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Director of Development, Medicine and Health - The University of Sydney

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A career defining leadership opportunity for an inspiring, passionate, and proven major gifts professional who wants to have real impact on the future of philanthropy.

If you are looking to drive best practice fundraising, see yourself as a change maker in this space and instil ambition and high performance in your teams then this role is for you.

You will lead the largest major gifts team for the most successful fundraising program in Australia; join The University of Sydney in their mission to ignite philanthropy to change the world.

  • Lead the largest major gifts team for the most successful fundraising program in Australia
  • Located on the Camperdown / Darlington Campus
  • Full time continuing role with a competitive salary package including leave loading and a generous employer’s contribution to superannuation

About the opportunity

This role is a key and active member of the Senior Leadership group within the Advancement Portfolio. The Director of Development presents an opportunity for a seasoned major gift fundraising leader to be strategically focused and entrepreneurially minded.

With a track record of raising layered and complex six and/or seven figure gifts, you will have the opportunity to now take engagement and giving to new and more significant levels within a team who care deeply about people and their stories and are passionate about helping donors create a philanthropic legacy that will endure for years to come.

You will take a significant leadership role in fundraising across the faculty and schools and will use your skills and experience to close gifts of $1 million+ and attain significant personal fundraising targets. You will also develop a growing team of high performing fundraising professionals, who work collaboratively with the wider Development Office.

To be successful in this role, you will take a long-term view of relationships and gifts and display true enthusiasm for the power of philanthropy. In return, The University of Sydney will present you with an embedded culture of philanthropy and an ambitious philanthropic agenda to enable you to thrive.

This is your opportunity to work alongside inspirational, like-minded individuals, collaborating and innovating together as they gear up to embark on their next philanthropic campaign.

About you

The University values courage and creativity; openness and engagement; inclusion and diversity; and respect and integrity. As such, we see the importance of recruiting talent aligned to these values and are looking for a Director of Development, Medicine and Health, who:

  • has extensive background in major gift fundraising, with a demonstrated ability to identify and negotiate 6 and 7 figure gift opportunities. Can demonstrate their success in closing $1 million+ gifts and meeting stretch financial targets
  • has a strong track record of achievement and meeting stretch financial targets through ambitious and complex gift proposals
  • has proven leadership experience with the ability to mentor, inspire and motivate a group of ambitious and goal-oriented professionals
  • is a true team player, working with the Major Gifts team, Donor Relations team, Prospect Research team and other areas of the Advancement Portfolio and the University of Sydney
  • has an understanding and a strong interest in medicine and health, in a tertiary environment is preferred
  • is creative, with the ability to bring together the disparate interests of a donor and match them with an opportunity that brings together disaffiliated aspects of the University
  • is detail-oriented in relationship – given the complex nature of managing a relationship with a prospect with diverse interests and competition priorities, the need to see to the details is critical
  • has demonstrated sophisticated relationship building and management skills with the ability to engage internal and external stakeholders
  • has highly developed organisational and time-management skills, including the ability to prioritise own workload, to work consistently within busy schedules and to meet deadlines, whilst maintaining a focus on a longer term vision

Please watch the below video as an introduction to the role.

About us

The Advancement Portfolio team at the University of Sydney is the most successful fundraising program in Australian higher education. Having just completed the nation's first $1BN fundraising campaign and embarking on the next, the team is not only the finest performing, but its success also facilitates the largest real-world impact that philanthropic giving makes possible.

Pre-employment checks

Your employment is conditional upon the completion of all role required pre-employment or background checks in terms satisfactory to the University. Similarly, your ongoing employment is conditional upon the satisfactory maintenance of all relevant clearances and background check requirements. If you do not meet these conditions, the University may take any necessary step, including the termination of your employment.

EEO statement

The University of Sydney is committed to diversity and social inclusion. Applications from people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds; equity target groups including women, people with disabilities, people who identify as LGBTIQ; and people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, are encouraged.

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