Graduate Prospect Researcher

Number of Positions Available:

1

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- The Salvation Army is one of Australia’s largest and most-loved charities, helping thousands of Australians every year find hope in the midst of all kinds of personal hardship. The Salvation Army offers the opportunity to use your professional skills and expertise to make a real difference in the lives of people who need help most.
About the Role:
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Graduate Prospect Researcher to join our Fundraising team on a permanent full time basis based out of our Blackburn, Melbourne office.

This newly created position will provide proactive and reactive in depth background into high value prospects for The Salvation Army including history, motivation and recommendations for solicitations. Working alongside the Senior Prospect Researcher you will focus your efforts on background research, preparing reports and supporting the Transformational Gifts program.

Key Responsibilities:

- Support creation of a prospect pipeline, ensuring supporter details are documented to enable an insightful, seamless and quality supporter journey
- Researching the activities, interests and connections of potential major donors
- Identifying other philanthropic interests of current prospects and donors
- Analyse accumulated information to assess the capacity, philanthropic tendencies and affinity of prospect donors
- Develop in-depth research profiles (including due diligence) and briefings for high value prospects and donors
- Record relevant financial, biographical and relationship data from research and maintain up to information in the CRM database
- Ensuring all prospects are allocated appropriately across the Relationship Managers portfolios
- Working with Transformational Gifts teams to support the development of reports that demonstrate fundraising activity

About you:

- A degree with/or subsequent relevant research experience in a related field such as not-for-profit, higher education, journalism and corporate research
- High level of intellectual curiosity, persistence in intelligence gathering and attention to detail
- Ability to exercise judgement as to the relevance of information and the manner of sourcing it
- Demonstrated ability to analyse and organise information to identify philanthropic patterns, tendencies and relationships among individuals, corporations and foundations
- Strong computer literacy in MS Office Suite and presentation software

Why work for us:

- Eligible employees can access NFP salary packaging
- Flexible working arrangements
- Opportunity for career development
- Paid parental leave
- Employee Assistance Program
- Internationally renowned not-for-profit organisation
- An inclusive culture of dedicated, passionate and professional team members
- Rare opportunity to work with passionate, like-minded people who enjoy being a part of an organization that makes a difference within the Australian community

How to Apply:

- The Salvation Army is an Equal Opportunity Employer who provides an inclusive work environment and embraces the diverse talent of its people. _
- We value people of all cultures, languages, capacities, sexual orientations, gender identities and/or expressions. W_
- The Salvation Army is a child safe organisation and is committed to protecting children and young people from harm. All child facing roles will require the successful completion of a Working with Children Check. Applicants for all roles require a mandatory National Police Check._
- The Salvation Army has a mandatory vaccination procedure _
- to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our community_
- and works in areas covered by Public Health Orders requiring vaccination. _
- We value Integrity, Compassion, Respect, Diversity, and Collaboration_