Building a function for visibility and for income of its own

The institution is recognised for its excellence, scientific, medical or institutional, but that excellence stays under-valued for want of a properly structured communications and philanthropy function. Employer brand, national and international standing, developing income of its own: these have become strategic questions, owned at executive committee level.

Build an internal, external and scientific communications strategy consistent with the institution's plan. Alongside it, build a structured philanthropy policy: a multi-year giving strategy, major donors, relationships with companies and foundations. Support large projects, sometimes capital projects, and make communications a lever for loyalty as much as for visibility.

A solid background in communications or in philanthropy and fundraising, and the ease to work closely with medical, scientific, finance and legal leaders without a reporting line over any of them. The ability to carry two trades, communications and income generation, with equal seriousness.

You know how to give visibility to an excellence that is not yet told well enough. Convincing a major donor and bringing a scientific community together ask the same sincerity of you. You enjoy building a function that did not exist in this form before.