Full-time position working 38 hours per week (reduced EFT is negotiable)
Classification: SCHADS Award 2010, Level 7
Salary ranging from $119,093 to $124,073 per annum (based on experience) plus superannuation
NFP salary packaging up to $18,550 of your salary tax free
Located in the heart of the inner-northern suburb of Brunswick, surrounded by local urban cafés and proximity to public transport.
Wellbeing initiatives including STAR leave days and a proactive wellbeing working group
Be part of a dedicated Executive Leadership Team shaping bold, transformative outcomes for young people.
About Hope Street
Hope Street Youth and Family Services Limited ("Hope Street") is a secular community organisation that provides specialist crisis accommodation, short term housing and support services to young people and their children experiencing, or at risk of, homelessness.
Hope Street’s vision is a society in which all young people and young families have a safe place to call home. If you would like to be a part in ending youth homelessness, join our team of 60 people across 6 sites in the Northern and Western metropolitan regions.
Job Description
The position of Business Development and Partnerships Manager has a strategic focus and is specifically designed to build upon existing partnerships to ensure they grow and sustain whilst building and identifying opportunities to create new partnerships and business opportunities that further the goals of the organisation through local communities, governments, trusts and foundations, corporate partners/donors, research opportunities and joint initiatives. The role is also responsible for delivering on Hope Street's external communications collateral with a focus on donor and partner-targeted communications.
Desired Skills and Experience
Minimum of University Degree level qualification in Community Services areas and/or fundraising, philanthropy or equivalent is essential.
Highly developed leadership, management, and communication (written, verbal, behavioural) skills.
Highly developed conceptual, strategic, analytical and problem solving skills.
Extensive experience in community service programs, and an understanding of current issues, research questions and future directions.
Demonstrated capacity to negotiate and work constructively with Director, Assistance Director and senior management levels of government departments and funding bodies and other stakeholders; and to represent the organisation at a variety of external forums.
Demonstrated understanding of, and commitment to, the values and standards that underpin the organisation and the capacity to take a leadership role in promoting these throughout the organisation within a culture of continuous learning.
Demonstrated capacity to balance the requirement for consultation and collaboration with timely decision-making and appropriate leadership.
Excellent time management skills and the ability to manage multiple, complex demands and meet timelines.
Advanced Microsoft Office applications; Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
