Head of Cricket Victoria Foundation

🏏 Join Cricket Victoria – We’re hiring a Head of Cricket Victoria Foundation to join our team!

Are you passionate about harnessing the power of sport to deliver incredible social impact?

We are currently seeking to appoint a highly motivated and passionate individual to join our team as our Head of Cricket Victoria (CV) Foundation. This position will be responsible for driving the CV Foundation mission and purpose – to harness the passion for Victoria cricket to make a positive impact on society.

Reporting to the General Manager – Communications and Stakeholder Relations, this position will source and oversee partnerships, programmatic delivery and foster a culture of philanthropy in collaboration with the Foundation’s Advisory Group.

💪What You’ll Be Doing:

• Lead and oversee all aspects of the CV Foundation including donor sourcing, program conception and delivery, partnership management and integration with CV’s business as usual.
• Demonstrate an ability to connect to a culture of philanthropy and the benefits of social impact supporting our three key pillars: Women and Girls, First Nations people and All Abilities Cricket.
• Deliver CV’s National Cricket Inclusion Championships and National Indigenous Cricket Championships alongside your team.
• Support your team in the strategy and implementation of CV’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander engagement program to increase participation and cultural understanding and connection.
• Develop a sustainable fundraising strategy for the CV Foundation with an emphasis on systems and strategy re Major Gifts; Private Ancillary Funds, Trusts & Foundations; Corporate Partnerships via Corporate Social Responsibility Programs.
• Oversee active identification, stewardship and appropriate gift solicitation of major donors and benefactors.
• Identify and engage commercial partners to increase scale of the CV Foundation.
• Work with media and communications team to drive awareness across digital channels, mainstream media and local media.
• Work with events team to develop and manage events as required to foster and grow awareness.
• Build and maintain an appropriate fundraising/community relations database on Salesforce.
• Raise awareness of the ‘whole-of-organisational’ approach to successful philanthropy.

🎯What You’ll Bring:

• Experience working within a philanthropic, sporting, community or similar organisation
• Strong understanding of cases for support, partner value propositions and how to implement a social impact strategy which delivers measurable outcomes
• Experience in designing and implementing social impact strategies supported by donors
• Experience in managing the lifecycle of partnerships from acquisition to renewal
• Prior experience managing teams and engaging in a board/committees and C-suite environment
• Experience in developing and managing fundraising strategies
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to build and maintain effective relationships
• Exceptional organisational and management skills with the ability to implement and drive strategies
• Valid Victorian Employee Working with Children’s Check (or arranged upon appointment)

🏆 Why Join Cricket Victoria?

You’ll be part of a highly motivated and dedicated team with consistent values and goals. A team who strives towards not only developing and delivering exceptional programs and initiatives to support CV’s Foundation but a team who is always dedicated to creating more opportunities for all Victorians to be involved in cricket.

🎁The Benefits:

• State of the Art location at our CitiPower Centre, St Kilda
• Great Work life balance through flexible working
• Tickets to a range of sporting events (yes, this includes cricket)
• Free onsite gym access
• Corporate Health Insurance Offers
• Corporate Partner Discounts
• Casual, friendly and inclusive work environment and team culture (our top priority)

📬 Ready to Make a Difference in Cricket?

If you have the credentials, demonstrated experience and qualifications for our vacant Head of CV Foundation position please apply by clicking on the “Apply Now” button and ensure you include a cover letter and resume.

Applications close Monday 20 October 2025 at 9:00am.

At Cricket Victoria, we embrace diversity in gender, age, ethnicity, disability, religion and sexual orientation. We are committed to providing a safe environment for children across Australian Cricket and we also offer a flexible work environment for all employees.

We measure ourselves on our ideals – “Leading the Game”; our shared ideals have the power to create positive change and deliver excellence for our customers, colleagues, and communities. Our people value integrity, connection, accountability, respect and excellence.

We require all applicants to undergo background checks and screening prior to or during any appointment. Australian Cricket’s Commitment Statement to Safeguarding Children and Young People can be found at www.cricketaustralia.com.au/safeguarding