Chief Executive – Waikato Philanthropy & Strategy

Better HR Co.; Hamilton; On-site; NZD 160,000 - 200,000; Part time

Job summary

Momentum Waikato is seeking a Chief Executive to lead the region’s community foundation and deliver a renewed strategy from Hamilton, with travel across Waikato.

You will lead a small team and partner closely with a Board on strategy, risk and stewardship, growing philanthropic capital through donors and advisers while ensuring operational accountability. This is a 0.8 FTE opportunity with a focus on delivering impact over time.

Qualifications

• A track record of taking a strategy and delivering it through to realisation.
• Established relationships with donors, business owners or private clients, and with the advisers who serve them.
• Senior leadership with full operational accountability, ideally in a small to medium organisation.
• Financial literacy across budgeting, investment and endowment reporting.
• Networks across the Waikato, or a credible plan to build them beyond Hamilton.
• Genuine Te Ao Māori capability, or a commitment to develop it.

Responsibilities

• Build the operating plan behind the renewed strategy, and delivering it end to end.
• Grow the region’s philanthropic capital through donors and their professional advisers.
• Lead a small team, with full operational accountability.
• Keep Momentum close to what the Waikato actually needs, through deliberate community engagement.
• Reporting openly to a Board that stays close to strategy, risk and stewardship.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Donor relations

Stakeholder management

Financial literacy

Te Ao Māori literacy

Job description

Momentum Waikato is seeking a Chief Executive to lead the region’s community foundation and deliver a renewed strategy from Hamilton, with travel across Waikato.

You will lead a small team and partner closely with a Board on strategy, risk and stewardship, growing philanthropic capital through donors and advisers while ensuring operational accountability. This is a 0.8 FTE opportunity with a focus on delivering impact over time.