Chief Executive Officer

Skyline Education Foundationis a high impact organisation that fundamentally believes that communities benefit and are strengthened when all students have an opportunity to thrive. Our purpose is to enable high potential students navigating economic and social adversity to flourish in their communities. Skyline provides financial support, personal and career development, and educational coaching to highly motivated and culturally diverse cohorts of Year 11 and 12 students from statepublic schools that are in areas of identified lower economic advantage. It also partners and collaborates with schools in areas of social and financial disadvantage; and advocates for changes to education more broadly to support all talented students to achieve. Skyline also has a social enterprise “Skyline Hatch” that delivers tutoring and mentoring to a wide range of VCE students.

The Opportunity
Reporting to the Board of Directors, the new CEO will consolidate on the existing strengths created by the outgoing CEO and will be responsible for:Strategic Planning; Fundraising; External Stakeholder Engagement and Advocacy;Skyline Education Program Framework; Financial and Resource Management; Operational and Team Leadership and Management; and Volunteer Management.The CEO role will be 0.8 FTE.

You will lead capital and fundraising activities to ensure the financial sustainability and growth of the organisation, including overseeing internal and external communication to ensure that the organisation’s brand is aligned to its purpose and guiding principles. You will also leverage relationship-building skills to maximise diverse capital raising activities and drive support of funders, volunteers and pro-bono providers.

External stakeholder engagement is critical to the success of the organisation and as such you will collaborate, negotiate, engage, and build trusted relationships across the philanthropic, education, corporate, government, non-profit and community sectors. You will also promote and enhance the organisation's reputation and brand amongst its external stakeholders and act as spokesperson at events/ schools/ universities when required.

Leading a small, high-performing team you will have the skills and experience to provide clear leadership and direction and act as a source of inspiration and motivation to team members whilst building organisational capability, championing the organisation’s culture, and delivering a framework for high quality partnerships. You will effectively manage operational and reputational risk and ensure the organisation is fulfilling its regulatory, statutory and legal obligations including health and safety, whilst managing the overall operations and monitor performance against objectives including fostering a collaborative, results-driven, and innovative culture.

With a team of highly skilled educators, you will lead and manage the effective development and implementation of the organisation’s Program Framework and its components, including Student and School selection. You will also oversee the planning, development and delivery of the student evaluation strategy.

Key Selection Criteria
We are looking to appoint a highly experienced, values-driven CEO with outstanding leadership capability who can demonstrate:

• A relevant Graduate Degree – for example in Education or a commercial field.
• Proven track record overseeing fundraising, actively engaging new donors and in developing new business opportunities for an organisation, including driving: grants, critical donor relationships, partnerships including government, and diversification of funding streams.
• A genuine commitment and passion for improving education outcomes in the lives of young people.
• CEO/GM experience in a similar size organisation where the key focus is on building a positive and trusted work culture and ensuring ongoing sustainability through competent operational management, financial management, and philanthropy/fundraising(desirable but not essential).
• Knowledge and experience of the philanthropic, non-profit, corporate and government sectors with the leadership ability to engage and build trusted relationships across these sectors and others, including education.
• Outstanding people leadership capability demonstrating high EQ and the ability to articulate a clear vision and build a positive and highly engaged team.
• Knowledge and experience in working in, or with, the secondary education sector, especially with high ability students andin high needs schools, will be highly regarded.
• Experience in digitally enabled learning will also be highly regarded.
• Strategic planning skills with the ability to lead a collaborative process to develop and implement an organisational purpose, mission, and operational plan that leads to results.
• Proven track record in engaging, building and communicating with a broad range ofstakeholders.
• Entrepreneurial spirit with the ability to use initiative appropriately.
• Working with Children Check.

Workplace flexibility is an important element of the Skyline culture.

To obtain a copy of the Candidate Information Pack, please contact *****@galvinrowley.com.au

Confidential enquiries can be made to Laura Gaugain via *****@galvinrowley.com.au