Philanthropy Lead

Join Our Team as a Philanthropy Lead!

Are you passionate about making a difference in children’s health? As our current Philanthropy Lead steps into an exciting parental leave leadership role, we are now recruiting for a full-time, 12-month fixed-term Philanthropy Lead role to start on Monday 29 November.

The Role

Philanthropy plays a crucial role in improving children’s health and transforming the delivery of healthcare. The RCH Foundation Major Gift program aims to generate significant funds through meaningful relationship management of philanthropic donors, whilst ensuring donors feel valued and recognised. It is an exciting time of growth within the Philanthropy Team with a bold 2030 strategy to increase philanthropic income through the portfolio of Major Gifts, Trust and Foundations and Gift in Wills.

The Philanthropy Lead, reporting into the Manager, Philanthropy within our Fundraising Department, will play a key role in achieving these targets, inspiring donors to give generously in line with the priorities and objectives of RCH Foundation, managing a portfolio of donors and development of an individualised donor stewardship plan and supporting the implementation of the Major Gifts program strategy.

About You

• You are a fundraising and philanthropy professional, who enjoys building strong relationships with donors and is familiar with customer/donor management database software
• You enjoy proactively managing donor strategies through meaningful engagement, including creating donor proposals, case for support, gift acknowledgment, donor experiences, communications, impact reporting, and acquittals.
• You have experience in major gifts fundraising, including gifts higher than $100,000, in personal solicitations, portfolio management and the preparations of proposals and reports
• You enjoy collaborating with other individuals and teams, to draw on their expertise to support and bolster your campaigns
• You are confident in your work, but know when and how to consult others to keep work moving, to achieve the best results and to avoid risk
• You have a commitment to personal development

 Key Selection Criteria

• Demonstrated experience in major gifts fundraising with experience with gifts higher than $100,000, in personal solicitations, portfolio management and the preparations of proposals and reports
• Superb written and oral communication skills with experience communicating to a wide range of audiences, including major donors, corporate representatives, senior staff, board members and volunteers; as well as experience writing tailored donor proposals.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships and demonstrated success in dealing with donors, including showing a high level of emotional intelligence and compassion.
• Demonstrated attention to detail, working under own initiative to strict deadlines, and managing accounts and projects simultaneously, including a strong ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Demonstrated experience of managing and motivating staff and others, both internal and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience in achieving goals and KPIs both individually and collaboratively as part of a team.

 Why Join Us?

• Be part of a highly supportive team which consistently rates its culture as one of the best things about working at the RCH Foundation
• Opportunities for professional growth and development
• The chance to make a real impact in the community
• A truly flexible hybrid working model
• Competitive salary and benefits package, including salary packaging (up to $15,900), leave loading, free car parking, three bonus days of leave between Christmas and New Year for the office close-down period, two additional days of leave per year to support staff wellbeing and mental health, and two additional days of personal leave per year.

The RCH Foundation is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds, all members of the LGBTIQA+ community and people with disability.