Why Join Us?
Flexible Working Hours
Enjoy flexible hours, a compressed summer schedule and No-Meetings Fridays.
Generous Leave
Benefit from 4 weeks of vacation, 5 personal leave days and a ‘9-day fortnight’ program.
Pension Plan
Enroll in the Municipal Pension Plan for long-term financial security.
Comprehensive Benefits
Access extended health and dental benefits, Health Spending Account, life insurance, Employee & Family Assistance Program plus more.
Inclusive Culture
Join a diverse and inclusive workplace committed to equity and continuous improvement.
Development Opportunities
Grow your career with our promotion-from-within policy, a formal Professional Development program, Mentorship program plus more.
About This Role
- Work with the Major Gifts team to develop, implement, and enhance strategies to grow revenue across the portfolio of fundraising initiatives, setting annual benchmarks for growth and goal achievement.
- Leading the key strategies of campaigns in the phases from initial planning, pipeline development, inspiring team and cross team members.
- Achieving annual fundraising target of $3 million or more, as appropriately aligned with donor pipeline.
- Develop and implement strategies to grow the major gifts portfolio of individual, corporate and foundation donors to increase the number of donors and the size of gift. This encompasses directing the research, identification, cultivation and tracking of major gifts and planned giving prospects.
- Solicit major gifts in one-on-one meetings or phone calls with donors.
- Develop and execute detailed development plans for each prospect.
- Help establish annual and multi-year performance targets, including number of donors by category, dollars raised, number of donor meetings, etc.
- Prepare & deliver regular status reports on projections, proposals pending, and cultivation process.
- Ensure that all relevant information regarding meetings, visits, and donor activities and related data is recorded in the Foundation’s information systems in a timely fashion to facilitate open communication and a team-based fundraising environment.
- Mitigates risk to the Foundation by ensuring all necessary policies, standards and procedures are developed and monitored ensuring appropriate compliance and no single point of failure.
- Develops and establishes appropriate long and short-term goals and metrics for evaluating and improving fundraising initiatives.
- Creating business solutions for donors with complex giving requirements which also align with the business requirement.
- Identifies risks in donor activities and bring forward to discussion with the Philanthropy Lead, Major Gifts to determine course of action.
- Provides leadership through influence, fostering collaboration across teams and contributing to strategic initiatives, projects, and organizational priorities that advance the Foundation’s goals and objectives.
- Demonstrates leadership by example, modeling the Foundation’s values, fundraising best practices, and a commitment to excellence in donor engagement, stewardship, and relationship management.
- Leads and contributes to complex donor strategies, philanthropic initiatives, and cross-functional projects, partnering effectively with colleagues, physicians, volunteers, and organizational leaders to achieve shared outcomes.
- Accountable for achieving individual fundraising revenue targets and advancing a portfolio of donors and prospects through strategic cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship activities.
About This Role
- Serve as the first point of contact for employees and managers regarding HR policies, procedures, benefits, payroll, timekeeping, and employee lifecycle inquiries.
- Coordinate and administer onboarding, orientation, transfers, promotions, leaves, contract extensions, and offboarding activities.
- Maintain accurate and confidential employee records, ensuring compliance with organizational and regulatory requirements.
- Monitor the HR inbox and ensure inquiries are addressed, escalated, or resolved in a timely manner.
- Coordinate employee file management and HR documentation processes.
- Support employee relations processes through documentation, tracking, and administrative coordination.
- Coordinate HR compliance activities, including policy acknowledgements, mandatory training, certifications, and recordkeeping.
- Coordinate the recruitment process, including job postings, candidate screening, interview scheduling, reference checks, and candidate communications.
- Coordinate onboarding schedules and ensure completion of all pre-employment requirements and documentation
- Act as the primary liaison between employees, payroll, benefits providers, and external stakeholders on routine payroll and benefits matters.
- Generate and analyze HR reports and dashboards related to headcount, turnover, recruitment, absenteeism, employee engagement, diversity, and other workforce metrics.
