• Use your business development, sales and marketing skills & make a difference
  
• Join an innovative, family friendly, flexible workplace
  
• Generous conditions of employment

About Our Community

The Our Community Group provides advice, connections, training and easy-to-use tech tools for people and organisations working to build stronger communities.

Our partners in that work are not-for-profit organisations and social enterprises; government, philanthropic and corporate grantmakers; donors and volunteers; enlightened businesses; and other community builders.

Our vision centres on social inclusion and social equity. Our dream is that every Australian should be able to go out their front door and stroll or wheel to a community group that suits their interests, passions and needs - or log on and do the same.

We want to help make it easy for people to join in, learn, celebrate, worship, plant trees, play a game, entertain, and be entertained, care and be cared for, support others and be supported, advocate for rights and celebrate diversity. To get involved. To be valued.

About the Opportunity – Business Development Lead

We are seeking a full-time enthusiastic, energetic professional Business Development Lead to join our busy Institute of Community Directors Australia (ICDA) team. You will work with us to build our partnership footprint throughout Australia as the leading governance and leadership capacity building organisation for the not-for-profit sector.

You will be responsible for building networks amongst potential clients and partners, writing grant applications and tender responses to local, state and federal government, managing a selection of contracts and partnerships, and promoting the ICDA brand through building relationships with the sector. You will have shared responsibility for preparing reports.

What you will need to do

• Lead the contract acquisition and sales component of ICDA’s work regarding large government, foundation and not-for-profit partnerships
• Lead the development of submissions and reports as part of tender responses or requests for services.
• Lead exciting and significant membership growth strategy for ICDA
• Support product development
• Support event delivery as required

You will have

• Tertiary qualification in relevant field
• A record of achievement in building financial partnerships with government, corporate or charitable organisations
• Demonstrated ability to build, maintain and manage strategic relationships and partnerships to grow income and membership/customer base
• Experience working with a project management methodology
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including high-level interpersonal skills to engage, understand the needs of customers and clients
• Strong project planning, time management and organisational skills
• Demonstrated interest in the not-for-profit sector
• A belief in and commitment to our Manifesto.

Other relevant information:

To create a better work-life balance, the Our Community team works a 4-day week (pay for 5 days). We deliver 100% of the work in 80% of the time for 100% of the pay. We have high productivity, reduced stress levels, improved mental health and great team cohesion.

Our Community is located at 552 Victoria Street (corner of Curzon Street and Victoria Street), Wurundjeri Country, North Melbourne. We work in a modern, bright, art-filled, open plan office and operate in a fairly informal manner.

We recognise the importance of balance and flexibility and understand that a one size-fits-all approach does not work for most. We know our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we want people with different experiences and backgrounds to apply.

The successful candidate:

• Must be an Australian Citizen, Permanent Resident or hold a valid work permit or visa.
• Will be required to undergo a Police Check.
• Will be subject to a probationary period of three (3) months.

A position description for this role is attached.