Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation is one of Australia’s leading foundations and is Australia’s oldest and largest community foundation. Established in 1923, the Foundation creates positive social change through its support of charitable organisations delivering innovative, effective programs, and its collaborative Initiatives addressing current community challenges.

Our grants program supports five Impact Areas including Education & Employment, Environment & Sustainability, Healthy & Resilient Communities, Homelessness & Affordable Housing and Inspiring Philanthropy. Within these we have specific outcomes we aim to support. We have an Impact reporting framework and undertake the Vital Signs report every few years. These help to inform our work.

Impact Area:

Healthy & Resilient Communities (HRC)

HRC Outcome 1: Increased cross-sector collaborations strengthening community resilience to extreme weather and disasters

HRC Outcome 2: Increased capacity of health organisations to respond to the health impacts of climate change

HRC Outcome 3: Reduced discrimination and inequality that undermines resilience

The key objectives of the role are to:

1. Manage the Foundation’s granting (Proactive and Innovation grants) and one or more community or special initiatives in the relevant impact area.
2. Identify opportunities for collaborative granting, commissioning or analysing research, community education, new program development, and/or influencing policy that will help achieve the Foundation’s objectives in this Impact Area.
3. Engage a group of donors (charitable fund holders) in the initiatives and support their grantmaking decisions as required.

For additional information, please contact [email protected], using the subject line: Program Manager - Healthy & Resilient Communities enquiry via EthicalJobs.

A position description is attached.