Sarah Banks
The University of Melbourne
Bio
With over 16 years experience in leadership roles within Alumni Relations, Sarah has experience in developing and delivering successful alumni programs in both mature and immature advancement operations within Australia. Her current role as Deputy Director of Alumni and Stakeholders Relations and Head of Alumni Relations at the University of Melbourne sees her responsible for both strategy development and overseeing operations to engage a growing alumni community of over 420,000 alumni globally. Along with the Melbourne team, Sarah has driven a public alumni engagement target as part of the successful Believe campaign for the University of Melbourne. The campaign aims to raise $1 billion by 2021 while engaging 100,000 individual alumni as ambassadors, volunteers and donors. Coupled with her past experience heading up Alumni Relations for Victoria University and William Angliss Institute, Sarah also has an extensive background in both Australia and the UK in the corporate sector.