts to the University.
Reporting to the Director of Development, Cambridge University Health Partners, the post holder is a key senior member of the Cambridge University Health Partners (CUHP) fundraising team. S/he will also work collaboratively with the CUDAR Major Gifts, Schools-Based team, the University-Wide Major Gifts team, the Principal Gifts team, Prospect Information & Analysis team, and Trusts and Foundations team both to advance the Centre’s fundraising strategy and to ensure the effective work of her/his direct reports. S/he will formalise current KPIs including numbers of visits and solicitations and the effective management of prospective donors through the stages of prospect management. S/he will need to conduct regular prospect pool strategy meetings with the fundraising team and Director of Development, CUHP. S/he will work collaboratively and transparently with development colleagues from Cambridge in America and Cambridge’s 31 colleges to develop and deliver the plan for CUDAR’s ambitious major gift fundraising targets. The role requires working outside of office hours, UK and occasional overseas travel and budget responsibility.
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Job Description Role Purpose The Senior Associate Director, CUHP, Cancer is a senior fundraiser within the Cambridge University Health Partners (CUHP) development team responsible for the delivery of philanthropic goals. This role holder will be important to the execution of the University’s capital campaign and will need to work collaboratively with all members of Cambridge University Development and Alumni Relations (CUDAR), and the wider Collegiate Cambridge development community, to develop and deliver the plan for CUDAR ambitious major gift fundraising targets. Specifically, the role holder will; •
own CUDAR’s relationship with the Director of the Cambridge Cancer Centre, in the pursuit of the Centre’s strategic funding opportunities. This will involve managing complex relationships and priorities across a matrix of departments demanding diplomacy and strategic thinking in order to ensure effective delivery of fundraising targets in the service of the strategic priorities of CUHP. Regular, credible interaction with senior academics and University officers will be an important the element of this role.
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be expected to raise significant financial support for agreed cancer focused fundraising priorities, such as the Cancer Research and Treatment Centre, research and programmatic support. A key expectation is that the role holder will generate six- and seven-figure gifts from individuals, trusts, foundations and corporations in the UK and internationally.
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Cultivate, solicit and steward a prospect pool of circa 100 individuals and/or organisations in support of the Cambridge Cancer Centre’s fundraising priorities, working directly with some of the University’s most capable prospective and actual donors and volunteers.
Key duties and responsibilities Developing Fundraising Priorities and Strategy •
Work with the Director of the Cambridge Cancer Centre, the Director of Clinical Development of the Centre and senior academics, as well as the appropriate CUDAR colleagues (in particular, assigned Philanthropic Communications Officer) and Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust, to develop, refine and articulate prioritised fundraising needs for the Cancer Centre. Monitor these over time to ensure they continue to reflect priorities.
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Work with CUDAR communications colleagues to develop appropriate strategic support documents for priority projects and opportunities for dissemination to potential donors.
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Develop an understanding of the work of the Cambridge University Health Partners sufficient to communicate our underlying aims and objectives of excellence in teaching and research to potential donors.
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Based on knowledge and experience of major gifts fundraising success, provide guidance and feedback to the Director of the Cancer Centre, University leaders and CUDAR colleagues to ensure that articulated fundraising priorities are likely to find support from specific donor constituencies.
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Work collaboratively with stakeholders including the Department of Oncology, Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Institute and the Cambridge Cancer Centre to develop the strategic and operational plans in concert with the Director of Development, CUHP. This will include, for the Cancer Research and Treatment Centre, specific plans and strategies to deliver the fundraising targets for that project.
In collaboration with the Prospect Information and Analysis team (and in particular, the assigned Prospect Information Officer), develop donor gift pyramids and paths to success including different funding sources (individuals, trusts and foundations and corporates) and develop prioritised work plans accordingly, including for the strategic use of academic champions.
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Coordinate with colleagues across Collegiate Cambridge to ensure effective, joined up fundraising for all priorities. Develop effective relationships across Collegiate Cambridge to manage and coordinate approaches to prospective donors to avoid conflicts and promote Cambridge’s interests and priorities effectively.
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Communicate with CUDAR colleagues as fundraising priorities emerge and develop.
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Job Description Key duties and responsibilities Delivering the Strategy - Cultivation of Prospects Work with the Schools and their Departments to deliver the plans and strategies, including: •
Work with the Prospect Information and Analysis team, academics, donors and others to identify prospects with which the CUHP and the Cancer Centre will aim to develop significant philanthropic relationships. These will primarily be drawn from high net-worth individuals (both alumni and non-alumni), as well as trust, foundations and corporates, in collaboration with the relevant major gifts colleagues.
