• Fun, team-based environment with great support
• This opportunity is full time, fixed term - 8 months, with a balanced focus on business outcomes and wellbeing
• Generous Salary Packaging, increasing your take home pay!

The role

Do you love chatting to people and building meaningful relationships? Do you love getting involved in fundraising events? Are you keen to be part of some amazing peer to peer fundraising like Facebook Fundraising, MyMarathon and City2Surf? This is the role for you.

As Community Fundraising Assistant you will be supporting the Heart Foundations most passionate fundraisers. Every day will be different as you motivate incredible fundraisers who host intimate events, conquer a physical challenge or get the attention of everyone they know by creating a quirky challenge. The focus of the role is income generation, with goals for acquisition, retention and growth.

Responsibilities

• Develop strong relationships with prospective, new and existing fundraisers and support them to reach (and exceed) their fundraising goals.
• Maintain communication with fundraisers. This will include picking up the phone to say hello and thank you, personalised videos, SMS, face to face visits and presentations.
• Implement and contribute to fundraising activities for all community fundraising campaigns as required to drive fundraising results.

About you

We're looking for someone who is energetic and is open to learn about community fundraising. You don't necessarily need not for profit experience.

• At least 3 years' relationship management / customer service experience, with income generation success.
• Confidence to manage relationships with all external partners and fundraisers, using face to face, phone, email and personalised video.
• Experience in analysing customer/donor lists and prioritising contact.
• Demonstrated time management, administrative and organisational skills.
• Fundraising experience supporting community groups and corporates to exceed goals would be an advantage

Benefits

Our staff believe in our purpose, they are proud to work at the Heart Foundation and have the opportunity to make a difference every day through challenging and meaningful work. We promote active living and support our employees to lead a healthy work life balance.

• Generous Salary Packaging options available
• Additional day of leave at Christmas
• Relaxed, positive, supportive culture

About the Heart Foundation

The Heart Foundation is Australia's leading heart health charity, committed to helping Australians lead healthier lifestyles and encouraging those most at risk to take better care of their heart health. Our Connecting Hearts Strategy (2021 - 23) is focused on our life saving work in Research, Support & Care and Risk Reduction, to reduce heart disease and improve quality of life of all people in Australia.

To apply

To apply, please submit a CV and covering letter via the careers page on our Heart Foundation website addressing the essential requirements. Please refer to the position description attached for further information about the role.

The Heart Foundation is committed to creating a safe and inclusive work environment for all. We strive to represent the communities we serve and recognise the skills, knowledge and experience a diverse team brings to our organisation. We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and other diverse groups.

We are also committed to providing and maintaining a working environment which is safe and without risks to health. The Heart Foundation has recently implemented a Covid-19 vaccination policy requiring staff, volunteers and third party visitors attending our offices across all States and Territories to be fully vaccinated (two doses of an ATAGI approved vaccine plus a booster) or a medical exemption. The Heart Foundation will request vaccination or exemption evidence in the pre-employment stage.

We may commence shortlisting candidates prior to the closure of this role, so please don't delay submitting your application.