The Senior Project Manager role is core to the success of Reground and we are looking for someone who has skills in multiple areas as well as a burning passion for seeing good businesses, the planet, and the community thrive. The role is responsible for the smooth running of the business, and growth of the consultancy as well as helping address and innovate on daily issues that arise in small businesses.

The Senior Project Manager will be assisting a diverse range of existing and potential clients with our large portfolio of services. This role is mostly about seeing opportunities, knowing how to turn them into work, and doing the work.

You must have experience in project management. You will be able to multitask, keeping both long and short-term resources and goals in mind while overseeing many diverse projects (keep in mind we are a small team.) This role includes opportunities for hands-on work (such as waste audits) as well as ongoing project management. The aim of this role is to assist with the further development of Reground, growing it to other parts of the country, improving on service offerings, and making sustainable waste management solutions mainstream. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is a creative, independent, and curious hard worker that cares about how we can expand and grow systems that work for people and our planet. A very disciplined and effective worker is well suited for this role. Sales, public speaking, and process optimisation will all form part of the weekly duties, and natural confidence and charisma are a bonus.

Overall we are looking for someone who will fit into the team and contribute to one of the most dynamic and progressive waste organisations in Victoria.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

This role is for four days per week and some of the weekly tasks are

• Relationship building with councils and larger Reground collection customers such as cafe groups, retail groups, corporates, etc.
• Must be experienced and comfortable with business development and sales and used to working to a monthly KPI
• Seeking out new consulting projects, sales meetings and proposal development
• Identifying grants and writing grant applications and RFQ responses
• Project and stakeholder management of multiple projects with multiple stakeholders at once
• Events, workshops and public speaking - presenting the Reground story to different audiences
• Designing and delivering content for presentations and workshops
• Data recording, analysis and reporting
• Managing consultancy team members and project support staff
• Financial forecasting
• Strategic development
• Identifying areas to collaborate with other social enterprises and recycling opportunities
• Managing large datasets

About you

• Passionate about the environment and helping the community
• Confident, outgoing and comfortable forming relationships with new people (sometimes from no introduction)
• Comfortable strengthening those relationships so we are able to call on them and pitch new projects
• Personable and approachable, able to break down barriers and be welcoming as we are often dealing with many stakeholders who have different objectives and levels of understanding
• Organised, efficient, able to prioritise and manage numerous projects and small tasks
• Collaborative and good at sharing with the team and asking for help
• Open to feedback, learning from, and curious about the internal team and on external projects
• Able to step back and see the bigger picture when working amidst the details
• Clear and succinct communication
• Ability to distil a project plan when there are many stakeholders and agendas
• High level of capability in MS Excel, CRM systems, Google Drive
• Comfortable managing numerous staff members

A little extra

• You don’t need to know much about waste, you’ll learn all the ins and outs of this when joining, however, you do need to recognise the importance and the potential that waste plays in combating climate change and creating community and well being.
• Ideally you have an Australian driver's licence.