The Indiana University School of Medicine Office of Gift Development is seeking a motivated undergraduate or graduate student to serve as the project manager for the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center’s “Faces of Cancer” ribbon campaign, a segment of the “In Your Lifetime” fundraising campaign.
In late August 2008, the IU Simon Cancer Center will be opening a new, expanded patient-care facility. As part of the facility’s grand opening festivities, the IUPUI campus will be blanketed with 5,000 ribbons, each bearing two names of individuals affected by cancer. Goals of the ribbon campaign include (1) encouraging statewide awareness about the “In Your Lifetime” fundraising campaign; (2) generating media interest in the IUSCC’s grand opening and (3) collecting e-mail addresses to be used for various IU Simon Cancer Center e-solicitations in the future. For more information about the ribbon campaign, please visit http://cancer.iu.edu/help/waystogive/lifetime/ribbon.php
The project manager will work in a highly independent, flexible environment and be charged with the following:
- Managing the database generated by the ribbon website to track areas of Indiana and the nation represented by names on the ribbons
- Recruiting and managing volunteers who will place the ribbons in the ground in mid August
- Partnering with IUPUI Campus Facility Services to successfully execute the placement of the ribbons
- Coordinating the post-ribbon campaign e-solicitation
This position is unpaid and would begin in early May and end in September or October. The hours worked each week will fluctuate, but note that the position will require a significant commitment in August. For more information about this opportunity, please contact Amber Kleopfer Senseny at akleopfe@iupui.edu or at 317-278-4510.
