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OPPORTUNITY PROFILE<br />

VICE PRESIDENT OF FUND DEVELOPMENT<br />

Chicago, Illinois (Skokie)


INTRODUCTION<br />

Are you motivated by your Christian faith to celebrate God’s gift of life in Christian<br />

community; to love and serve God and one another as taught by Jesus Christ in the<br />

Great Commandment?<br />

Are you compelled to affirm the dignity of each person and to pursue excellence<br />

and financial integrity in all that you do?<br />

Covenant Retirement Communities is the nation’s sixth largest not-for-profit senior<br />

services provider. The organization traces its roots to the Home of Mercy in Chicago,<br />

which opened in 1886 as the founding ministry of a church of Swedish immigrants.<br />

It was an old-age home, an orphanage, and a hospital.<br />

Now, more than a century later, Covenant Retirement Communities has expanded<br />

to 15 senior living communities located in 10 states. We offer residential living,<br />

catered living, assisted living, skilled nursing, and memory care. Also, we have three<br />

agencies providing home health, home care, and hospice services to seniors in<br />

Chicagoland, Turlock, California and Denver, Colorado.<br />

As <strong>CRC</strong> continues to evolve to meet the needs of new generations of seniors and<br />

their families, as a faith-based organization, we remain steadfast in our guiding<br />

faith and our commitment to providing exemplary services, programming, and<br />

world-class amenities.


OUR MISSION<br />

As a ministry of the Evangelical Covenant Church,<br />

Covenant Retirement Communities celebrates God’s<br />

gift of life in Christian community. We follow the Great<br />

Commandment to love and serve God and one another<br />

as taught by Jesus Christ. That compels us to affirm the<br />

dignity of each person and to pursue excellence and<br />

financial integrity in all that we do.<br />

As we provide a broad range of resources, services and programs to enhance<br />

individual and community wellness, we collaborate with residents and families to<br />

achieve the best possible results. While seeking to foster independence, we respond<br />

to each individual’s evolving needs in order to provide the security that assures<br />

peace of mind.<br />

The successful candidate for the position of Vice President of <strong>Fund</strong> <strong>Development</strong> will<br />

demonstrate significant experience leading geographically dispersed fundraising<br />

teams and have professional expertise in a mixture of strategy development and<br />

execution, cross-function collaboration, change management and the ability<br />

to develop strong working relationships with the leadership team and other<br />

constituents.<br />

Experience in senior living or the continuing care retirement community sector<br />

would be helpful but not essential.<br />

If our mission and the opportunity to continue your career in this type of organization<br />

resonates with you, we invite you to continue to explore these opportunities.


THE POSITION<br />

Covenant Retirement Communities is a large, national organization with an aggressive growth<br />

plan. This position calls for a highly gifted and credible leader; a committed Christian, with a<br />

demonstrated career track record of integrity, positive organizational impact and functional<br />

excellence.<br />

The Vice President for <strong>Fund</strong> <strong>Development</strong> reports to Terri Cunliffe, the President of Covenant<br />

Retirement Communities.<br />

CEO<br />

S<strong>VP</strong> & General<br />

Counsel<br />

<strong>VP</strong> of <strong>Fund</strong><br />

<strong>Development</strong><br />

CFO<br />

E<strong>VP</strong> Campus<br />

Operations<br />

S<strong>VP</strong> Enterprise<br />

Operations<br />

S<strong>VP</strong> Sales, Marketing<br />

& Corporate<br />

Communications<br />

S<strong>VP</strong> Project and<br />

Business<br />

<strong>Development</strong><br />

<strong>VP</strong> HR/<br />

Organizational<br />

<strong>Development</strong><br />

<strong>VP</strong> Health Services<br />

Strategy &<br />

Programming<br />

S<strong>VP</strong> Digital<br />

Strategies<br />

The Vice President for <strong>Fund</strong> <strong>Development</strong> will be responsible for shaping the organization’s<br />

development strategy and seeing that it is carried out effectively and within given budgetary<br />

and organizational structures.


THE ROLE<br />

Vice President of <strong>Fund</strong> <strong>Development</strong><br />

The Expectations<br />

••<br />

Over the next ten years raise, either through current giving or deferred giving<br />

$135 million<br />

••<br />

Provide strategic and executive leadership to the campus fund development<br />

leaders in the field<br />

••<br />

Provide strategic leadership in the use of a dormant Foundation that <strong>CRC</strong><br />

established several years ago<br />

••<br />

Lead, train, empower, and affirm the individual members of the <strong>Fund</strong><br />

