• Competitive remuneration + salary packaging
• Full-time permanent position
• Based in Darwin

CareFlight was founded in 1986 as an aeromedical charity with the mission to save lives, speed recovery and serve the community. Today, we deliver services nationally. Our critical care doctors, paramedics and nurses are specially trained in emergency and trauma, pre-hospital and remote medicine and we use helicopters, jet aircraft, turbo-prop planes and road vehicles to reach and treat patients wherever they are.

We run accredited training for clinical specialists; operate extensive aviation and logistic training for our employees and other organisations; run a range of free education and training programs in regional, rural and remote areas, and partner with emergency service organisations, defence forces and businesses to deliver our expertise.

The role

We currently have an excellent opportunity for a Fundraising & Community Engagement Manager to join CareFlight’s Northern Operation.

About you

To be successful in this role you will possess:

• Strong fundraising, sales, business development or community engagement and events experience;
• The ability to acquire and manage funders across corporate, philanthropic and grants sectors;
• Proven networking and negotiation skills in a corporate or business to business environment;
• The ability to engage with senior leadership across the organisation to work with and gain support for fundraising and community engagement initiatives;
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written;
• Excellent time management, organisational and planning skills;
• Competence and confidence with Microsoft programs including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook;
• The ability to learn new software as required;
• The ability to work with a wide range of internal stakeholders to research fundraising products;
• The ability to work weekends at community-based events as required;
• Strong leadership skills and experience leading a small team to deliver outcomes; and
• A current Driver’s Licence.

The following will be highly regarded:

• Tertiary qualifications or equivalent professional experience in business or a related field.
• Previous event organising experience.
• Experience in public speaking and presentation.
• Past record demonstrating support of not-for-profit causes.

CareFlight values diversity in the workplace.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are encouraged to apply.

All employees must comply with CareFlight’s Drug and Alcohol Management Plan (DAMP) as required by CASA and may be subject to random workplace testing.

Criminal Record and Working With Children Checks also apply.

CareFlight: 'The next life we save could be yours'

If you would like to discuss further, please email [email protected], using the subject line: NT Fundraising & Community Engagement Manager enquiry via EthicalJobs, or contact us on 08 8928 9777.

If you would like to be part of our team, please visit our website and apply by attaching your current resume and covering letter that addresses the role’s essential criteria.