About us

The Creative Co-Operative is Australia's first startup agency that is 100% owned, led and operated by migrant Women of Colour focused on lifting the economic and social access barriers faced by WoC.

We do this through designing and delivering innovative services, programs and products.

Our team is made up of mostly ex Big Four consultants who have left institutional spaces to create better Ways of Working + Living. We wear multiple hats to punch above our weight and we're only getting stronger. Our achievements to date are a result of our high performance + productivity team who have a solution-driven mindset.

Objectives of the Business

The Creative Co-Operative has set a bold goal: in the next 10 years, we’re going to try to get $700 million into the pockets of WoC.

As a young startup social enterprise, we have been on an exciting journey to validate the best way to make this happen. From delivering consulting services to clients so we can employ (and pay) WoC, to pitching for and winning funding to deliver projects that also create short term or micro-employment opportunities (to pay) WoC.

To this end we have delivered events, campaigns, are working on producing a book, also on a digital product and finally, an entrepreneurship program by and for WoC - all of which are also geared to amplify and champion the amazing WoC in our community, to the rest of the world. Resulting in >200 transactions and financial opportunities for WoC within our first year of operation.

This year, we’ve also set our sights on growing and digitising our capacity-building offering across entrepreneurship and digital skills to - hopefully - doubling our impact figures. You will be helping to spearhead solutions that are creating history as they successfully break down one barrier after the next.

Project Lead

We're looking for 3 x experienced Project Leads to drive the completion of projects including successfully achieving Project Milestones and Key Performance Indicators. They need to understand intersectionality and be able to work collaboratively with a team of 20+ WoC professionals with technical and lived experience. Keep reading for more details and if you're interested, please apply by clicking Apply Now.

About you

You take a creative approach to problem solving and are solution driven, you’re able to take initiative, work autonomously and you don’t mind helping out with things outside your role if it helps to get the job done. You’re great at driving teams of diverse people to success, and you love to develop and support your people. You’re comfortable working in high pressure situations and thrive off working in a fast paced environment. You’ve got an eye for detail, you’re analytical and able to use data to drive decision making. You’ll be the front-line response for solving project problems as they arise so you’ll need to be ready to rock and roll. You’re driven and will stop at nothing to ensure our project operations are the best they can be. You’re here to get the job done and done well because you understand that quality is something we take pride in when we serve community, our first and foremost stakeholder

Objectives of the Role

• Takes full responsibility for the definition, approach, facilitation, documentation and satisfactory completion of projects to achieve Project Milestones and Key Performance Indicators.
• Ensures that project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, timescale and budgets
• Oversee expense reporting
• Provides effective leadership to the project team
• Delegate tasks and set deadlines for your team
• Monitor team performance
• Adopts appropriate project management methods and tools.
• Manages the change control process and assesses and manages risks.
• Ensures realistic project plans are maintained
• Delivers regular and accurate communication & project reporting to stakeholders.
• Ensures project (and product) quality reviews occur on schedule
• Build new relationships with a diverse range of community members, groups and organisations
• Work with marketing to develop positioning and messaging
• Coordinate production of key outputs, including marketing and communications material, upskilling workshops with cross functional team members (i.e. designers, researchers) and external stakeholders (i.e. WoC founders)
• Support with Business Development activities namely driving sponsorships from / partnerships with the startup ecosystem.
• Identify and prioritise stakeholder groups for project purposes, drive and facilitate communication, collaboration and decision making.

Skills and Qualifications

• Lived experience as a Black, Indigenous or Woman of Colour*
• Experience managing direct reports and developing staff to achieve success
• Proven success in driving projects to completion
• Minimum 3 years experience in project management or similar
• Minimum 1 year experience in people management
• Strong analytical, prioritisation, communication and negotiating skills
• Well versed in G-Suite or MS office applications
• Highly effective written and verbal communication skills
• Experience collaborating and communicating effectively with marketing teams
• Experience in Notion preferred
• Experience working with Agile methodology not required but favourable

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, or equivalent
• Masters degree is preferred

What else we look for in all team members

• Understanding and alignment with our ideology and culture.
• Self-awareness of one's own privileges as a result of having more access than other WoC - eagerness to pay that forward.
• Inherently community-minded and not individualistic - ie consider the community and the team's needs as well as yours.

*As a social enterprise focussed on WoC employment, we strongly encourage WoC and Non Binary PoC to apply for this paid position