- Support the planning and implementation of HR programs, initiatives, and annual people-cycle activities.
About This Role
- Provides administrative and operational support to the Fundraising Events & Corporate Partnerships and Asian Strategy teams, ensuring the efficient execution of fundraising activities, donor stewardship, and departmental priorities.
- Coordinates event administration activities including RSVP management, guest registration, seating plans, invitation tracking, volunteer coordination, auction administration, and post-event stewardship.
- Supports financial and gift administration processes, including invoice processing, expense submissions, payment tracking, gift processing support, donor documentation, and the collection of required approvals and signoffs.
- Maintains accurate constituent, event, and fundraising data within Salesforce and other systems to support donor engagement, reporting, and operational effectiveness.
- Prepares and distributes reports, dashboards, lists, and data extracts to support fundraising activities, event planning, stewardship, and decision-making.
- Coordinates meeting logistics, prepares materials, records meeting minutes, tracks action items, and maintains departmental documentation.
- Maintains project trackers, records, templates, and standard operating procedures to support operational continuity, consistency, and knowledge sharing.
- Supports divisional initiatives and special projects as assigned.
- Produces recurring and ad hoc reports, reconciliations, and tracking documents using data from Salesforce and other systems.
About This Role
- Leads the strategic direction, planning, execution, and long-term growth of the Foundation’s portfolio of Signature Events, including but not limited to the VGH+ Gala, Signature Peer-to-Peer Event, and any future Foundation-led fundraising events.
- Develops and implements multi-year event strategies that help to grow revenue, sponsor investment, donor acquisition, participant engagement, and community awareness.
- Leads the development, launch, and scaling of new Signature Event concepts, that align with Foundation priorities and support long-term revenue goals.
- Accountable for achieving or exceeding annual targets for fundraising, attendance, participation, and engagement across the Signature Events portfolio.
- Designs exceptional donor, sponsor, participant, volunteer, and guest experiences that inspire philanthropy, deepen engagement with the Foundation, and strengthen long-term relationships.
- Maximizes net revenue across multiple fundraising streams including sponsorships, ticket and table sales, peer-to-peer fundraising, auctions, raffles, donations, matching gifts, corporate teams, event activations, and in-kind partnerships.
- Leads volunteer fundraising committees and leadership groups, leveraging community influence, networks, and expertise to expand event reach and fundraising outcomes.
- Builds pathways that connect event participants, attendees, sponsors, and volunteers to the Foundation’s broader donor pipeline, supporting growth in annual, leadership, philanthropy, and legacy giving programs.
About This Role
- Leads integrated digital fundraising programs generating $1.2M+ annually, with accountability for revenue growth, donor-base expansion, and audience engagement.
- Serves as a central bridge between Annual Giving (AG) and Marketing & Brand Engagement (MBE), aligning fundraising priorities, digital strategy, and brand objectives.
- Leads the Foundation’s digital marketing strategy and oversees all digital channels to deliver an integrated approach to audience engagement and revenue generation.
- Drives donor acquisition, retention, and pipeline development through coordinated, data-driven campaigns and optimized digital journeys.
- Leads the development and execution of integrated digital fundraising strategies that align organizational revenue goals with brand and marketing objectives.
- Oversees digital fundraising campaigns (including email, social media, digital advertising, webpage, and donation page strategies), ensuring seamless integration with broader marketing initiatives.
- Oversees SEO/SEM strategy to improve discoverability and support both engagement and revenue objectives.
- Leads marketing automation and lifecycle journey design, ensuring consistency across engagement and fundraising touchpoints.
- Implements A/B testing and experimentation frameworks to improve campaign performance.
- Leads digital analytics and reporting across both functions, providing shared insights to inform decision-making and optimize performance.
- Oversees website and donation platform user experience and conversion optimization, ensuring alignment between brand experience and fundraising effectiveness.
