Kate Grimme Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Working with non-profit organisations, including Plan International Australia, the ASRC and ONJCRI to develop business, operational and impact strategies. I am focused on assisting teams to clearly articulate their purpose or impact goals and to understand the specific mechanisms which will allow them to create lasting change. With a clear eye on diverse revenue streams, it is my goal to empower people at all levels to think about the small actions that have the biggest impact.During my time as an Independent Advisor, I was employed as the Interim Head of Giving and Experience, working three days per week for six months. I also supported the ASRC for a period of 11 months during their recent financial crisis in a critical stakeholder engagement role (Major Donors, Grants & Corporate Partnerships).Recent engagements have included developing Partnership Plans for leading non-profits as well as supporting the development of a Corporate Social Responsibility plan for a leading industry association.

Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Responsible for the creation of the development strategy for all revenue channels in a start-up environment, including commercial, sponsorships and fundraising activity. Active development of commercial partnerships with apparel partners and principal and major gifts programs. With an interest in emerging fields to drive impact we were exploring impact investment as part of philanthropic engagement.Active involvement to ensure full compliance with all statutory reporting and licensing requirements and implementation of fundraising tools such as the CRM database. In addition to creating the development strategy I was a member of the team writing our impact strategy and developing a framework for impact measurement.

Melbourne

Major Gift fundraising, including soliciting gifts in value from $10,000 up to $750,000 across Schools in Psychology, Population & Global Health, Biomedical Sciences and the Doherty Institute.Engagement with academic colleagues to identify potential projects, which have philanthropic appeal, including supporting academics to identify potential donors.Development of proposals and grant submissions.Strategy development for donor and academic engagement.Donor engagement and stewardship.

South Melbourne

Development of Sponsorship and Partnership strategy alongside CEO for both licensed programs and master brand.Undertaking significant partnership negotiations to generate new partnership revenue including developing new content and partnership opportunities.Managing Fundraising and Donor Management function for organisation, including with potential major program donors.

Carlton

Leading the Fundraising and Communications team at Victoria's leading organization for those on the Autism Spectrum, their families and the sector at large. This is a 3 month contract role.• Manage the Communications and Fundraising functions.• Refine the organisations' fundraising strategy, including identifying new funding and commercial opportunities and manage stakeholder relationships including various external funding partners.• Membership – deliver comprehensive review of existing membership program and develop roll out plan for the conversion to a donor/supporter strategy.• Brand – oversight of the process to deliver new brand strategy, including shortlisting agency partner. • CRM - develop strategy for the improvement and use of CRM program (Salesforce).• Oversee the management of the biennial Victorian Autism Conference including website development, program, sponsorship and ticketing sales, communications planning and digital media. .

Melbourne, Australia

- Manage a team of 9 across Marketing, Communications and Sponsorship/Philanthropy (Business Development) through a period of consolidated growth and change. - Manage an income target of $2.6million and match budgeted expenditure.Refine the organisations' fundraising strategy, including identifying new funding opportunities and growing partnerships with existing stakeholders. - Manage significant stakeholder relationships including Board Members, Executive Directors, service providers, Corporate Advisory Committee and various external funding partners.- Develop Consumer Engagement, Communications and Marketing Plans across Education, Disability, Childcare, Homelessness and Employment programs.- Brand Development – including developing strategy for the review and roll out of new brand strategy.- Marketing strategy development and customer service, access and planning in readiness for the National Disability Insurance roll out.

Melbourne, Australia

Mister Mixer Cocktails - business development, focusing on large venues, events and clients. Also providing advice and assistance to the business, a start-up alcoholic beverage company, across industry and customer engagement, contracting, account management and brand awareness. AAMI Park - assist in the management of this large sports stadiums’ commercial operations including management of third party catering contract, supply rights management, account management of naming rights partners, redevelopment of catering outlets, signage, corporate hospitality (inc. sales) and management of third party venue hirer commercial teams.

•Sole responsibility for the account management of $1.5million annual revenue in supply rights fees across 3 distinct venues including the development of retails sales growth strategies, retention of existing suppliers and management of the Tender/EOI process for new or expired categories. - Clients include Coca Cola Amatil, Diageo, SAB Miller (CUB), Heineken Lion, Patties Foods, Lion Dairy and Drinks, Cadbury, Mars Foods, Pernod Ricard and Treasury Wine Estates• Joint account management of $3 million annual naming rights revenue (AAMI and Hisense)•Contract management and negotiations, including delivery of all contractual benefits.•Joint Management of exclusive catering agreement with $1.5 million in annual revenue, including pricing reviews and corporate catering packages (suites and function rooms) for 4 home teams, development of Catering Policy guidelines and performance management against contract.•Liquor Licence Management, including risk management and licence amendments.•Stakeholder management including commercial operations and hospitality sales teams at four national sporting clubs and Tennis Australia for the Australian Open tennis tournament.•Approval and management of all point of sale signage.•Project management of several stadium based projects including retro-fit of retail area bars, design of new corporate spaces and aesthetic renovations.

Manage the corporate relationships of the Comedy Festival, including ensuring all benefits are delivered to partners in a timely manner, including event delivery and ticketing requirements.Grow and renew current partnerships, including identifying new opportunities for sponsors.Research and Identify new sponsorship opportunities for the Comedy Festival including negotiating partnership agreements. Identify potential philanthropic foundations for funding, prepare and submit grant applications.Liaise with event producers to coordinate Festival functions.Liaise with external producers and artists regarding all sponsorship enquiries.

Manage the Orchestra's corporate relationships, including renewing and growing existing sponsorships, delivery of sponsor benefits and explore new opportunities for existing sponsors.Identify new sponsorship opportunities for the Orchestra.Develop and grow TQO's fundraising program to substantially increase revenues from grass roots donor's under mentorship from the Artsupport mentoring program.Management of all TQO events including corporate entertaining and orchestra and stakeholder events.

Assisting with the day to day marketing and promotion for key OTC brands and providing front line product support for Sales team, included liaising with designers and printers, supporting sales reps and acting as point of contact for general public enquires.Contact: Aisling Dillon, Sales & Marketing Manager (a.dillon@omega-pharma.ie)Engineers Ireland - Dublin

Co-ordination and execution of planning of all components of major industry symposium, as well as building database of programmes for national industry festival.

Drafting contracts and project correspondence, monitoring contractual delivery obligations, file management, management of residual and repeat fees

Coordination of diaries, travel and general support for key management team members and client managers. Working with Bid Teams on various key tender submissions. Provision of administrative support for Discovery Channel Rebuild Team.; Legal Assistant/PA, including Granada Media, ITV, FremantleMedia and Wall to Wall. Drafting contracts, file management, diary coordination, general administrative support.Contact: Juliet Drury Temps Manager (juliet@cmoves.co.uk)

Co-ordination of all production requirements for Corporate Division including Post Production Supervision of various corporate video's and other projects. Monitoring payments and billing of all production and division accounts and travel coordination.Assistant to Legal & Business AffairsPreparation of contracts, including, negotiating with agents, performers and crew and liaison with production staff to ensure that all statutory and other obligations are met. Monitoring repeat and residual payments for cast and payments owing to various investors. Providing general support for legal and development staff as well as preparation of Australian Visa Applications for production staff. Management of footage/program library. Management of insurance requirements for both the business and productions.

Grad Cert. Social Impact (Leading To Masters), Philanthropy, Social Impact, Social Investment

Graduate Diploma Arts, And Entertainment Management

Bachelor Of Arts, Theatre And Film