• Use your exceptional administration skills to support social change
• Embrace our flexible work arrangements, be based anywhere in Australia
• Full time role - 2-year fixed term contract, circa $70k

Utilise your outstanding administration and coordination skills to support 3 leaders of an organisation working for social change; work from home.

Collaboration for Impact exists to create a more equitable and inclusive Australia where people, place and planet thrive. Our purpose is to build a powerful movement of people able to change systems and drive large-scale impact.

The Opportunity

CFI is a leading capability building services provider in the field of place-based collaborative change and systems change. We support over 40 initiatives across Australia, many based in regional and remote Australia.

The Team Assistant is a key member of the Practice team, supporting three Practice Leads by:

• Providing administration and project management support to multiple projects across Australia
• Supporting project teams, made up of highly experienced specialist practitioners in our network, delivering work in communities
• Manage project budgets, coordinate invoicing and subcontracting documentation
• Support Practice Leads to develop new business and relationships

Your Day-to-Day

• Provide timely and proactive team coordination and support; anticipating team members’ needs and ensuring delivery consultants have what they need to perform their work
• Broad administration support to the Practice Leads and project teams including travel bookings and logistics coordination
• Be part of preparing and formatting new business proposals and tender documents
• Manage the business development and WIP pipelines
• Manage project budgets with a high attention to detail and accuracy
• Interact with and manage relationships with a range of stakeholders including strategic partners, clients, CFI’s network of delivery practitioners and community members
• Draft and coordinate subcontracting agreements with Network team members
• Design, implement and improve project management and workflow processes and tools to track and guide delivery of projects; record and report on project evaluation

Ways of working

To be successful in this role you will be:

• Self-directed and able to work efficiently and effectively remotely, managing time and solving problems proactively
• A self-starter that takes initiative to anticipate team needs, implements improvements in processes and offers support on the front foot.
• Responsive to changing needs and priorities
• Have high self-awareness, including cultural awareness and exceptional communication skills
• A commitment to continuous learning, professional development and self-reflection

What We’re Looking For

Demonstrated experience in:

• Broad and exceptional administration skills, with a high attention to detail
• Team coordination and support anticipating team’s needs and ensuring delivery consultant have what they need (resources, travel logistics and access to CFI tools etc.)
• Project coordination experience administering multiple projects and the budgets with multiple teams and stakeholders
• Design, implement and improve processes and tools to track project delivery and evaluate and measure outcomes
• Stakeholder management and strong relationship building and nurturing skills
• Super User capability key systems (Harvest, Drop Box, Presentations, Excel and Word) and ability to introduce system and process innovation and improvement
• Professional services or consulting industry experience would be well regarded

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

Important information

The organisation has a bring your own devices policy.

This is a full time role position for a 2-year contract with the potential for extension.

Applications will be reviewed progressively, please apply ASAP.

If you require more information, please contact [email protected] using the subject line: Team Assistant - Flexible Location enquiry via EthicalJobs.