Philanthropy & Grants Manager

Organisation: Sydney Living Museums, Historic Houses Trust of NSW, Office of Environment and Heritage
Location: Development & Fundraising Team, Sydney CBD
Job Grade/Classification: Job Grade/Classification: Clerk Grade 7/8 – $110,697. Package includes salary ($90,215 – $99,862), employer’s contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading.

About the role
This role identifies, manages donor and external grants opportunities to grow philanthropy, meeting Sydney Living Museums’ organisational revenue targets and enabling the organisation to meet its strategic objectives and mission.

Employment Status: Temporary full-time (up to 3 years)
Contact: Joy England on 02 8239 2433
Closing date: 11.59pm Friday 3 March 2017

Please note: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply.

Essential requirements the role holder needs:
– Tertiary qualification and/or significant relevant experience in corporate philanthropy
– Five years plus experience working with donors, High Net Worth individuals, corporate donors and trusts, grant making bodies and private foundations
– Excellent interpersonal, communication, presentation and public relations skills that demonstrate the ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with diverse internal and external constituencies in a wide variety of settings.
– Highly developed verbal and written communication skills and confidence in preparing and delivering compelling presentations, pitches, proposals to potential donors and donor organisations.
– Excellent numeracy skills and the ability to analyse and prepare budgets and forecasts.
– Time management, analytic and problem solving skills and the ability to manage multiple projects with competing timelines.
– Highly developed skills in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook), databases and CRM systems.
– Strong organisational skills with attention to detail
– Passion to make a positive impact in the community and a willingness to work within Sydney Living Museum’s values and behaviours to advance its mission.

Targeted questions:
1. This role requires you to develop and implement a grants program to secure grant, trust and foundation funding across the organisation. Please describe your experience in identifying, developing, managing and acquitting two significant and successful grant applications.
2. Outline your approach to working collaboratively with multiple stakeholders to secure funding from individual donors or grant awarding bodies, for a range of different fundraising projects including a capital campaign and an annual appeal.