Head of Principal Gifts

Sydney Childrens Hospitals Foundation

The Head of Principal Gifts will lead their team in identifying, cultivating, and stewarding major donors who have the potential to make transformative contributions. The Head of Principal Gifts will play a critical role in shaping the future of our fundraising efforts, ensuring we have the right strategies to drive our mission forward. This is a permanent full-time role based in Sydney.

At SCHF, you’ll have a richer, more meaningful job with the chance to create change at scale, knowing that what you do every day improves the lives of sick kids and shapes the front line and the future of kids’ health.

Benefits

We are pleased to offer a competitive salary of up to $220k for this position. We believe in recognising and rewarding the valuable contributions of our team members.

• At SCHF, we are all about that flex with a choice of 3 office locations (Sydney CBD, Randwick, or Westmead), remote working, and flexible full time working hours.  
• SCHF has a host of amazing leave benefits including 2 weeks compassionate leave, 2 weeks of wellness days, public holiday swaps and 26 weeks parental leave (primary and secondary carers).  
• There’s a chance to be a real-life digital nomad, working from a different location, including overseas, for up to 3 months.  
• Each career journey is unique. With our Learning Program benefits you can access 5 learning leave days to attend trainings, $1,500 learning dollars per financial year to support your learning goal and access to our Online Learning Library to enrol in online courses.  
• To support you in your wellness journey, our Wellness Program includes a range of benefits to fit diverse needs like access to $500 wellness dollars per financial year to spend on a wellness initiative that suits your needs or Fitness Passport to have access to a multitude of facilities to workout.  
• We focus on mental health support with free training and tools, as well as relief and support resources.  
• Along with competitive salaries, enjoy salary packing with charity-sector tax exemptions, allowing you to enjoy more take-home pay.
• SCHF will provide 2% additional superannuation to help take care of your future.

Task & Responsibilities

What will I be doing?

• Manage a portfolio of 30-50 prospects with a primary focus on qualifying prospects and developing the engagement and stewardship of prospects through the full life cycle of giving and renewal. Ensure consistent pipeline movement.
• Lead regular reviews and provide regular reporting and metrics across the prospect portfolio, ensuring the strategy and prospect portfolio remain on track to deliver organisational goals.
• Partner with SCHF and SCHN leadership as well as clinicians, researchers and principal giving colleagues to develop and implement strategies for gifts of $5M+; help develop a volunteer leadership group committed to advancing SCHF with a focus on helping the Foundation implement their campaign volunteer leadership strategy.
• Own, develop and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders; including academics and researchers, institutional leaders, volunteer leaders, and writing briefings and coordinating engagement that will lead to transformational gifts.
• Develop a strong working knowledge of the relationship among SCHF and SCHN, and the resulting complexities, and collaborate with internal colleagues to develop proposals and propositions.
• Ensure equality and diversity is celebrated and considered as part of all decisions taken.
• Oversee a team of two (2)
• Committed to SCHF vision.

Qualification & Experience

What skills will I need?

• Bachelor's degree plus 7 years' fundraising experience or 9 years' fundraising experience in lieu of the bachelor's degree.
• Extensive experience of professional fundraising with demonstrated track record in closing $5M+ gifts; knowledge/understanding of Principal Gifts fundraising best practices. Understand and have a comfort level with the engagement and stewardship process/principles of securing principal and major gifts.
• Significant experience working in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple and complex projects.
• Excellent project management and organisation skills with strong attention to detail and demonstrated analytical skills; excellent writing skills with strong comfort with technology (knowledge of databases, Excel, PowerPoint, and other platforms)
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and to navigate new territory, setting a clear path and establishing new protocols.
• Highly organised with a proven ability to set and deliver to a high standard consistently with competing and demanding deadlines; able to prioritise activity to achieve core purpose of funding world class science.
• Experience at a senior level with a comprehensive campaign
• Strategic mindset with proven experience of developing strategies; ability to quickly understand and demonstrate the ability to lead on the priorities of SCHF and SCHN, and Principal Gifts best practices around the world.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and ability to work with, and communicate effectively and professionally with, a wide range of individuals from internal colleagues, institutional leaders, and external collaborators, stakeholders, and donors.

About Company

Are you ready to join a team of unstoppable changemakers at one of Australia’s largest children’s charities? Sydney Children’s Hospitals Foundation is seeking people that think big, aim high and want to help bring about a groundbreaking new revolution in kids’ health. Working at SCHF goes beyond just being a job; it offers the opportunity to join a change-making and future-shaping team that is making incredible contributions and being part of something bigger. Following a year of exceptional fundraising achievements, we are experiencing growth.

Join us in our Movement of Many!

Our Vision is to foster a place where all children should have access to the best possible healthcare, whenever and wherever they need it. That’s why we’re on a mission to harness the power of philanthropy, bringing world-leading care to the front line and future of children’s health. Here’s a few things that we care about as a team at SCHF. Five simple EVP values that guide our behaviour, inform our decisions, and help us do what we do, in a way that is authentically us.

• Care deeply
• Think big, aim high.
• Lift those around you
• Real meaning, actual change
• Be you.

Acknowledgement of First Nations people

Sydney Children’s Hospitals Foundation acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and recognises their continuous connection to the country, community, and culture. We are committed to helping to close the gap to achieve equality in health and life expectancy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. As such, if you require any adjustments to submit your application, please get in touch with us at *******@schf.org.au

Salary: $180000-220000

Job Publish: 28-02-2024

Job Expire: 29-03-2024