Director of Development - Ochsner Neuroscience Institute

Ochsner Health•New Orleans, LA

About The Position

The Director of Development coordinates and manages an effective, comprehensive, and ongoing development program. The role plans and directs fundraising and cultivation efforts benefiting the department, with an emphasis on major gifts, and actively engages physicians, nurses, department administrators, and key volunteers in those efforts. The position identifies and cultivates individual, foundation, and corporate donors; provides stewardship for assigned donors; maintains prospect-tracking information in appropriate software; and manages a donor portfolio. It also collaborates with colleagues across disciplines on donor strategies as a member of the overall development team, maintains physical and technology infrastructure, and performs other related duties as required. The position requires compliance with applicable laws, regulations, accreditation standards, and agency requirements, as well as the employer’s Compliance & Privacy Program and Standards of Conduct. The work is sedentary, may require travel throughout and between facilities and as needed based on donor and prospect locations, and takes place in a healthcare setting where there may be occupational exposure risk from hazardous medications or waste. The role has no routine exposure to blood, body fluids, or tissue and no occupational risk for communicable disease exposure.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree.
Six years of related fundraising or development experience.
Proficiency with computers, software, and web-based applications.
Effective verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to present information clearly and professionally to people at varying levels.
Thorough knowledge of comprehensive fundraising principles and methods.
Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to establish good working relationships with physicians, patients, donors, volunteers, businesses, and the general public, and to handle difficult situations.
Ability to travel as required by donor and prospect locations.
Good organizational and time-management skills.

Responsibilities

Coordinate and manage an effective, comprehensive, and ongoing development program.
Plan and direct fundraising and cultivation efforts benefiting the department, with an emphasis on major gifts.
Engage physicians, nurses, department administrators, and key volunteers in fundraising and cultivation efforts.
Identify and cultivate individual, foundation, and corporate donors.
Provide stewardship for assigned donors and help maintain prospect-tracking information in appropriate software.
Manage a donor portfolio.
Collaborate with development colleagues across disciplines on donor strategies.
Maintain physical and technology infrastructure.
Remain knowledgeable about applicable laws, accreditation standards, and regulatory requirements, and ensure compliance.
Report known or suspected unethical or questionable conduct and patient, employee safety, privacy, or other compliance concerns.
Perform other related duties as required.