Join the Royal Flying Doctor Service- SE Section in this rewarding career opportunity to manage relationships with a portfolio of engaged major donors, while also prospecting to steward new relationships to make an impact on vital health-focused initiatives across Australia.

• Join a successful and highly collaborative team that makes an incredible impact by supporting and driving long-term fundraising growth with major donors. This is a fantastic opportunity to apply your strengths in donor stewardship and cultivation to impact the lifesaving work at the Royal Flying Doctor Service – South Eastern Section
• Opportunity to travel to remote locations and see the impact of your work
• Hybrid work pattern, head Office in Surry Hills and a wonderful, supportive culture

Impact of the organisation

The Royal Flying Doctor Service - South Eastern Section provides lifesaving aeromedical and primary healthcare services to rural, regional, and remote communities.

This is an exciting time to join an award-winning Fundraising team that has been incredibly successful at growing fantastic relationships with a passionate portfolio of donors, and has been known as Australia’s “Most Trusted Charity” twelve times.

Impact you will have in this role

This is an incredible career opportunity for a relationship fundraiser to support an established Major Gifts program that has grown rapidly and experienced significant success within the past 5 years. The team is collaborative, engaging, and enthused to work together to achieve goals and continuously strengthen their remarkable impact.

The Major Gifts Specialist will play a vital role in nurturing and developing relationships with an engaged portfolio of major donors. They will also have the opportunity to manage the donor development process and prospect to build new relationships.

This is a donor-facing role that focuses on nurturing relationships with existing donors, implementing personal stewardship techniques to acquire, retain and upgrade donors, identifying and developing new relationships and creating and executing highly curated, intimate major donor cultivation initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan, nurture and manage flourishing relationships with a portfolio of major donors
• Proactively undertake research, identify, and cultivate relationships with known and potential high-net-worth supporters
• Develop and nurture major donor journey and framework to energise existing major donors and attract prospects
• Develop tailored proposals and donor strategies to suit individual needs and programs
• Grow and develop long term and long-lasting relationships with donors, increasing their level of giving
• Manage gift solicitation conversations and collaborate with internal teams to facilitate meetings with major donors
• Coordinate phone calls, letters, in-person events and tours
• Work with the internal and external stakeholders to collaborate with donor engagement across all programs

Skills and Experience

• Proven experience in relationship fundraising, with success building a pipeline of donors or partnerships, and identifying, researching, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding donor relationships
• A donor-centric approach, and success in taking donors on a personal giving journey
• Excellent presentation, negotiation and interpersonal skills with success in building and cultivating long-lasting relationships
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate across multiple teams and work with key internal and external stakeholders to deliver shared outcomes
• Confidence and to engage with supporters in person, over the phone and with highly developed written communication.
• Extremely organised with the ability to multitask, and prioritise
• Pro-active and highly motivated self-starter, able to work autonomously and as part of a team
• A valid driver’s licence with the ability to travel to remote locations where vital programs are delivered
• A commitment and passion for the mission, vision and values of the Royal Flying Doctor Service

Please apply by uploading your resume expressing your interest and suitability for the role. If you have any questions, please contact [email protected] using the subject line: Major Gifts Specialist - Royal Flying Doctor Service enquiry via EthicalJobs.

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