The Inclusion Project Coordinator role is a unique opportunity to work within our Community Team at Hawthorn Football Club. We have a proud and successful history, and we live and breathe our Club Values of One For All, Play to Win and Love Our Club. You will work and thrive in an environment that is committed to excellence, inclusive and supported by a culture of wellbeing and balance.

Our Club’s vision is to deliver long term objectives to continually grow, innovate, and achieve on-field success. This includes our commitment to growing both of our football programs, along with the building of our new state of the art facility – The Kennedy Community Centre.

About the role

Reporting to the Community Programs Manager, the Inclusion Project Coordinator contract position (until end Oct 2026) will work within the Club’s Community team and is responsible for working with our Inclusion Project partners to deliver inclusive events for the community.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Execution of the Inclusion Project, working with relevant internal departments.
• Deliver events across sporting club matchdays, festivals and cultural events.
• Deliver communication schedules and match day activations on time and within budget.
• Measure success of The Inclusion Project campaign through reporting.
• Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders across sporting clubs and venues.
• Manage IP team and provide development opportunities to improve performance.
• Develop grant proposals, ensuring alignment with funder priorities and requirements.
• Deliver reports to stakeholders measuring impact and demonstrating innovation and growth.
• Collaborate with Internal stakeholders to devise strategies that enhance partnership outcomes and funding.

The successful candidate will have strong relationship management skills, backed by relevant qualifications/study. You will have demonstrated experience engaging with diverse groups of people and have shown you can use your self-motivation and time management skills to execute initiatives and programs within sports environments before. Experience within community or charity also highly regarded.

You will have relevant qualifications that include:

• Relevant Tertiary studies or equivalent experience within Allied Health, Community or Business Management fields
• Working with Children Check

In addition to required qualifications, our ideal candidate will have:

• High level of disability awareness and a good understanding of diversity and inclusion principles

Our offer to you

As a Hawthorn Football Club employee, you will work in a supportive, values driven and harmonious team. You will be challenged and provided with opportunities to learn new things, grow, and develop. Our initiatives which drive wellbeing, connection and performance include:

• Access to gym facilities
• Flexible work arrangements
• Special offers and discounts through our Corporate Partners
• Professional development opportunities – inhouse and external
• One Club memberships to enjoy games with your family and friends

The Hawthorn Football Club is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from suitably qualified and diverse candidates. We welcome applicants who reflect the diversity of the Australian community and encourages applicants from the following backgrounds to apply:

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
• Culturally and linguistically diverse
• LGBTIQ+
• People with a disability
• People who live in rural and regional locations

We provide a welcoming, safe, and flexible approach to work and provide an environment that benefits from and enables the best from everyone.

As an organisation we are committed to protecting children and young people from harm. It is essential that anyone involved with the Hawthorn Football Club understands their responsibility in relation to child safety. Our organisation requires all applicants to obtain a ‘Working with Children Check’ prior to appointment.

A position description is attached.