About This Role
- Accountable for providing strategic leadership on all account management activities for the fundraising team.
- Work collaboratively with the AVP and Major Gifts fundraising team to develop, implement, and enhance strategies to grow revenue across the portfolio of fundraising initiatives.
- Enhances department and organization reputation through effective leadership and management of the Major Gift function.
- Provides leadership and effective management to ensure the execution of the donor management strategies within Major Gift portfolios.
- Develops and provides direction for the major gift fundraisers, ensuring effective and brandappropriate execution of elements of donor cycle activities.
- Accountable for the accuracy and efficacy of the overall major gift pipeline.
- Develops an annual plan of activity that includes both the Major Gifts team’s strategic objectives and personal portfolio objectives.
- Provides leadership and direction to Major Gifts fundraisers to develop, manage, and execute activities for related fundraising strategies and identified prospects, as well as volunteer engagement strategies.
- Provides input to the AVP Philanthropy on campaign priorities, including goals, funds raised, prospect/proposal pipeline, and timelines.
- Provides the Major Gifts team leadership, facilitating the development of innovative and integrated solutions and plans to increase efficiency in donors’ move management, revenue tracking, key performance indicators analysis and donor giving trends.
- Diagnoses and identifies issues relating to fundraising strategies and implements creative solutions to escalated issues related to account management activities.
- Develops, establishes, and ensures adherence to best practices around Major Gifts donor cycles.
BC’s Top Employers 2026
For the second year in a row VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation is thrilled to be named as one of BC’s Top Employers for 2026! We were selected in part due to our extended benefits plan, progressive time-off policies, and encouragement for employees to pursue ongoing education.
Learn MoreFrequently Asked Questions About Careers
Find answers to common questions about joining our team.
If you are looking for a career where you truly connect with the organization’s purpose, your hopes and dreams may be a perfect match with building a career with VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation. People are engaged with and inspired by the Foundation’s mission to create and inspire a community of donors to catalyze health care innovation in BC.
Our workplace culture, the ‘way we do things here’, is informed by our values. The Foundation’s core values are:
Bold | Integrity | Community
These are more than just words. These values create a culture where we embrace courage, creativity and forward-thinking, where honesty and transparency are key, where people are encouraged to learn and grow, and where we celebrate the learning along the journey as much as getting to the goal.
Our approach to the question of whether work is ‘remote or in office’ is informed by a desire to have flexibility, accountability and real-human relationship development. As we continue to learn together, and discover the most engaging and empowering ways of working, we have embraced a ‘hybrid’ model. Team members are able to work in office full time if that works best for them, or up to 50% of their time at home.
Several elements contribute to the flexibility we provide our employees. After all, we each have unique lives and preferences.
- Flexible start and finish times around our core hours of 9:30 am to 3:30 pm (PST) Monday to Friday. We work a 37.5 hour work week and trust you to figure out how to make that happen.
- Compressed working option in the summer. If you want, you can compress ten days of work into nine and then take the final Friday off. People opting to take this ‘nine-day fortnight’ end up with ten long weekends over the summer.
- Five personal leave days, in addition to the standard 20 days of vacation each year.
- Three additional foundation days during the year.
- A remote work policy that allows work from anywhere for up to 10 days per calendar year.
On July 27th, 2024, Dr Henry declared an end to the public health emergency related to COVID, and rescinded related orders, including rescinding the order that required COVID-19 vaccination of staff working in health authorities. Employees of the VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation no longer require COVID vaccination as a condition of employment.
We have formal Professional Development, and Mentorship programs. We invest in the learning and development of our people, and support career growth at every level of the Foundation. As we continue to innovate and add even more value, new roles will continue to be added to enable us to positively impact health care.
