Are you looking for a change in career? Do you have outstanding communication and management skills, a keen eye for detail and thrive in enabling community-led change, deliver to the highest standard from the grassroots to Board level, and get how remote, rural, and regional communities work?

About Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal (FRRR)

We’re the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal, or FRRR (F-triple-R) for short. A not-for-profit organisation, we connect common purposes and funding from government, business, and philanthropy with the genuine local needs of rural people and places.

Our vision is a vibrant, resilient, and revitalised remote, rural and regional Australia. FRRR provides funding and capacity building support at the hyper-local level. We have reach, relationships, networks, and know-how to align funding, big and small, to community-led solutions that build resilience and long-term viability and vitality of smaller remote, rural, and regional communities across Australia.

The Role – VIC / TAS / SA Grants Program Manager

FRRR has a vacancy in our Place grant-making portfolio and is seeking an experienced manager with exceptional skills in program management, development, implementation and evaluation, and relationship and stakeholder management. If this sounds like you and you’d like to align your skills and experience with good purpose in a talented team and organisation committed to the vitality of remote, rural, and regional Australian communities, then this role with FRRR might be for you.

As the VIC / TAS / SA Grants Program Manager, you will:

• Lead and deliver the Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania component of the Strengthening Rural Communities grants program;
• Build, develop and maintain strong relationships with community individuals, groups and networks, peak bodies, Local Government and Government Agency personnel;
• Support retention and development of funding and donor partnerships to grow support to Victorian, South Australian and Tasmanian communities

Your Skills and Attributes

• Strong project management experience with a solid track record in delivering programs on budget and on-time with high levels of stakeholder satisfaction.
• Demonstrated capacity to develop relationships, negotiate, and work constructively with funding bodies and other stakeholders, and represent the organisation to a variety of stakeholders.
• Ability to work autonomously and with initiative, demonstrating strong attention to detail, discretion and confidentiality.
• Proven ability to manage complex competing priorities and meet timelines.
• Demonstrated experience working in or with rural, regional and remote communities and understanding of remote, rural and regional issues.

How to Apply

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FRRR actively encourage applicants from diverse groups and communities including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, those from culturally and linguistically diverse communities to apply.

FRRR has the support of Beaumont People to recruit this role. Please direct all enquiries to Alma Raheem ([email protected] using the subject line: Grants Program Manager - Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal enquiry via EthicalJobs) at Beaumont People.