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Program Advisor - Sydney / Melbourne

Australian Red Cross
  • Permanent, full time position
  • Flexible location – Melbourne or Sydney preferred

Who are we

Australian Red Cross is part of the world's largest humanitarian movements seeking to build a better society based on people helping people. Our vision is human dignity, peace, safety, and well-being for all.

About the role

This is a new and exciting role working across Australian Red Cross’ (ARC) International Response and Asia Program teams. We are looking for someone who has strong partnership skills and a passion for better humanitarian outcomes. Our ideal new staff member will have a sound knowledge and grasp of humanitarian issues and the sector as well experience and understanding (lived as well as professional) of how communities cope with and respond to crisis and disasters in the Asia region.

Key responsibilities include

  • Building and maintaining positive and effective working relationships with key stakeholders including National Societies, the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent and International Committee of the Red Cross focal points; the Australian Government, donor focal points; and staff, volunteers and members of ARC
  • Broker new partnerships and funding opportunities to improve the diversification of resources and program partnerships
  • Providing programming support to ARC partner National Societies in the Asia region, including preparing legal agreements and program framework documentation; research; and monitoring and evaluation.

What you will bring

  • Excellent interpersonal, negotiation and influencing skills
  • Understanding of working with and through partners to achieve shared goals
  • Ability to communicate and work collaboratively in a cross-cultural setting
  • Experience working in disaster preparedness, response or recovery
  • Demonstrated capacity of working within, contributing to information management systems and monitoring, evaluation and learning frameworks

Why work for us?

Work for purpose and know that your work helps keep our people and the communities we work with safe.

You can access flexible working arrangements and generous salary packaging options that can increase your take home pay by paying certain expenses using pre-tax dollars up to $15,900 a year.

Further information

For further information about this role, please refer to the position description attached below or contact David Stephens on 0401 374 630.

Position description: Download File PD - Program Advisor.pdf

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