We offer the opportunity to learn and grow outside of your ‘job description’, too. Employees are encouraged to participate in our various staff experience committees. Our Culture Cabinet is a team of passionate individuals committed to leading and inspiring a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. Our Social Committee is an enthusiastic team of folks who create fun and creative staff activities that bring us together in playful and engaging ways. Our Health and Safety Committee is focused on ensuring all Foundation staff know that their safety is paramount, and that we are committed to continuous improvement.
Vacation
All employees receive 4 weeks (20 days) of vacation each year, increasing a day per year after 5 years, up to 35 days. Between vacation, Foundation Days, and the 11 BC stat holidays, Foundation employees enjoy 34 paid days off each year.
Other PTO (Paid Time Off)
The Foundation also has three ‘Foundation Days’ (Easter Monday, Boxing Day, and an additional day in late December); five Personal Leave days (that can be used for celebrations or observances that are significant in your life), and a ‘9 day fortnight’ program for the summer, where employees can choose to work a few extra minutes each day, and take every second Friday off. This equates to 10 long weekends over the summer.
Additionally, all staff are covered by a paid sick leave program which accrues at approximately 1.5 days per month, to a maximum of 26 weeks of sick leave.
Health Benefits
All the premiums for our Foundation health benefits are 100% employer-paid, for you and your spouse/partner and dependents. All full-time staff with a contract longer than 6 months are entitled to dental and extended health benefits, a Health Spending Account, life insurance and dependent life, long term disability, accidental death and dismemberment insurance, and an employee and family assistance program for counselling support.
Municipal Pension Plan
All staff are enrolled in the Municipal Pension Plan – a defined benefit plan – to which the Foundation contributes 9.56 %, starting their contributions after 3 months in role (or 12 months for temporary employees).
Professional Development
At the Foundation, we support your unique career development journey. Throughout your time at the Foundation, we have regular career and development check-ins, where you and your manager mutually determine what types of job experience and challenges, social learning and formal learning will support you going from ‘where you are’ to ‘where you want to be’. With your manager’s approval, we support up to $1000 per year towards formal learning courses. Additionally, all employees have access to our internal calendar of learning, Vancouver Coastal Health’s learning resources, and have a Foundation-paid subscription to LinkedIn Learning.
Employee Perks
All employees have subsidized access to the VGH fitness facilities, parking, and cycling centre. There are various other perks offered through VCH, including subsidized transit passes, and discounts at a range of local retailers and service providers.
We believe that inspiring donors and catalyzing health care innovation for healthier communities in British Columbia requires a team that embodies the diversity of the geography we serve. Our journey in diversity, equity and inclusion is ongoing and intentional. It is guided by our commitment to being bold in our forward-thinking approach to breakthrough solutions, demonstrating integrity through transparent, purpose-driven stewardship, and fostering community through meaningful collaboration and partnerships. This journey enables every individual to contribute their unique strengths and perspectives to our philanthropic mission and drive lasting equitable impact, both within our organization and beyond.
Our hiring process varies a bit depending on the role, but you can expect to have your application considered by our Human Resources team. We may approach you for other roles too! If shortlisted, you will be invited to interview. We always invite shortlisted candidates in for a behavioural interview with a panel that includes the hiring manager. Sometimes we have a second round of interviews, and depending on the role, we may ask you to take a skills test or give a short presentation. All going well, we’ll take up your references, and then get in touch to offer you the role!
We don’t currently allow pets in our offices, but we hope that our hybrid work policy allows you to have your beloved four-legged friend with you on your work-from-home days. If they pop up on MS Teams, please introduce them!
Please be sure to apply for any specific role you are interested in, but if you don’t see that perfect role, and still think you’d make a great addition to our team, let us know. We may have something come up in future that we think you’d be great for. Forward your resume to careers@vghfoundation.ca and we will be sure to get back to you!
Who we are
Advancing Health Care Through Philanthropy
At VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation, we are dedicated to shaping the future of health care in BC through the power of philanthropy. Our mission is to create and inspire a community of donors to catalyze health care innovation in BC.
Join us in making a difference. Discover more about our mission, vision, and the values that drive us.
