Community Fundraising and Events Assistant

Location: Melbourne | Eastern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Administration/Secretarial, Communications, Marketing and Media, Finance, Health and Allied Health, Human Resources, Information Management, Procurement

Reference: 56956

**JRN 56956 in e-recruit**

**Community Fundraising & Events Assistant, Fixed Term, Full time**

**Monash Health Foundation, Clayton**

Monash Health Foundation seeks a passionate professional to support our community fundraising activities and organisational administration
- Are you passionate about community fundraising & events?
- Want to make a difference to the health of Victorians?
- Are you an innovative, out of the box thinker?

**About us**

Monash Health Foundation is the fundraising department within Monash Health. Responsible for building meaningful partnerships with our donors and soliciting philanthropic support to purchase new equipment, invest in programs, research and people to enable Monash Health to provide the best care to consumers and their families.

Monash Health is Victoria’s largest public health service. We provide safe, high-quality care to one-quarter of Melbourne’s population, across the entire lifespan, from pre-birth to end-of-life.

More than 22,000 of us work at over 40 care locations across south-east Melbourne, including seven hospitals and an extensive network of rehabilitation, aged care, community health and mental health facilities.

**About the role**

The Community Fundraising & Events Assistant is responsible for the supporting the delivery of the community fundraising & events program for the Monash Health Foundation and providing administration support to the Foundation team.

Key Result Areas will include:

- Successful delivery of community fundraising activities
- Successful planning, implementation and delivery of internal and external events
- Supporting schools fundraising activities
- Providing a friendly welcome to all guests and donors to the Foundation office as their first point of contact in person and on the phone

**About You**
- _If you are looking for an opportunity to be a part of something great and are passionate about communities and having a positive impact, then we want you.

Combining your highly attuned customer service skills with your experience and /or understanding of the NFP or philanthropic sector, your goal will be to support the Monash Health Foundation to achieve its ambitious fundraising goals.

**On a personal level, you are**:

- Have the skills and experience to support community fundraisers;
- Passionate about delivering exceptional customer service;
- Passionate about delivering high quality, impactful events;
- Are creative, progressive and forward thinking;
- Have the ability to maintain the highest standards of integrity and confidentiality, and exercise sound judgment;
- Have the ability to develop and build relationships with internal and external stakeholders including staff, volunteers, supporters of the Foundation;
- Can prioritise your own workload and demonstrated time management skills;
- Described as high energy, with a positive, can-do attitude.

**What you need**
- _An undergraduate qualification, or an equivalent, alternate combination of relevant knowledge, training and/or experience.

Current Driver’s Licence.

An understanding of the Australian philanthropic community.

Experience in donor stewardship.

**What we offer**
- access to Monash Health in-house learning portals to further expand knowledge base
- a supportive learning environment, mentorship and career guidance
- support to attend relevant forums and conferences

Monash Health recognises the value of equal employment opportunity and is committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles.

Offers of employment can only be made once all required probity checks have been completed. These include:

- reference checks;
- a clear Police Check conducted within the last three months;
- a current Victorian Employee Working with Children’s Check (or proof of payment for same);and
- proof of immunisation.

A request to conduct probity checks does not guarantee that an offer of employment will be made.