About the Role
We're looking for a highly organised and proactive business development coordinator to support the growth of Raise's fundraising pipeline. This role sits at the centre of Raise's fundraising activity, helping to identify opportunities, coordinate outreach, generate meetings and keep fundraising opportunities moving from first contact through to proposal and partnership.
Working closely with our fundraising team, your primary focus will be generating meetings that maximise Business Development Manager utilisation and maintaining strong CRM discipline to ensure opportunities continue moving through the fundraising pipeline.
You'll help bring structure, momentum and follow-through to a busy environment while supporting the systems, processes, and relationships that underpin fundraising success.
Key responsibilities include:
A full list of responsibilities is available in the Position Description.
About you
You are highly organised, proactive and detail-oriented, with experience supporting fundraising, business development, partnerships, sales, or customer engagement activities.
You bring:
Most importantly, you are inspired by Raise’s mission and thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment where your work directly impacts young people’s lives.
About Raise
At Raise, we exist to help young people. We do one thing, and we do it really well—youth mentoring. Our best-practice, early intervention mentoring program is proven to create lasting impact. By matching trained and trusted volunteer mentors with teenagers who need extra support, we help young people feel heard, valued, and hopeful for the future.
Operating in almost 150 high schools across Australia, we provide life-changing mentoring to more than 2,300 young people every year. Join our passionate village of people dedicated to making a difference. At Raise, you’ll work in a flexible, positive, and collaborative environment where your contributions make a real impact.
As a Youth Safe organisation, all roles at Raise contribute to maintaining safe and supportive environments for young people. This includes upholding our Youth Safety Code of Conduct, maintaining appropriate professional boundaries, and actively supporting the safety and wellbeing of young people in all interactions.
Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility
At Raise, we’re committed to creating safe, inclusive and empowering spaces — for young people, mentors, employees and our wider community.
We welcome and value people of all ages, genders, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people with disability (both seen and unseen), Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from all social classes, and those diverse in gender identity and sexual orientation. We recognise and respect all differences in people and believe that lived experience from marginalised communities brings essential perspectives and diversity of thought.
Raise is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that encourages flexible work arrangements and is committed to creating an environment where all employees feel respected, supported and able to thrive.
Raise is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you have any questions about your application or require adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact us at
recruitment@raise.org.au
Interested?
If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you! Please submit your application, including a cover letter addressing the selection criteria.
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.
We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.
We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.
When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.
In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.
