LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN’S HEALTH
SENIOR EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATOR, MAJOR AND PRINCIPAL GIFTS

 
 

THIS IS A HYBRID POSITION. THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE WILL BE EXPECTED TO BE IN THE OFFICE EIGHT PLUS DAYS PER MONTH; THREE OR FOUR DAYS PER WEEK IS PREFFERED.

 ABOUT LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN’S HEALTH

The Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health, in partnership with Stanford Medicine and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, unlocks philanthropy to transform health for children and families in Northern California – and around the world. Through fundraising and grantmaking, the Foundation drives scientific research, innovation, and policy change that will improve care, advance cures, and reform healthcare systems for this and future generations.

Founded in 1997, the Foundation was established as an independent public charity to ensure a continued source of dedicated funding and support for the health and well-being of children. The Foundation is the sole fundraising entity for Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford and the maternal and child health programs of Stanford School of Medicine. Philanthropy supports clinical care, research, innovation, and education to improve the health of children and expectant mothers, locally and worldwide.

The team at LPFCH is on a shared mission to:

- Fundraise to improve health outcomes and equitable access to excellent care for all kids and their families.

- Advance equity and access to care for children with special health care needs.

OPPORTUNITY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Salary range is $110,000 - $120,000

Benefits include:

  • Generous leave, including PTO, holidays, Summer Fridays, and a sabbatical (after seven years of employment)

  • Annual bonus

  • Retirement plan + employer match

  • Premium Medical and Dental coverage

  • FSA + dependent care FSA

  • Employer-paid life insurance

  • Legal services plan

  • Commuter Benefits, including Caltrain “Go Pass” Program

  • Four week paid maternity and paternity leave for new parents

  • Stipend for home office and mobile phone

  • Professional development and growth opportunities

Hybrid position

  • In office minimum eight plus days per month, three to four days per week preferred, according to business need.

YOU ARE:

  • Highly organized and detail oriented

  • Someone who thrives on project management

  • Proactive, thoughtful, strategic, and enthusiastic

  • Adaptable, collaborative, and discrete

  • Someone who enjoys a fast-paced work environment

  • Of sound judgment and mission-minded

  • Comfortable working with and interacting with a variety of individuals including medical faculty, board members, donors, and colleagues

  • Passionate about elevating the priority of child and maternal health and increasing the quality and accessibility of child and maternal health care through leadership and direct investment

POSITION OVERVIEW

The Senior Executive Development Administrator, Major and Principal Gifts serves as a key support for the portfolio, project, and administrative needs of the Senior Vice President, Major and Principal Gifts, as well as for shared programmatic projects and needs across the Major and Principal Gifts teams.

The Senior Executive Development Administrator, Major and Principal Gifts provides essential project, writing, data-related, and administrative support that is vital to advancing the Senior Vice President’s responsibilities as both a frontline fundraiser and an executive leader.  Additionally, they support direct donor work on complex solicitations of $5M or more involving hospital and school leaders, as well as pediatrics faculty. The role will advance and complete high volumes of work with strong collaboration, coordination, accuracy, and resourcefulness. The role facilitates exceptional communication, helps connect dots, and works seamlessly across diverse teams and functions towards positive outcomes that advance the good of the whole. Given the nature of providing both individual portfolio and cross-team support, the role requires an eagerness to learn and to jump in where and as needed.

This is a new position.

For more information, please visit www.lpfch.org

REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS

The Senior Executive Development Administrator, Major and Principal Gifts serves as a key support for the portfolio, project, and administrative needs of  Sarah Collins, Senior Vice President, Major and Principal Gifts, and works closely with Keiko Endo, Assistant Director, Principal Gifts.  This position will also have programmatic and project management responsibilities for shared content as well as leadership and board stakeholder and donor efforts across the Major and Principal Gifts teams. The position reports directly to Keiko Endo, Assistant Director, Principal Gifts.

The Senior Vice President’s portfolio is focused on donors with Principal Gift potential. The Principal Gifts team works with donors and prospects who have the potential to make philanthropic gifts of $10 million or more. The team partners closely with the Foundation President/CEO’s Office, hospital and School of Medicine leadership, and hospital and Foundation board members.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

Portfolio and Database Support (~30%):

  • Draft confidential memos, meeting briefing shells, donor correspondence, and other timely donor-related pieces.

  • Support the Senior Vice President’s portfolio work through strategic tasks (creating agendas and action items for portfolio meetings, completing gift forms, submitting partnership requests, project managing select solicitations, tracking mailing and invite lists for review, etc.).

  • Actively update, maintain, and extract information from the Foundation’s constituent relationship 

  • management database (Raiser’s Edge), data reporting platform (Power BI), electronic filing systems, and content-sharing platforms. Build, manipulate, and interpret queries and existing reports to support individual portfolio work.

