Philanthropy Coordinator

About the Organization

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. With strategic hospital and physician partnerships, we deliver on our mission to improve survivorship and lessen the burden of cancer. The Center and its partners provide state-of-the-art treatments and unparalleled collaborative, comprehensive cancer services. This culture of innovation attracts expert physicians, highly specialized scientists, and forward-thinking leaders in supportive care and other disciplines.

About the Role

Provides the operational backbone for Mary Bird Perkins’ annual, mid-level, and membership giving program. This role keeps campaigns, stewardship, data, and donor touchpoints running smoothly: coordinating and executing impact and stewardship touchpoints across print, digital, personalized, and event channels for the one-to-many program. The Coordinator delivers stewardship consistent with organization-wide donor recognition standards, ensuring alignment with the broader donor pyramid.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates and executes impact and stewardship touchpoints (print, digital, personalized, and events) for the one-to-many program, consistent with organization-wide donor recognition standards.
• Owns the quarterly donor newsletter and digital stewardship program, collaborating with the Communications team and a third-party vendor.
• Coordinates personalized gift acknowledgments and ensures CRM accuracy in collaboration with Donor Services.
• Manages production hand-offs to move creative through Marketing.
• Supports data, list, and segmentation coordination with Donor Services.
• Provides administrative support for annual, mid-level, and membership giving programs, including giving circles, advisory council, and membership gatherings.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred, or equivalent experience.
• One to three years of administrative, development operations, event coordination, or nonprofit support experience.
• CRM or database experience preferred.