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With the support of colleagues from the Prospect Information and Analysis team, build and manage relationships, on behalf of the Cancer Centre, CUHP and the University, with approximately 100 potential major donors (capable of making gifts between £100,000 and £5 million).
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Through conversation with academics, clinicians, donors and volunteers, and by means of individual research, identify new potential donors with philanthropic interest in the University, CUHP and/ or the Cancer Centre to add to the dibir pool.
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Make personal donor visits (circa 10-15 per month), participate in events, and communicate by telephone and in writing with prospective donors with a view to assessing their philanthropic interest in Collegiate Cambridge in general and articulated School fundraising priorities in particular. Refer on qualified prospects whose interests lie elsewhere to relevant development colleagues across the Cambridge development community.
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Develop and implement cultivation and solicitation strategies with potential donors so as to motivate significant gifts to match CUHP and Cancer fundraising priorities.
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Become fully informed of Collegiate Cambridge’s fundraising priorities and collaborate with colleagues in order to ensure that the donor constituency is presented with the fundraising opportunities that will resonate most strongly with them.
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Represent both orally and in writing to donors and potential donors the philanthropic priorities of the University.
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Working with colleagues in the Events team at CUDAR, devise and oversee strategic cultivation events, involving academic, clinical and institutional leaders and prospective donors to motivate greater involvement with the Campaign, and to increase the likelihood of major gifts to CUHP priorities.
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Solicit and secure major philanthropic gifts (£100,000 to £5 million) from individuals, trusts, foundations and corporates to meet the prioritised funding needs of the Cancer Centre in the context of on-going fundraising activity for Collegiate Cambridge.
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Through in-person solicitation, either alone or in conjunction with academic and clinical champions or University fundraising volunteers, and/or by means of formal written proposals produced in collaboration with Philanthropic Communications Officers, make major gift solicitations in line with agreed metrics for gift amounts between £100,000 and £5 million to support agreed priorities each year.
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In collaboration with CUDAR and School colleagues, follow up on gift solicitations to ensure closure and satisfactory settlement, and recording of major gifts and commitments.
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Job Description Key duties and responsibilities Stewardship •
Rooted in the principle that prior donors are the best future prospective donors, work closely with the Cancer Centre and with colleagues in the Stewardship team to develop and oversee implementation of effective stewardship plans, so that donors understand the impact of their gifts and feel motivated to make further significant gifts to Collegiate Cambridge and its partners.
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Ensure that effective stewardship also motivates prospective donors and enhances the University’s overall reputation as a worthy and effective recipient of philanthropy.
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Develop and strengthen the understanding of the principles of major gifts fundraising among School representatives and academic champions by means of workshops, seminars, and one-toone conversation and training, with the objective of ensuring that these individuals can lead or contribute effectively to fundraising efforts.
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Carry out training of CUDAR or College development colleagues as needed.
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Manage the fundraising activity of a fundraising assistant.
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Manage volunteer relationships, including with any volunteer bodies created to support CUHP’s fundraising priorities.
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Ensure that information related to major gift fundraising work is collected, organised and managed effectively and according to the policies and protocols of the University. This includes the conscientious and timely updating of the alumni and donor database (Raiser’s Edge) managed by CUDAR.
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Lead and manage the development function in relation to the Cancer Centre to ensure coordination with the Development Office support teams.
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Proactively take personal responsibility for ensuring that agreed outcomes are delivered on time and effectively; develop this sense of personal responsibility within the team.
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Act as a role model to other team members, supporting a motivational environment where people are challenged, developed, encouraged and supported to achieve outstanding results.
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Influence senior internal stakeholders, leadership volunteers, and potential donors.
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Work collaboratively across the development and alumni relations office fostering coordinated team work and support between functional teams: e.g. work with the Prospect Information team to ensure effectiveness of pipeline management.
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Use existing structures within Cambridge University Health Partners, together with developing new groups where required, to articulate needs in more detail and to oversee regular discussions across departments on partnership-wide priorities. This is likely to require the post holder to manage conflicting views across a disparate network of professionals, and bring these discussions to workable resolutions to enable focused fundraising planning and activity to proceed.
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Organisational Chart
Director of Cancer Centre
Senior Associate Director, Cancer
Director of Development, Cambridge University Health Partners
Senior Associate Director, School of Clinical Medicine
Associate Director, Papworth Hospital
A full organisation chart is available on request
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Person Profile Essential knowledge, skills and experience required for the role Education & qualifications
Interpersonal & communication skills
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Good first degree [Essential]
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Post-graduate qualification [Desirable]
Ability to relate effectively to the academic and clinical community and its aims.
