Auckland, New Zealand
Diverse experience working within the education, youth leadership, food security and agriculture, resettlement, human rights, and disability sectors in Aotearoa New Zealand, Vanuatu, and across the wider Pacific. MSc Sustainable Development from the University of London, and BA Mathematics from Oxford University. Passionate about social and environmental justness, and very much still learning (and unlearning), and enjoying the journey!
• Develop and execute a comprehensive and effective fundraising strategy aligned with Taimahi Trust’s strategic priorities, to enable the organisation’s strategic development and growth. • Guide the strategic direction of the organisation towards delivering its mission and working towards its vision. • Developing Taimahi’s systems change and systems advocacy work programme, seeking to influence change in the transition space for young adults with learning and intellectual disabilities, and shift communities mindsets about disability. • Build relationships with current and potential philanthropic and government grant funders, growing Taimahi’s philanthropic funding base. • Research, identify, and secure government contracted services aligned with the organisation’s kaupapa. • Explore and execute funding diversification approaches, including corporate sponsorship and individual giving, alongside Taimahi’s social enterprise revenue. • Prepare proposals and applications, ensuring compliance with funder requirements and deadlines. • Track and report on the outcomes of funder grants, maintaining accurate records of supported activities, and managing Taimahi’s grants portfolio. • Manage Taimahi’s external communications streams including website and social media.
• Support HRMI’s fund seeking by developing concept notes, proposals, project budgets, and pitch materials for potential philanthropic and government funders and grants. • Ensure grant accountability by preparing reports on the outcomes of funding support.
• Attend, participate in, and minute monthly Board meetings, reviewing Board papers in advance, to oversee the governance of the organisation. • Ensure that the organisational goals are clearly developed and that strategies are in place to achieve them. • Monitor the performance of the organisation, including operational matters, its financial position, and its ability to meet its financial obligations, healthy and safety, and risk. • Ensure that the organisation has appropriate risk management and regulatory compliance policies in place.
• Attended and participated in regular Board meetings to oversee the governance and support the operations of the organisation. • Advised on operational matters for the organisation’s activities as required. • Assisted at community events such as the Sandringham Spring Festival.
• Developed concept notes, proposal, project budgets, and pitch materials for potential philanthropic and government funders and grants. • Oversaw HRMI's portfolio of funders, including managing a grants calendar, preparing project reports and updates, and maintaining regular communications with funders. • Supported the development of HRMI's private sector data expansion, liaising with stakeholders to increase use of HRMI data within the private sector and provide a data licensing revenue stream for the organisation’s non-profit activities. • Coordinated HRMI's Development Advisory Committee.