Responsibilities

• Support overall strategy and vision for TG communications, based on both Foundation priorities and specific donor interests.
• Support TG-related content for Foundation-wide communications projects, such as bespoke donor collateral (stewardship reports/proposals), emails, event/donor meeting briefings, photo/video shoots, Packard Children’s News content, blog posts, etc.
• Share TG communication materials across the Foundation to ensure useful content is generated for TG-specific purposes (proposal language, patient family interviews, etc.) and can be leveraged by other teams, as relevant and appropriate.
• Lead projects with freelance writers, consultants, designers, and other outside vendors.
• Recommend new approaches, procedures, and processes to improve and enhance communications for the TG team and generally across the Foundation.
• Support communications strategy and content for Board meetings and task forces led by the TG team as needed.
• Support communication strategy and content for key events led by the TG team.
• At the direction of and in partnership with the Senior Vice President, Transformational Giving, and other Foundation leaders, creates proposals, case statements, and other donor-facing materials.
• Lead the development of creative custom collateral tailored to individual donors’ preferences and motivations, making recommendations about potential communications platforms (including websites, video, PDF, etc.).
• Partner with the Senior Vice President, Transformational Giving, to produce overviews of scalable gift opportunities for transformative ideas at the hospital and School of Medicine that have the highest potential for philanthropy.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 8 years related experience demonstrating progressively increasing responsibilities.
• Ability to lead big picture communications strategies that advance institutional priorities in a complex and matrixed environment.
• Education or professional experience in writing for medicine, biology, or scientific research.
• Experience translating scientific/medical (or otherwise highly complicated/technical) concepts into compelling, lay language, synthesizing material from multiple sources to produce materials for discerning, high-stakes audiences.
• Experience creating donor-facing communications that can scale in scientific sophistication and complexity based on audience knowledge.
• Strong experience directing designers or communications agencies.
• Previous experience working in a nonprofit or higher education environment.
• Strong sense of design, including experience with branding and digital design, or visual design and technological aptitude, and eagerness to learn.
• Strong experience directing designers or communications agencies.

Preferred

• You are an exceptional writer and communicator.
• Exemplary communications skills with proven ability to present, write, edit, and organize thoughts in a clear, concise, and well-organized manner for print, online, and other media.
• You possess strong collaborative skills.
• Personal and interpersonal skills with the proven ability to collaborate, motivate, engage, and work closely with senior leaders and internal and external stakeholders.
• You are adaptable and flexible.
• Demonstrated openness and receptiveness to new ideas. Possess a high tolerance for ambiguity and shifting priorities in a complex, matrixed work environment.
• Possess sound judgment.
• Proven ability to meet deadlines, manage multiple priorities, maintain attention to detail, and function effectively in a complex, fast-paced environment.
• A commitment to the mission of the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health—to elevate the priority of children\'s health and increase the quality and accessibility of children\'s health care through leadership and direct investment.

Benefits

• Generous leave, including PTO, holidays, Summer Fridays, and a sabbatical (after 7 years of employment)
• Annual bonus opportunity
• 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
• 4-week paid maternity and paternity leave for new parents
• Stipend for home office and mobile phone