  • As assigned, conduct research updates on prospects and donors.

Administrative Management (~30%):

  • Manage complex calendaring and scheduling for the Senior Vice President, including negotiating requests, resolving conflicts with limited or no consultation, and balancing the advancement of both individual portfolio and executive leadership priorities.

  • Plan, assist, and coordinate meetings and tours, which may include donors, faculty, cross functional teams, stakeholders, and outside vendors, while ensuring timely communications and confidentiality.

  • Draft agendas, materials, and briefings as needed.

  • Inbox Support: Scan inbox for agendas, materials, and briefings for upcoming meetings, ensuring the Senior Vice President is prepared. Learn to track and advise on the prioritization of internal and external requests.

  • Develop timelines, track execution of key deliverables, take notes, assign, and assume action items and next steps, prepare expense reports, and other tasks as needed.

Cross-Teams Leadership Stakeholder Strategy and Content (~20%):

  • Support the Foundation’s monthly stakeholder meetings with the hospital, School of Medicine, University, and board leaders by helping to project manage, prioritize, and finalize agendas and talking points and to update shared tracking tools.

  • Build and manage systems for tracking stakeholders’ work with donors, in close partnership with the Foundation President’s Office.

  • Manage and organize partnership requests from across the Foundation for board members staffed by the Senior Vice President.

  • Project manage the annual year-end board appeal process, in close collaboration with the Board

  • Relations and Development teams.

  • Serve as an expert and resource on the Major and Principal Gifts teams’ procedures and guidelines for working with the Foundation President’s Office, leadership across Stanford Medicine and Stanford University, and key board members.

Cross-Teams Donor Strategy and Content (~20%):

  • Manage individual and group Major and Principal Gifts team strategy meetings with the Senior Vice President, creating and/or providing guidance on agendas and briefings, anticipating upcoming discussion topics, and pulling supporting data and information.

  • Project manage shared donor events and opportunities for the Major and Principal Gifts teams.

  • Create slide decks and draft talking points for internal meetings.

  • Build, manipulate, and interpret queries and existing reports to support the tracking of team portfolios, performance, results, and opportunities.

  • Support the tracking and execution of the Senior Vice President’s reporting and data deliverables.

  • Document, update, disseminate, and serve as a content expert on development-related policies,

    procedures, and best practices across the Major and Principal Gifts teams, under the guidance of the Assistant Director and Senior Vice President.

  • Help maintain processes for storing, tracking, and sharing information.

COMPETENCIES

  • Bachelor’s degree or five years of equivalent practical experience.

  • 2+ years of administrative experience supporting senior-level executives.

  • Minimum five years of experience working in development or other related field within the nonprofit sector—or equivalent combination of education and experience.

  • Exemplary writing and editing skills.

  • Consistently strong organization and project management skills, and excellent attention to detail.

  • Ability to interpret and summarize complex information from varied sources, understanding how requests fit together and anticipating cascading effects.

  • Excellent communication skills with ability to build strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.

  • Strong aptitude for learning new technologies.

  • Demonstrated ability to exercise the highest level of discretion and confidentiality.

  • Ability to prioritize a senior executive’s calendar with ability to make judgment calls and decisions based on rapidly shifting priorities.

  • Experience and enthusiasm for working in a fast paced, often changing environment with efficiency and accuracy.

Highly desired but not required:

  • Project management in a complex environment, preferably in healthcare or higher education.

  • Experience complying with HIPAA regulations.

  • Experience with Monday.com as a communications tool.

  • Experience with Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, and Microsoft products.

  • Genuine interest in improving health and well-being for kids and families.

NOTE

LPFCH is a dynamic organization in a rapidly changing industry. Therefore, the responsibilities associated with this position will change from time to time in accordance with LPFCH's business needs. The incumbent may be required to perform additional and/or different responsibilities from those set forth above.

EQUITY STATEMENT

WE’RE COMMITTED TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION AND BELONGING…

Our Foundation embraces all individuals and celebrates the unique differences each of us bring to our team and community. Our approach to fostering diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging is rooted in our cultural touchstones and inherent in our work to encourage every employee to bring their best, most authentic self to work and to provide each of them the opportunity to achieve their full potential.

We envision a world where race, gender, resources, and other factors do not serve as barriers to attaining optimal health. We recognize that this vision requires the commitment and actions of everyone.

To support this goal, we pledge to: 

  • Conduct ourselves in a manner that garners trust and respect from others.

  • Foster a welcoming and supportive environment for our team members and community.

  • Acknowledge and appreciate the dignity, expertise, experiences, and contributions of each other.

  • Approach others with an open mind, compassionate heart, actively listening to their perspectives.

  • Foster effective teamwork and encourage collaboration amongst our team and constituents. “

TO APPLY

To apply for this position please visit this link.

All applications and inquiries will receive a response and be kept strictly confidential.

Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer.