Executive Officer

The Campbell Edwards Trust (CET) is a private philanthropic trust established in 1922 by Robert Campbell Edwards. Deeply Christian-spirited, Robert set about devoting his time, and most of his wealth he created through his hard work, to helping those in need, including through the establishment of the CET.

The Trust does not solicit funds from the public but seeks to responsibly grow the original corpus through careful investments managed with the assistance of external wealth managers. Through the stewardship of CET’s Trustees over the years, the corpus now exceeds $50M.

The CET Trustees now seeks for the first time the assistance of an experienced philanthropic manager to provide strategic and operational support to manage the day-to-day activities of the trust, including:

• Assisting Trustees with financial management, including financial record-keeping, liaising with external accountants, auditors and lodging of statements and other provision of information to the ACNC external doner management, grant/donation making, reporting requirements and communications, co-ordinating site visits etc.
• Promoting CET, including its’ history, activities and purpose via the CET Website, including updating the website as agreed by Trustees.
• Providing administrative support for Trustee and Sub-committee meetings including meeting scheduling, preparation and distribution of notices, agendas, and meeting papers, and preparation and distribution of minutes, action items, and attending to filing via the cloud-based filing system.
• Working closely with and ultimately under the management of the Chair.
• Other duties as agreed and advised by Trustees, primarily through the Chair.

Selection Criteria

The Executive Officer should have a combination of skills, qualifications, experience and personal attributes that enable them to provide a high standard of service to Trustees, including:

• Extensive experience in a senior management position in a philanthropic/charitable/financial services organisation.
• Proven ability to work independently reporting directly to a Board/Trustees, to manage own performance and work under broad direction using initiative to achieve outcomes.
• Strong work ethic with demonstrated time management skills, initiative, capacity to effectively manage multiple tasks simultaneously, effectively achieving changing priorities and objectives in a timely manner
• Demonstrated ability to develop and implement effective communications and manage a website.
• A high level of financial literacy and acumen, computer skills and experience using a range of IT systems.
• Knowledge and understanding of philanthropy, charities and not for profit organisations.
• Knowledge of the operating environment for a philanthropic trust, including compliance, reporting and legal issues.

Tenure: Part-time contract position (Approximately 1-2 days per week)

Salary: To be based upon experience around $120,000 EFT equivalent

Location: Sydney/Melbourne is preferred but not essential

Enquiries & Applications should be sent to: James Edwards, Chair Campbell Edwards Trust
E: [email protected]
P: (02) 8071 0242