Chief Executive Officer

**Embrace the conversations, connect the people & drive a tight, true-to-purpose business set on improving the quality of life for everyone.**
- Supportive Board + researchers + volunteers + everyday people working together.
- Stable, dynamic Foundation widely reputed for its impacts on medical research
- Permanent role located in Brisbane.

**_A special role of prestige and influence based on trust and respect...._**
This medical research & health foundation is unique in that it is an independent registered charity and a statutory authority that also runs community-based purpose-for-profit enterprises. So, it has special accountability to its donors, supporters, and the lives of all people it positively impacts.

This Foundation is best described not as a (work) place - but as ‘a cause that has no boundaries’. Its bywords are passion and humility, hope and inspiration. And its goal is to have a positive effect on the lives of all people who suffer from chronic diseases that affect over 90% of Australians.

Having a measurable impact is what this Foundation is all about: a commitment reflected by its record. For example: it’s widely acknowledged that many people owe their lives to leading-edge heart transplant research that this Foundation has funded over time.

Right now - after an active and lengthy stewardship - the present, high-achieving and entrepreneurial CEO is moving on, leaving the Foundation well placed, with a healthy balance sheet, a strong provisional strategy, and a number of social enterprises in place - ready to be finessed and facilitated. To maintain the momentum of success, the outgoing leader will collaborate in the onboarding process.

This is a rare and enlivening opportunity for a visionary professional coming to the zenith of a career that has included lots of relationship management, commercial success, and contemporary fundraising at the highest levels.

It is unerringly focused on outcomes for the people you serve. And since this means engaging with everyone including dignitaries, business leaders, media, professors, medical teams and volunteers, you need to be personable and articulate, down-to-earth, authentic, and relatable - yet never lose the drive and tenacity that achieve results.

This charity operates an award winning social enterprise and has other projects ready to go - so, you will need to bring impressive presentation skills, acute financial acumen, a background in strategy development, high level negotiating abilities and an admirable record of managing diverse teams.

Your ability to make and maintain warm, enduring stakeholder relationships is paramount. As is the ability to back these soft skills through a high level of compliance and operational management. Charismatic, empathetic, passionate, and considerate, you are an active listener and problem solver, quick to identify chances, ask the right questions and instigate the conversations that connect people to opportunities.

This prestigious role may appeal to a CEO with significant success in the commercial world who also brings substantial understanding of the non-profit sector. Or perhaps you’ve been the CEO of a smaller non-profit where you’ve instigated innovative commercial relationships that have changed the future for those you support?

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