Prospect Researcher and Fundraising Campaigns Specialist

• Play a key role in identifying and engaging prospective donors and partners through targeted fundraising campaigns.
• Use your prospect research, audience segmentation, campaign coordination and analytical skills to help more young people access life-changing mentoring.
• Be part of a dynamic, fast-paced organisation delivering best-practice youth mentoring to more than 2,300 young people across Australia
• Permanent full-time - Salary packaging available
• Hybrid role (Sydney office + home office)

About the Role

Raise is looking for a highly organised, curious and strategically minded Prospect Researcher and Fundraising Campaigns Specialist to help drive Raise Foundation's fundraising growth through prospect research, targeted campaigns, audience segmentation and supporter engagement.

This role sits at the centre of Raise's fundraising growth activity, combining prospect research with campaign planning and coordination. You will research, identify and pre-qualify prospective donors, corporate partners, trusts, foundations and government funding opportunities, build segmented target audiences and help turn insights into targeted engagement that creates qualified fundraising opportunities.

Working closely with the Chief Fundraising and Marketing Officer, Fundraising Strategist and broader fundraising and marketing teams, you will support the delivery of fundraising priorities through campaign calendars, audience and prospect insights, messaging and outreach coordination, campaign execution and performance reporting. Using Salesforce and other tools, you'll maintain campaign and audience data, coordinate leads and follow-up activity and analyse engagement, qualification and conversion data to improve pipeline performance and fundraising outcomes.

You'll combine prospect research, analytical thinking, campaign coordination and project management skills to support fundraisers to build relationships, secure meetings and progress opportunities. Your work will help Raise connect with new supporters, strengthen the fundraising pipeline and ultimately enable more young people to access life-changing mentoring.

Key responsibilities include:

• Researching, identifying and pre-qualifying prospective donors, corporate partners, trusts, foundations and government funding opportunities using agreed qualification criteria, and providing insights to support engagement.
• Building and maintaining segmented target lists and campaign audiences, using prospect and audience insights to inform targeting, messaging and engagement approaches.
• Coordinating fundraising campaign calendars, briefs and delivery in collaboration with the CFMO, Fundraising Strategist and Marketing team, aligned to fundraising goals, pipeline requirements and target audiences.
• Coordinating campaign communications, outreach activities, events, webinars and engagement initiatives across relevant channels.
• Maintaining accurate campaign, audience, prospect and lead data within Salesforce and other fundraising systems, ensuring clear ownership and timely follow-up.
• Tracking campaign performance, audience engagement, lead generation, qualification and conversion, and preparing reports and insights to improve fundraising outcomes.
• Providing campaign coordination, audience and prospect insights and communication support that enables fundraisers to build relationships, secure meetings and progress fundraising opportunities.
• Contributing to campaign testing, optimisation, process improvement and the ongoing refinement of campaign tools and resources.

About you

You are highly organised, curious, resourceful and strategically minded, with experience in fundraising, philanthropy, partnerships, sponsorship, business development, marketing or campaign coordination.

You enjoy researching and analysing information, spotting opportunities and turning insights into practical campaign activity that improves supporter engagement, pipeline performance and fundraising outcomes.

You bring:

• Relevant qualifications in fundraising, philanthropy, business, marketing, communications or a related field.
• Experience coordinating fundraising campaigns, donor acquisition, supporter engagement or revenue-generating campaigns in fundraising, partnerships, philanthropy, sponsorship, business development or a similar environment.
• Strong research and analytical skills, with the ability to identify and qualify prospects and turn audience and campaign data into useful insights.
• Strong campaign planning and project coordination skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Experience using fundraising CRM systems and donor databases, ideally Salesforce, including campaign tracking, pipeline management and supporter engagement reporting.
• Experience working with audience segmentation and campaign performance data.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with strong stakeholder engagement and relationship management capability.
• Strong attention to detail, sound judgement and a collaborative, solutions-focused approach.

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 using the subject line: Prospect Researcher and Fundraising Campaigns Specialist enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Interested?

If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you! Please click "Apply Now" and submit your application, including a cover letter addressing the selection criteria.