National Partnerships Executive – National food relief charity, North Ryde, Sydney

• Full time permanent role – hybrid working from their Sydney office - free parking on site.
• Good salary with additional salary packaging benefits on offer.
• Outstanding opportunity to join Australia’s largest food relief charity and support the expansion of their Corporate Partnerships program.

ORGANISATION

This is your opportunity to join Foodbank, the largest hunger relief organisation in Australia.

With a federated structure, its members (state/territory Foodbanks), provide food and groceries to charities and school breakfast programs in every state and territory, with a number also providing direct-to-client food relief.

Recognised as a crucial part of Australia’s food relief and emergency relief ecosystem, Foodbank is a trusted partner of the food and grocery industry, governments, and the community sector.

ROLE

Unique opportunity to join this incredible team as National Partnerships Executive. In this role, you will be responsible for managing a small portfolio of corporate partners nurturing mutually beneficial relationships with organisations and Foodbanks’ state members whilst providing support across the partnership’s portfolio.

This opportunity is ideally suited to a relationship fundraising professional (preferably with sound understanding of the corporate ESG space) with initiative, strong engagement, project management and administration skills with good written communication and a hunger to learn.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Account management of existing Foodbank partnerships.
• Support aspects of the partnership’s portfolio, including partner’s workplace giving, volunteering, sponsorships, partner events and working with the marketing team on cause related marketing campaigns.
• Maintain contact with existing and prospective partners, utilising Foodbank’s in-house CRM tools.
• Support Foodbank partnerships team to achieve team KPIs.
• Work closely with Foodbank Marketing & Communications Executive on all partner marketing and communication needs.
• Support the General Manager - National Partnerships as required.
• Provide portfolio updates for all reporting requirements (weekly updates, Leadership Team and Board updates).
• Establish and maintain good relationships with wider Foodbank Marketing & Fundraising Teams (within Foodbank State and Territory locations).
• Contribute, along with other staff members, to the smooth running of the office by answering phones, maintaining contacts in Salesforce, assisting with basic office administration etc.

YOUR SKILLS & ATTRIBUTES

Essential:

• Tertiary qualifications or relevant practical experience in fundraising in the for-purpose sector.
• Ability to build effective stakeholder relationships, internally externally to ensure support and engagement.
• Able to prioritise multiple, interrelated tasks including management of complex variables.
• Strong and effective written and verbal communication expertise.
• Able to work autonomously and be a team player.
• Demonstrates can-do positive attitude, with initiative, enthusiasm and commitment to work.
• Strong planning and organisation skills.
• Proactive and supportive team player - committed - and puts the common team goal and organisational goals before individual goals.
• Experience in, and enjoyment of, public speaking and delivering presentations.
• Microsoft Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel.

Desirable:

• Salesforce, WordPress and Canva proficiency
• Understanding of food industry beneficial (but not essential).

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For a confidential discussion please call 0448519121 or email [email protected] using the subject line: National Partnerships Executive - Foodbank enquiry via EthicalJobs.