<strong>Development</strong> team<br />

••<br />

Develop a collaborative working relationship with Covenant Trust Company.<br />

••<br />

Demonstrate personal and financial integrity


THE PERSON<br />

Spiritually mature – showing a strong, personal commitment to Jesus Christ<br />

Integrity – demonstrate personal and financial integrity<br />

Experienced – 5-10 years of experience leading a development team and having<br />

experienced significant success in personal fundraising efforts or similar success in the<br />

private sector leading successful sales teams<br />

Results-oriented – able to redesign systems, structures and processes for greater<br />

effectiveness; raising $135 million over the next ten years; Set and track progress toward<br />

concrete goals<br />

Collaborative – collaborate with the CEO and the <strong>Fund</strong> <strong>Development</strong> team to<br />

accomplish results<br />

Disciplined – possessing the personal discipline and work ethic to perform at a high level<br />

Energetic – passionate about fundraising and relationships<br />

Personally committed – able to own the vision and mission of Covenant Retirement<br />

Communities and communicate it as a matter of personal conviction<br />

Free to travel – willing and able to work in a position that involves up to 30% travel<br />

Comfortable – working with a wide range of donors<br />

The Vice President for <strong>Fund</strong> <strong>Development</strong> would be a great role for the<br />

development professional who<br />

••<br />

Is creative, innovative and entrepreneurial<br />

••<br />

Enjoys working with a geographically dispersed fund development team<br />

••<br />

Enjoys mentoring and coaching<br />

••<br />

Is competitive and thrives on meeting and beating goals<br />

••<br />

Is energized by team leadership and personal fundraising. It is estimated<br />

that the division of labor is probably 70% team leadership and 30% personal<br />

fundraising<br />

••<br />

Has seen what a robust fund development infrastructure looks like and can<br />

build the appropriate infrastructure for Covenant Retirement Communities


CULTURE: WHO WE ARE<br />

<strong>CRC</strong> is a community of...<br />

Givers Lifelong Learners Artists<br />

Partners<br />

Veterans<br />

Adventurers Active Seniors Christ’s Followers Families<br />

Professionals


AT A GLANCE<br />

<strong>CRC</strong> is a ministry of the<br />

EVANGELICAL<br />

COVENANT<br />

CHURCH<br />

16 in 9<br />

RETIREMENT<br />

COMMUNITIES<br />

STATES<br />

5,000+ RESIDENTS 3,000+ EMPLOYEES<br />

$249<br />

MILLION IN<br />

OPERATING<br />

REVENUES<br />

100,000+<br />

VOLUNTEER HOURS<br />

logged by <strong>CRC</strong> staff<br />

and residents in FY’16<br />

Nearly $1 BILLION in assets<br />

$6.5 million in Benevolent Care in FY’17<br />

<strong>CRC</strong> is an equal opportunity employer.<br />

<strong>CRC</strong>’s Central Office, located less than an hour from Chicago in Skokie, Illinois.<br />

As long as the person lives in close proximity to a major airport and has a home<br />

office setting conducive for executive work s/he can work from home.


HOW TO APPLY<br />

If, after reviewing this material and conducting additional due<br />

diligence on Covenant Retirement Communities, you sense that<br />

the gifts and experience God has given you are a good match<br />

for this leadership role, we invite you to make application.<br />

Resume<br />

Submit a current resume that addresses the following for at least the<br />

past fifteen years of your fundraising experience:<br />

••<br />

Employer / Job Title<br />

••<br />

Position you reported to<br />

••<br />

# of direct reports / Geographic dispersion of direct report<br />

••<br />

What is the total amount of money raised by the organization(s<br />

••<br />

How much of this was deferred giving<br />

••<br />

How many nights a month did you spend on the road<br />

••<br />

What % of your time did you spend in formal training of your<br />

field staff<br />

2) Based upon what you have learned about this position from this<br />

document and any other sources, what excites you most about<br />

this position? What is your greatest apprehension? How has your<br />

career prepared you for this role?<br />

References<br />

The names and contact information (telephone numbers and e-mail<br />

addresses) for four references who know you and your career well<br />

enough to comment on your suitability to be the Vice President for<br />

<strong>Fund</strong> <strong>Development</strong> (References will only be contacted after we have<br />

requested and received your permission to do so.)<br />

Submit this information in one Word document or .pdf to:<br />

Tommy Thomas, JobfitMatters Executive Search<br />

resumes@jobfitmatters.com<br />

Phone: (615) 261-4623<br />

In the subject line, please write “<strong>CRC</strong> – <strong>VP</strong> <strong>Fund</strong> <strong>Development</strong>”<br />

Responses<br />

In order to help us get a more complete picture of you and your<br />

interest in Covenant Retirement Communities, provide us with<br />

responses to the following questions.<br />

1) Tell us about your faith; how you came to know Christ, something<br />

about your faith journey and how your relationship with Him has<br />

affected your career. Also incorporate into that any involvement<br />

you have had with your local church.

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