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Executive Director for Strategic Engagement

Dartmouth College

Lebanon, New Hampshire

Dartmouth Health is New Hampshire’s largest private employer and is consistently recognized for high performance in numerous clinical specialties and procedures. With access to more than 2,000 providers in almost every area of medicine, Dartmouth Health delivers care at its flagship hospital, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. Dartmouth Health partners with Geisel School of Medicine to train nearly 400 medical residents and fellows annually to perform cutting-edge research and clinical trials recognized across the globe.

The Opportunity

Dartmouth Health and the Geisel School of Medicine seeks a dynamic Executive Director for Strategic Engagement (EDSE). This role will develop and lead a comprehensive communications program designed to align strategic priorities and initiatives for the Dartmouth Health system and the Geisel School of Medicine with a focus on engaging donors and prospects in a meaningful and substantive relationship.

As a leader on the Medical and Healthcare Advancement team, the EDSE is responsible for establishing the strategic vision and strengthening Advancement’s relationship with internal and external audiences through a comprehensive engagement strategy including, but not limited to, alumni engagement, special events, and communications initiatives. The EDSE will oversee a multi-faceted program that includes print, digital, and social media communications, while serving as a key partner in fundraising and alumni engagement activities across organizations.

The ideal candidate will have successfully led a communications team and will have demonstrated success in synthesizing messaging across multiple enterprises. Experience within a complex environment, a commitment to collaboration and creative thinking, a balanced approach to work, and an understanding of and appreciation for the power of partnership are essential for success in this role.

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    Megan Abbett brings years of experience in advancement, nonprofit leadership, and executive search across many sectors and multiple professional functions. Respected and trusted across a broad range of regional and national organizations, clients return to and refer her to lead, manage, innovate, and execute searches whether in established, maturing, or emerging contexts.

    Just as Megan was adept at matching donors with causes close to their hearts in her nonprofit work, she excels at finding candidates with deep passion for her clients’ missions. Megan began her advancement career with six years at Simmons University in Boston, MA, then known as Simmons College. Her early years leading annual giving allowed her to gain a thorough grounding in development and in the complexities of an urban university with strong undergraduate and graduate programs. From Simmons she moved to her alma mater, Boston College, and later to another part of the nonprofit sector for Facing History and Ourselves, an organization that helps educators and students use history to take action against racism, prejudice, and hate. Her success there led her back to Simmons, where across a seven-year tenure she moved up through management to serve as a senior advancement leader and lead all Communications and Donor Relations. She made the career transition to executive search at Lindauer in 2011.

    Just some of Megan’s notable clients at Lindauer include The Aspen Institute, Auburn University, Brown University, Bryn Mawr College, Children’s Hospital Foundation, City of Hope, Columbia University, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Dickinson College, Franklin & Marshall College, Grassroot Soccer, Intelligence Squared, Marietta College, Michigan State University, Pratham USA, Room to Read, Society of St. Vincent de Paul, the United States Marshals Museum, University of Illinois, University of Kansas Hospital, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, White Plains Hospital, Whitman College, The United States Marshals Museum, and The University of West Virginia. Megan holds a BA in English from Boston College and a Master of Arts in Public Relations and Business Communication from Emerson College.

    Senior Consultant Khushboo Rami-Patel brings to Lindauer and our clients over 10 years of experience. Her expertise as an advancement professional, including in research, donor cultivation, stewardship, strategic planning, events, and client relations, positions her to support critical search and talent needs among the firm’s broad range of clients. As a Senior Consultant at Lindauer, Khushboo relies on her development experience to guide her in fulfilling client needs and is driven by an ambition to match organizational mission with individual talent. Khushboo’s clients have spanned all parts of the non-for-profit sector including higher education, healthcare, arts and culture, and mission-based organizations.

    Khushboo began her career at the Center for American Progress (CAP), a public policy, research, and advocacy organization in Washington, D.C. Her early years were spent training and managing volunteers, staffing political events, and producing and managing a notable conference and fundraiser set her up for the transition into development and advancement. From CAP, Khushboo moved to the American Diabetes Association (ADA) in Chicago to implement an inaugural cultivation and stewardship strategy for current and prospective major donors and managed relationships with executives at many of the city’s most prominent corporations. Her success in fast-paced environments led her to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago where she managed a portfolio of annual and project-based donors and implemented individualized multi-year strategic fundraising plans for the Board of Trustees and other dedicated patrons of the museum, raising record breaking funds for general operating support and museum exhibitions and education programs. Khushboo made the career transition to executive search at Lindauer in 2019.

    Khushboo holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Bachelor of Arts in Communications Studies from the University of Michigan.

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