Positions advertised

Senior Fundraising Officer

Classification VPS 5.1 $76,424 - $84,445 gross per annum + 9% Superannuation

Closing date for applications: 25 May 2012

• Full Time, Fixed Term for 2 years.
• Be part of the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). Founded in 1861, the NGV is Australia’s oldest public art gallery.
• Based at the NGV on St Kilda Road you will work in a beautiful environment surrounded by the most outstanding collection of fine art in the region.

The NGV is seeking a Senior Fundraising Officer; a senior relationship based sales position, required to cultivate new individual donors, develop and introduce new community segments, and enhance existing donor relationships with the aim of generating additional gifts that will help secure the financial position of the NGV endowment and art acquisition funds.

Key responsibilities include:

• Collaborating with the Head of Individual Gifts to develop an agreed set of high value donor relationships, consistent with a pre-agreed fundraising strategy, and potentially covering all aspects of fundraising, including cash gifts and pledges, bequests and annual giving programs such as patrons/supporters.
• Responsibility for generating significant new inflows for the NGV, (with an emphasis on new high value prospects/donors and donor segments), migrating assigned prospects over time through the stages of donor development, and developing, planning and executing new and appropriate asks and proposals for these prospects and selected existing donors in the steward stage.
• Contributing to the development of prospect awareness of NGV fundraising goals through relationship building, marketing and promotion.
• Contributing to the creation of new tactical fundraising campaigns.

To be successful ideally you will have demonstrated experience and outstanding results in business development, relationship management, marketing and sales strategies involving large scale financial targets/budgets within commercial or not for profit sectors.  You will also be polished, charismatic, articulate, confident and well presented with an ability to interact with prospects and donors as a social peer whenever possible.  You will possess high levels of motivation, initiative and credibility, and an ability to work independently as well as highly collaboratively as part of a small team; an ability to play a key ‘2IC’ role and provide mature leadership skills to more junior team members.  Experience with databases such as Raisers Edge will be highly regarded as will tertiary qualifications.  A passion for the arts is assumed.

The NGV can offer you benefits such as:

• Participation in guided curator talks for major exhibitions.
• Free entry to all paid exhibitions.
• A discount on purchases at our retail outlets.
• A discount on purchases at our catering outlets.
• Access to discounted parking.

For further details please refer to the role statement below.

To apply for this role, please send a covering letter, a separate statement addressing each of the key selection criteria and resume to jobapplications@ngv.vic.gov.au or forward your application to Job Applications, Human Resources, National Gallery of Victoria, PO Box 7259, Melbourne VIC 8004 by 25 May 2012.

The role statement is available in Acrobat PDF format.

Fundraising Officer

Classification VPS 3.1 $53,502 - $59,233 gross per annum + 9% Superannuation

Closing date for applications: 25 May 2012

• Full Time, Fixed Term for 2 years.
• Be part of the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). Founded in 1861, the NGV is Australia’s oldest public art gallery.
• Based at the NGV on St Kilda Road you will work in a beautiful environment surrounded by the most outstanding collection of fine art in the region.

The NGV is seeking a Fundraising Officer; a relationship based ‘sales’ position, required to engage new individual donors (particularly annual/patrons programs and ‘middle tier’ donors) and enhance existing donor relationships with the aim of generating additional gifts (primarily cash and bequest pledges but also on occasion, works of art) that will help secure the financial position of the NGV endowment and art acquisition funds.

Key responsibilities include:

• Collaborating with the Head of Individual Gifts to develop an agreed set of prospect and donor relationships, consistent with a pre-agreed fundraising strategy, with a focus on middle tier and annual program prospects, but with some coverage of all donor tiers and types, and including all aspects of fundraising, such as cash gifts, pledges and bequests.
• Providing input to the development and refinement of donor programs/supporter groups (product development), growing the number of members, working collaboratively with team members on opportunities to introduce other philanthropic ideas to donors to better meet their needs, and with the administrator on program delivery and coordination, and with the heads of departments on event design and implementation.
• Responsibility for generating significant new inflows for the NGV, (with an emphasis on new donors), migrating assigned prospects over time through the stages of donor development, and developing, planning and executing new and appropriate asks and proposals for these prospects and selected existing donors in the steward stage.
• Developing ‘mass market’ donation strategies, including contributing to the development of community and prospect awareness of NGV fundraising goals through relationship building, marketing and promotion.

To be successful, ideally you will have a well developed understanding of the principles of relationship management and philanthropic fundraising, stakeholder management and prospect research, within a high profile organisation and a passion for the arts.  Well developed organisational, process and time management skills, including the ability to balance multiple tasks and deadlines are expected.  You will also possess polished and confident communication and interpersonal skills, and confidence and diplomacy in interacting with high profile and exacting stakeholders. We are looking for an accomplished, self motivated team player, with a record of success in relationship based sales.  Experience with databases such as Raisers Edge will be well regarded as will tertiary qualifications.

The NGV can offer you benefits such as:

• Participation in guided curator talks for major exhibitions.
• Free entry to all paid exhibitions.
• A discount on purchases at our retail outlets.
• A discount on purchases at our catering outlets.
• Access to discounted parking.

For further details please refer to the role statement below.

To apply for this role, please send a covering letter, a separate statement addressing each of the key selection criteria and resume to jobapplications@ngv.vic.gov.au or forward your application to Job Applications, Human Resources, National Gallery of Victoria, PO Box 7259, Melbourne VIC 8004 by 25 May 2012.

The role statement is available in Acrobat PDF format.