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Ability to communicate persuasively with a variety of individuals/audiences often with disparate outlooks, aims and objectives.
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A combination of personal sensitivity, creativity and tact that is needed when working with senior academics, development colleagues and prospective major donors to the University; the ability to engage key internal stakeholders to work towards common goals and outcomes.
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Ability to communicate concepts and ideas, drawing on relevant data as appropriate.
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Excellent negotiation skills.
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Proven track record of securing significant philanthropic investment or equivalent
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Proven track record in working with academic leaders and or clinicians (or analogous leaders from charitable sector).
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Expert technical and professional skills in major gift fundraising, including up to date knowledge of relevant legislation; will act as a point of reference and expertise for members of the Collegiate University.
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Demonstrable capacity to analyse, think critically, strategically and to innovate, both to promote innovation and resolve/respond to problems.
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Excellent social skills and cultural understanding, and highly developed communication skills, both oral and written.
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Numerate and data literate, including in respect of methodologies for effective analysis and presentation of data.
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Ability to build empathetic relations with high net worth individuals in a variety of professional and high visibility positions.
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Demonstrate a high level of awareness of personal impact and modify behaviour accordingly, listen and respond constructively to the realities and needs of others by using a range of communication skills and strategies.
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Ability to manage a small team as well as to work as part of a wider professional team, and to contribute to the development of fundraising for Cambridge as a whole.
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Self-motivated, with an ability to respond rapidly and professionally in situations where it may not be possible to refer or seek guidance from senior staff.
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Highly opportunistic and able to take the initiative on his/her own when the situation demands it.
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Tenacity, drive and imagination.
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Person Profile Essential knowledge, skills and experience required for the role Relevant experience
Additional requirements
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Track record or operation at senior level with multistakeholders.
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Experience of working in Higher Education or notfor-profit sector, and in particular an understanding of Cambridge University, its mission and its need for external funding.
The ability to engage and identify with the ethos and objectives of the Cancer Centre for excellence in research and patient care.
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To have the gravitas required to command respect among senior stakeholders across Collegiate Cambridge, within the development office, and among clinicians, volunteers, donors and potential donors to Collegiate Cambridge.
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To understand and be able to work within the politics and protocols of University life at a senior level.
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To be comfortable working with and contributing to online donor and relationship management databases.
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To possess a strong natural drive towards getting into the field; a desire to be actively engaging with donors and potential donors to Collegiate Cambridge.
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Willingness to work out of regular hours and to travel.
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An interest in how academic research and scholarship affects our understanding of the modern world and its important role in addressing pressing contemporary issues. Experience in a medical fundraising role [desirable].
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The Structure of the University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a complex organisation. To understand how it operates, it helps to keep its historical origins in mind. Whilst the University can be dated from 1209, the first Colleges, each autonomous and independent with its own governing Body and Charter, were established later, from 1284, principally to teach and house students at all levels. The University has no charter, but is governed under Acts of Parliament starting with Elizabeth I and most recently the 1923 Oxford and Cambridge Act. The University works with a relatively small central administration. The procedural rules of the University are embodied in Statutes and Ordinances, which prescribe in some detail the formal administrative practices. These rules are made in most cases by the University itself, although the Statutes can only be changed with the approval of the Privy Council. Each College also has its own statutes and regulations.
The University has sole responsibility for examinations and for conferring degrees. The Colleges, on the other hand, have responsibility for selecting, admitting and accommodating all undergraduate students, and a student cannot enter the University unless he or she also becomes a member of a College. However, the University lays down the admission qualifications for postgraduate students and also has certain controls over the statutes of the individual Colleges. During the 20th century, the role of the University hugely expanded through the provision of facilities, such as teaching and research laboratories. The University employs Professors, Readers, Senior Lecturers, Lecturers and other teaching and administrative staff who provide lectures, seminars and practical classes. The Colleges supplement the University’s teaching with supervisions and other smallgroup teaching, given by Fellows or others appointed by the College, and each College also provides library and other learning resources for its own members. The Colleges are separate corporations which exist in symbiosis with the University, and manage their own physical infrastructure.
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Schools, Faculties, Departments
Colleges
Faculties and Departments
Students live, eat and socialise in one of the University’s 31 autonomous Colleges. Undergraduates receive College supervisions – small group teaching sessions – regarded as one of the best teaching models in the world.
Within the overall jurisdiction of the six Schools described above, teaching and research in Cambridge is organised primarily by the various Faculties and Departments.
