Dog and Bone is an ethical business and certified B Corp! We're looking for a technical consultant to work as a key player in our consulting team providing high level technical analysis and reviews.

Tenure: Full Time or Part Time (hours negotiable). This position offers flexible working arrangements, part-time hours and/or job-sharing opportunities.

About us

Dog and Bone is an ethical and independent technology advisory, making technology work for organisations that improve the world. We're inspired by organisations who exist to make the world better. Their impact is why we exist. While our expertise is in technology, we work to enable the people who're working hard to improve the world at our clients’ organisations.

Technology is hard to navigate, and we don’t think it should be that way. Our clients can expect clarity, honesty, and the right solution to achieve their goals.

We are purposeful about who we work with, and specialise in NFP, Government and social enterprises.

Fundamentally, we help our clients invest more time, money and focus into their core mission of improving the world.

Our Values

Our clients value our independent advice. We don’t sell any of the services we consult on, are not tied to any vendors and don’t take any incentives or kickbacks.

Dog and Bone’s values are core to how the organisation is shaped internally and how we deliver our services:

• Ethical & Independent
• Down to Earth
• Empowering
• Collaborative & Supportive

We’re committed to a positive, flexible and family-friendly workplace and dedicated to progressive business practices. We pride ourselves on the diversity of our staff and offer flexible working arrangements as part of our commitment to finding a healthy work/life balance. We deliver high-quality outcomes to our clients with a down to earth and supportive approach to working together and with our clients.

We offer our staff

• Five weeks leave + your birthday off!
• A hybrid working environment, offering a balance of office and remote working
• Located in trendy Northcote, close to great cafes, shops and close to public transport
• Pool table room, Street Fighter machine, yoga and massage
• Espresso on tap and weekly team lunches

We Audit our Ethics

We take ethics seriously, that's why we're B Corp Certified ensuring we uphold high standards. We verified our ethics by becoming a B Corp through rigorous auditing of our governance, treatment of staff, customers, environment and the community.

The Role

In this role, we expect you to perform high-level technical reviews, IT strategy development, business requirements development, high-level technical solution designs and analysis, report writing and conduct presentations. The role includes significant client liaison, stakeholder engagement, meeting with clients and potential workshop facilitation. You will also be required to develop technical solutions for our clients, mostly NFP, and recommend solutions that leverage common, cost effective and typically cloud based technologies.

Package: $90-100k p.a. pro-rata plus Super + 5 Weeks leave

About you

We are looking for a skilled and experienced person with drive and commitment, who wants a rewarding career in IT consulting, and has the potential to expand their role with the growth of our business. You may have come from an existing IT consultancy role or be considering moving from IT Management to a consulting role. You have high-level technical skills and a substantial background in applying technology to deliver business outcomes. You value clarity of thought, communication, and process, and focus on outcomes. You demonstrate advanced organisational and communications skills to ensure appropriate delivery in a timely and succinct manner.

Your background will include working knowledge and understanding of Business Applications, ICT Infrastructure, Security and IT Governance Framework.

You will be an integral part of the IT consulting team, responsible for the generation and delivery of projects to our client base, and for contributing technical and strategic IT knowledge to other teams within Dog and Bone.

If this sounds like you, please send your resume, LinkedIn profile and cover letter through the application link.

Key Responsibilities

• Consult with clients and undertake business requirements capture, review and development.
• Undertake gap analysis and review of clients’ existing systems and infrastructure, and of proposed solutions.
• Undertake solutions design, specification and evaluation.
• Design desired future IT state, IT roadmaps and identify work required to get from current to desired future state.
• Conduct RFP processes, including developing RFP documentation, MSP vendor briefings and liaison, prepare report and recommendations, and present to client.
• Coordinate and manage projects (e.g., IT infrastructure and service implementations, assist with technical aspects of WAN implementations).

Key Selection Criteria

• At least 5 years’ experience working in IT in the Australian corporate or not-for-profit environment
• Understands a broad range of technologies and IT services that support an organisation’s strategies and workforce, and how they work together to deliver value to an organisation
• Excellent communication skills in report writing and presentation
• Demonstrated capability in strategy and technical solution design
• A passion for supporting, the NFP sector

Also highly regarded:

• Demonstrated capability with any of the following: project management, technology service tendering (RFP processes), and contract and service delivery evaluation.
• Relevant tertiary qualifications and professional learning and development.
• Has demonstrated experience with at several of the following: infrastructure delivery (on-premises, co-lo, virtualisation, IaaS), Microsoft server and cloud offerings, networking (MPLS and SD-WAN), desktop and application delivery, mobile computing, information security, and strategies for transitioning from on-premises to cloud computing services.
• Experience in procurement processes for technology solutions or IT managed service providers
• Experience working with or in the NFP sector.

Dog and Bone is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or age. We strongly encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.