Fundraising Research Officer

Classification VPS 2.2 $47,390 - $52,357 gross per annum + 9% Superannuation

Closing date for applications: 25 May 2012

• Full Time, Fixed Term for 2 years.
• Be part of the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV).  Founded in 1861, the NGV is Australia’s oldest public art gallery.
• Based at the NGV on St Kilda Road you will work in a beautiful environment surrounded by the most outstanding collection of fine art in the region.

The NGV is seeking a Fundraising Research Officer to research, populate and maintain a database of fundraising and philanthropic prospects in support of the NGV”s fundraising department.  Key responsibilities include:

• In collaboration with the Head of Individual Gifts, actively develop and contribute to the NGV’s fundraising campaigns through comprehensive and original research into philanthropic prospects – known or unknown to the NGV.  There is a particular emphasis on innovation and originality in indentifying new or emerging prospects.
• Providing research support to the Head of Individual Gifts in accordance with departmental goals and requirements; this may include undertaking small specialist research projects, in addition to campaign based research tasks, and developing more detailed profiles of research prospects previously identified for development.
• Developing and implementing successful ongoing strategies for development and maintenance of appropriately sophisticated profiles for donor and bequest prospects.
• Assisting the Fundraisers to market and build awareness of annual/patrons programs, cash donations, pledges and the Bequest program.
• Selectively participating in certain fundraising activities.

To be successful you will have tertiary qualifications, ideally with research based skills, coupled with significant practical experience, preferably within the field of stakeholder management/development.  You will also have a well developed understanding of the principles of philanthropic fundraising, stakeholder management and campaign research, within a high profile organisation.  You should also have a demonstrated ability to accurately manage data within a specialised database (i.e. Raisers Edge or equivalent) and the ability to maintain effective office/organisational systems and reports.  As this role incorporates significant ‘customer facing’ activities, the person we are seeking will also exhibit the personal characteristics required to confidently and professionally contribute to building donor relationships and over time, soliciting gifts.  You will be a key member of a small team, which will require a ‘can do’ attitude, self motivation and a team based style.

The NGV can offer you benefits such as:

• Participation in guided curator talks for major exhibitions.
• Free entry to all paid exhibitions.
• A discount on purchases at our retail outlets.
• A discount on purchases at our catering outlets.
• Access to discounted parking.

For further details please refer to the role statement below.

To apply for this role, please send a covering letter, a separate statement addressing each of the key selection criteria and resume to jobapplications@ngv.vic.gov.au or forward your application to Job Applications, Human Resources, National Gallery of Victoria, PO Box 7259, Melbourne VIC 8004 by 25 May 2012.

The role statement is available in Acrobat PDF format.

Foundation Administrator

Classification VPS 2.1 $40,771 gross per annum + 9% Superannuation

Closing date for applications: 25 May 2012

• Full Time, Fixed Term for 2 years.
• Be part of the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV).  Founded in 1861, the NGV is Australia’s oldest public art gallery.
• Based at the NGV on St Kilda Road you will work in a beautiful environment surrounded by the most outstanding collection of fine art in the region.

The NGV is seeking a Foundation Administrator to provide administrative and reception support to the NGV Foundation and Fundraising Office.  Key responsibilities include:

• Responding to member and donor enquiries in a professional manner and delivering a high level of customer service.
• Undertaking data input and management of information within the Raiser’s Edge database and supporting the data base administrator.
• Drafting correspondence and preparing invitations for and on behalf of the Head of Foundation.

To be successful you will have previous experience in providing high quality administrative support, ideally in a philanthropic/fundraising organisation and well developed organisational, process and time management skills, including the ability to balance multiple tasks and deadlines.  You will also possess polished and confident communication and interpersonal skills, and confidence and diplomacy in dealing with high profile and exacting stakeholders.  Ideally you will have database experience (e.g. Raisers Edge). 

The NGV can offer you benefits such as:

• Participation in guided curator talks for major exhibitions.
• Free entry to all paid exhibitions.
• A discount on purchases at our retail outlets.
• A discount on purchases at our catering outlets.
• Access to discounted parking.

For further details please refer to the role statement below.

To apply for this role, please send a covering letter, a separate statement addressing each of the key selection criteria and resume to jobapplications@ngv.vic.gov.au or forward your application to Job Applications, Human Resources, National Gallery of Victoria, PO Box 7259, Melbourne VIC 8004 by 25 May 2012.

The role statement is available in Acrobat PDF format.

Members Customer Service Officer (1 casual position)

Classification VPS 2.1 $25.70 per hour + 9% Superannuation

Closing date for applications: 16 May 2012

As the main supporter group of the National Gallery of Victoria, NGV Members is extremely important to the Gallery, contributing countless works to the collection over the years, along with an abundance of excitement, dedication and passion. 

Our Members Customer Service Officers are the initial contact point for NGV Members and provide a high level of customer service and administrative support to assist the operations of the NGV Members department. We invite you to become a part of this vibrant community and join our committed and dynamic team.
 
To achieve the purpose of the position, the following attributes are required:
• Proven track record in the provision of high-level customer service.
• Proven experience in the area of sales and promotions.
• Effective time management skills along with mature, flexible, reliable and responsible approach to work.
• Accurate keyboard and office administration skills and sound understanding of the use of database maintenance and word processing packages, including MS Excel.
• High-level communication, interpersonal and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work effectively as a member of a team and remain calm under pressure.
• Must be available to work both week day and weekend shifts.
• Experience in working in marketing or an organisation offering loyalty programs would be an advantage.

For more details refer to the role statement below.
 
To apply for this role, please send a covering letter, a separate statement addressing each of the key selection criteria and resume to jobapplications@ngv.vic.gov.au or forward your application to Job Applications, Human Resources, National Gallery of Victoria, PO Box 7259, Melbourne Vic 8004 by 16 May 2012.

The role statement is available in Acrobat PDF format.