Leadership Giving Officer

**Job no**: 0052532
**Location**:Parkville
**Role type**:Full time, Continuing
**Department/School**:Advancement
**Salary**:UOM 7 - $98,402 - $106,519 p.a. plus 17% super
- High impact initiatives - Use your energy and enthusiasm to influence major gifts
- Continuous improvement mindset - We value your ideas
- Deliver excellence, enhance your career and draw on your fundraising expertise

The University of Melbourne would like to acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Owners of the lands upon which our campuses are situated, the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung Peoples, the Yorta Yorta Nation, the Dja Dja Wurrung People. We acknowledge that the land on which we meet and learn was the place of age-old ceremonies, of celebration, initiation and renewal, and that the local Aboriginal Peoples have had and continue to have a unique role in the life of these lands.

**About Advancement**

The Advancement Office aims to facilitate the establishment and maintenance of mutually beneficial relationships between the University and its alumni, friends and benefactors. It is responsible for the management of programs relating to alumni and benefactors and provides services to and works collaboratively with faculties and other central administration areas.

**About the Role**
As the Leadership Giving Officer, you will support the Leadership Giving and Engagement team’s focus on mid-level giving to the University of Melbourne. You will actively manage portfolios of prospective and current donors capable of making substantial gifts, with a view to increasing the overall pool of donors, multi-year pledges and future major gift potential. You’ll engage and work with senior level staff, donors and volunteers, forging effective relationships with academic and professional colleagues.

Responsibilities include:

- Building and maintaining a portfolio of 100-130+ current and prospective alumni donors, with a focus on the cultivation and solicitation of new gifts, renewals and upgrades in line with agreed priorities
- Achieving goals and metrics related to donor meetings, moves that strengthen / advance relationships, solicitations, gifts and other critical KPIs
- Preparing written funding proposals and donor correspondence
- Liaising with the Prospect Development and Customer Insights teams to ensure the continuous renewal of prospective donor portfolio

**About You**
As an experienced administrator, you have excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks in a complex environment. You have advanced communication and interpersonal skills, enabling you to work collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders. Your ability to exercise sound judgement and work with a high level of autonomy will set you up for success in this role.

You will also have:

- A tertiary qualification in a relevant discipline, or an equivalent combination of relevant training, education and experience in Advancement
- Proven experience in soliciting gifts for fundraising initiatives, with a proven track record of success, or equivalent experience in a related relationship-development role that results in meeting and exceeding income KPIs
- An engaging, collaborative style that is well suited to working constructively with alumni, volunteers, donors and a broad cross-section of University colleagues

**About the University**
The University of Melbourne is consistently ranked amongst the leading universities in the world. We are proud of our people, our commitment to research and teaching excellence, and our global engagement.

**Benefits of Working with Us**
In addition to having the opportunity to grow and be challenged, and to be part of a vibrant campus life, our people enjoy a range of rewarding benefits:

- Flexible working arrangements, generous personal, parental and cultural leave
- Competitive remuneration, 17% super, salary packaging and leave loading
- Free and subsidised health and wellbeing services, and access to fitness and cultural clubs
- Discounts on a wide range of products and services including Myki cards and Qantas Club
- Career development opportunities and 25% off graduate courses for staff and their immediate families

**Be Yourself**
We value the unique backgrounds, experiences and contributions that each person brings to our community and encourage and celebrate diversity. First Nations people, those identifying as LGBTQIA+, females, people of all ages, with disabilities and culturally and linguistically diverse people are encouraged to apply. Our aim is to create a workforce that reflects the community in which we live.

**Join Us**
- Previous experience of soliciting gifts for fundraising initiatives, with a proven track record of success, or equivalent experience in a related relationship-development role that results in meeting and exceeding income KPIs.
- Proven success in meeting activity metrics, ideally related to leadership gift fundraising proposals and donor visits.
- An engaging, c