Background

Do you love building collaborative relationships? Are you ready to help shape, and drive the Fundraising strategy for a successful, dynamic Foundation that creates equality for Indigenous children? Are you excited by stewarding our partners and bringing in funding that makes a life-changing difference in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia?

Moriarty Foundation has delivered highly effective community-led, locally-driven programs in early learning and youth engagement through football (soccer) since 2012. Our focus is remote and regional Indigenous communities.

We have existing strong funding partnerships across government, philanthropy and corporate sectors. Our fundraising strategy has good support, and sits within our Theory of Change and 5 year organisational Strategic plan. We are looking for someone who is motivated to contribute their skills and experience to the financial sustainability of our transformational work.

Our founders and Co-Chairs are John Moriarty, a Yanyuwa NT man, business owner, and the first Indigenous footballer to be selected for Australia, and business owner/author/social investor Ros Moriarty. Moriarty Foundation is an Aboriginal Controlled Organisation (ACCO) under the Corporations Act.

More about Moriarty Foundation: moriartyfoundation.org.au

The Role: Fundraising Lead

Moriarty Foundation is well supported by corporate and individual donors, government and philanthropy. We have developed a three year fundraising strategy to support the efforts of the Fundraising Lead. Your role is to implement, further develop and hold accountability for that strategy. We will appoint a highly motivated go-getter who has a strong track record in sourcing and stewarding new and existing relationships with donors and the philanthropic and corporate sectors. Working closely with the Chief Executive Officer, Executive Director/Co-Chair, the Foundation’s Team and external stakeholders, you will be responsible for revenue targets across these funding channels with the strong support of our senior managers.

The role encompasses relationship management, stewarding partners and grant/proposal writing, together with input to marketing and funding communications. The role will have a hands-on relationship-building role to help source and steward major donors, grant providers, gifts in wills, workplace giving, cause-related marketing, and national events. You will conduct funding research and design pitch campaigns.

Key Duties & Responsibilities:

• Be accountable for execution and further development of our fundraising strategy;
• Identify funding opportunities, draft and submit proposals, grant applications and tenders;
• Cultivate and steward donor, corporate and philanthropic relationships;
• Maintain strong digital account management processes, including Salesforce, to map activity, grow and steward partner base and achieve efficiencies;
• Contribute to annual budget planning, forecasting and tracking, and provide quality and timely reporting and communications as required to partners and internally to the Foundation about funding;
• Develop and coordinate production of donor, philanthropic and corporate partnerships marketing and communication materials in collaboration with Head of Communications to ensure brand and profile awareness is maximised and direction is consistent with Foundation strategy;
• Contribute to Moriarty Foundation social media through Head of Communications;
• Ad hoc duties as required.

Experience:

• An experienced fundraising and partnerships professional who is good at, and loves, building collaborative relationships for funding;
• Demonstrated success in securing and stewarding funding relationships;
• Proven experience in writing for funding;
• Proactive project and peer management skills with demonstrated ability to take initiative and lead successful outcomes;
• Proven ability to manage priorities, and communicate appropriately;
• Excellent presentation skills;
• Advanced computer skills, especially MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint, working on a Mac Platform;
• A Working with Children Check and National Police Check will apply to the successful applicant.

The Successful Applicant:

The Moriarty Foundation Head Office team celebrates its positive, collaborative culture. The Fundraising Lead will find a welcoming, highly skilled environment. The ideal candidate will be able to work with a diverse range of people, foster relationships, and work collaboratively. You will be a people person who loves building relationships and has excellent verbal and written communication skills. You will also excel at writing for funding proposals and pitches. You are someone who maintains the highest ethics, integrity and professionalism and you will be driven by a desire to join an Indigenous-founded entity whose mission is equality for Indigenous children.

Benefits:

• Flexible working, 3 days in the office 2 days working remotely at home.
• Birthday day off at full pay.
• An opportunity to be part of a grass roots NFP organisation.
• A comfortable and social office in Crows Nest, close to transport.
• A small team where like-minded people enjoy great work, and where your career is supported and developed.

A positive team culture is the driver of all we do at Moriarty Foundation, where authenticity and respect are central, if you meet some but not all of the criteria, please get in touch as we would love to talk to you.