• Full time – Ongoing
• Hybrid role with 2 days a week in our Richmond office, and flexible work arrangements.
• Salary packaging up to $15,900 + meals and entertainment card up to $2,650.

About Us

At CBM Australia, our mission is to end the cycle of poverty and disability. Through our programs, technical advice, and advocacy, we help millions of people transform their lives each year. As Australia’s only international development organisation focused on disability inclusion our work improves the quality of life of people with disabilities living in the poorest countries.

Partnering with local organisations we build and promote an inclusive world in which all people with disabilities enjoy their human rights and achieve their full potential.

About the role

The Project Manager will play a pivotal role in managing the implementation of CBM Australia Inclusion Advisory Group’s most significant and complex disability inclusion advisory with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). This position will be key in ensuring the seamless coordination and successful execution of all contract activities, including resource allocation, compliance, deadline management, and stakeholder engagement. The role involves handling a dynamic mix of high-volume, non-standard reactive requests alongside planned, ongoing initiatives, requiring a proactive approach to project management and effective communication to drive impactful outcomes.

The Project Manager reports to the Head of Program Impact Operations and the role is expected to work autonomously.

The Project Manager will work to ensure that:

• IAG Australia’s contract with DFAT is effectively managed, on time and within scope and budget, in collaboration with the project technical lead.
• High level of engagement and strong working relationships are built and maintained with internal and external stakeholders to deliver IAG Australia's contract with DFAT.
• Project specific workflows, templates, guidance, systems and processes are maintained and continuously improved to ensure efficient delivery of high-quality advice to DFAT and systematic monitoring and reporting is seamless.

The key responsibilities and duties of the Project Manager include:

• Operational management – including ensuring compliance with contractual obligations; enhancing project support and management systems to facilitate project delivery; managing the multi-year program budget; and directly support the development of proposals into various DFAT opportunities, including opportunity identification, proposal management, budgeting, risk assessment, and compliance.
• Capacity and workload management – coordinating interdependencies among contract tasks and IAG advisors and consultants; and proactively anticipating demand fluctuations to execute contract activity effectively.
• Stakeholder management – including acting as the primary operational contact point for contract stakeholders cultivating and maintaining positive relationships and clear communication with internal advisors, consultants, associates, subcontractors, and disability movement stakeholders; and engaging effectively in project meetings including weekly operational level meetings, regular partnership health check processes, and governance meetings (Steering Committee).

A detailed job description for the Project Manager role is attached.

What we’re looking for / selection criteria

CBM welcomes applicants from diverse backgrounds and people with lived experience of disability.

To be successful in this role you will have:​

• Demonstrated experience in project management, including experience coordinating multi-year large client-funded programs/projects. A background in international development is highly regarded.

• Effective interpersonal, and relationship management and collaboration skills, including experience leading client relationships from a project management perspective.

• Ability to work with, manage and engage multiple stakeholders to meet agreed objectives and deliverable, including experience working within multi-cultural teams, and the ability to negotiate and resolve conflicts.
• Strong financial management skills, and ability to prepare, monitor, and report against project budgets and workplans.
• Willingness to learn the content and context of advisory work and pattern of advisory projects, to contribute to continuous improvement of DFAT project-specific workflows, templates, guidance, systems and processes.
• Commitment to CBM’s mission and values, including championing inclusion.

Additional desirable experience includes:

• Direct experience working with DFAT
• Understanding of disability-inclusive development

What we offer:

• The chance to make an impact that matters in a team of like-minded professionals.
• Flexible working arrangements.

• Hybrid role with 2 days a week in the office.
• 35-hour work week
• 5 weeks annual leave

• Salary packaging up to $15,900 + meals and entertainment card up to $2,650.
• 8 weeks paid parental leave after 12 months service.

• Confidential and free access to out Employee Assistance Program for team members and their family.

• A work environment and values-driven culture that, employees state in their feedback, is one of the most inclusive, caring, and enjoyable that they have ever worked in.

CBM Australia is committed to workplace equity and diversity and encourages applications from candidates with diverse cultural backgrounds and people with lived experience of disability. Please contact [email protected] using the subject line: Project Manager enquiry via EthicalJobs for confidential support to ensure an equitable, barrier-free application process. We ensure that any information provided to the contact is private and confidential, will only be used to provide accommodations and will in no way determine the outcome of an application.

CBM Australia is committed to the safety and best interest of all children accessing CBM supported services and programs and workplace. Preferred candidates are advised that they will be required to sign the CBM Child Safeguarding Standard, and we reserve the right to conduct police checks and other screening procedures prior to employment being confirmed.