Mia Garrett

• Lead UNICEF Aotearoa's philanthropic and partnerships strategy, driving sustainable impact for children through innovative major gift initiatives, and strategic donor engagement.
• Cultivate and manage relationships with HNW and UHNW donors, aligning their philanthropic goals with UNICEF's global priorities, and delivering bespoke engagement experiences.
• Oversee the UNICEF DC10 Fund, one of UNICEF's premier philanthropic platforms, connecting major donors internationally through immersive field visits, thought leadership events, and cross-market collaborations.
• Partner with global UNICEF offices to design and implement cross-country initiatives, ambassador engagement strategies, and high-impact donor experiences.
• Increased philanthropic giving at UNICEF Aotearoa by 7x in two years, transforming the major gifts program into a leading revenue stream.
• Initiated a New Zealand-Japan collaboration leveraging the DC10 Fund and UHNW families, resulting in a $500k USD impact for children in the Pacific.
• Secured $150K USD for a fundraising innovation project integrating philanthropic ROI into financial investment strategies, in an effort to position UNICEF Aotearoa as a market leader in donor acquisition.
• Built and empowered a high-performing team to scale with rapid growth, embedding strategic capability, and resilience across the philanthropy function.

• Repositioned and scaled the DC10 Fund through redesigned value propositions and engagement models.
• Managed early-stage innovation, testing new partnerships, and engagement approaches for scalability.
• Strengthened global ambassador engagement and cross-market collaboration.

• Delivered advisory services on education innovation, leadership development, and values-based design.
• Supported early-stage product development and facilitation for education and social impact initiatives.

The Careers Department is a SaaS content platform licensed by Australian schools and parents. With distribution channels reaching more than 2,000,000 Australians; the content led platform helps drive a greater awareness of industry and the future of work for the next generation.

• Worked directly with founders in a scale‑up environment, translating vision into scalable national delivery.
• Leading the education team to ensure consistent, high quality program experience and impact.
• Managing the strategy and processes of the wider schools team; designing and operationalizing end-to-end systems (sales pipelines, CRM establishment, onboarding, delivery, impact reporting, and quality assurance).
• Crafting strategic proposals, marketing collateral, project plans, and curriculum alignments to strengthen and grow the sales pipeline, decreasing attrition.

• Overall responsibility for the strategic development and growth of the Victorian business unit including staff recruitment and development, financial viability in a not-for-profit environment, identifying and executing partnership & curriculum funding opportunities.
• Business Development - strategic growth of participating educational institutions throughout Victoria and product refinement.
• Adapting a face-to-face business to a COVID environment - innovation, strategic development, online facilitation, and new business opportunities.
• Facilitation of global citizenship curriculum to groups up to 60 at a time - including confronting topics such as racism, unconscious bias, social justice and advocacy.
• Delivering Professional Development to diverse groups of teachers; from whole staff to leadership teams and mixed groups in a conference setting.
• Keynote speaking at conferences both in person and online, adapting to online during Victoria's state wide lockdown in the second half of 2020 - audiences of 50-750.
• High Resolves delivers citizenship education experiences to help students develop critical life skills around social responsibility, empathy and resilience. It is a collaborative ecosystem dedicated to the activation of human responsibility.

• Delivered educational programs in Health, Physical Education, and Science.
• Led student mentoring and pastoral care initiatives alongside large-scale school programs.
• Planned and executed international education expeditions and school-wide events.

• Co-founded and created a student leadership organization addressing gaps in agency and social responsibility in school leadership programs.
• Designed human-centered programs informed by student, teacher, and school needs.