Gift Implementation Coordinator

**Job no**: 0053949
**Location**:Parkville
**Role type**:Full-time;Fixed-term for 12 months
**Faculty**:Architecture, Building & Planning
**Department**:Strategy, Planning & Resources
**Salary**:UOM 7 - $102,338 to $110,780 p.a plus 17% super
- **Management and administration of endowed and donated funds within the Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning**:

- **Collaborate with key stakeholders within ABP, focusing on compliance and financial reporting**:

- **Salary packaging, subsidised health and wellbeing services, fitness and cultural clubs, Myki discounts, and a 25% discount on graduate courses to our staff and their immediate families**

**About the Role**

The Gift Implementation Coordinator's primary responsibility is to manage and oversee endowed and donated funds within the Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning. This involves becoming well-versed in the Faculty's gifts portfolio, offering expert advice, leading process improvement efforts, and ensuring compliance with endowment and financial reporting requirements in collaboration with the cluster Trust Accountant.

Reporting to the Faculty's Strategy, Planning, and Resources team, the coordinator will engage with various stakeholders both within and outside the Faculty, including the Academic Support Office, Research & Industry team, and University-wide shared-services like Advancement, Scholarship Office, Future Students, and Finance functions.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Provide expert, clear advice and the interpretation of University policy and legislative requirements in relation to long term investment funds, charitable trust and expendable gifts
- Contribute to the development of comprehensive gift implementation including the award approval process via the Academic Board and stewardship plans in a timely manner
- Manage the awarding and the administration of the Faculty scholarships and prizes across undergraduate, graduate and coordinate research higher degree scholarships in partnership with Faculty Research & Industry and Academic Support Office

**Who We Are Looking For**

To be successful, you would possess excellent communication skills, a strong ability to build and maintain relationships across all levels of the organisation, and exceptional coordination abilities. You should also have a thorough understanding of endowed and donated funds management, and be capable of providing expert advice while ensuring compliance with financial reporting requirements.

You will also have:

- A relevant degree with subsequent relevant experience, or an equivalent mix of education and relevant experience
- Demonstrated ability to understand the compliance issues relating to the administration of legal contracts
- Demonstrated ability to exercise judgment and make complex decisions with the ability to deliver creative solutions and negotiate outcomes

For further information regarding responsibilities and requirements, please refer to the attached PD.

**About - Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning**

The Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning is the leading educational and research institution in the Asia-Pacific region addressing the design and realisation of environments. It actively seeks to extend the linkages between education, research, and practice in the built environment, and maintains excellent and extensive relationships with members of the built environment professions, government, professional associations and the wider community.

The Faculty has over 200 staff and 3000 students, one third of whom are international. It is responsible for the undergraduate Bachelor of Design degree, and offers majors in architecture, landscape architecture, property, construction, and urban planning.

The Faculty’s graduate school, the Melbourne School of Design (MSD), teaches accredited masters courses across the professional disciplines of Architecture, Construction Management, Landscape Architecture, Property, Urban Design and Urban Planning.

**What We Offer You**
In addition, we offer the opportunity to be part of a vibrant community and enjoy a range of benefits, including generous leave provisions, salary packaging, health and well-being services and discounts on graduate courses. For more information, check out our benefits page

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