Community Partnerships Lead – ANMM

As one of Sydney’s most visited museums, the Australian National Maritime Museum shares our national maritime story across Australia and the world, online, onsite and through research, presentations and travelling exhibitions, and provides must-visit museum experiences that delight and inspire.

We connect our visitors with the oceans and waterways that are the heartbeat of who we are. From deep time to modern Australian and beyond, we explore our past, our present and future as an island nation shaped by sea, offering a sustainable and cohesive vision for the future.

The Museum welcomes over 2.5 million local, interstate and international visitors annually, and is supported by a thriving and passionate staff, membership, volunteer and education base. Find out more at https://sea.museum.

The key duties of the position include:

The Community Partnerships Lead will work to develop and manage fundraising initiatives for the Welcome Wall, Australia’s National Monument to Migration and manage community partnerships to raise the profile of the museum. This role will engage extensively with community groups and organisations, multicultural media and donors, particularly those from culturally and linguistically diverse communities and internal stakeholders.

Our ideal candidate will be someone with partnership and multicultural/community marketing experience with business development skills and the enthusiasm to cultivate, steward, and strengthen the Museum’s community partnerships and relationships, including growing the National Monument to Migration’s donor base and identifying and engaging donors through fundraising activities and initiatives.

Please note: This recruitment process is intended to fill both current and future vacancies. While the position on offer is non-ongoing, a merit pool of suitable applicants may be established to fill similar ongoing and non-ongoing positions within the next 18 months.

Key Accountabilities

Under limited direction, this position is responsible for delivering the following functions:

• Raise the profile of the Museum in targeted communities and engage potential stakeholders related to the National Monument to Migration (NMM) including media and community partners.
• Fundraise for NMM to deliver annual targets and manage financial reporting and effectiveness of NMM results, outcomes and activities around the NMM.
• Implement and manage NMM marketing campaigns including the production of marketing material such as cases for support, brochures, digital campaigns, web content with the Marketing, Digital and Communications teams
• Manage communication and relationships with donors and partners from culturally and linguistically diverse communities to develop strategic relationships to increase support from individuals, communities, NGOs and government organisations.
• Working with internal stakeholders, manage the Museum’s community partnerships such as the NSW Sustainability Awards, Ocean Lovers Festival to ensure MOUs are created and partnership obligations are met and that these relationships support the museum’s objectives.
• Plan, manage, implement and evaluate NMM community partnership events and unveiling ceremonies.
• Manage the NMM database and implement CRM and digital marketing campaigns.
• Manage the production of the NMM panels.
• Support Head of Corporate & Community Partnerships, Foundation Manager and Corporate Partnerships Manager when required.

Selection Criteria

1. Experience in community partnerships and engagement including with culturally and linguistically diverse communities with demonstrated ability to communicate effectively and strategically with stakeholders to build support to achieve outcomes.
2. Demonstrated marketing and event management experience particularly aimed at community groups.
3. Demonstrated experience in fundraising and/or business development.
4. High-level presentation and influencing skills including experience in building and sustaining relationships and liaising with a range of stakeholders, including colleagues, other multidisciplinary teams, donors and  community groups.
5. Knowledge and experience in Salesforce database management and analysis, including data collection, digital marketing and financial analysis.

Qualifications and/or relevant experience required

Desirable:

• Knowledge or appreciation of maritime history.
• Language skills relevant to one or more migrant communities.

Eligibility

This position is open to all eligible members of the community, and we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with a disability and people from every cultural and linguistic background. To be an eligible member of the community, you must be an Australian citizen. Applications may be accepted from Australian permanent residents who are in the process of acquiring Australian citizenship.

All employees will be required to satisfactorily complete an Australian Federal Police National Police Check and obtain and maintain a Working with Children Check registration

In addition to an application and your resume, the assessment process for this position may also include an interview and referee reports.

Selection for this position will be made on the basis of relative merit which will be assessed against each item of the selection criteria. Applications that do not address the selection criteria will not be considered for shortlisting by the Selection Panel. As part of the selection process the Selection Panel may invite candidates to undertake online testing, skills-based assessment and provide samples of written work at interview.