General Manager

Kate Edger Foundation; Auckland; Presencial; NZD 120.000 - 180.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Kate Edger Foundation seeks a General Manager to lead strategy, fundraising, and operations, growing donor income and public profile while running The Graduation Place as a social enterprise. You will work with a small team to advance women’s education through grants, partnerships, and programs.

The role combines strategic leadership with hands-on management, including governance, brand development, and financial stewardship, with occasional travel within New Zealand.

Formación

• Proven ability to grow philanthropic income through major gifts, trusts and foundations, corporate partnerships or bequests, with measurable results.
• Established networks in the donor and philanthropic community, with credibility to open doors at senior and board level.
• Commercially experienced with the ability to run a successful business operation, including budgets, pricing and margin.
• Experience building a brand or reputation, ideally for a charity or education organisation.
• Understanding of operating as a social enterprise within the current environment.
• Knowledge of governance vs management and working with a volunteer board.
• Familiar with NZ charity and employment law, health and safety, privacy and Charities Act.
• Financial analysis and budgeting skills, with ability to read financial reports.

Responsabilidades

• Lead the Trust's strategy and governance in partnership with the Board.
• Own the donor and fundraising strategy and prospects pipeline.
• Position the Trust as the leading charity partner for advancing women's education.
• Oversee The Graduation Place operations as a social enterprise.
• Develop and deliver the Awards Programme strategy with the Board.
• Lead, manage, develop and motivate staff.
• Oversee financial management, risk and values across the organisation.

Conocimientos

Strategic thinking

Negotiation

Leadership

Communication

Project management

Problem-solving

Relationship building

Public speaking

Digital fundraising

Te Tiriti o Waitangi competence

IT literacy

Herramientas

Microsoft Office

Descripción del empleo

The General Manager leads Kate Edger Foundation and The Graduation Place to grow donor income and build the Trust's reputation as the leading charity partner for advancing women's education, while running its operating business to a high standard.

Purpose of the role

To lead and manage all aspects of the Trust's business: set and deliver a strategy that increases philanthropic and commercial revenue and to ensure the current successful Awards programme grows sustainably providing access to education for more women.

About the organisation

The Kate Edger Foundation (KEF) advances women in higher education by helping fund their study. It generates the income to do so with a small team of 6 staff (plus casual staff) and through its trading arm, The Graduation Place (TGP) and donors. It is named for Kate Edger, who in 1877 became the first woman in New Zealand to graduate with a university degree.

The Trust grew out of the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Federation of Graduate Women. It’s awards help women enter, stay in, and progress in tertiary studies, and it has donated more than $9million to students over its 21 years as KEF. Each year it hosts an awards ceremony that celebrates more than 100 recipients.

The Board's ambition is for the Trust to be recognised as the leading charity to partner with for advancing women's education. Achieving that requires a General Manager who can significantly grow donor income and public profile as well as run the operating business.

Key accountabilities

1. Strategy and governance

• Lead the board in strategic planning
• Support the Board in developing its own donor networks and ambassador role

2. Fundraising and donor development

• Own the donor and fundraising strategy
• Build and manage pipeline of major donors, trusts, foundations, corporate partners and bequest prospects

3. Brand, profile and communications

• Position the Trust as the leading charity partner for advancing women's education, with a clear, story and value proposition for donors
• Act as the public face of the Trust: represent it with donors, universities, government, media and the philanthropic sector
• Oversee marketing, communications and events

4. Business operations: The Graduation Place

• Maintain and lead the effective, efficient and compliant operation of this social enterprise

5. Awards programme and impact

• Work with the Board to develop and deliver to an Awards Programme strategy

6. People and culture

• Lead, manage, develop and motivate staff

7. Financial management, risk and values

• Oversee and manage all financial aspects of Kate Edger Foundation and The Graduation Place

Person specification

The ideal candidate is a strategic fundraiser with strong donor networks and expertise and leadership capacity to run a commercial operation or social enterprise, and understands the line between governance and management.

Essential: knowledge and experience

• A proven record of growing philanthropic income through major gifts, trusts and foundations, corporate partnerships or bequests, with results that can be evidenced
• Established networks in the donor and philanthropic community, and credibility to open doors at senior and board level
• Commercially experienced, with a proven ability to run a successful business operation, including budgets, pricing and margin
• Experience building a brand or reputation, ideally for a charity or education organisation
• Has knowledge of/expertise in the specific realities of operating as a social enterprise in the current environment
• Fully conversant with the difference between governance, management and operations, and experience working with a volunteer or trustee board
• Familiar with legislation applying to a New Zealand commercial enterprise and charity, including employment law, health and safety, privacy and the Charities Act
• Financial analysis and budgeting skills, and the ability to read and interpret financial reports

Essential: skills and abilities

• Strong negotiation skills, including with major donors, corporate partners and institutional customers
• Strategic thinking: the ability to turn a vision into a plan, targets and measures
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills, with a demonstrated ability to build and maintain effective relationships with a wide range of stakeholders
• Compelling written and verbal communication, including public speaking and storytelling for donors and the media
• Creativity and a solutions focus, with effective, demonstrable problem-solving
• Project management and resource co-ordination
• Initiative, common sense, drive and personal accountability
• Experience in tertiary education, women's advancement or the not-for-profit sector
• Experience designing and launching a legacy or bequest programme
• Experience with digital fundraising, social media and online giving
• A commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and cultural competence
• Sound understanding of information technology; fully conversant with all Microsoft Office products

Working arrangements

This is a full-time, strategic and hands-on role, with occasional evening and weekend events, such as the awards ceremony and donor functions, and busier periods around graduation seasons.

There is occasional travel within New Zealand for donor, partner and customer meetings.