Partnerships Fundraising Manager

The Partnerships Fundraising Manager plays a pivotal role in driving child sponsorship revenue through third-party suppliers, which is essential for WVA to meet its FY25 growth targets. You will be pivotal in the fostering a culture of business development across the Retail Third-Parties portfolio including shopping centres, neighbourhood marketing, streets, events and outbound tele-marketing to deliver World Vision Australia’s financial targets, supporter acquisition/retention and regeneration strategies.

Your role plays an integral part in the organisation, enabling us to support our mission of empowering Australians to create meaningful change for the world’s most vulnerable children and adults.

This role has flexibility to be based at our East Burwood office, Melbourne or our Potts Point office in Sydney.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Manage for the day-to-day requirements of our Third-Party Partners within the Retail channel to drive sales income.
• Meeting Pledge and Cash Income Targets and Ensuring activity and campaigns are completed within budget.
• Overseeing and coordinating the activity for third parties from locational bookings to campaigns, inventory, process and risk compliance in conjunction with the retail logistics team.
• Managing the third-party procurement process for new and existing third-party partners as well as ensuring adherence to all state based fundraising laws/legislation.

Who we’re looking for:

As the successful applicant, you will have a breadth of capabilities including enthusiasm, creativity and outstanding interpersonal skills.

In addition, you will have:

• Extensive experience with B2B/B2C sales, fundraising or account management is essential
• New business development/ partnership brokering, new supporter acquisition.
• Managing high-value relationships from C-Suite to organisational operations
• Successful track-record in managing deep and robust relationships with diverse stakeholders in complex environments.
• Strong understanding of lean/agile methodology

If you have a growth mindset, a can-do attitude, and strong situational leadership capabilities, we want to hear from you!

Working for World Vision means you are making the world better 

It’s not every day that a job comes along that lets you change the world. Working for World Vision means looking forward to turning up at work because you know you are about to do something meaningful. It means working with 35,000 staff and 3.3 million supporters in 100 countries who will stop at nothing to help children live better lives. Join a team that is bold and courageous, and where job satisfaction goes beyond financial reward. 

The selection process 

We embrace diversity, employing people from a variety of cultural and religious backgrounds. We take our Safeguarding responsibilities seriously and we are committed to providing an environment that is safe for children. Our stringent recruitment procedures make sure the safest and most suitable people work with the children in our programs. All successful candidates will undergo all required pre-employment checks which is inclusive of a criminal record check. We provide our staff and volunteers with ongoing supervision, support, and training in their work with vulnerable children and their families.  World Vision Australia participates in the Inter-Agency Scheme for the Disclosure of Safeguarding-related Misconduct in Recruitment Process within the Humanitarian and Development Sector. 

Who we are

World Vision is a Christian organisation that empowers everyday Australians to create meaningful change for children through relief, development and advocacy work. 

We offer great benefits such as salary packaging, leave loading, flexible working arrangements, free on-site secure parking, an onsite gym and café for our employees.

For more information on World Vision and the work we do, please visit our website: https://www.worldvision.com.au/about-us