• Join a renowned not-for-profit organisation with a leading charity brand
• Exciting opportunity in our dynamic and driven fundraising team
• Chatswood location, soon to be relocating to St Leonards

Guide Dogs is the leading Australian provider of guide dogs and orientation and mobility services for people with sight loss. We are a trusted, long-standing and well recognised charity.

Reporting into the Philanthropy Manager, an exciting opportunity has arisen to join our successful Philanthropy team as the Philanthropy Advisor. In this role, you will identify, cultivate and steward individual major donors, in order to secure major gifts supporting Guide Dogs’ mission and services. You will account manage a portfolio of existing and potential major donors and be responsible for each donor’s journey from identification, introduction and developing relationships, through to matching donor interests to Guide Dogs’ funding needs, soliciting gifts, and providing excellent donor care and supporter benefits.

A little more information on some of the things you will be doing:

• Conduct research, donor data analysis and targeted marketing to identify potential major donors.
• Qualify potential major donors through personal contact and discussion via phone, personal visits, event attendance, additional background research and other strategies.
• Develop and sustain authentic, professional and personable relationships with major donors through a tailored program of communications and engagements.
• Lead, develop and grow our most engaging fundraising program - Guide Dog Partner Program - with philanthropic individuals.
• Develop and sustain a broad and detailed knowledge of Guide Dogs services, and how these services may be funded by major donors to support people with sight loss.
• Contribute to the delivery of events for major donors and other Philanthropy supporters.
• Maintain accurate records and reporting as required.
• Ongoing collaboration with others to effectively manage major donor relationships.
• Live the organisational values in all actions and interaction.

About you:

Ideally you will have prior fundraising experience in a similar role with relevant tertiary qualifications. You have high emotional intelligence, coupled with sophisticated relationship management skills and persuasive communications skills (both written and verbal). Your strong interpersonal/social, networking and negotiation skills enable you to manage the goals of the organisation in conjunction with those of major donors, to obtain the best outcome for both, always within the mission, values and strategy of Guide Dogs. You have outstanding organisation, administrative and computer skills, including ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously. You are comfortable working with and handling large dogs, and you possess a valid drivers licence.

Why work with us?

You’ll be working at a place where everyone is welcome – an organisation that believes that a creative and productive workplace depends on having a diverse range of experiences, perspectives and abilities. Your colleagues and peers all understand their part in our mission - to empower people with vision loss.

For further information on this position, please view the position description.

Please be advised that the successful candidate in this position will be required to complete a National Criminal History Check and Working with Children Check.

Guide Dogs NSW/ACT is proud to be an inclusive workplace that reflects our clients and the broader community. We are committed to providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We offer equal employment opportunity regardless of your gender or gender identity, disability, race, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital or domestic status, carer status, or political opinion.

We strongly encourage applications from people with vision impairment or blindness.

If you require an adjustment within the recruitment process, please contact [email protected], using the subject line: Philanthropy Advisor enquiry via EthicalJobs, to inform us of your preferred method of communication.