General Manager Programs and Social Impact

The General Manager, Programs and Social Impact is a new senior leadership role that oversees the strategic, innovative, and operational aspects of ensuring our program delivery and support is effective, efficient and collectively maximises impact within our community.

It will play a key role in terms of ensuring Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation is at the forefront of inspiring and evolving philanthropy so that it not only addresses current societal challenges but works towards longer term transformative change.

This role is responsible for leading a team of program managers and grant administrators and the role the team plays in the delivery of our new strategy. It will also be a key member of a newly formed Senior/Executive Leadership Team with a broader responsibility for ensuring the Foundation is collectively successful and impactful towards shared, mutually reinforcing goals and objectives.

Working closely with the CEO and Leadership Team, the role will have a strong focus on program and initiative accountability and demonstrating effectiveness and continuous learning. It will help to ensure that Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation is continuously maximising the collective impact of all our philanthropic activities, utilising a range of philanthropy tools beyond grant making.

The role will ensure a forward-looking / futures orientation to our work and support the realisation of a heightened ambition to be one of the most progressive and impactful foundations addressing some of Greater Melbourne’s biggest challenges.

Download the Position Description via the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation website here.

How to apply

Applications should be made attention to Rashelle Boukas, Hub and Foundation Operations Manager, at [email protected] by COB Friday 9 August 2024 and include a cover letter addressing the Selection Criteria in the Position Description as well as a short CV. Please email any enquiries to [email protected].