About The Role

The Director Volunteering and Partnerships role is a member of the ABV Leadership Team, responsible for the engagement and end to end management, support and development of ABV’s community of volunteers, known as Skilled Business Professionals (SBPs), who work in ABV’s programs in Australia and the Pacific. SBPs are a key asset for ABV and are at the heart of ABV’s model and approach. This role oversees the Program Directors responsible for corporate skilled volunteering programs, ensuing that the volunteering ABV supports with our corporate partners is aligned in value, mission and outcomes to ABV’s purpose.

The Director Volunteering and Partnerships works with the CEO and Leadership Team to optimise the contribution of volunteers to ABV, make sure that their contribution is valued and celebrated throughout their journey with ABV and to create a community of volunteer SBP’s to enable ABV’s programs to make a positive difference in Australia and internationally. Corporate partnership management is a key focus of ensuring our corporate skilled volunteering is aligned to the community of volunteers we’re building.

The position leads the Volunteering and Partnerships Team and Corporate Partnership Program Directors to create a positive, streamlined experience for SBP volunteers in every part of their journey with ABV. This includes developing and monitoring effective systems for volunteer recruitment and checking and matching with placement, providing excellent briefing and support during assignments, monitoring the placement and debriefing volunteers to share valuable insights with ABV to continually improve ABV’s programs.

The Director will work closely with the Director Marketing and Communication to engage with potential volunteers and create a positive and smooth pathway for them in their volunteering journey. The Director will work closely with the GMs of Programs to ensure their volunteer resourcing needs are met and exceeded whether through corporate volunteers or ABV SBP’s.

This position comes with a salary range of $105,000 - $125,000 annual exc. Super.

About ABV

ABV is a team of several hundred Skilled Business Professionals (SBPs) who donate their time, enabled by a small salaried team of international and community development specialists. Together, we work throughout the Asia Pacific region and in Australia to deliver impactful economic and community development programs. Our work is enabled through locally-led partnerships with the private sector. Our highly skilled business volunteers work with expert staff to deliver world-class mentoring and training – strengthening communities through transforming businesses and local economies. Pivoting in response to fire and flood at home in Australia, in recent years we have become a leader in Bushfire Disaster recovery, walking alongside embattled communities to make change happen.

The Way We Work

ABV values collaboration and sharing of technical skills, experience and learning as imperative to the delivery of consistent, quality outcomes across all programs and partnerships.

The following principles guide the way we work together across the team.

Initiative

We take a strategic lead in working with communities, partners and other stakeholders. We use our initiative to make decisions and drive action.

Innovation

We are energetic and inquisitive. We are hungry to learn new things, engage with our community and do things differently. We explore innovative ideas and test our assumptions.

Implementation

We deliver with care and attention to detail. Our systems and our way of doing the work hits our KPIs and builds capacity and capability.

Impact

We make a difference in everything we do. We look for ways to amplify our impact. Our monitoring and evaluation systems provide transparency and accountability for communities, funders, partners and stakeholders.

selection criteria

Essential Requirements

• Formal qualifications in a relevant field e.g., community or international development, social work or similar
• Senior people leadership experience, with demonstrated capacity to manage and motivate mixed teams of paid and unpaid staff
• Strong strategic thinking capability and capacity to identify trends and issues that may impact on ABV
• Proven skills, knowledge and at least 5 years’ experience in managing volunteering, preferably with experience in working in corporate volunteering and mentoring contexts
• Background in corporate social responsibility within Australia
• Excellent stakeholder relationship building and management skills with experience across a range of sectors and contexts, including government relations
• Excellent, demonstrated, interpersonal, persuasive, and oral and written communication skills with the ability to achieve buy-in from all stakeholders and achieve agreed outcomes
• Able to work effectively at all levels in an organisation as a team player, working collaboratively and supporting others to achieve
• Demonstrated cross cultural communication skills
• Comfortable working online and competent in use of online collaboration and project management tools
• Able to work remotely from manager, independently with a high degree of autonomy
• Able to work flexible hours and meet out of hours from time to time to meet the needs of the business and delivery of programs in Australia and the Pacific
• Able to travel both domestically and internationally to meet role requirements

Desirable requirements

• A personal commitment to volunteering

A position description is attached.