• Job Type: Full Time Fixed Term (12 months)
• Location: Remote/Work from Home, within Australia only
• Department: Strategic Partnerships
• Hours: 38 hours (5 days) per week
• Annual Salary: $85-95,000 p.a.

about us

Conservation Volunteers Australia is a place where you can bring your purpose to life through the work you do, creating a world where people and nature flourish together.

Learn more about what it means to be part of the CVA journey by visiting our website: here.

Our employees benefit from:

• Hybrid Work Arrangements
• Flexible Working Arrangements
• Five paid Volunteering days per year
• 38 hours paid Training & Development per year
• Employee Assistance Programme for both employees and their immediate family members
• Paid Parental Leave policy
• Career Progression Mentoring
• Annual Leave Loading

Join us!

Conservation Volunteers Australia aspire to be Australia’s conservation engagement experts, providing pathways for people to connect to and to take action for nature.

Now in its 40th year, Conservation Volunteers Australia has engaged millions of people in communities nationwide to lend a hand to nature, making enormous contributions to conservation, enhancing the physical and mental well-being of communities around the country, and promoting practical connections to our unique natural heritage.

Over the next few years, we will be building, nurturing and activating a massive community of people across the country - our ambition is that this community of Nature Stewards will grow to be 1 million people strong.

CVA is seeking a skilled Business Development Manager who can hit the ground running and is passionate about making a difference. This role best suits someone who can use their warm, passionate, and authentic nature to build and maintain strong partnerships with corporations across Australia. You will be confident and able to pick up the phone to a prospect or connect creatively in communications that solicit meetings and eventually lead to us scaling our impacts.

There is a preference for someone with at least 3 - 5 years of relevant business development experience, with proven experience managing the full sales cycle from prospecting to closing. Experience in an account management or client service-based role will also be looked upon favourably.

Essential Skills & Attributes

• Experience in developing successful corporate and/or government relationships
• Well-developed communication skills, both written and verbal, and an aptitude for public speaking
• Excellent computer skills
• A passion for conservation and the environment
• An enthusiastic individual possessing a mature approach and the style, stature, leadership and diplomacy required to work effectively with senior staff, volunteers and corporate partners