The organisation

Documentary Australia is a not-for-profit organisation enabling social impact documentaries to be funded and screened to inspire social change. We place documentary stories at the heart of social impact campaigns, surrounding films with a coalition of partners to engage broad audiences in social change initiatives.

Responsible to:

Partnerships and Development Director

Evaluation Director

Employment Status:

Full or Part-time (3 days minimum)

Coordinate fundraising and partnership development activities:

• Undertake research to support the identification of new major donors and funding opportunities
• Maintain the grants pipeline in Strategic Grants & our organisational database, Salesforce
• Manage our reporting schedule for all active major donors and agreements with donors, partners and grants
• Draft project proposals and create cases for support for major donors, funders, corporate partners and grant applications
• Coordinate and draft donor and grant reporting and acquittal requirements
• Create grant snapshots at the completion of funding agreements to showcase a range of filmmaker and philanthropic partnerships and achievements
• Assist with internal reporting requirements for board
• Provide communications support including the creation of marketing collateral, presentations, other fundraising assets & related outreach.

Support organisational and film project evaluation activities:

• Implement organisational data collection processes such as our annual filmmaker and donor surveys
• Manage data entry in our organisational database, Salesforce
• Coordinate data across our website, database and survey platforms
• Be a first point of contact for filmmakers who are interested in evaluating their projects
• Support the development of additional resources to build filmmaker capacity to track and measure the impact of their projects
• Prepare for and conduct interviews with a range of stakeholders
• Undertake research across our seven key issue areas and for film projects to inform the development of their fundraising and impact strategies
• Collate and synthesise information from a range of sources and create engaging outputs for our key stakeholders
• Develop case studies to highlight the successes and lessons of a range of film projects.

Provide organisation-wide support as required:

• Provide assistance across the team to support organisational activities including screenings and events
• Contribute to team planning, project design & prioritisation
• Contribute to design of flyers, cases for support and other key collateral
• Coordinate the office calendar and keeping team members abreast of upcoming activities and deliverables.

Essential selection criteria:

• Demonstrated strong attention to detail and process orientation
• Strong administrative and organisational skills
• Proven ability to manage a broad range of activities and projects simultaneously
• Good verbal and written communication skills including an ability to create visual and written content
• Good skills in MS Office – particularly excel - and databases, including data tracking and reporting
• Demonstrated ability to build relationships with diverse groups and deal sensitively with people and personal information
• Ability to work autonomously, constructively and collaboratively as a part of a dynamic, high performing, fun team.

Desired:

• Demonstrated experience within a research and/or fundraising work environment
• Research and analytical skills and experience
• Design capability, including experience using Canva and Keynote
• Knowledge of the philanthropic landscape
• Experience in developing procedures and processes to maintain evaluation data quality and integrity
• Experience using Salesforce or a similar database.

A position description is attached.