Lead Foundation Specialist

Your job is more than a job.

Do you love building relationships, creating memorable events, and making a meaningful impact in your community? Join the Touro Foundation team and help advance the mission of Touro through philanthropy, donor engagement, and special events that support exceptional patient care.

As the Lead Foundation Specialist, you'll play a key role in growing philanthropic support for Touro. Reporting directly to the Director of Philanthropy, you'll help bring fundraising initiatives to life through donor stewardship, event planning, communications, and database management. If you're highly organized, passionate about community impact, and enjoy balancing both strategy and execution, we'd love to meet you.

What You'll Do

Be a Champion for Our Donors

• Process and record gifts to the Foundation, ensuring donors receive timely and meaningful acknowledgements.
• Maintain accurate donor and prospect records within the donor management system.
• Track giving history, prospect activity, and donor engagement opportunities.

Help Drive Philanthropic Success

• Support direct mail campaigns, fundraising initiatives, marketing efforts, and donor outreach activities.
• Prepare monthly and annual reports on giving activities and fundraising performance.
• Assist with grant reporting requirements and foundation documentation.

Create Exceptional Events

• Plan and coordinate Foundation events from start to finish.
• Manage invitation lists, mailings, event logistics, and vendor relationships.
• Help create memorable experiences that engage donors, community members, and hospital supporters.

Keep Operations Running Smoothly

• Prepare monthly gift reconciliations and Foundation credit card reconciliations.
• Process invoices and support Foundation program leads with administrative needs.
• Assist in preparing materials for Foundation Board meetings and ensure meeting minutes are documented and distributed.

What You'll Bring

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.
• Three (3) or more years of experience in a nonprofit organization, preferably within healthcare, education, or a mission-driven environment.
• Three (3) or more years of experience in fundraising, marketing, event management, public relations, or a related field.

What Makes You Successful

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• A talent for building relationships with a diverse group of stakeholders, including donors, patients, physicians, volunteers, and hospital leaders.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience with Raiser's Edge or a comparable donor management system.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel.
• Experience processing invoices and running reports in Workday or another ERP system is a plus.

Why Join Touro?

At Touro, every gift tells a story and every donor helps make a difference. As part of our Foundation team, you'll help connect generous supporters with opportunities to improve healthcare in our community. You'll collaborate with passionate colleagues, create meaningful experiences, and play an important role in advancing a mission that impacts lives every day.

WORK SHIFT:

LCMC Health is a community. 

Our people make health happen. While our NOLA roots run deep, our branches are the vessels that carry our mission of bringing the best possible care to every person and parish in Louisiana and beyond and put a little more heart and soul into healthcare along the way. Celebrating authenticity, originality, equity, inclusion and a little “come on in” attitude is the foundation of LCMC Health’s culture of everyday extraordinary

Touro

Touro, at the forefront of medical excellence within LCMC Health’s incredible community of care, has been regionally recognized for 165 years as one of New Orleans' most enduring healthcare monuments. It’s where babies come from and New Orleanians are cared for. Learn more about Touro and our Leapfrog “Grade A” Hospital Safety distinction

Your extras

• Deliver healthcare with heart. 
• Give people a reason to smile. 
• Put a little love in your work. 
• Be honest and real, but with compassion.  
• Bring some lagniappe into everything you do. 
• Forget one-size-fits-all, think one-of-a-kind care. 
• See opportunities, not problems – it’s all about perspective. 
• Cheerlead ideas, differences, and each other. 
• Love what makes you, you - because we do

You are welcome here. 

LCMC Health is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The above job summary is intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people assigned to this work. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities.  LCMC Health reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet organizational needs as necessary.

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