Each College has its own internal procedures. They select their own students, subject to University regulations, and most admit both undergraduate and postgraduate students. College representatives sit on the University Council and Finance Committee.
The Faculties have different organisational substructures which partly reflect their history and partly their operational needs. The Councils of the Schools play an important role in ensuring that the natural academic links between different Departments are maintained and developed.
Schools
Unified Administrative Service (UAS)
The teaching and research activities of Cambridge are conducted through six major groupings of cognate institutions – Schools – which consist of Faculties and Departments.
The Registrary is the principal administrative officer of the University and the head of the UAS. The UAS consists of a number of support services departments, for example Human Resources, Finance, Management Information Services and Estates Management. The latter is a multi-disciplinary organisation responsible for the development, management and maintenance of the University estate, along with the provision of a variety of related services.
The Schools are: Arts and Humanities; Biological Sciences; Clinical Medicine; Humanities and Social Sciences; Physical Sciences; Technology. Each School has a Council. The Head of the School chairs this, and is the principal academic officer of the School responsible for its overall running, the use of funds allocated by the Council of the School, and the implementation of the academic and financial plans prepared by the University Council.
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Terms & Conditions Location
Pension eligibility
1 Quayside, Bridge Street, Cambridge, CB5 8AB
Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) Pension scheme details are available on our web pages at: www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/pensions/schemes. html. Information about the legal requirement for the University to automatically enrol its eligible jobholders into a qualifying workplace pension scheme from 1 March 2013 is available at: www.admin.cam.ac.uk/ offices/pensions/autoenrolment/.
Salary Grade 10 - £52,219 to £60,512. In exceptional circumstances, it may be possible to offer a supplement to the salary range stated for this role of up to £65,000 per annum for a 5 year period. Any such supplement would be awarded on the basis of a demonstrable history of exceptional achievement and is entirely at the discretion of the University.
Retirement age
There are no conditions relating to hours and times of work but you are expected to work such hours and days as are reasonably necessary for the proper performance of your duties. Your times of work should be agreed between you and your head of institution.
The University does not operate a retirement age for assistant staff/research staff/ unestablished academic staff/unestablished academic-related staff OR For established academic and academic-related staff, the University operates a retirement age which is at the end of the academical year in which the University officer reaches the age of 67.
Length of appointment
Pre-employment checks
Permanent
The University has a legal responsibility to ensure that you have the right to work in the UK before you can start work. If you do not have the right to work in the UK already, any offer of employment made to you will be conditional upon you gaining it. If you need further information, you may find the Right to Work page within the ‘Applying for a job‘ section of the University’s Job Opportunities pages helpful (please see www.jobs. cam.ac.uk/right/have/).
Hours of Work
Limited funding N/A
Probation period 9 months
Annual leave 33 days plus Bank Holidays, but including fixed periods at Christmas when the Department/office is closed. The period for calculating entitlement to annual leave in any particular year is the academic year i.e. 1 October to 30 September.
Application Process Please apply by submitting a copy of your Curriculum Vitae (CV) and a Covering Letter highlighting your suitability for the position by email to: claire.reynolds@execucare.com For an informal conversation prior to applying to this role, please call either Joanna Logan on 07885 658 764 or Nicola Reames on 07787 428 832.
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Equality of Opportunity at the University The University is committed to a proactive approach to equality, which includes supporting and encouraging all under-represented groups, promoting an inclusive culture and valuing diversity. Selection decisions are made based on personal merit and an objective assessment against the criteria required for the post. The University does not treat job applicants or members of staff less favourably than one another on the grounds of sex (including gender reassignment), marital or parental status, race, ethnic or national origin, colour, disability (including HIV status), sexual orientation, religion, age or socio-economic factors.
There are various diversity networks to help progress equality; these include the Women’s Staff Network, the Disabled Staff Network, the Black and Minority Ethnic Staff Network and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Staff Network. In addition, the University was ranked in the top 100 employers for lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) staff in Stonewall’s Workplace Equality Index 2013 and holds an Athena SWAN bronze award at organisation level for promoting women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine.
Information if you have a Disability The University welcomes applications from individuals with disabilities and is committed to ensuring fair treatment throughout the recruitment process. It will make adjustments to enable applicants to compete to the best of their ability wherever it is reasonable to do so, and, if successful, to assist them during their employment. Information for disabled applicants is available at http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/hr/staff/ disabled/.
You are encouraged to declare any disability that you may have, and any reasonable adjustments that you may require, when applying for the role. This will enable the University to accommodate your needs throughout the process as required. However, applicants and employees may declare a disability at any time.
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