• Bring your exceptional project management and business process skills to the team
• $85,000k plus super (pro rata), full time 1-year fixed term contract (view to extension)
• Role can be based anywhere in Australia, flexible working arrangements

Role Summary: We are seeking a Project Manager to support the Network & Insights team to deliver learning programs, events, and end to end project management for a diverse portfolio of initiatives.

About Collaboration for Impact

For over ten years Collaboration for Impact (CFI) has been one of Australia’s leading organisations for supporting people to establish and deepen collaborations for systemic change. Our vision is for an equitable and inclusive society where people, place and planet thrive.

We work to strengthen how social change happens by:

• Working with partner initiatives to learn and demonstrate how systems are transforming with communities at the centre.
• Creating opportunities for greater connectivity, learning and collective action across the systems change field.
• Influencing how organisations and networks resource and adopt the practice of systems change on issues of national importance.

The opportunity

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Project Manager with strong project coordination, events management, and online learning support experience, who can work across multiple and mixed projects. Important to your success in this role will be your ability to build relationships and manage projects to time and budget.

Your key accountabilities will be:

Project Coordination and Management

Coordinate end-to-end projects including setting up and overseeing project management systems, coordination of delivery team, tracking progress, preparing relevant project material and assisting the team to deliver successful network-based initiatives that support communities and other partners.

Financial support

Collate and review project financial information, monitoring project budgets and ensuring costs are within scope, in order to contribute to the financial sustainability of initiatives.

Event and Online Learning Coordination

Oversee and coordinate CFI’s in person and online events from sourcing venues, managing ticketing and booking, scheduling, managing event budgets, coordinating delivery teams, technology/online delivery support, supporting marketing and comms for learning programs, and content uploading the learning management system to ensure events run smoothly and are delivered within budget and timeframes.

Travel Coordination

Support the Networks & Insights team with all travel arrangements from taking requests for travel, sourcing best providers, booking flights and accommodation and managing the payments to ensure costs are managed effectively and the process is executed smoothly.

Client and Partner Administration

Work with the Operations team to apply and establish user-friendly project administration standards and processes for the Networks & Insights team including contract administration, project delivery coordination, client/customer relationships, basic data management and analysis, and reporting to enable projects to contribute to successful outcomes.

To be successful in this role you will be:

• 3+ years project management experience, across multiple and complex projects in a fast-moving organisational setting.
• 3+ years customer/client service and relationships experience with mixed stakeholders (e.g culturally diverse community members/groups, government, non-government organisations, service providers, philanthropic organisations, and/or researchers.)
• Technical skills and demonstrated experience in supporting online and in person events and learning delivery, with experience of learning management systems or equivalent
• 2-3 years experience reviewing business processes and systems to identify and contribute to improvements, working alongside key stakeholders across organisations.
• Experience designing, implementing, and improving operational and project processes and tools to track delivery with reporting including risk and opportunity management
• Exceptional writing and verbal communication skills, including experience producing project materials, marking and communications copy, and acquittal reports.
• Strong time management skills and the ability to deliver multiple projects is essential.
• Super user capability for LearnWorlds, Zoom, Harvest, Dropbox, Asana, Presentations, Excel and Work.
• Analytical skills for insight generation and visual/graphic design skills (desirable, relevant, not essential)
• Context knowledge of systems change, social impact, collaboration and/or community-led change approaches (desirable, relevant, not essential)

If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!

How to Apply

Read the full position description at collaborationforimpact.com/jobs/

Please submit your application with the Subject Heading: Project Manager – [your name] and include:

• A one-page cover letter introducing you, your interest in and experience for each of the accountabilities for the position;
• A current resume;
• A link to your LinkedIn profile (if applicable);

Applications without providing the above information will not be considered.

If you have specific questions or wish to talk about applying for this role please contact – Rachael Browne, Operations Coordinator at [email protected] using the subject line: Project Manager enquiry via EthicalJobs.

If you are keen and going to apply for this role, CFI will be reviewing applications and performing screening and interviewing on a progressive basis. If we meet the right candidate for this role early in the recruitment process we could be in a position to offer this role prior to the closing date for applications. So if you have what is needed to succeed in this role and know you are going to apply - we encourage you to apply early and at your earliest convenience.

About Working with Us

CFI values diversity and encourages applications from candidates of all backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds, people of all ages, and people who identify as LGBTQIA+.

We welcome the skills, experiences and perspectives of all people to ensure our workforce is representative of the communities we work with and live in.

We acknowledge the resilience, knowledge, wisdom and teachings of the oldest living culture on our planet and pay respects to all First Nations Elders past, present and emerging. In all our work and relationships, we believe in and strengthen deep collaboration between First Nations and other Australians.

The CFI team live and work in many locations around Australia. We work from home and have a bring your own devices policy and offer flexible working arrangements. This is a full-time position working 38 hours across the week on a 12-month fixed term contract with the potential for extension.

Thank you and we look forward to hearing from you.