Associate Director Development, Brain and Mind Centre
Salary: $126,065 - $142,171 p.a. + 17% superannuation
We now have an exciting new contract opportunity for an Associate Director of Development, Brain and Mind Centre until May 2027.
Join a team who are transforming brain and mind health with world‐leading research and help us achieve even more in the coming years. Through developing relationships with the University of Sydney's alumni and donors you will raise philanthropic support for research, education and outreach endeavours.
About Brain and Mind Centre
The Brain and Mind Centre's teams partner across borders and disciplines in pursuit of a common goal: the development of better treatments for conditions of the brain and mind, improving health outcomes now and for future generations.
The Brain and Mind Centre is a global leader in research and treatment with a focus on child development, youth mental health and brain ageing. We aim to understand individual circumstances and develop solutions that improve the quality of life for both patients and their loved ones.
About the Position
With support from across the team and the leadership, you will build relationships through face‐to‐face meetings with donors, alumni and friends of the university. The most unexpected conversations will lead to great things. Your work could give a student the opportunity to study at the oldest university in Australia thanks to a donation towards scholarship support, or could enable researchers to find breakthroughs in the latest cancer treatment. Your work will have a huge impact and will be considered one of the best things the donor and you, as a fundraiser, have ever achieved during your lifetime.
About You
* Background in major gift fundraising, with a demonstrated ability to identify and negotiate multi 6 figure plus gift opportunities
* A strong track record of achievement and meeting stretch financial targets
* Demonstrated relationship building and strong leadership skills with the ability to engage internal and external stakeholders
* Experience leading a team and can manage and drive team performance supporting the team targets as well as owning a specific pipeline
* Highly developed emotional intelligence, self‐aware with exceptional interpersonal skills
* Can work autonomously and is naturally a high‐achiever and driven by success both professionally and personally
* Demonstrated mentoring/coaching of junior development colleagues
* Superior time‐management, prioritisation and organisational skills
* An understanding of, and is passionate about how the brain works, mental health, child development and neurodegeneration
About Us
The Advancement Portfolio team at the University of Sydney is one of the most successful fundraising programmes in Australian higher education. Having completed the nation's first $1bn fundraising campaign and embarking on the next, the team is not only the finest performing, its success facilitates the largest real‐world impact that philanthropic giving makes possible.
Since its inception 160 years ago, the University of Sydney has led to improve the world around us. We believe in education for all and that effective leadership makes lives better. These same values are reflected in our approach to philanthropy and underpin our long‐term strategy for excellence and growth. We are Australia's first university and have an outstanding global reputation for academic and research excellence. Across our campuses, we employ over 7600 academic and non‐academic staff who support over 60,000 students.
Acknowledgement of Diversity and Equality
The University of Sydney is committed to diversity and social inclusion. Applications from people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds; equity target groups including women, people with disabilities, people who identify as LGBTIQ; and people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, are encouraged.
The University reserves the right not to proceed with any appointment.
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