Manager, Fundraising Campaigns and Membership

About the role

The Manager, Fundraising Campaigns and Membership role sits within the Philanthropy Business Unit. This role provides specialist advice and recommendations, and manages the strategic growth, implementation and execution of Arts Centre Melbourne’s direct marketing fundraising and membership campaigns.

Full-Time fixed term position (18 months). Band 4.3.27 $112,757 plus superannuation.

Your Skills and Experience

• Possess a relevant tertiary level qualification or body of knowledge and skills to an equivalent level
• Demonstrated and significant experience in multi-channel (direct mail, telemarketing, SMS and digital) direct marketing for fundraising purposes.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with senior stakeholders to co-design a successful fundraising proposition and manage the implementation of this through direct and digital marketing channels.
• Demonstrated ability to manage projects, including coordinating internal and external resources, to deliver specified outcomes within agreed deadlines and budgets
• Strategic thinker with a solid understanding of techniques required for acquisition and retention of donors including maximizing upsell and cross-sell opportunities
• Strong numerical and analytical skills (including a high level of expertise in manipulating, interrogating and presenting data using relational databases (CRM) and MS Excel).
• Ability to produce regular and consistent reporting on campaign activity for a senior audience.
• Demonstrated ability to monitor and analyse programs to improve performance.
• Strong emotional competence with good interpersonal and influencing skills, and demonstrated success in speaking and working effectively with a diverse range of people (staff, supporters, members and suppliers) and bringing the best out of them.
• Proven experience in delivering key customer or donor relationship building strategies.
• Ability to work under pressure and to set priorities.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate to a superior level in both written and oral form.
• Proven positive team player with an ability to work autonomously and as part of a broader cross-functional team

For more details, please read Position Description – Manager, Fundraising Campaigns and Membership EA 2022.pdf

About the Team

The Philanthropy Business Unit plays a critical role in extending the reach and impact of Arts Centre Melbourne’s cultural, education, access, and commissioning and exhibition programs. The desire is to grow philanthropic contribution to further extend this reach and impact.

Philanthropic giving will be a key part of realising the ambitions of Reimagining Arts Centre Melbourne within the broader Melbourne Arts Precinct redevelopment. A Capital Campaign is in its private phase and will raise vital funding to make this vision a reality.

About Arts Centre Melbourne

The land on which Sidney Myer Music Bowl and Arts Centre Melbourne sits has long been a place of gathering, storytelling, song, ceremony, celebration and commemoration for First Nations people.

The People of the Kulin Nations have gathered on the site for thousands of years and continue to do so today. We pay our respects to their elders, past, present and emerging.

Beneath our iconic Spire, in Hamer Hall and at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, we showcase the best of Australian and international performing arts.  

Together with our own program of performances, events and activities we offer a diversity of audiences a distinctly multidimensional approach to participation, education and entertainment.

We are now focused on Reimagining Arts Centre Melbourne as part of the Victorian Government’s commitment to transforming the Melbourne Arts Precinct into a thriving, connected creative and civic space over the coming years.

For a glimpse into working at Arts Centre Melbourne click here.

Enjoy Team Member Benefits

As a valued member of our ensemble, you will enjoy: 

• Flexible hybrid work arrangements 
• Complimentary tickets
• Discounts at food & beverage outlets
• Discounted commuter benefits and onsite-parking 
• Access to wellbeing activities and learning and development programs, and the Smiling Mind app.  
• Free access to Employee Assistance Programs which includes specific support to our First Nations team members via their I-CARE program and providing specific counsellors for members of the LGBTQIA+ community and People of Colour.  

Apply Now!

Arts Centre Melbourne welcomes applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from diverse cultural backgrounds, Disabled and Deaf people, members of the LGBTQIA+ community and people of all ages.

We seek to provide workplace adjustments at all relevant stages of the recruitment process such as interpreters, alternative formats or other access supports. You can specify in the application form if you require any adjustments or please ask us at any stage. If you need to contact us about making workplace adjustments during the recruitment process, please send an email to [email protected]

Please submit your resume here together with a cover letter addressing the key criteria by 11:55pm on Wednesday 22nd March 2023. Early applications are encouraged as suitable candidates may be invited to attend an interview prior to the closing date.

Arts Centre Melbourne is committed to providing and maintaining a working environment which is safe and without risk to the health of its employees consistent with Arts Centre Melbourne’s obligations under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (Vic). Therefore, there is a requirement that all Arts Centre Melbourne employees in relevant roles be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to undertake duties outside of their homes. Prior to commencement of employment with Arts Centre Melbourne you will need to provide evidence that you are vaccinated against COVID-19 or have a valid medical exemption.

Employment at Arts Centre Melbourne is conditional upon the satisfactory completion of a National Police Check.Applications are open to those with full working rights in Australia. Arts Centre Melbourne is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.