About Us

Giant Steps Australia is a registered charity and operates school and post school services located in Gladesville. We are recognised as offering a world leading program for children and adults on the autism spectrum.

About the Role

An exciting and rewarding opportunity for an experienced fundraising and events coordinator who is passionate about working in the not-for-profit sector.

The role is full time (Monday to Friday) working from our office located in Gladesville. We are looking for someone flexible and efficient, a collaborative team player to join our small but high-performing fundraising team.

As the Fundraising Events Coordinator, you will offer high-level fundraising support in order to deliver the organisations busy calendar of fundraising and engagement activities. You will focus on key functions such as support coordination of fundraising events, donor administration and overall team administration.

Presenting with impeccable attention to detail, excellent written and verbal communication skills and exceptional organisation skills, you will be a driven individual who is fundraising-focused and solution-orientated. You will be known for your responsive, proactive, positive, ‘can do’ attitude and your hands-on approach.

Your ability to work closely and effectively in a team to meet and achieve organisational goals is essential.

Key Responsibilities Include

• Deliver exceptional customer service and provide end to end support for fundraising events, campaigns, and activities.
• Work closely with the team to ensure high quality service delivery, timely proactive response to enquiries and acknowledgement of fundraisers and supporters.
• Coordinate and develop engaging fundraising copy and content for email marketing, appeals, events, printed collateral, newsletters, adverts, website and social media.
• Support the team in a range of tasks as required, including fundraising support for our sister school in Melbourne.

About you

The successful candidate will display the following experience, skills, and attributes:

• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in a similar role.
• A motivated self-starter, with strong initiative and the ability to work autonomously.
• Able to manage multiple tasks and meet competing deadlines.
• Strong administrative skills, with demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft applications including Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
• Excellent computer skills together with the ability to learn new software and programs as required.
• Flexible and willing to work after hours when required (including some weekends and evenings) to meet the needs of fundraising activities and events.

Experience in the below will be highly regarded

• Mailchimp
• Raisers Edge
• WordPress
• Adobe Suite
• Canva
• Hootsuite

Benefits and perks

• As a registered charity Giant Steps offers tax exempt salary packaging arrangements to eligible employees.
• 7 weeks annual leave.

The successful candidate must comply with any current Public Health Order requirements and will be required to provide a current Working with Children Check.

Applicants must be permitted to work permanently in Australia with no restrictions (e.g. citizen, permanent resident).