• Are you a passionate and motivated Human Rights Defender?
• Be a valuable leader of a high impact team for a leading not for profit
• 6-8 month contract full-time role, based in any of our locations

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Fundraising team and provide valuable knowledge and lead our Donor Development and Loyalty team. The Individual Giving Lead - Development and Loyalty will be responsible for overseeing the strategy, development, implementation and monitoring of development and retention fundraising programs.

You will focus on increasing the lifetime value of existing donors, through but not limited to, upgrade, cash, bequests and retention initiatives. This role is focused on our regular givers (Human Rights Defenders), one-off donors and bequestors through a range of channels including direct mail, digital, telemarketing, and other appropriate channels. You will also be responsible for retaining and engaging our regular givers (RG base), one-off donors and bequestors through a range of channels including direct mail, digital, telemarketing, and other appropriate channels.

Your creativity, leadership and proactive attitude will help you contribute to our broader Fundraising team, as well as ensure that our Amnesty continues to grow and contribute to challenging injustice.

You will be responsible for:

• Develop and manage regular giving retention, bequest acquisition and stewardship and cash strategies and programs to contribute to the organisation's financial growth strategy
• Develop, monitor and review annual budgets and expenditure to meet strategic fundraising objectives and targets
• Lead five Individual Giving - Development and Loyalty team members including providing direction, feedback, coaching and supporting development on an informal and formal basis
• Develop innovative and best practice strategies, plans and tactics to grow the programs
• Develop and maintain high level relationships with agencies, suppliers and other service providers including negotiating and monitoring contracts, developing briefs and overseeing production schedules and approval processes
• Ensure development and loyalty programs are integrated into broader organisational campaigns and communication objectives, utilising opportunities when they arise
• Work with key internal relationships to ensure supporters strategy across the organisation is integrated and meet AIA long term objectives

In return, you will be rewarded with generous and flexible working conditions, a fantastic environment working alongside committed and dedicated individuals and an opportunity to directly contribute to the long term sustainability of our organisation. To view some of the fantastic benefits that you will be offered as an employee, please visit our website.

This is a contract full time role (minimum 6 month term). To learn more about this role, please view the attached detailed position description. If this role sounds like you please apply below. Applications close Tuesday 14 September 2021, 11:59pm AEST. You must answer the following selection criteria in your Cover Letter as part of your application.

Selection Criteria:

1. Please outline your demonstrated experience developing and implementing an individual giving strategy, focusing on retention of regular givers as well as cash donors.
2. Please comment on your demonstrated ability to build positive internal and external relationships.
3. Please outline your experience with establishing and monitoring large budgets.
4. Please briefly outline on your previous people management experience and how you have inspired and led a team of staff and volunteers.

Diversity, Equality and Inclusion

AI Australia is committed to equal opportunities in all areas of our work, community and partner relationships. We want people to achieve their full potential, which will positively impact on our work and the communities in which we operate. At AI Australia, our values empower people to be themselves within an inclusive and supportive environment. We have a global, multicultural following and want to actively contribute to building a more diverse and inclusive team at AI Australia.

About Us:

Amnesty International Australia is one of Australia’s largest not for profit organisations. We are an independent, global movement that campaigns courageously for human rights for everyone.

We’re ordinary people from all walks of life, standing together for justice, freedom, human dignity and equality. We use our passion and commitment to bring torturers to justice, change oppressive laws and free people imprisoned just for voicing their opinion.

We’re independent of any government, political ideology, economic interest or religion to ensure we can speak out on human rights abuses wherever they occur.

Everyday we move closer to a world where human rights are enjoyed by all.

We stand for equality, justice, freedom, and human dignity and uphold these values:

• Empowerment - we build people power
• Persistence - we are resolute in pursuit of our goals
• Integrity - we hold ourselves to the highest standards
• Courage - we are fearless in upholding human rights

A position description is attached.