Associate Director of Philanthropy
Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center
Associate Director of Philanthropy
Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center
Provides advanced cancer care and research
Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center is Louisiana’s leading cancer care organization, caring for more patients each year than any other facility in the region. And with strategic hospital and physician partnerships, we are delivering on our mission to improve survivorship and lessen the burden of cancer.
Mary Bird Perkins and its partners work together to provide state-of-the-art treatments and unparalleled collaborative, comprehensive cancer services. This culture of innovation helps attract the best cancer minds in the country, from expert physicians and highly specialized scientists to forward-thinking leaders in supportive care and other disciplines.
Together, with our hospital and physician partners, we are one-hundred percent focused on cancer care.
Why Join Us? We are looking for talented and highly-motivated individuals who demonstrate a natural desire to support the meaningful work of community oncologists and the patients we serve.
Job Description:
SCOPE: Serves as the execution lead for Mary Bird Perkins' annual, and membership giving program, working to create donor experiences that build loyalty. This role owns day-to-day management of the Investor Collective and Echo Alliance, including the community champion relationships that keep a mufti-market, membership program sustainable. Working with an enterprise view across all Mary Bird Perkins locations, the Associate Director works closely with the Director and runs mufti-channel appeals through production, designs the host strategy for stewardship and salon events, sets the stewardship priorities the donor newsletter reflects, and serves as the project liaison to Communications and Marketing. The role also serves as the liaison between the Chief Philanthropy Officer and the Administrative Coordinator and Board Liaison for the Regional Advisory Council, keeping council engagement aligned with the broader donor-engagement strategy.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
1. Executes multi-channel annual giving campaigns from production through analysis, including first-time donor engagement
2. Manages the giving circles program (Investor Collective and Echo Alliance) and supports the community champions
3. Delivers mid-level donor stewardship and salon and stewardship event strategy 4. Serves as project liaison to Communications and Marketing and partners with Donor Services on segmentation
5. Serves as liaison between the CPO and the Administrative Coordinator and Board Liaison for the Regional Advisory Council
QUALIFICATIONS:
Provides advanced cancer care and research
Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center provides cancer care across a network for more than 50 years, focusing on compassionate, expert treatment and education. What they do: deliver advanced cancer care through diagnosis, treatment (surgery, chemotherapy, radiation), early detection, research, and patient education to improve survivorship. How it works: teams of clinicians coordinate care for individuals, combining medical therapies with supportive services to guide patients from diagnosis through treatment and follow-up, plus ongoing research to refine treatments. How it differs from competitors: a long-standing community-based center committed to compassionate care and survivorship, integrating early detection, research, and education under one organization to reduce the burden of cancer for patients and families. Goal: improve survivorship and lessen the burden of cancer by advancing treatment, detection, and education.
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