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Fundraising and Partnerships Executive (Social Impact)
Deadly Runners
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Ready to use your fundraising, creative partnerships and people skills to help spread the magic of Deadly Runners?
Why us?
Help us drive impact in:
The opportunity:
Why you might love this opp:
- 👟 The team at Deadly Runners are helping people change their lives through First Nations designed and led running programs. They’re dedicated to making personal training and support more accessible, and giving people the opportunity to come together around something positive several times a week. The Deadly Runners model helps nurture a power that is already there with mob, breaking down barriers to connection, leadership development and community support to drive transformative, culturally safe impact in communities.
- 🚀 Georgia Weir’s personal journey led her to share the magic of running with her local community. It’s since inspired a movement that has been spotlighted across the media and seen her recognised as a Snow Entrepreneur and 2024 finalist for NAIDOC Person of the Year. Now, the team is looking for someone to help lead the growth strategy of this innovative and community driven social enterprise.
- 💛 You'll be joining a values-led team, with the founder and advisors having highly impactful careers that inform their leadership. Integrity, transparency, respect, trust and mob-led solutions are core to their work.
- ⏩ This org gets that your grants, fundraising and partnership experience could be built from a range of places - whether it be in a startup or business, community non-profit, social enterprise or something else entirely! Passion, drive and initiative is as important as your experience. You’ll have an appetite for the realities, challenges and opportunities of growing a social enterprise.
- ⚡ In addition to taking the lead on a fundraising strategy that compounds support from philanthropy, government and other aligned partners, the team is looking for someone that can collaborate to help build broader long-term partnerships that align, grow and enhance Deadly Runners’ programs and services.
- 🧩 Finding the right fit for this purpose-led role is top of mind. The person in this role will have strong stakeholder management skills and ideas to creatively leverage and scale this innovative community model across all kinds of impact spheres.
- ⚠️ The successful candidate can have flexibility to work from anywhere in Australia, part time (21 hours per week) one year fixed term contract, with potential for extension. May include some travel.
What's involved:
You're someone who can get stuck in and assess where the team and strategy is at, build rapport and rally supporters around you, and establish quick wins to grow momentum towards overall success.
The balance of work will shift over time, but to start:
- 50% identify, pitch and secure funding through aligned grants and philanthropic avenues
- 25% identify, cultivate and manage strategic partnerships
- 25% evaluate, systemise and enhance funding strategies and processes for sustainability
Key criteria:
How you can apply your skills towards this mission:
If you're keen to hit the ground running with fundraising and creative partnerships, and can channel your awesome people skills to generate new growth and success for Deadly Runners over time - this could be your cup of tea!
Skills, experience or sparks of joy for the following is also a good sign:
- 💸 Fundraising Expertise: You’ve got a proven track record in securing government grants, philanthropic funding, or driving sales. With a flair for creative ideas and a talent for forging strategic partnerships, you’re ready to supercharge our fundraising efforts and take our mission to the next level!
- 🔥 Communication: Crafting a compelling pitch or grant application is more than just a task; it’s a thrilling challenge! Whether you’re capturing the stories of our beneficiaries or distilling a lengthy proposal into punchy, digestible bites, communication is your jam - and you excel at it!
- 👐 Strategy & Stakeholder Management: You’re a pro at juggling relationships and aligning diverse interests to create a coalition of collaboration and impact.
- 📊 Reporting & Systems Development: You know how to whip up reporting systems that ensure transparency, accountability and ease for a small team looking to achieve outsized impact.
- 🧡 Purpose driven: Values alignment with the team and motivated towards the broader mission. A genuine commitment to listening and learning about issues faced by First Nations people, and working together in culturally respectful and impactful ways.
How to apply:
If any of the above resonated with you but you don’t tick every box:
👒 🧢 🎩 You should throw your hat in the ring, whatever those 3+ years of experience look like in your personal impact journey. We’d love to hear from you!
Interested?
1. Create a profile (or complete yours if you already have one) on Ripple Opportunities. Note: This won't be shared directly with our impact partner but we may reach out to you for permission to share excerpts if we think it could assist your application.
2. Submit an application via the relevant job listing on Ripple Opportunities by Sunday 10th November 2024 at 11:00pm AEDT.
Please include your resume and a written cover letter of no more than 1000 words. A few tips on what you may want to include:
Your written cover letter of no more than 1000 words. A few tips on what you may want to include:
1. What’s motivating you to apply for this role?
2. A brief overview of your previous experience and how it aligns to the skills highlighted.
3. A specific experience you’ve had that’s directly related to this role (e.g implementing a fundraising strategy). What was the objective, what strategy and tactics did you implement, what results did you achieve and what did you learn from this?
Questions? Please contact: hey@rippleopportunities.com
More about Deadly Runners:
100% owned and operated by First Nations people, Deadly Runners is committed to investing and empowering mob. Community input and mob led solutions is part of our core values and critical to the work we do. We are proud to provide education and employment opportunities to our running community and are committed to investing in our people.
With an unspoken understanding of our shared history, cultural values and love for each other, the magic of Deadly Runners comes from bringing our mob together.
Through our running programs and cultural camps, we invest in our mob to create long term change. Not just a running group, common outcomes for our Deadly Runners include immense mental health benefits such as reduction of anxiety, reduced resting heart rate, weight loss, improved sleep, increase in self-worth & agency, and increase in economic participation.
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